Dear BPCWAians, We saw last week that repentance is a total change in how you view a sin. And because of this sense of the heinousness of it, there is a natural desire to avoid it and be rid of it. We also saw that with genuine repentance, there is remorse and a sense of guilt under the conviction of sin from God’s Word. This week, we shall see some traits of false repentance so that we can identify them in our own lives. Repentance and salvation. Before we go further, it is needful to emphasise that we should not have the wrong idea that repentance is salvation by works, nor that we are trusting in the acts of repentance
Read moreDear BPCWAians, I hope that after last week’s pastoral letter, each of us have come to understand that genuine confession is a sincere admission that we are guilty of having committed something sinful based on God’s Word. Why is genuine confession so important in a believer’s life? Have your confessions been genuine? What are the outcomes of genuine confession? Pro 28:13-14 “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. (14) Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.” Why is genuine confession important? Genuine confession receives forgiveness from God. 1 John 1:9 emphasizes that the condition for forgiveness and cleansing of sins
Read moreDear BPCWAians, You are saved at the point when you genuinely confessed to God that you are a sinner and asked God for forgiveness of your sins. You are saved as you turn to God with a repentant heart, confess that Jesus is the only Way, the Truth, and the Life, believe that His finished work on the cross is what saves you, and not coupled with any of your good works. But after salvation, do we still need to confess our sins? There is the erroneous but increasingly popular teaching today that confession of sins after salvation is optional since your sins have all been forgiven already. Do we need to confess our sins after salvation? What is confession
Read moreDear BPCWAians, We began discussing last week about how to recognise spiritual warfare, because it is a warfare that is not with flesh and blood and cannot be seen. Due to this fact, we often enter into the battleground without even knowing that we are in a battle. And we end up judging the result or how well we “fought” the fight based on what is seen. Will you even respond in the first place? If we love our sins, want to protect our pride, and value the esteem of man more than how God sees us, we won’t bother to fight the spiritual battle … even if we know and recognise that it is a spiritual battle! Moreover, as
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