Addictions

Remember, one can be addicted to almost anything: drugs, alcohol, sex, pornography, food, shopping, diet, exercise, or anything to distract us from the feelings of being unloved.

Each person is created to know and to receive God’s perfect love.  When people have not received true, unconditional love as a foundation, they are always in search of getting a need fulfilled.  The need-to-know God’s love can open us up to look for love in all the wrong places.  This need leaves us vulnerable to the deception of Satan, who seduces us into believing the world offers us a better substitute.

Unloving Spirits

Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

The unloving spirit rejects everything God has said about you in His Word (you are fearfully and wonderfully made) and replaces with Satan’s blatant lies.  These deceptions will prevent you from loving God, loving yourself, and loving others.  It blocks you from receiving this love as well as from giving it.  Many of us have not grown up in a godly, loving environment.  This hinders us from and early age in receiving the very love we crave so much.

The unloving environment is a result of the spiritual leader of the house, the father, not knowing how to convey God’s perfect love, 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. The father was not taught by their father how to convey love to their children and even their wife. This can go back many generations. Children need to hear these words everyday “I LOVE YOU.”  It’s a declaration to the children, wives, the heavenlies and it tells Satan that God’s love is greater than his lies.  “God’s perfect love casts out fear,” the fear of not being loved.  So, the children have “not been made perfect in love” which results in constant torment “because fear involves torment.”  Again, the fear of not feeling loved.

When a person feels unloved, there will be rejection, abandonment, self-rejection, self-hatred and anger.

What Makes Addiction a Sin?

You are saying through your actions that God is not able to meet you needs.  Your heat says: “God, I need a fix that you cannot supply.  I will get it myself.”  Our comfort must be in God, not in people places, or things, especially addictions.

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Fear

2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Fear means being afraid, scared, worried, anxious and concerned that a bad thing is going to happen.  It is projecting into the future.  Fear, then, is the opposite of faith.  Fear and faith are equal.  They both project into the future and both demands to be fulfilled.  Bottom line is: which authority are you going to listen to.

What Makes Fear a Sin?

God’s Word tells us over 365 times to “fear not.”  By entertaining the spirit of fear, your actions are saying you cannot trust God and you have to take control of your own life. Fear is sin.

 

 

Traumas and Doorpoints

God has set parameters of protection around mankind against Satan.  Yet, there are ways he can get a foothold.  They are called doorpoints or entry points.  Traumas and doorpoints are the incidences in your life giving entry to these bad roots.  These points of entry could be in your own life or in your family tree.

Different phases or event of life bring their own traumas.  Doorpoints around birth and early childhood could be issues of abandonment in the event of unwanted pregnancy.  This allows the spirit of rejection to enter into the unborn child.  Rejection can lead to self-hatred, self-rejection, self-condemnation, and questioning their self-worth.  When parents’ divorce (50% divorce rate), children question their own worth and this may give entry to unloving spirits.  Due to sickness, we may engage in alternative therapies, and/or addictions.

Rejection and abandonment by the father and many cases the mother is trauma.  Most have had hundreds traumas as a result of the unloving parents and they have to be addressed in ministry to undo the harm.

Addiction Ministry – Things to Look For – This requires us to become a detective and ask questions so that we can determine the entry points or roots so that we can bring people out of captivity, “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound Isaiah 61:1

 

******First and foremost, we must ask the Holy Spirit to guide us as we minister to the person, Jeremiah 33:3******

1.)    Was the child born out of wedlock?

2.)    Was the pregnancy wanted

3.)    Is there a generational history of the above? May need to break the generational curses.

4.)    Determine any generational addictions that may have to be broken.

5.)    What was the role of the father in the family?

6.)    Did the father bring wrath and anger to their child?

7.)    Did the father say these words “I love you” as they were growing up?

8.)    Was the Father the spiritual head of the family or did the mother make all the decisions.

9.)    List all traumas emotionally and physically.

10.) List all offenses and lead the person in a forgiveness prayer towards the offender.

11.) Lead them in a prayer of forgiveness of self for self-hatred, self-rejection, regrets, anger and for not loving self.

12.)  Have them confess to God all their sins, ask God to forgive them, and ask God to help them to repent.

This is a short but critical list that needs to be followed.  The Holy Spirit can or will bring revelation to the ministry team.

If we love ourselves the way God loves us, we would not have to fill that void of not feeling loved with addictions.  Feeling unloved is an anti-Christ spirit.  The unloving spirit is rooted in fear and only God’s perfect love can cast out fear (1 John 4:18).  Not mankind?

Generational Sin

Generational Sin – They have turned back to the iniquities (sin) of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them…Jeremiah 11:10

There are way too many generational sins manifesting in the present generation causing havoc in the form of sickness and disease.  Especially, in the children.  Any time I see disease in children, I believe it can point to generational sin.   

 Generational Curse definition – to pronounce judgement. “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you, Deuteronomy 28:1.  The rest of the chapter goes on to describe what sickness and diseases that will result from our disobedience (sin).

Generational Sin definition – an immoral act considered to be a transgression against God. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation,” Exodus 34:7 Sins in this passage follows the generational line.

