A CHILD OF GOD DOES NOT SIN (4)

*WISDOM FOR TODAY.*

*A CHILD OF GOD DOES NOT SIN.(4)*

*Scripture Treasure.*

1 John 3:7-8 *Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.*

*Insight and Highlight.*

Self-sacrifice is one of the ways that would help a child of God from going back to sin.

*Scripture Commentaries.*

John was a disciple of love. He was a disciple of relationships.

John teaches us the importance of righteousness, and one of his strong teachings surrounds the strict adherence of the child of God to righteousness.

If we see God as our only available way in life, we would not see an alternative to Him.

If we totally self-sacrifice ourselves to Christ, we will not see our same self available for any other devotion.

It is only when we are double minded that alternatives or options come into the picture.

In any relationship, where either of the couple see another person as an alternative for pleasure, then sin is inevitable.

If, however, they see each other as the only available bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh, righteousness is inevitable.

A child of God will not sin if he sees Christ as the only and available way to please God and have eternal rest in Heaven. He will not sin against God.

Righteousness is a relationship.

John tells us that only those who are righteous have a relationship with God.

He can not go back on righteousness because righteous living is the life he says he lives, and by living it, he tells everyone that he is righteous doing what he says he is as a righteous person.

While the child of God goes every day, he is conscious of who he says he is and can not afford that people would know him in any other way.

He is as Paul said that he can not boast in any other thing except in Christ who was crucified for him.

Paul said in Gal 6:14 *But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.*

The child of God has no alternatives, no options. He simply can not go back to sin.

He has self-sacrificed himself to Jesus. There is no self of his that he could boast about again. No self-ego, self-achievements, or worldly friends or relationships whom he had rejected to fall back on.

He now does righteousness, and this is who he is. Nothing else!

*Remorse corner.*

Besides the sacrifice Christ made to redeem you, it is important that you also remember the sacrifices you have made as a new creature, as a child of God.

These sacrifices you have made could also help you to abstain from sin.

*Call to Word action.*

Paul remembered some sacrifices he had made that made it just impossible to go back to the world. Paul's sacrifices became irreversible changes in his life's direction. 

He gave up valuable things he could never recover again or hope to ever go back to, Philpns 3:8.

*The Christian clarion duty.*

When you forsake worldly pleasure in order to gain Christ and there is nothing to fall back to, you will find it hard to go back to sin because there is nothing to fall back to.

*Prayer.*

Lord, help me to self-sacrifice myself knowing there is nothing to sacrifice anymore if l forsake Christ. Let me remain committed to the end in Jesus name.

Good morning all, and be blessed as come into His presence.

God bless you.