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How do you help a brother or sister that sins?

Started by Hobie, Fri Apr 05, 2024 - 23:47:15

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Hobie

1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

We find many threads on what to do if you see a brother sin, usually to rebuke or point him out, but some times to just ridicule or worse things. But how about helping a brother or sister that has sinned, what do we do?

We had to help a brother in such a situation this week and it was amazing, and very uplifting to say the least. What would you do to help bring a brother or sister back before God and find forgiveness and be cleansed of all unrighteousness, especially when they know they have sinned...

4WD

Quote from: Hobie on Fri Apr 05, 2024 - 23:47:151 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

We find many threads on what to do if you see a brother sin, usually to rebuke or point him out, but some times to just ridicule or worse things. But how about helping a brother or sister that has sinned, what do we do?

We had to help a brother in such a situation this week and it was amazing, and very uplifting to say the least. What would you do to help bring a brother or sister back before God and find forgiveness and be cleansed of all unrighteousness, especially when they know they have sinned...

Hobie, I agree with you in the need to help a brother in such situations.  However, I do not think that 1 John 1:9 is speaking to that need.  That verse is so often misinterpreted.  Forgiveness of sin is not an act of God after each sin that is confessed.  Forgiveness is a state of being for the baptized believer. When we believe, repent and are baptized in the name of Jesus Christ as Peter preached at Pentecost (Acts 2:38), we are forgiven and we receive the indwelling Holy Spirit.  The forgiveness there is a one time and done act of God. It is what Paul later refers to as being Justified, that is, being declared righteous.

Rom 4:22  That is why his [i.e., Abraham's] faith was "counted to him as righteousness."
Rom 4:23  But the words "it was counted to him" were not written for his sake alone,
Rom 4:24  but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
Rom 4:25  who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
Rom 5:1  Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.


I think the whole of the first chapter in 1 John is John's statement of his apostleship and divine inspiration directly from Jesus Christ.

Amo

1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Rom 3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.


Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Remind him that we are all in the same boat, and point him to Him whose righteousness all true believers seek to establish within their own lives. For we have none of our own. Pray for and or with him, and then continue with the rest of biblical council concerning such.

Mat 18:15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. 16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. 17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. 18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

These things are of course regarding public and or known sin, which therefore can or should be addressed. May God have mercy upon all of our souls regarding private sins which include even the thoughts which none but God will ever know about. May His Holy Spirit continuously convict and convert everyone of us, that we might forsake the sins which caused His death, and continuously seek to have His righteousness established within our lives in the place of our own filthy rags.

Moreover, may God have mercy upon all such who might be deluded enough to think they have no sin, and are therefore incapable of repentance, forgiveness, and therefore salvation.

Rom 10:1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

 


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