Thank you.
Thank you Pastor Bill.
Jeremiah 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Wow, that is not my experience at all. The older I get I do try to distance myself from sin's influence, and daily ask for forgiveness, but the closer I draw to the Heavenly Father, the more intensely I realize how really sinful I am, from the inside out. I must rely on the Righteousness of Christ because I cannot be to old or really to anything to sin. Sin reveals itself in unexpected thoughts, poor reactions to others actions, drifting away from ‘my own’ righteous living, unjustifiable injustice done to me, easily being enticed...... to many to enumerate.
I just need to go back to the place where Jesus spanned the chasm between God and I by hanging on the cross for me. He has paid the price, I only need to walk by faith in that knowledge.