Generational Sin can be passed down the family line. In other words, we are born with iniquities (sin), transgressions (sin), and trespasses (sin), (Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me, Psalm 51:5). Not only do we have to break the generational sin from past generations, confess it as sin, and ask forgiveness for the past generations, we must also confess the generational sin that we have partaken with from past generations, and ask God to forgive us.  This is called repentance.

Unfortunately, most do not address past and present generational sin.  I have heard from people and pastors, numerous times that because Jesus died on the cross for our sins, past, present, and future, we are forgiven. They preach the grace (once forgiven, always forgiven) message.  If this is true, why is the Body of Jesus Christ still getting sick?  It is false doctrine. Paul’s message in Romans 6:1 says What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

Does the grace message trump repentance?  Should we continue to sin and believe there will not be consequences? There are instructions in the Bible on what to do when we sin.  We are called to repent.  That is why it says in God’s Word 100 times to repent. It is very clear why we must repent because our disobedience will result in sickness and disease.

Our generational sin has been there since conception through DNA and we were born with the sins of the generations that can go back many generations.  Through our lives we have become one with the sins of the generations.  In other words, we don’t really know its there until the past of generational and present sins manifest resulting in sickness and disease. The only way to eradicate this generational sin is through repentance because it is sin.  God’s promise in His Word is we WILL be cleansed from sin and healed of our sickness and disease. 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 (generational and present sin). James 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.

Fortunately, there is prayer to be released from generational curses/sin in Jesus Christ’s Name. 

Prayer: Father God, in Jesus Christ’s Name, I confess the iniquities and trespasses of the past generations as sin.  I am very sorry for the past generational sins and I ask You to forgive their sins. Father God, in Jesus Christ’s name, I confess the generational sin I was born with as sin.  I am very sorry for allowing myself to be a partaker of generational sin and I ask You to forgive me.  I ask You to help me repent because I cannot do this on my own. Through the Blood of Jesus Christ and repentanc, I know I can I be delivered from all generational and present sin.  AMEN!

Generational sin has been working in us for decades and healing is not always immediate. The reason is we have to build up our faith and pray continually because we don’t have the faith of a mustard seed, So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you, Matthew 7:20.  Continue to pray this prayer until there is a healing breakthrough.                     Tony Sanchez 2-12-21

Fear

 Fear – (worry, stress anxiety, panic, terror, nervous, afraid, dread, alarm, fright, trepidation)

Fear definition: an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger; an instance of this emotion; a state marked by this emotion; to be afraid of; expect with alarm. Synonyms for fear: alarm, anxiety, dread, fearfulness, fright, horror, panic, scare, terror, trepidation, stress, nervousness, uneasy, alarm, dread, distress, wary, anxiety, phobia, and worry.

God gave us emotions to help us. The emotion fear was intended to alert us to danger so that we may respond by our fight or flight abilities. Fighting fear means you battle to take your peace by overcoming fear.  Flight means that you don’t stand up to fear and it can end up being one with you.  Constant fear will control you and put you in bondage.

Studies show that anxiety and stress are as detrimental to the heart health as are cholesterol, smoking and others.  You must get rid of your worries, stresses, anxieties, and fears because they are detrimental to your health. Fear weakens your immune system leaving you at risk of immune diseases.

Fear, stress and anxiety probably account for at least 50 to 70 percent of all diseases known to mankind according to Dr. Henry Wright. What people do not realize is that fear, stress, and anxiety many times are coupled with the Unloving Spirit.  What that means is a person fears not being loved by parents, siblings, self, others, and God.

The Mind-Body Connection

The hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal is the facilitator of the mind-body connection.  For every thought you have, conscious or unconscious, there is a corresponding chemical, hormone, neurotransmitter, or neuropeptide that secretes somewhere in your body to respond to that thought.  Fear can cause the body to become out of balance.

But, if there is a departure from normal because of spiritual problems, it is called disease.  Something that God created to function has been perverted and it is now malfunctioning most of the time through hyposecretion (under) or hypersecretion (over) of body chemicals.

Much of fear and panic is caused by the hypersecretion of hormones.  The amygdala (a little ball of nerves in the brain that detects fear) triggers and regulates fear responses and sets the whole fight or flight reaction into motion.  When the stressor is gone and the fight or flight reaction consistently extends beyond its normal recovery time due to long-term fear and anxiety, it carries over into the Resistance Stage.

Resistance Stage

The Resistance stage is where you are geared up all the time to face this invisible enemy of fear. Certain part of your body that needed to maintain homeostasis (balance) are no longer functioning because your body has been told there is an enemy.  So, you are geared up, wrestling this enemy of fear all the time.  After a while, you wonder why you are worn out.

The Exhaustion Stage

Constant exposure to fear will produce hopelessness and despair. Also know as depression.  How do I know this?  God’s Word tells us in Proverbs 12:25 Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad.  Years of exposure to depression will produce oppression (sense of being weighed down in body or mind).  Also know as a stupor (a state of extreme apathy-lack feeling/emotion or torpor-a state of lowered physiological activity typically characterized by reduced metabolism, heart rate, respiration, and body temperature that occurs in varying degrees resulting often from stress or shock). The Bible describes this condition in Romans 11:8 God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, to this very day” which describes feeling lethargic as it relates to, or characterized by laziness, procrastination, and lack of energy.

