I’M SORRY

By Rick Mathes

2 Corinthians 7:10 (NASB77) ¹⁰  For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

The tear of a repentant son washes away many sins. When love is mutual, forgiveness is most available to a father-son relationship. God so loved us He sent His Son to pay the price for our forgiveness. No sorrow on our part will ever trump the sin against God that caused it. We just don’t have the mind of holiness much less a sinful life that allows us into God’s throne room of blessings. Satan attacks us body and mind to separate our God breathed soul from the love of God. Rejection is unavoidable because no darkness can possibly exclude us from God’s grae because it is the fruit of unbelief, the unforgiveable sin.

Forgiveness from Jesus must be preceded by sorrow and repentance if you aren’t sincerely sorry and committed. mind, heart and soul  to never do that sin again. You are just in tears because you got caught. If you haven’t been caught yet, you still walk around in the shame of being found out. Listen to me! Put the sin on the table, take a good look at it and kill it. I promise that if you slay Goliath the Philistines will run for the hills.

Satan will start by planting bad thoughts about God into your mind. His favorite distractions from truth are doubt and fear. Those are the opposite of the keys to heaven, faith and trust. These thoughts manifest themselves into facts that are contrary to God’s Word and inevitably harden the heart to love, truth and forgiveness. Sin, death and hell rise to the surface all because of thelack of sorrow for offending God. This is unbelief in its highest degree Hell becomes a certainty.

It is much better to be born twice and die once that to be born once and die twice: to the flesh and to the spirit because of lack of repentance. Rejecting the atonement of Christ’s death on the cross is a death of the worst kind. It is irreversible the moment after your last breath. Jesus said from the cross, “It is finished!” That is, the way of salvation is complete in Him only. He won’t say “It is done.” Until after the white throne judgment so you still have time to say,”I’m sorry.”