Myth - Forgiveness for sins is not necessary. When no one knows/sees what we've done, when no one received any harm through us forgiveness for the sins is not needed.
Faith - Forgiveness is necessary no matter what, whether the sin is performed in secret, whether or not someone knows it or someone faces problem with it or not, sin needs forgiveness, and it is through the precious blood of JESUS CHRIST alone!
Reason # 1: The very definition of sin says "transgression of law is sin" (1 John 3:4) If we observe and try to understand for an innocent child who does what his parents say, doing wrong for the first time will be of great trouble, and he fears much. And doing the same wrong second will not cause the same amount of fear as he had the first time. If the child happens to repeat same wrong thing, it becomes much more easy and he gets habituated to do that. Likewise transgression of law for first time will be very difficult, second time bit difficult, repeated subsequently becomes easy, habituated and becomes part of life. There are many sins that will not cause harm, therefore human beings tend to do them habitually. These habitual sins itself will decide the very nature of the human being, in other words our nature becomes sinful. Deliverance from such sins is needed obviously to get the holiness to reach God and to become a better self too.
Reason # 2: If dangerous sins were carried out secretly without other people being aware of them, the person practicing them might get effected in physical, mental and spiritual levels. Sins mentioned in Mark 7:21 like theft, murder, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, folly and sexual immorality like self-pleasure, fornication and adultery come under this category. The consequences of such sins may or maynot befall on the person, but they are dangerous sins that cause the entire chaos in the entire human society as we all know. Therefore it is beyond question that deliverance from them is required for the good of human society.
Reason # 3: We can stop doing habitual sins only by repenting about them deeply and refraining from doing so again. But this point of refraining from doing so depends entirely on one's self, which in turn is dependent on the strength of self-will and depth of repentance. In other words at any stage if the person feels 'this is fine, I can do this at least this one time' again the person falls into same sin. At this juncture, there is no force that can actually stop or persuade a person from refraining to do sin. But when we accept Jesus Christ and repent for our sins, He is Just to forgive all our sins(I John 1:9) and we will be washed from the sin and sinful nature by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. This removes the guilt, and the deliverance we get helps us to refrain from doing it again, therefore change for a better self is possible. Whenever we get the desire to sin, God, the Holy Spirit will help us to overcome the desire. Speaking in intellectual terms, we fear to sin again at least because, we believe in the holiness of God and we know we should be holy, or at least when we remember the love of JESUS which He bestowed on us, we refrain from doing the sin.
Reason # 4: Deliverance from the sin is only by believing that Jesus Christ shed every drop of blood for the sake of our sins. But since we are living in the world with our mortal body, desire to sin again can be removed only through the continuous fellowship with God. When we do not commune with the Lord enough, satan will provoke/tempt us in which areas we are more prone to fall. If we fall, our conscience pricks, and if we dont set it right immediately with God and man, we tend fall again and again and eventually backslide, which is satan's desire for our lives. So immediately we have to repent if we make a mistake or sin after we are saved. Repenting before God and getting forgiven strengthens our faith in God and our spirit. Otherwise its Satan's trap to pull us down into the miry clay of sin.
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