God's News For Today ~ Tuesday June 25th 2019
Studied with the King James Bible

LIVING IN LIFES TRADITIONS

Can you imagine someone living their entire life never knowing why life was given to them? I can because I've lived it. I was always too busy living my life that I never truly gave thought as to why life was given to me. So, I continued living my life the way my father lived his, which was getting the best out of life. I was never taught there was much more to life than living for you and yours.

I'm not saying I didn't know who God was, at least I thought I did. My father would always curse God, blaming God for everything that went wrong, and never thanking Him for what went right. My father told me all about his religion and all its traditions. Like the one my father went to often because he sinned a lot. He told me this was his religion's tradition that provided a way for man to confess their sins. He called this tradition confession. I grew up living my life with these same religious traditions. Later, I found a man whose name was Jesus Christ. He told me about a God who was my Father God, and right then I knew I'd been living my life honoring Satan's traditions instead of my father God's traditions.

Years later my father had passed away. I was sorry, I hadn't seen him for many years. But I often heard he was still living in Satan's traditional lifestyle, and still going to these men called priests who forgave all his sins every time. Today I like to believe that before my father passed away, he'd given up living his lifestyle of sin filled with earthly desire. I also like to believe my father had gotten the opportunity I had received to confess his sins to the only one who truly qualifies to forgive the sins of man, His name is Jesus Christ, “not a priest.” Jesus Christ is the man who I'd finally met many years ago so, I know He's the only man who was ever qualified to forgive the sin of man because Jesus died without ever sinning. See> (2 Corinthians 5:21) 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

When Jesus Christ died, He had fulfilled His Father God's will by living a sinless life. This pleased His Father, our Father God. After that, God's grace was poured out on mankind. See> (Ephesians 2:8) 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

What this verse tells me is that it's by the grace of God mankind can confess their sin to His Son Jesus Christ, and by accepting Jesus as their Lord and savior Jesus will forgive our sins, cleansing us from all unrighteousness. See> 1 John 1:9) 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

My final thoughts
It took me a while before I changed my traditional way of confessing my sin, and accepted the fact that Jesus Christ was the only one qualified to forgive man’s sin. Because He died so mankind could ask Him to forgive their sins. Jesus can forgive us because His blood had never been stained by sin. Once my heart was able to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, all that sin that had never been forgiven by a man was lifted from me. For the first time in my life I knew I was living my life to its fullest with my Lord Jesus Christ amen.
Folks if you're living for the devil’s traditional lifestyles please don't wait to find Jesus Christ. I promise y 'all that living my life in the new lifestyle Christians live, I'm truly forgiven, and I've received God's gift of salvation, because I'm now living a new lifestyle that pleases our Father God. So, one day when I die, I want to see all of you up in Heaven. I know I'll be there will you?

Let us pray.
Dear God, we come with grateful and thankful hearts that You provided a way for our sins to be forgiven and live our new lives with good Christian based traditions. We pray for Your strength and power to help us lead those who are still living in Satan's traditional lifestyles to Your Son Jesus Christ and help them begin a good Christian traditional lifestyle that pleases our Father up in Heaven. In Your Son Jesus Christ's name, we all do pray, amen.

Rev James Erick