
If you’ve had it ingrained into your thinking all your life that you will always be a ‘sinner’ (one who continues to sin and henceforth...remain a slave to sin -John 8:34) yet...are ’saved by grace’, then why would you think that it was even remotely possible that we could ever ‘go and sin no more’ and be free of sin? And yet, scripture clearly teaches that whoever abides in Jesus... no longer sins. (1 John 3:6,9; 5:18) Or maybe it’s just those ‘big sins’ you will no longer commit...you know...like murdering and adultery and beating your spouse and robbing banks, etc. But those ‘little ones’ that we do all the time because...well...’you know...this flesh nature that we imperfect, flawed humans have...’ But what we fail to see is the effects that sin (even those ‘little ones’) has on us over time. It begins to harden our hearts and sear our conscience. (Heb. 3:13; 1 Tim. 4:2; Matt. 24:12). We seem to ignore those warnings about ‘giving heed to the things we have heard lest we dr...