Dealing With Sin

The consequence of unforgiveness is the most important lesson that God has taught us about deliverance. Unforgiveness is a sin against God. The first thing you do is repent to God for having unforgiveness. Jesus Christ gave his life so that you can be forgiven for your sins. You come to realize what someone has done is insignificant as compared to what God did for you.

Forgiving Sins - Only Almighty God can forgive sin. No human being in any office such as priest can forgive sin. God does not have any representatives on earth that he has transferred that authority to. That authority will always be with God.

Forgiving Others - God forgives sin but we forgive ourselves and others. We have the authority and responsibility to forgive human beings that have hurt us by sinning against God. We forgive ourselves for doing things that hurt us and our loved ones.

Remitting And Retaining Sin - See John 20:21-23; verse 23 says "whosoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosoever ye retain, they are retained. We can remit (to send away) or retain (to lay fast hold of) sins of those who have sinned against God and affected our lives. In other words, we can hold on to the sins against us or we can release those sins.
When I forgive someone, I visualize that person being released. I can hold to the sins of other against me and try to get even in some way. When I release others, I am also releasing myself. There is freedom in releasing others from any bondage to ourselves. When we hold others in bondage, we also hold ourselves in bondage. When you retaliate against others, you also retaliate against yourselves.

Sins Of Our Ancestors - The bible clearly teaches that the sins of the ancestors will be visited on their descendants. Exodus 20: 3 - 5, Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God is a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation to them that hate me.

Passive Judgement - There are those who can't make clear judgements on issues and misuse the verse to judge not. Many do not realize they have to judge every prophecy, the fruit in our lives and in the lives of others, and on and on. You need to judge every thing you see, hear or read. If not, you will be submitted to every wind of evil doctrine and fall into many hurtful traps. People should be taught to properly make scriptural judgement.

What is Witchcraft Practiced by Christians? - Witchcraft is defined as the power or practices of witches; sorcery; black magic; bewitching attraction or charm; enchantment; irresistible influence; fascination. Enchatment is defined as the act of casting a spell over; the use of magic to charm; the state of being under the influence of a magic spell or charm; a magic spell or charm; something that charms or delights greatly; great delight or pleasure. Also consider the words fascination, charm, captivation, allurement. Witchcraft is simply trying to control for your own benefit no matter how worthy the cause may be.

Easy Believeism - In the traditional church, there is a tendency to simply get the people to join the church. You can join the church as you would join a social club and with the same effect. In the full gospel church, there is tendency to get people to accept christ on their terms. You have to accept christ on his terms not on your terms or that church terms. There is no way to christ and his savation without repenting and confessing your sins. Easy believeism is leading people to hell. There is only one way to God through Jesus Christ in accordance with the holy word of God.
Easy repentance is leading people to stay in bondage. Unless the repentance is acceptable to God by the bible, the person is deceived and will remain in bondage although he may think he is free. Many people are being deceived by ministers and lay christians by telling them they are free when they are still in bondage. The sad part of this charade is that you see people leaving the church and going back out into the world when their lives are not working as told to them by others who should know better. These former church goers may end up in hell.

Sin In Your Life - Any sin in your life will keep you from the full blessings of God that you would receive in the areas mental, physical, spiritual and material. There will be confusion in the mind, disease in the body, problems in the spiritual life, poverty in the financial area.
If you have sin in your life, you have opened the door for satan and his demons to attack you, your family and your church. Sin is a crack in your armour whether known or unknown to you. You and your ancestors have invited satan to come into your life and wreak havoc.
The bible is a book of blessings and curses. Every verse you obey carries a blessing; every verse you disobey carries a curse. If you obey half the bible then you are half blessed and half cursed.
It is your choice what you do; God didn't make you as a robot. You have a free will given by the lord. You choose to go to heaven or you choose to go to hell. You choose to live the abundant life or you choose to live the life in poverty here on earth. Jesus has finished his work; it is up to you now.

Sin In The Minister's Life - The minister needs to surrender fully to God and throw open all the doors and windows of his / her life to the searchlight of the Holy Spirit. The work of the ministry can be a difficult undertaking. Effective weapons used against ministers are carelessness, pride, immorality, taking God for granted, spiritual weakness, affliction of wife / husband where the minister refuses to yield to God.
The person ministering in the area of deliverance is in a position of all out warfare with the forces of evil. Many have fallen by the wayside because of ignorance of the bible and of deliverance, still having many demons within themselves, women and men ministering by themselves, being lure by false doctrines, etc.

Erasing The Results of Sin - The traditional church and most of the other churches (full gospel, pentecostal, charismatic, glossolalia, evangelistic) believe that the job is finished when the person repents. That is spiritual fantasy. Repentance means God has forgiven us, and given us the authority to continue to clean our houses: souls and bodies. We need to eradicate, as much as possible, the evidences of sin in ourselves.
We must break curses on ourselves and our descendants to keep the curse from continuing and repeating the same sins. We need to break soul ties with those we have sex with other than our only legitimate mate (which is a Godly soul tie). We need to break soul ties with anyone who has exercised an ungodly control over us. We need to get rid of demonic objects in our living quartes and on our being.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. What is sin and the standard against sin? - Sin is the thought or deed we commit that is contrary to the teaching of the Bible. The standard that is used to judge sin is the Holy Inspired Word of God, The Bible.

2. Who do we commit sin against? - I Cor. 3:12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. The results of our sins affect others and ourselves. We sin upward against God, outward against others, inward against ourselves and downward against our descendents.

3. How do we sin against God? - We sin against God bydisobedience to the commandments and precepts of the whole Bible.

4. How do we sin against others? - We sin against others by doing something to them that is contrary to the Bible. First, see what is a sin in the Bible. Second, that would be a sin against others. For example, the spreading of lies about another person is sin. We are telling a lie, which is a sin against God, and it is also hurting another person.

5. How do we sin against ourselves? - I Cor. 6:18 He that commits fornication sins against his own body. Every other sin that man does is outside of the body except for fornication.

6. How do we sin against our descendents? - We sin against our descendents either directly or indirectly. We can directly sin against our children or indirectly against our children's children to the tenth generation. For example, we conceive a bastard. It is a sin against that child, our other children and our children's children to the tenth generation. The curse, created by conceiving a bastard, will bring problems and grief: primarily alienation from the church and conceiving bastards generation after generation.

7. Who forgives sins? - Only God can forgive sin by the shed Blood of Jesus Christ. We can remit (send away) sins and retain (hold fast) sins (John 20:23). What you bind on earth is bound in Heaven; what you loose on earth is loosed in Heaven (Matt. 16:19; 18:18). Other passages are judging others (I Cor. 5:1-5), forgive in the sight of Christ (II Cor. 2:10) and Christ speaking in me (II Cor. 13:3).

Excerpts from the Deliverance Manual