01221/21 SIN'S TOLL CONTINUES AFTER CONVERSION

12/21/21 SIN'S TOLL CONTINUES AFTER CONVERSION

For those who continue in a questionable path by taking comfort in God's mercy, knowing that God is forgiving, MAYBE YOU SHOULD REALIZE, EVEN IF you do find forgiveness, deliverance, newness from God, you won't find that this present life or Satan, forgives or forgets our sinning past.
SALVATION IS A RESTART, NOT A REDO.

God delivers believers from the guilt, penalty, pollution, power of sin but the effects, the loses, the damages of sin continue after conversion, after regeneration, after forgiveness, after cleansing.

Remember, the impact of Adam's sin has been following since the garden? Final salvation will be deliverance from Satanic attacks, liability to sin, failures, weaknesses, dark remembrances, false accusations, sin's nasty after taste, but until then our former life of rebellion continues to be used against us and others. The after effects of drunkenness, crime, violence, infidelity, even our mistakes leave scars, losses, damages that can last a lifetime.

IN OTHER WORDS, YES, God may forgive you (if you truly repent and if you have not cut off God's call, and if you don't die suddenly, before you repent, and if you don't harden your own heart so that you find it impossible to repent), EVEN IF GOD FORGIVES YOU OF YOUR SINS, Your sins are not so forgiving.

The broken relationships and lives that you caused are still a shambles.
The marriage commitment you violated, left broken hearts, ruined lives in its wake.
The drug use and physical abuse you put your body through still takes a toll on your life and your service to God.
The disobedience and boastful worldliness still sticks in the minds of those you used, abused, misled, and some will never find their way to Christ because of your hypocrisy.
The trail of tears and ruin that you left behind will never be redeemed, the glory which you robbed from God will never be restored.

YES, BY ALL MEANS, IF YOU ARE NOT YET SAVED, GET SAVED. But if you are expecting God's mercy to forgive you later, for future sins, don't forget, you can have your soul saved, but lose your life and lose the lives of those you could have influenced for God and godliness, because sin doesn't replace good for evil.