Sinning with Impunity?

 

Sinning with Impunity? by Dr. D. James Kennedy

Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God … when you have eaten and are full and have built and occupied good houses.      Numbers 32:23

Sometimes Christians mistakenly think that if we sin, we can somehow escape the penalty for sin because of the forgiveness Christ purchased for us on the Cross. We may be forgiven, but we may also still face the consequences of those sins.

David’s sin with Bathsheba negatively impacted his family. His son Absalom rebelled and attempted to stage a coup against David. In that rebellion, Absalom was killed.

When news was brought to the king of his son’s death, David uttered what are without question, the most poignant words in all of Scripture. He said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!” 

For David knew what no parent can stand to know and that is that Absalom, his heart’s desire, was a rebel not only against himself, but against God—that Absalom is in Hell. And it was because of the example of his life, and because of the sin of his life that his own son now had perished. “Absalom, my son, my son!”

Does the Christian sin with impunity? Dear friend, ask King David.

LORD JESUS, help us to be "living epistles, read of all men," read especially by our children and those we love.  Help the epistles (letters) of our lives to clearly identify YOU as SAVIOR and LORD.  Help the epistles of our lives to evidence our transformation from sinner to saint when we received YOU into our lives.  Precious HOLY ONE, let us turn fully from sin to godliness.  Let us love YOU far better than we desired the "pleasures of life for a season."

It is in YOUR MIGHTY, MATCHLESS NAME we ask, JESUS.  Amen.