 Types of Fears

Many years ago, Life magazine published a list of 4,000 fears.  I will only list some that I see most often.

Fear of not being loved	Fear of rejection	Fear of abandonment
Fear of not performing	Fearing into the future	Fears from work
Fear of not being worthy	Fear from politics	Fears from the world
Fear of what people think or say	Fear of Sickness and Disease	Fear for your children
Fear of losing your job	Fear of facing people who hurt you	Fear of embarrassment
Fear of growing old and being alone	Fear of dying	Fear of foods and not exercising
Fear of Failure	Fear of gaining weight	Fear of mankind
Fear of showing love	Fear of parent and kids	Fear of losing salvation

 

What Are Some Emotional and Physical Symptoms of Fear?

Insomnia	Migraine Headaches	Cramps	High Blood Pressure	IBS
Itching	Back and Neck Pain	Plantar Fasciitis	Feeling Lethargic	Hopelessness
Constricted vessels	Contracted Muscles	Contracted tendons	Contracted ligaments	Panic attacks
Narrow Air passages	Narrow lung air sacs	Confusion	Psychosis	Unsound mind
Reclusive	Carpal Tunnel	Shortness of Breath	Depression	Oppression
Procrastination	Blood clots	Arterial Stiffness	Vessel wall thinning	Erectile Disfunction
Hopelessness	Despair	IBS	COPD	Sleep Apnea

                                                                                

Fear Topics

Traumas – Traumas and the stressor tied to them come in all sizes from the littlest trauma to the biggest.  Each of us has had a constant lifetime exposure to traumas of all sizes that affect our physical and emotional well-being leading to what the medical field calls PTSD.  A lifetime of fears from traumas piles up leading to emotional sickness and physical disease.  Traumas and the fears attached to traumas will stay with us until we receive ministry to eradicate them.

Generation Fears can be passed down the family line. In other words, we are born with fears, which is sin, (Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me, Psalm 51:5). Not only do we have to break the generational fears from past generations and confess it as sin, we must also confess the generational sin that we have partaken in from past generation, and ask God to forgive us.  This is called repentance.

Unloving Spirit – 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.  Fear is an unclean spirit.

Unfortunately, an Unloving spirit will have Fear working with it. The Fear is the fear of not being loved or a fear of not being worthy to be loved. They combine with anger to bring torment to you. 

To be free of fear, you must be able to receive God’s love and feel safe in it, regardless of whether anyone loves you or not.  God loves you.  An Unloving spirit and the spirit of Fear are antichrists spirits because they debate and dethrone the Word of God in your life.

When God says He loves you and you say you are not loved, you call God a liar.  When God says “fear not,” yet you continue to fear, you are calling God a liar again. The phrases “fear not” or “do not fear” are found in the Bible more than 350 different times.  Do you think God is trying to tell us something?

You MUST resolve the tact that you belong here on this planet and you MUST believe that God placed you here for a reason.  You are going to have to believe the Word of God!  You are not an accident!  You were known from the foundation of the world.

Yet, you say you are not loved?  You need to get a reality check.  It is time you leave the lies of the past behind and start believing you are worthy to be loved. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him, 1 John 4:16.

Constricted vessels are the narrowing of the vessels because of fear causing the heart to have to pump harder resulting in high blood pressure, blood clots, migraines, reduced hair growth, circulations issues and numbness to name a few.

Contraction of the muscles, tendons, and ligaments A contraction is activation of tension within the fibers of the muscles, tendon, or ligaments. It begins when the nervous system generates a signal that causes a contraction and can be summed up in three ways: (1) A message travels from the nervous system to the muscular system, triggering chemical reactions. (2) The chemical reactions lead to the fibers reorganizing the muscles, tendons, and ligaments.  That is the contraction.  (3).  When the nervous system signal is not longer present, the chemical process reverses, and the muscles, tendons, and ligaments relax.

Unfortunately, many times we are in constant fear causing the muscles, tendons, and ligaments to be contracted   perpetually leading to muscle cramps/spasms/pain, tightness, tears, severed, muscles, and tendons.

A good example of this is the NFL and their players during COVID.  There was a great increase in injuries due to the fears the players manifested within themselves.  Fear of not playing, fear of not getting a paycheck, fear of being isolated from families during the season, fear of infecting family or friends, fear of performing, and the list goes on.  So, their muscles, tendons, and ligaments are so tight, it resulted in many injuries in football and the other sports.

These fears did not allow them to “play loose” as they say in the athletic world.  Meaning, they were not able to perform at 100% of their abilities.  These same fears did not allow their mind to process at 100%.  Fear causes confusion and it is not from God, 1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints. Once fear is reduced, it allows them to slow down the game.  Fear is from the enemy and it has to be cast out, which is a big part of our ministry, and the ministry of Jesus Christ (Mark 16:17), whether it be athletics or common folk.  We have been very successful because this is what God has promised, but it is a process and it doesn’t happen overnight.  A person has to change their habits of stress, anxiety, worry (fear).

