Holy and Blameless

DEVOTION

PROVERBS

HOLY AND BLAMELESS

Prov 28:18

18 He whose walk is blameless is kept safe, but he whose ways are perverse will suddenly fall.

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At first this might be mistaken for the behaviors of two different people. Those who can walk through life without sin and those who live to sin. Both have sin in their lives so then could either of them have their sins expunged. But, yes the first man here is indeed the one whose sins are not counted against him. The only way for a person to be blameless is to be declared holy and blameless by God.

Eph 1:4

4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

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This declaration by God is for those who he knows will accept his son Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Yes, we have the free will to accept or reject, but God being God knows all things and knows ahead of time which of us will accept and reject. It is not that he chooses who will and who will not, for that removes all free will from our beings. Adam was created with that ability to choose to obey God or to make his own choice. He made the wrong choice and mankind has been paying for it ever since. But God in his great mercy had a plan for the redemption of his creation and that was in his Son Jesus. So as we make our choices, those of us who chose life, who chose Jesus are declared by God to be holy and blameless in his sight for we are in Christ and we are kept safe. However the person who makes another choice, as Adam did, choosing to disobey God, to live for themselves rejecting the salvation he so freely gives, will one day suddenly fall. It is not that they will fall down and bruise themselves, but they will fall into the pit of hell itself. Just as we do not know the hour or the day of our being caught up in the air with our Lord, they will not know the hour of the day they will fall into hell. It is not that God condemns, as some mean judge, to hell, for by their sinful life, by their refusal to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, they have condemned themselves. It is just as Adam was told that if he ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he would surely die. He ate of it and by doing so condemned himself to death.

John 3:16-18

16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned , but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. 

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So then because we know Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, our walk is blameless. This does not mean by any means we are sinless, but our sins our not counted against us and therefore we are holy and blameless because God declared us so. But let us consider those whom we know that have already been condemned because of their perverse ways, their looking to self instead of God. Can we stand by idle and watch them live under that condemnation, knowing they will fall into hell? How will they hear unless someone tells them? How can someone tell them unless they are sent? We have been sent into all the world to preach the Good News about Jesus. There are more to be saved, if it were not so, God would have sent Jesus to get us already. But because of his great love for his creation, he knows there are more who will accept his Son. So then we have work to do, we have the truth to declare. We have to be the expression of Jesus to those who need him, so they too may be holy and blameless.