When food in your fridge goes bad, you know it the moment you open the door. And your life is like that. When there is something wrong inside, the people who come in contact with you often sense it. Jesus spoke some of His harshest words to Peter: \u2018Get behind Me, Satan! You are\u2026 not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew\u00a016:23\u00a0NKJV) What was Peter\u2019s sin? Pride. He openly contradicted Jesus (see\u00a0Matthew\u00a016:22). <\/p>\n
There are sins of the spirit and sins of the flesh. Peter\u2019s was a sin of the spirit. David\u2019s actions of adultery and murder were sins of the flesh. Later David wrote, \u2018Cleanse me from secret faults. Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a019:12\u201313\u00a0NKJV) Now, God doesn\u2019t want you to become self-absorbed and introspective to the point where you live in condemnation. But He does want you to be sensitive to sin and deal with it immediately. <\/p>\n
Scripture gives us three ways to stay clean in a spiritually polluted world:<\/p>\n
(1) Walking in the light<\/i> (see 1\u00a0John\u00a01:7). That means striving to be honest before God and man. <\/p>\n
(2) Being accountable.<\/i> That can mean having someone in your life who is mature enough to deserve your confidence, gracious enough to put up with your inconsistencies, and honest enough to confront you (see\u00a0Ecclesiastes\u00a04:9). <\/p>\n
(3) Dealing with your sin right away<\/i> (see\u00a0Psalm\u00a032:3\u20135). The moment that brings consciousness of sin should lead to confession of sin resulting in cleansing of sin. Then you must get back up and go on with God!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When food in your fridge goes bad, you know it the moment you open the door. And your life is like that. When there is something wrong inside, the people who come in contact with you often sense it. Jesus spoke some of His harshest words to Peter: \u2018Get behind Me, Satan! You are\u2026 not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}