Plantar Fasciitis is the result of fear contracting the tendon resulting in miniscule tears causing pain.  Fear is nesting in this area of the foot.

Lower back pain is the result of fear contracting muscles, tendons and ligaments.  Fear is nesting in this part of the body. 99% of the time we find the left leg shorter than the right leg.  This means they are out of alignment due to fear. 

Erectile Disfunction – ED can result from emotions (fear, stress, anxiety, depression), clogged and narrowing of the blood vessels. Knowing what causes ED is not complicated.  Fear will cause the vessels to narrow restricting blood flow as in any part of the body.  With men, a lifetime of fears not addressed can result in ED.  ED causes marriage issues because the man has fears of not being able to perform making it worse.

Procrastination – A person who has depression and a worse condition called oppression causes a lethargic existence. Depression and oppression lead to procrastinate.  Many times, a person can barely get out of bed.  Every effort is extremely difficult and the more you ignore what has to be done, the more it causes additional fear.  It’s an endless cycle.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) – GAD is characterized by persistent and excessive worry about a number of different things.  People with GAD may be fearful of future disasters that most often never happen.  They may be overly concerned about money, health, family, work or other issues. They may worry more than seems warranted about actual events or may expect the worst even when there is no apparent reason for concern.

The disorder comes on gradually and can begin across the life cycle, though the risk is highest between childhood and middle age. Sometimes just the thought of getting through the day produces anxiety.  They don’t know how to stop the worry cycle and feel it is beyond their control, even though they usually realize that their anxiety is more intense than the situation warrants.

Spirits of: fear (as in stress/anxiety) and anger. Many people feel rejected, unworthy, and unloved.  The father’s failure to say these simple words “I love you” early in a person’s one’s life has great impact on how one feels about their self.

Note: Many times, a single worry will trigger other worries to a point where they pile up causing greater fear. Eventually, a person becomes one with fear causing great bondage. Covid has caused GAD to increase substantially.

Fear of Not Being Loved - This is the number one fear most, if not all of us have to deal with and it does the most damage emotionally and physically.  Feeling unloved brings on rejection, abandonment, not feeling worthy, depression leading to oppression, feeling lethargic, and feeling unwanted.  Over time a person will experience extreme anger towards those who did not love them.  Not feeling loved is an offense resulting in un-forgiveness towards them. It produces self-rejection, self-hatred, anger at self, that results in a person beating themselves up emotionally and physically, ultimately, causing sickness and disease.  Feeling unloved compromises, the immune system.  Meaning, it dries the bones and the bone marrow that produces white T cells that fight off immune diseases, A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones, Proverbs 17:22.  Feeling unloved will produce envy, bitterness and jealousy because they love others more than they love you, A sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones Proverbs 14:30. 

Addictions – Fear is the major component in why we have addictions and its root cause is tied to not feeling loved!  We are not trusting the love of God to fill our loving needs.  We have relied on  man’s love that continually disappoints us over and over.  So, when we look to fill that loving void, we turn to things of this world such as alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, shopping, diet/exercising, eating, gambling, video games, work, internet, sports, social media, sex, phones, pornography, and many more. Many times, these addictions come down the generational line.

How do we combat fear and the symptoms associated with fear?

Fear is an unclean spirit and it needs to be addressed. You can command it to leave in Jesus name and you can repent of this fear.  Fear is sin and as with all sin in the Bible, we must repent.  Repent means to change our ways, but we need God’s help.  Below is a basic repentance prayer.

Father God, I confess my fears_____ as sin. I am very sorry and I ask You to forgive me.  I choose to repent with your help in the name of Jesus, Amen.

Consistently repent of any sin and God’s promises is that Jesus will take on your sin, which leads to healing.

Isaiah 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions (sin), He was bruised for our iniquities (sin); The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

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.

James 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed…

Number one reason we are not being healed is we fail to confess our sin, we fail to ask God to forgive us, and we fail to repent CONSISTANTLY.

The medical field and mankind have not been able to heal anyone from fear.  They feed you drugs, advise counselling, diet, exercise, and yoga (meditation) and self-help to name a few. Yet, the fear and the symptoms from fear continue to keep us in captivity.

The greatest responsibility of a father is to convey the love of God the Father to their children and wife with these simple words, “I Love You” over and over and over again.  This is a declaration to all the heavenlies.  

I pray you will be blessed with this information so that you and others can out of captivity.  Tony Sanchez 2-12-21

 

Sickness and Disease – Where does it originate from?

The medical world has an entire book on sickness and disease, the Merk Manual, but knows very little about the roots of sickness and disease and even less on how to heal most of these sicknesses and diseases in this book.  The medical world treats the symptoms. 

Even Christian ministries have little success in the area of sickness and disease.  Most often they pray for the symptoms and don’t know where sickness and disease originate from.  Symptoms are not sin.  They are the aftereffect of the sin

So, where can one find this information about the roots of sickness and disease?  Very complicated process if we look to man for this information.  But we can choose to search the Scriptures which are quite basic.

I want to take you to Deuteronomy 28 (see Leviticus 26 as well) where it talks about blessings and curses:

Blessings – Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God

To summarize these verses, God wants us to obey Him and not to sin so that we can receive His blessings.

