The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Numbers 32:20-23, “So Moses said to them, ‘If you will do this, if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for the war,
21 and all of you armed men cross over the Jordan before the LORD until He has driven His enemies out from before Him,
22 and the land is subdued before the LORD, then afterward you shall return and be free of obligation toward the LORD and toward Israel, and this land shall be yours for a possession before the LORD.
23 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out.”

A few days ago, I used the above Scripture in a different context. This passage, simply calls attention to the clear and unmistakable fact that when we pledge ourselves to the LORD to either be and/or do certain things, but fail (intentionally or unintentionally) to do what we’ve pledged, He will always hold us fully accountable until we’re forgiven.

We might suppose that our habit of committing certain sins we know to be wrong, lie well outside of the LORD’s stated will for truly born-again people. Yet, knowing that our LORD forgives repentant sinners, we consciously do what we know is wrong, believing that He will forgive us, as He has previously. Such is known as “presumptuous” sin. It might also be called “presumptuous forgiveness.”

Moses’ warning, however, was that no one dare go ahead and sin, knowing that it was
clearly against the LORD. “Be sure your sin will find you out!” Further, allowing sin to
reside within our lives, does not mean that a later confession of sin will change previous things. “I’m sorry for this!” says a boy who then strikes another with an intentional blow. He’s not truly sorry or he wouldn’t have struck the other boy at all. The fact that he went ahead and struck the other person, clearly demonstrates that he was not at all sorry. Instead, his intentional act clearly “found him out.” Be careful. Sin pays consequences!
Jesus died upon that cross to pay for your sin, if you’ll only trust and obey Him.

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom