sin, dealt with in a timely, forthright manner and according to God's pattern can be turned from a deadening, suffocating life long monstrosity that continually screams and repeatedly gashes itself among the subconscious or even conscious, unseen depths of our being...into a stepping stone to shining resplendent before men in the glorious, God-glorifying sonship we, as God's creation, were originally meant for and called to.
martin luther's famous 'sin boldly'...
1. BOLDLY, OPENLY as well as IN YOUR HEART..HATE IT.
2. BOLDLY SORROW OVER IT...for every sin, no matter how 'small' rationalization may want to make it, is extremely ugly and heinous in it's nature, consequences and reality in the presence of an all seeing, holy God. matthew 5.4
3. BOLDLY CONFESS IT TO GOD. I john 1.9
4. BOLDLY CONFESS IT TO THE ONE SINNED AGAINST
5. if not against a person, BOLDLY CONFESS IT TO BROTHER(S?) james 5.16
6. BOLDLY RENOUNCE/FORSAKE IT and refuse to continue in it or return to it again. prov. 28.13
7. BOLDLY AND QUICKLY.. BE SATISFIED WITH GOD'S primary response, MERCY..(you are not in hell though well deserving of it.) psalm 90.14-15...for our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are unseen: for the things that are seen are temporal and the things that are not seen are eternal. II cor. 4.17-8
8. BOLDLY RECEIVE HOWEVER MAN MAY RESPOND and set your heart to love, do good to, bless, pray for, lament and regret (if necessary) their end, do not judge or condemn but pardon and GIVE GOOD measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over to bless and help them.
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Thanks for posting this, Steve. I'd only heard of this "sin boldly" commentary by Martin Luther and had a totally wrong impression. I should have know better and now, thanks to you, i do!
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