Curses – 15 “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: 16 “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. 17 “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18 “Cursed shall be the fruit of your body (Offspring) and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. 19 “Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. 20 “The Lord will send on you cursing (including generational and spoken), confusion (Chaos, unsound mind, God is not the author of confusion 1 Cor 14:33), and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness (Iniquities) of your doings in which you have forsaken Me. 21 The Lord will make the plague (Infectious disease) cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess. 22 The Lord will strike you with consumption (Wasting away of the body, Tuberculosis), with fever (symptom of sickness and disease), with inflammation (swelling, aches, pains), with severe burning fever (diseases which fever is a prominent symptom), with the sword, with scorching (Dehydration), and with mildew (is a fungus that can cause illness and disease) ; they shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze (Dryness and hardness), and the earth which is under you shall be iron (hard and impenetrable). 24 The Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed. 25 “The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you with the boils (Infected hair follicles) of Egypt, with tumors (Cancer), with the scab (Immune system skin disorders), and with the itch (Excessive histamine secretion or Psoriasis), from which you cannot be healed (Psoriasis). 28 The Lord will strike you with madness (Calamity and Mental Illness), and (Spiritual) blindness (Spirit of Stupor Romans 11:8) and confusion of heart (Disorderly). 29 And you shall grope (searching blindly) at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you. 58 “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, 59 then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses. 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed. 62 You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Summary of Curses: These verses identify some sicknesses and diseases from sin (disobedience), but also includes “every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed” in verse 61. This means every sickness and disease that is a result of mankind’s sin.

So, as believers in Jesus Christ, what can we do to be healed of these sicknesses and diseases?  The Bible promises us healing for all sicknesses and diseases including curses passed down through the past generations. Generational sin is quite evident in mankind. Deuteronomy 5: you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity (wickedness) of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.  Most often we fail to address the sins of the past generations in ministry.

Isaiah 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

Mark 16:18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

James 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

So, why is the Body of Christ not being healed?

The Bible has all the answers and it is not complicated.  Key to healing is to look at the sin that is causing our sickness and disease.  Fear causes circulatory and air passages to constrict, high blood pressure, migraine headaches, insomnia, sleep apnea, backaches, and cramps, to name a few. Un-forgiveness (bitterness) and anger compromise the immune system (Proverbs 14:30 A sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones, Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones). The bones are where the blood marrow is produced.  Blood marrow is where the white T cells are produced to fight off sickness and diseases.  Some of the characteristics of Un-forgiveness is arthritis, anger, and rejection. Mental illness is a sickness and something we all have experienced at one level or another.  Example:  Have you ever felt a little down?  This is called depression (hopelessness and despair), which is mental illness.  These are just a few of the multitude of sins that causes sickness and disease.

“And by His strips, we are healed.”  Jesus died for our sins and once we are saved these past sins are forgiven, but believers get trapped into thinking the “once forgiven, always forgiven” mentality applies to all past, present, and future sins. That is not what the Bible says.   

Ask yourself then, why do you have sinful thoughts desires, and thoughts.  Why do you worry and get angry?  Is this not sin? People forget that each new sin is not automatically forgiven.  There are over 100 verses in the Old and New Testament that instructs us to repent.  God tells five of the seven churches to repent of their sins in Revelation.  If all sin is forgiven because Jesus died and took on our sin, why do we need to repent? Jesus takes on our sin IF we confess our sin and ask God to forgive us.  How can the body of Christ get this so wrong?  The conditions of blessings and curses are set in Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26.  It’s about obedience (not sinning) and disobedience (sin).

Just what is repentance?  Repentance is turning away from sin and is something we cannot do on our own power.  It is a process and it requires that we confess our sin (be specific and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal hidden sin) to Our Father God, tell Him how sorry we are, ask Him to forgive us for our sin and help us to change our ways (repent).  Only then, can our sin be washed away by the blood of Jesus for our sins, “By His strips, we are healed.”

Summary: If Deuteronomy 28:15-68 tell us our sickness and diseases are from disobedience, which is sin, and repentance is the key to eradicating sin by the blood of Jesus, then, we will have healing according to God’s Word.  God’s Word is truth.

It may sound basic and it really is, but it is a lot of work in that we must repent each and every day because we sin every day.  We cannot let mountains of sin build up by waiting weeks and months to pass before we repent. _{Tony Sanchez 9-25-20}

Once Forgiven, Always Forgiven?

Even the most mature person can harbor unconscious sin, "Who can say, I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin?" Prov. 20:9. We know about  Paul where he laments about how he knows the right thing to do, yet he continues to do the wrong thing, time and time again (Romans 7:15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do).  Well before this point in history Paul declared that God commands all persons to repentance for the time is coming where He will return and we should be consciously aware of our spiritual condition and continual repentant state of mind and heart (Acts 17:30-31 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”). 

The question may arise, “But, haven't I been covered in the blood and therefore ready for the time when Christ returns, and if so, why must I continue to live in a repentant state?”

“Covered in the blood — 1 Corinthians 11:25

Now, the topic of faith; as related to whether or not an ongoing repentant heart is a requirement for continued holiness and salvation, rears its head often. We must have no fear when discussing the topic of sin. We must strive to maintain a Holy mind of Christ, the place where we dwell the most; inside our soul, that place where it can get rather mucked up and dirty. We can have a difficult time handling disorder and uncleanliness, a trait that can become quite a burden as we look around at the life we live and try to control from time to time. If we are to live a life fully alive, we must come to realize and accept the fact that we do not control much of anything, yet as man and women of Faith, and of the flesh, we fail and attempt to control people and things we really have no business interfering with. 

This conflict is a direct result of the Spirit of the Lord, we would do well to remember that where Jesus is tension will come. In other words, our moral compass is directing us inward to see where all the dirt lies, showing us what we must clean up in order to feel peace and be awarded that rest which is spoken of in Scriptures (Exodus 33:14 And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” also Jeremiah 31:25 “For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish”). 

As we read the word replenish while in a conversation about repentance, we can begin to understand this state of being “replenished” when we associate a condition of being in the mindful state of Christ which requires us to empty ourselves of self. We do this by asking God to forgive us of our sins and we specifically address our sins and admit them before our Father at the same time we are desiring to be filled with His presence. In fact, we should be pleading with God that He be gracious enough to allow the presence of the Holy Spirit to dwell within us. Our weary minds and souls require rest, and rest is a reward where we can be satisfied when we empty ourselves of the burdens of our sins, the conscious and unconscious sins.  Circling back to the question posed previously, since we are covered in the blood and therefore forgiven, why must we be continually repentant? Hasn't Jesus forgiven our sins once and for all?

This leads us back to the topic of faith and repentance, when we lift up my eyes and declare that Christ is alive, we automatically assume a responsibility to learn how to control our soul. You see, when we accept the fact that Christ is alive and ask the Holy Spirit to take up residence inside of us, we become, shall we say, stewards - slaves, to the Lord who so graciously allows us to dwell in His presence both physically and soulfully. In turn we must be able to see with clear sight as revealed to us in the Holy Scriptures, that the Holy Spirit takes up residence inside of us and “dwells” within us (see 1 Cor. 3:16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?, 2 Cor. 6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said, Ezekiel 36:27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them, Tim 1:14 That good thing which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us). 

“The Indwelling — 2 Timothy 1:14

 Our new tenant requires our love and attention.  We were gifted this tenant when we responded to the message and call of Christ, meaning we first believe that Christ is alive and we are truly sorry for the bad things we have done in our lives. We have been transformed and no longer can fathom the depravity of our previous lifestyle and earnestly want to turn away from it. But, after some time the newness and excitement begin to wear off and we begin to settle in and get comfortable. We have this calm and restful state of mind knowing that we will no longer suffer in the eternal state of damnation with all of its worms and pain. We know that we will be going to heaven. We have been forgiven and all is well. 

Yet another question will arise, and I know that it will because of my own personal experience and that of others, that question is, “Once forgiven always forgiven?” 

When we invite someone into our home, we treat them with love, respect and are highly aware of their needs, but over time we can become comfortable and begin to treat them with complacency and we may even begin to forget about their needs and focus on our own. This complacent state of mind is not the same thing as the rest we have spoken of. Complacency, unfortunately; as time passes, will come with unrest. We may even start to be desirous of things that are not very healthy for us to fill up that void which has snuck into our lives. Once our flesh becomes bored desire begins to tickle at our senses, our once fun, new tenant may have become a burden and we might be annoyed with their very presence due to their constant interruptions.

The Holy Spirit (your new tenant) will interrupt you, demand certain things of you and He will poke at and bother you, pushing you to do the right thing. That nagging little voice which demands your attention and bothers you so much will never go away. Try as you might to get away; or if you dare, for grieving the Holy Spirit is a mortal sin, He will always be there.

“I can never escape from your Spirit! — Psalm 139:7

The longer you ignore the needs of the Holy Spirit the more chaotic your life will become, you will become easily frustrated, angered, annoyed and even resentful towards others. All of these emotions are rather corrupt and not very healthy, they will always end badly and leave you in a sinful state. 

“Do not grieve the Holy Spirit for whom you are sealed — Ephesians 4:30

A sinful state, yet you were forgiven when you asked God for his mercy. You were forgiven when you pleaded with Him to allow the Holy Spirit to live with you. You were forgiven when you cried and were remorseful and needed him right then and there. And you may have been told by someone you admired that “Once forgiven, always forgiven.” Ask yourself then, why do you have sinful thoughts, desires and actions? What are you supposed to do with that nagging voice inside your head? Perhaps, you should ask for forgiveness and clean up your house once again so that everything is in order and you can feel “restful” again. Perhaps repentance is not a one-time event. In fact, to have rest you must repent everyday if possible, to rid yourself of the sin of the day.

“I will give you rest — Matthew 11:28

I pray that this teaching has touched your heart and will spurn you into action. My desire is that everyone to be free of pain, sickness, and disease from sin. Yet, while we live on this planet; one that is so very hard to handle and understand, this is not very possible. However, we can be awarded that rest when we all become consciously aware of our continual sinful state and become truly sorry for our bad thoughts, ideas, actions and desires. All we have to do is open our eyes and plead for the Holy Spirit to show us how to repent of our sin, purify us and set us free, again and again, as Paul so painfully revealed to us.

