1 John 3:7-10 "Dear Children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who does what is sinful is from the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he is born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who doess not love his brother.
Lord, I know that You are saying here that anyone who continues to practice sins on a regular basis is not of You. Because we have the sin nature still within us, we are prone to sin from time to time, otherwise there would be no reason for You to put 1 John 1:9 in the Scriptures for us. However; we cannnot use that as an excuse to contuinue in presumptious sin if we are born of You. You have told us not to judge the heart of another unless we are willing to stand by that same judgement, but have also told us to be discerning and that we will know folks by their fruits.
Lord, thank You for coming to us incarnated at what we call Christmas...whenever that exact date was, to destroy the works of the devil! I praise You and bless You for loving us so much that You would even consider coming to this sinful place to save such as me!
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