A Vessel Unto Honour

In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

You Don’t Understand: I Can’t Be Forgiven

I’ve heard it said, “You don’t know where I’ve been and the things that I’ve done.  If there is a God, He would never forgive me.” Or, “I just can’t let go of these things, I’m an addict and a user, and I just can’t change. I know what you say is true, I just can’t stop.”

These are the pleas of a broken and contrite heart.  A person who knows their condition and is aching for freedom and change.

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.”

Psalm 51:17

I’m here to tell you that God is real and He cares for you very much.  You are not carrying anything He hasn’t seen before.  Your sin is not unique. We all suffer with the burden of a guilty conscience.  Murder, torture, adultery, drug use, stealing, etc.  all these things can and will be forgiven at the cross of Christ.

“Wherefore I say unto you, all manner of sin and blasphemy will be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.”

Matthew 12:31

Jesus said this right after He was accused of casting out devils by the power of devils, there by His accusers were calling the Holy Spirit evil.  This is the ONLY sin that can not be forgiven. By rejecting the Holy Spirit, you reject life and salvation. There is still hope for you. I understand the burden of a guilty conscience and am here to tell you that you can obtain freedom with a few simple steps.

By your confession of your powerlessness over your condition you’ve already completed the first step.

Get down on your knees, close your eyes and offer up your brokenness and guilt to God, and ask Him to reveal His Son to you and ask for true forgiveness and ask Him to give you the gift of desire for repentance. In so doing you will start the process of repentance. Believe that you will get what you are asking for and ask Jesus to take your burden from you. He will do it. You can believe in this.

You must ask in faith.

 “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”

Romans 3:23

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our lord.”

Romans 6:23

“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Romans 5:8

“That if thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”

Romans 10:9+13

Seek out fellowship with a local bible believing church so that you may get the help and encouragement that you need to overcome yourself.  Once you ask Jesus into your heart then you have no need to hold onto your guilt any longer. The reason Christ died on the cross was to make payment for what you’ve done wrong. He takes your burden away and gives you His Holy Spirit so that you can overcome your addictions and live an entirely new life for His glory. This is not just some fairy tale. This is a foundational reality.  You are given a fresh start… as if being born again.

 “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 3:3

And why does He say that you cannot see the kingdom of God except if a man be born again? It is explained by Paul in his letter to the church of Corinth:

“In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”

2 Corinthians 4:4

You are not as hopeless as you think you are. Reach out to Him and He will reach out to you.  Give Him your pain and brokenness and He will give you mercy and love in return.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16

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5 responses to “You Don’t Understand: I Can’t Be Forgiven”

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    Judie

    Question: Since I am born with a sinful nature, I cannot be anything else. So why am I held responsible for that? It is not something I chose or something I selected, but a fact of my natural, human birth. I can be sorry that I am this way and wish I were better person (and I do), but how can I be sorry to God who allowed me to be born as I am? Since I am a creation of God, why must I seek forgiveness for for being how I was created?

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      Question: Since I am born with a sinful nature, I cannot be anything else. So why am I held responsible for that?
      Answer: First of all, you are not responsible for being born with a sin nature. You’re merely given evidence that something happened before you got here that put you in the position that you are in. Much the same way that you would find a child outside playing in the dirt and say ‘you’re dirty, you need to come inside and get cleaned up.’ The child’s not responsible for being dirty, but they do need to understand that they are dirty and that they need to be cleaned up.

      Question: I can be sorry that I am this way and wish I were a better person (and I do), but how can I be sorry to God who allowed me to be born as I am?
      Answer: God is not expecting you to be sorry. In much the same way that the mother does not expect the child to be sorry that he is dirty, she merely wants him to come inside and get cleaned up because she wants to embrace her child and not get dirty herself because it is about fellowship. Our Father is seeking the relationship that He lost with us as a result of what was done.

      Question: Since I am a creation of God, why must I seek forgiveness for being how I was created?
      Answer: In Genesis 1:26 God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” And in Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
      In Genesis 3:13 the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Genesis 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

      The first thing you notice here is we were created and we were good. The sin entered as a result of us stepping outside of God’s grace and this was done before we got here by our predecessors, so we are literally born out in the dirt (i.e. born with a sinful nature). Now the Father looks outside, sees us in the dirt, wants us to come back in, but does not want the dirt in the house, so He offers us a way back. So in essence, you’re not seeking forgiveness as much as you are just seeking the Father. Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Forgiveness in this sense could be likened to getting cleaned up. The Father’s heart is to clean you up, so merely seeking Him out is the way to get cleaned up. If the child resists his mother trying to get into the house, that is the child’s sin. The dirt is easily removed, but the obstinance is not. All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. The obstinance (or the willfulness rather) is what caused our predecessors to disobey in the first place. They wanted their own thing. Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is to reject God’s way back in (to know there is a way and to say “no I’m all set.”)

      So, in summary, you have to see that God, like the loving parent, wants to bring the child in the house, clean him up and love on him, thereby restoring a proper relationship. You have to see God as a loving parent who wants you to be with Him, and He is willing to clean you up and you’ve got to understand that you’re dirty and He doesn’t want dirt in His house, but He does want you.

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