Prayer: Father, in Jesus name, I come before Your thrown of grace and mercy to confess my sins to you. Lord, I am truly sorry and I ask you to forgive me for these sins. I choose to repent of my sins and I ask You to help me because I cannot do this by my own power.  I ask You to give me a new heart and a new spirit so that I can be free from sins.

Repentance Versus Grace

Believers in Jesus Christ are called to seek forgiveness for their sins — something that was made freely available by Jesus Christ’s death on the cross. Jesus being the sacrificial lamb, took on all the sins of man.  In other words, if we sin, we can lay our sins upon the cross.  We do this by repentance.  Christian repentance is defined as changing our sinful ways. 
Repentance is an essential act that is covered throughout the New Testament scriptures, with believers embracing Jesus’ sacrifice and making a concerted effort to change their SINFUL ways. Forgiveness and repentance are fixtures in the New Testament.

John the Baptist preached repentance Matthew 3:1-2 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” and Mark 1:4 John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.  Jesus thought repentance was very important, Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

The New Testament has many scriptures instructing us to repent:

Acts 11:18 When they heard these things, they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.”

Acts 17: Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

Acts 20:21 testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 26:20 but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.

Romans 2:4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

2 Corinthians 12:21 lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication, and lewdness which they have practiced.

Hebrews 6:6 if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.

Hebrews 12:17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.

Revelation 2:21 And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.

Revelation 3:3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore, if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.

Yet, the church, the Body of Jesus Christ ignores this important aspect of our Christine walk even though it is the first step in the doctrines of Jesus Christ,  Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine (teachings) of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the

doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment, Hebrews 6:1-2. When was the last time your pastor preached on repentance? 

The church has taught a false doctrine of all sins are forgiven because Jesus died for all our sins and we don’t have to continue to ask God for His forgiveness of our sins. It’s call the Grace theology.  This is why you don’t hear a repentance message by pastors or Christian leadership.   This doctrine renders the need for repentance as un-necessary.  If you render one scripture un-necessary, you render the entire Bible un-necessary.  This doctrine tells the Body that because of this Grace we can continue to sin, when in fact Romans tells a different story: What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Romans 6:1-2.  Paul’s teaching in (Romans 5:20-21 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more), that increased sin brings increased grace was liable to distortion.  Some might claim that if by sinning they were providing God an opportunity to display the greatness of His grace then they should sin more and more.  The idea of Christian continuing to sin is entirely contrary to the gospel. Sin is hateful and destructive, and those who have died to the love of sin and the ruling power of sin should never want to live in it any longer. False doctrine, which is sin compromises our relationship with the Godhead. Sin as a whole compromises our relationship with the Godhead.  This is why we need to repent.

At its core, repentance is a routine and consistent act that includes not only an admission of wrongdoing, but also a pledge to do better. According to Merriam-Webster, the repentance definition is “to turn from sin and dedicate oneself to the amendment of one's life.” Since every human sins every day, Christ’s death offers forgiveness to all those who are willing to engage in repentance. The Bible makes this clear again and again.

Sin

First step is to understand how sin works in our lives. We have to acknowledge that sin is a huge issue in our lives. We are oblivious to how much we sin every day. In the world today, right has become wrong and wrong has become right.  Most of us are operating in the gray area between right and wrong and if we don’t repent, we will become slaves to sin, Romans 6:20-22 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.

Second step is we must identify the sin.  Sin will bring us into bondage and will compromise our relationship with our Father.  Sin brings us into a gray area of not knowing right from wrong.  Sin will affect our faith.  This is outlined in Hebrews and it shows us the progression of Jesus’s doctrines from repentance to faith.  We need to repent so that we can have faith in God’s truth leading to laying on of hands for healing of our sickness and disease.  Sin will not allow us move onto and experience faith without getting rid of sin through repentance.

Commons Sins in Our Lives That We May Not Comprehend

God tells us not to worry three times in Mathew 6 (verses 25, 31, 34).  We worry about our children, jobs, finances, what people think of us, our health, fear of failure, fear of not dieting and exercising, fear of rejection, traumas, fear of man, fear, fear, and more fear.  So, if we have worry 25 times a day and this is a conservative number, without repentance, then we have a problem.  Multiply 25 times 365 days and we have 9125 un-repented sins.  This is just worry (fear, anxiety, terror, stress). 

What about depression, idols, anger, rejection, feeling unloved, abandonment, grudges, taking offense, bitterness, envy, self-accusation, self-hatred, self-bitterness, self-pity, guilt, unloving of self, shame, self-condemnation, self-pity, jealousy, slander, gossiping, murmuring/complaining, un-forgiveness, porn, TV porn, adultery, abortions (over 60 million, the sin of our nation and we have their blood on our hands), divorce, addictions (food, shopping, drugs, alcohol TV, etc.), pride, driven to succeed, and fear of man to name a few?

