I felt it in my spirit today that many are stuck in justifying their sinful choices. For example, “Oh, this unequally yoked relationship is OK.” Or, “It’s OK to sleep around” or “It’s OK to look at this or look at that with lust in our hearts.”
It is not OK. It grieves our heavenly Father. Why? Because of the effects of sin. It is like a tumor that grows in the soul. If you don’t get rid of sin, if you don’t confess it, repent of it and renounce your sin, it grows in your soul like a cancer.
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The more you hate your sin and confess it, the more access you offer the Holy Spirit, giving Him something to work with.
The Good News is that Jesus already provided forgiveness for our transgressions and iniquities at the cross. If we diminish the power of sin as if it is not a big deal, we are actually diminishing the power of the price that was paid for sin.
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In other words, if we do not ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to us how heinous and how grievous and how horrifying sin is, we will not come to realize how powerful, how precious, how costly and how valuable the price that was paid for sin.
When you diminish the power and the effects of sin in your life, you are saying it’s OK, it is not a big deal and Jesus’ blood was no big deal. Sin was such an offense to our heavenly Father that He sent His only begotten Son to pay for our sins (John 3:16).
Simply put, the Holy Spirit is offended when we choose that mindset.
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Chris Garcia is the founder of Father’s Glory International. Father’s Glory is devoted to promoting God’s manifested presence and power through the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is Father’s glory, and it is through the unveiling of the Son that lives are transformed. Chris is also a revivalist with a heart for the local church and serves as the lead overseer at House of Glory in Fort Smith, Arkansas. House of Glory is a Spirit-filled, fivefold apostolic revival hub that exists to cultivate the presence of God and the power of the gospel regionally and internationally. God is looking for those who will give Him a place to rest and allow His people to interact with His presence, power and glory. Second Corinthians 3:18 says, “But we all, seeing the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, as in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory by the Spirit of the Lord.” It is for His glory that we proclaim His name. Chris and his wife, Zuly, reside in the Fort Smith area with their three children.
