The Unforgiven Sins

The prayer of the faithful will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

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.

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death.

1 John 5:16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that.

If the sins are committed before we come to the knowledge of the truth, the sins can be forgiven.

Hebrews 5:13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.

For even adults are considered babes in faith if they have no knowledge in the word of righteousness.

Hebrews 5:12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

For if anyone who come to the knowledge of the truth and again If we give up and turn our backs on all we've learned, all we've been given, all the truth we now know, we repudiate Christ's sacrifice and are left on our own to face the Judgment

Hebrews 10:26-27 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

Those are the sins leading to death - the unforgiven sins!

Memory Loss

Memory loss is something that will happen possibly to us as we get older. The most popular of this kind is Amnesia or Alzheimer's disease.

Amnesia in simple terms is the loss of memory. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and eventually even the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. In most people with AD, symptoms first appear after the age of 60.

The Scripture also mentioned that the loss of memory will happen after the heaven and the earth passed away.

Revelation 21:1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.

As the new heavens and a new earth are created, all the earlier troubles, chaos, and pain are things of the past, to be forgotten.

Isaiah 65:17 “ For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.

Like the newly born baby who know nothing, we also don't know anything even the eternal plan and the wonderful things prepared by God.

1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written: “ Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

God Is Hatred

This evil thought comes to mind while reading some of the verses in the Bible.

Matthew 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men.

Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, suffered the vengeance of eternal fire including their children thereof.

What if God killed only the wicked parents, who will take care of those little children? Will Lot & his two daughters can take care all of them?

Luke 18:16 But Jesus called them to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God.

At first, you may think poor are those little children but on the second thought they are the luckiest ever, never have to face judgment anymore. In the end I may conclude, God is Love. How I wish I died when I'm still a child.

Isaiah 55:9 “ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Left And Right

Matthew 6:3 But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

Reading this verse, I said, it is very impossible that the right hand would not know what the left hand was doing. Wonder why Jesus taught us this way while He Himself knows even a slight touch of his clothes.

Mark 5: 30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My clothes?”

Luke 8:46 But Jesus said, “Somebody touched Me, for I perceived power going out from Me.”

I consider Matthew 6:3 as a solid food since it can not be digested by babes in faith.

Hebrews 5:14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Driving for example is a very good example of what I want to convey.

The senses of a new driver does not work well in the beginning but will work well in the long run. Eyes front, ears listening, left hand on the wheel, the right hand on shifting gear, left foot on clutch, right foot on accelerator and brake - Making them all busy is to know not what the others are doing for they work independently. This is the meaning of senses exercised mentioned in Hebrews 5:14.

Clearly, the left hand knows what the right hand is doing only when the left hand is not busy and not doing anything.