Which of these sins apply to you? Sin becomes so common in us that it becomes our sinful nature.  It does not allow us to distinguish right from wrong.  Sin hinders our relations ship with God, His Son, and the Helper/Holy Spirit.

Jesus Commands Repentance

Jesus himself made it clear that repentance is key to changing our sinful ways and urging people to turn to God and ask for forgiveness for their sins.  Jesus was preparing us prior to His death.  The condition of taking on all of mankind’s death on the cross is that we must repent (confess our sinful ways and ask forgiveness for our sins) so that we can receive forgiveness allowing Jesus to take on this sin.

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand- Matthew 4:17.

Like Jesus, John the Baptist also warned that the end was drawing nearer and that it was essential to repent:        

In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; Make His paths straight.’ - Matthew 3:1-3.

Repent!  Don’t Hide Your Sins

The Bible also speaks of the importance of not hiding one’s sins, noting that an admission of wrongdoing can help people find “mercy.”

He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy Proverbs 28:13. I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance. - Luke 15:7

Repentance Leads to Wiping Away of Sins

By admitting one’s sins and repenting, it is possible to be spiritually refreshed and rejuvenated.

Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, - Acts 3:19

In humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, - 2 Timothy 2:25.  Note: We can’t know the truth (right from wrong) if we don’t repent because sin keeps us in darkness. Sin causes us to compromise God and His Word.

“But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 22 None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. 23 Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord God, “and not that he should turn from his ways and live? - Ezekiel 18:21-23 (NIV)

 A Failure to Repent Can Be Damaging

According to the Bible, there are consequences to refusing to repent one’s sins.

But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent (no shame or regret) heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, - Romans 2:5

I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish - Luke 13:3 Perish from what? Sickness and disease.

God is Faithful and Just

Repentance and, in turn, forgiveness, shows God’s love for us through his willingness to purify us from our poor choices and sins.

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

If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land - 2 Chronicles 7:14.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. - John 3:16.

How Do I Truly Repent?

Repentance is an emotional, heartfelt, humbling, and contrite attitude towards God.  Repentance is prayer and unfortunately, we as believers pray very little for repentance or anything else for that matter.  Muslims pray five set times per day to their god.  How many times do we pray to God Almighty? Isn’t our God greater than any earthly gods?

Repentance is a declaration to the heavens.  Not only to God, but we are sending a message to the spiritual realm, For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places Ephesians 6:12. This is where the real battle is being fought.  

When we pray to God for anything, we are making a petition or declaration.  Prayer is spiritual warfare and constant repentance during the day, every day, is key to coming out from under our sinful ways.  We certainly can’t sin numerous times throughout the day and do nothing.

Repentance = ZERO.  Deliverance from sin = ZERO.  Deliverance from sickness and disease = ZERO. Forgiveness of sin = ZERO.

What kingdom is winning this battle? Are you getting the point? If you sin all day long, you must repent all day long.

What I have learned about God and His Word is that His Word is very basic.  It simply requires us to obey and submit to His righteousness. God and His Word is not complicated. Mankind has made God’s Word complicated.  So, I am going to show you an uncomplicated way to pray for repentance that works, but it requires consistency. 

Based on the scriptures, it’s clear that God made a way for salvation and forgiveness. That way is paved with acts of repentance with the Bible repeatedly telling us that we should embrace Jesus’ sacrifice and speak to God about our wrongs. This is as simple as speaking to our Lord God directly and repenting of our sins and asking for God’s help because we can’t do it by our own strength. This shouldn’t be done out of mere fear, but with heartfelt sorrow. God calls us to Him, and repentance is simply the repeated act of answering that call. A repentance declaration.

 The three keys are:

1. Obedience – But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. Romans 6:17
2. Submission to His Righteousness – But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you Romans 6:33
3. Declarations – Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing James 3:10. Declarations are extremely important.  When you repent out loud, it is a declaration to the spirit world.  You are sending the message that you want to change your sinful ways.  Daily declaration, and it requires to be specific, will reverse your sinful ways.  It’s God’s promise.

Prayer of Repentance – “Repent, and turn from all your transgressions, so that iniquity will not be your ruin. Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit Ezekiel 18:30-31.

Prayer: Father, in Jesus name, I come before Your thrown of grace and mercy to confess my sins to you. Lord, I am truly sorry and I ask you to forgive me for these sins. I choose to repent of my sins and I ask You to help me because I cannot do this by my own power.  I ask You to give me a new heart and a new spirit so that I can be free from sins.

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me Galatians 2:20. Amen and Amen.

This is your daily prayer that we have NO choice, but to use throughout the day to overcome sin.  We cannot afford to ignore repentance because time is getting short.

Final questions: If we don’t have to ask God for forgiveness of sin because Jesus died on the cross for our sins, why do we still have sickness and disease?  Sickness and disease come from disobedience (sin) Deuteronomy 28:15-68. Should we ignore Jesus’s call to repentance? Why read the bible if all our everyday sin is forgiven in advance?  Why go to church?  Why do we need to pray? Why are we born sinners if the generations have been forgiven in advance?  Why turn from our wicked (2 Chronicles 7:14) ways if we are already forgiven prior to our sin?