Ok I have trusted the Lord, I am a new Christian, I love my new relationship, my new family but what happens if I blow it and sin? As a boy living in rural America, a young farm boy, I had a wonderful caring mother and father. They took care of my childhood and youthful needs and I loved my family. I knew what my father expected of me as a member of the family. I knew that my father loved me but I also knew that he was the head of the home and I was responsible to him. If I disobeyed him there were consequences. There were consequences one night when my father and I had a father and son pow wow. I loved my hard working earthly father and my desire was to please him as a household family member.

As a young child about 8 years of age I found a box of blue tipped matches. One night I took the box and went out side in the darkness of the night and began to strike them off of the house cement foundation. It was to me like sparklers or cheap fire works, I was intrigued. The next day my mother found the burnt match sticks laying on the ground where I dropped them after lighting. She told my father when he got home from work and little Ronnie was disciplined with a very strong whipping. My hard working father feared my actions could have burned our house down. We would then have been homeless.

As a Christian through the sacrificial death of Christ on the Cross making an atonement for all sinners of the world, the sins of the believer, past, present, and future are all under the shed blood of that atonement and we are adopted members of the family of God. As a child of God our Heavenly Father and as a member of the heavenly household we want to please our loving Heavenly Father. Therefore a Christian who has been delivered from the Penalty of Sin, and from the Power of sin that held us captive, and from the consequences of sin, we certainly do not want to sin and we don’t have to sin. Nevertheless we are still in the flesh and we are told that the devil walketh about as a roaring lion seeking to destroy our testimony as a Christian.

First as a Believer, the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit inhabit’s the body, the house of the Christian. This indwelling of the Holy Spirit came the moment we believed upon and called on Christ Jesus to forgive us our sins and to become a believer. One purpose of the indwelt Holy Spirit is to convict us when we sin and when we displease our Heavenly Father. So as a Christian who fails in a weak moment, the indwelt Holy Spirit brings conviction to our soul and our conscience knows that we have sinned and displeased our Father. Our position before our Heavenly Father remains intact but our walk before Him is in default.

But don’t be discouraged, just remember this, what kind of people does God use to perform His will? Consider how God used His children who sinned. Moses Killed an Egyptian in anger, David committed adultery and then killed his lover’s husband, he greatly used Rahab who was a harlot, You see all that God has to work with are sinners, we sinners. And to redeem us He had to leave the riches of Heaven, come to earth, born from a virgin as God Incarnate and die to redeem us from our sin. Does sin pay wages? Yes it does. You may play with rattlesnakes but for Heavens sake, don’t play with sin. David paid heavy for his sin, one of his sons raped his sister, then tried to steal the throne from his dad and ended up dead hanging from a tree pierced with a sword. Moses had to leave the good life of Egypt and spend the next 40 years in the school of the desert tending sheep preparing him for 40 years of desert wandering a few years later. Yet God used both men greatly. But how much better their lives might have been if they had not sinned. Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you far more than you wanted to pay.

We find God’s provision for the Christian should one fall into sin. What sins are we talking about. Any sin, it might not be what we would call “the Big Sins”. It may be from inner lusts, the Lord said if a man looketh upon a woman to lust after her, he had sinned and committed adultery in his heart.

Man looks on the outer but God looks on the heart. It might be something we said, or the way we treated another person. No matter what the Holy Spirit convicts us of, God has a solution and we find it here in 1st John chapters 1 and 2. 2:1-2 “My little children, these things I write unto you that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate (defender, attorney) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He (our advocate our attorney) is the propitiation (the one who atoned) for our sins and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. Chapter 1:10 – 9 “If we say that we have not sinned we make him a liar, and His word is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Conclusion: As a member adopted into the wonderful family of a Holy God who loved us so much He died on the Cross to pardon our sins, we out of Love for Him do not want to sin. But we live in a very sinful world ruled by the prince of the power of the air, the Devil, Satan, the old Serpent. Thus sin is all around us and in the weakness of our flesh we may sin. Remember He said, “if we say that we have not sinned we make Him a liar.”

Our remedy for sin is to acknowledge it to ourselves (and possibly to others) And come to God with a contrite heart, “Dear Heavenly Father, I Ron have sinned (naming the sin) and I am sorry that I have disobeyed and been a poor example of a believer. Lord I confess my sin, I ask you dear Father to forgive me, in Jesus Name Amen” And what is the promise for a contrite sinner who acknowledges his sin and runs to the Father? The Bible says that the Devil himself is the accuser of the brethren. But “If we confess our sins He (our attorney, our defender, the Lord Jesus seated at the right hand of God the Father) forgives us of the confessed sin and all of our unrighteousness.” He the Lord Jesus says in essence: “Dear father, I know the devil has accused Ron of his dirty sin, but Ron came to the cross, accepted my death on the cross, my atonement for the sins of the world, and he is now a part of the family and he is my son and all his sins were paid for on the cross. And the Heavenly Father says, your sins were laid upon my Son Jesus and you are not guilty, your sins have been paid by the shedding of my Son’s blood on the cross. ” The Bible says that when Jesus died on the cross, the vail of the Temple that housed the Holy of Holy was rent from the top to the bottom. That means that we have access to the Father through His Son Jesus directly. We do not go to a confession booth and confess our sins to another sinful man like as we are. We go to Jesus, our High Priest and confess our sins to Him as we would go to our earthly father and say dad, I am very sorry but I was not obedient to your household family rule. Would you please forgive me? In essence this is how a child of God, a Believer (receiver) in Jesus Christ deals with any sin problem after coming to Christ by Faith and be born again into the family of God.