04/12/24 THE BONDAGE OF DARKNESS

04/12/24 THE BONDAGE OF DARKNESS

The real reason people reject the real Jesus and Biblical truth is because they love the darkness of sin. Sinning religion excuses sin by saying God does not care if believers sin, or God chooses not to deliver believers from sin and sinning, or God cannot deliver believers from sin and sinning, and heresy of all heresies, God decreed, planned, required men to sin, without a choice and with no possibility to escape eternal judgement. 

John 3:19-21
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

All have chosen to sin (willfully disobey the known law of God), because all have loved sin more than they loved God.
When confronted with the gospel, some have chosen to believe on Christ, confess their sins ,turn from their sins, call on Christ to save them, but some have chosen to continue in their sins because they loved their sin more than they loved God. 

Some of those who believed and received Christ as Lord and Savior have chosen to go back into sin (fell away from Christ and salvation) because they loved their sin more than they loved God.

Some of those who fell away have repented, confessed and returned to faith in Christ (which is verified by loving obedience to Christ), but some of those who fell away never repented, confessed or returned to a right relationship with Christ because they loved their sin more than they loved God.

Jesus saves people from the PENALTY of their past sins when they trust Christ (which is demonstrated in confession of sin, turning from sin, confessing Jesus as Lord and Savior, and following Jesus).
Jesus saves the believer from the POWER of sin's control, as they trust and follow Jesus (walk in His light).
Jesus saves the believer from the POLLUTION of inherited (inbred) sin when the believer seeks God's cleansing (deliverance) from the "wretched man" (the Old Man, the Carnal Mind, the Double Mind).

Jesus keeps the believer who walks in the light as He is in the light, and who builds himself up in the holy faith, and keeps himself in the love of God.