[Faith-talk] FW: [URCTCPrayerGroup2] Your sins are not being recorded. By Joseph Prince

[Eric Calhoun]

Original Message: 
From: Donna Kiser <kiserdonna5 at gmail.com>
To: URCTCPrayerGroup2 at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [URCTCPrayerGroup2] Your sins are not being recorded. By Joseph
Prince
Date: 
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:37:58 -0400

             Your Sins Are Not Being Recorded

Hebrews 8:12
*12**For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and
their lawless deeds I will remember no more."* **** ****


 I once read a comic book which showed how a man lusted after a woman,
then
died of a heart attack and went to heaven. In heaven, he saw a big screen
showing everyone present a recording of all the sins which he had
committed
while on earth, including the last one. How embarrassing!
Don't worry, that is not going to happen to you in heaven. There is no
big
screen with front-row and circle seats for everyone to sit and watch your
past sins. There is no video recorder in heaven recording your sins right
now. Because your lifetime of sins has already been punished in the body
of
Jesus, God declares to you, "Your sins and lawless deeds, I will by no
means
ever remember!"
This is true even for the Old Testament heroes of faith such as Abraham,
Moses and David. If you read Hebrews 11, which was written after the cross
of Jesus, you will notice that there is no record of their sins or
failures.
Yet, their life stories tell us that they were far from perfect.
Abraham lied twice about his wife Sarah. He told Pharaoh, and later, King
Abimelech, that she was his sister to protect his own life. Moses killed
an
Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew, and hid the body in the sand. David
committed adultery with Bathsheba and later arranged for her husband to be
killed in battle. Yet, their sins were not recorded in Hebrews 11, only
their deeds done in faith!
God is showing you that He does not record your sins or failures today.
Instead, He records your faith confessions and deeds done in response to
what His Son has done for you. Every time you sin, every time you waver in
your faith, God does not record it. But every time you believe Him and
respond in faith, He records it! That should not make you want to sin
more.
It should free you to love God more!
So don't be conscious of your failures. If God Himself does not remember
them, who are you to remember them? Be conscious instead of your
righteousness in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21), and you will reign in life!
(Romans 5:17)

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-- 
*He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable
and
fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can
withstand]*