What is keeping you from yielding to God? What is it about “your way” that is so appealing?
This is what the Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, my unauthorized paraphrase:
9 Don’t you know this!?
…that those who live their own way
will not actually get into God’s Kingdom?
They won’t have even the slightest share in it!
Don’t fool yourself by your limited thinking.
Not one person who lives their life their own way
will ever inherit the Kingdom of God or share in any part of it.
Not the sexually immoral,
not idolaters,
not adulterers,
not effeminate [by perversion],
not those who participate in homosexuality,
10 not thieves,
not the greedy,
not drunkards,
not revilers
[whose words are used as weapons
to abuse, insult, humiliate, intimidate, or slander],
not swindlers.
– 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Swift’s Amped-up Paraphrase of the Bible (AMPED-UP)
The Good News is that God accepts anyone and everyone that truly repents and follows Him with sincerity and truth. The Bad News is: there is no way your way will get you past the pearly gates.
The very clear message of Christ is
that sinners can be changed
when they repent in sincerity and truth,
choosing to become God’s true followers.
You can have all your sinful past forgiven by God,
and be totally accepted into His Forever Family
immediately, both here on earth now –
and in heaven where we are declared forgiven in His Courts.
When you turn from your sinfulness
(true “repentance“),
and turn to Christ for His forgiveness
(“accept Christ” and His ways),
He then recreates you in that instant
– and you become “born again“.
Source: About past sins and being forgiven now
FOR MORE:
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