Signs of the Times
Where do we go from here?
(cont. from p.5)
Mount, the petitions of the Lord's Prayer which I should not only pray but support with actions, and the commandments given by Jesus with emphasis on the First and Second Commandments [Mat. 22: 36-40], as well as the teachings in Acts, the Epistles of Paul, Peter, James, Jude and John including Revelation,) I had to admit to my many violations of the will of God and my many short-comings, so I immediately began and am still continuing to review my life before the Lord with continuous confession and repentance.
God has provided a means of forgiveness and atonement for our sins through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. the Bible says in Hebrews 9:22.
Since Jesus shed His blood for us, we are blessed with the ability to repent of our sins and have them removed from us and imputed, transferred, to Jesus. Then again, since Jesus died for us and was raised from the dead and ascended back to Heaven, when He removes our sins, He imputes, transfers, His perfect righteousness to us.
When this takes place, we are justified before God and it is with Him as though we had not sinned. That Biblical truth is marvelous beyond words and God is to be praised, loved and honored from now through all eternity for making that possible.
The least those of us who have been forgiven can do now is try to be obedient in doing what the Lord wants us to do. As we have already seen, according to the literal translation of Luke 13:3, Jesus Christ wants us to keep on
repenting progressively and continuously. Also, according to 1 Thes. 5:17 is one of the things God wants us to do. Again, we are taught in 2 Thes. 4:2, to which means God wants His followers to be in constant companionship with Him through continuous prayer and meditation. In Col. 4:2, we are taught to
Here is the happy way that we fulfill all of these stated commands. We, in our minds and spirits, as we carry on the regular affairs of our lives, maintain a habit of prayer and an attitude of repentance, at the same time thanking the Lord that He removes our sins from us, replacing them with the righteousness of Jesus