Do not flippantly ponder the questions of this mind. For to so do you must question the justifications of that mind, the judgments the self-accountability that it sponsors in quest for absolution. Man wants so desperately to be forgiven that he forgives himself before making repentance, payment or some measure of apology for the wrongs caused God and man.

By God we are told to work out our salvation in fear and trembling. Fear of Whom? Trembling over what, “Self absolution”? These are not trivial things that Paul himself made us venture through the Holy Spirit. We are left with WHY, a man who would believe in once saved always save would consider himself still committing sins in obvious frustration from it.

We change our faith, veering from the WRITTEN, untranscribed Word that God has given through Spirit, to our own version, that we may provide our own accounting for holiness. None of us reach perfection by and of ourselves why then do we go to all ends to justify things that are not so justified in Christ Jesus? I mean after all He is the ONLY WAY, Right?

Picking up my cross daily means I must look at the actions of “this day” that the Lord has given, not reside upon my good and holy works of yesterday, especially in so doing I see the same or similar sins for which Jesus was put on the Cross that I am supposed to be carrying. I am no longer condemned but still convicted. To escape, why else would we quench the Holy Spirit? This thing makes no sense if yesterday was the most important.

Certainly I may find forgiveness in Repentance and turn from my sin because that is what Jesus bought me, a cleansing for acknowledgement of His Power to Forgive, cleanse, repair and transform and a daily reckoning in RELATIONSHIP through Holy Spirit via the Twain Man of Christ in the Throne Room of God the Father with His Son seated on His Right Hand.

With all snakes and vipers we carefully rewrite the script to include terms that are not in the Gospel with false support and quotes by Jesus removed that even mention “Blotting our names from the Book of Life”. Educated men and women contort themselves and the minds of would be believers to narrowly reflect upon Church Doctrine that keeps us tithing, obedient to church Mission and vision while neglecting that Christ made this about TODAY, Everyday.

If I hurt someone Today, then I need to seek forgiveness today or carry with me the burden of that trespass. Why else would we be told to leave our gift at the alter and go makes things right with our Brother before giving unto God? Come on folks they want this to be rocket science because in that complexity of rhetoric we find self-absolution in repeating to ourselves that there is no more accounting or responsibility for me in my sins of this life.

We struggle so much with the world as they hear us say one Gospel message and then they look to the living evidence to the opposite in my life. Which will they follow? Which do kids follow when their parents hypocritically smoke when telling them not to? What did Christ say about Hypocrisy if anything? Jesus made us focus on hypocrisy as one of those things HE HATES. Why then would we ponder the self absolution of something that HE HATES?

The Joy of my life through the LORD JESUS CHRIST is not that my old sins are simply washed clean, set free from sin and death, but that I in being reborn, have the miraculous opportunity to become like Him. Didn’t He live a sinless Life? Is that our aspiration? Certainly, yet we run from the idea of remaining holy and pure before the throne of God or a Pastor’s Responsibility for delivering each of us there blameless, Holy, Righteous and True.

Yes, I have been redeemed through Faith. Not in my own goodness but my affinity to Christ in God, redeemed to HIS THRONE ROOM, His GRACE, His ring and robe, Home to my Fathers living, joyously in His Kindness and Mercy. I have not been set free to go and redo my network of lasciviousness, my quest for mammon, My lies, My slights, My ugliness and hate.

However comma there are parsecs between being set free and believing that I cannot lose that God Given Gift if I carelessly utilize or view it, especially since He says in His epistle to the Churches that it can happen. Being removed from the Book of Life is the Trembling that shakes my Body daily when I look upon my Sin. Fear of God the One being capable of so doing is the Fear that sponsors my daily work. Why else would He say these things. And why else would we desperately try to rewrite them to conform to our lack of Faith and Obedience?