Awake to Righteousness

1Co 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not...


Awake to righteousness and sin not.


We believe we awake to righteousness and yet we sin. People like to spout they will sin always, they will never cease from sin. Is there a difference between unrighteousness and sin? Awake to righteousness and sin not. When we are awake to righteousness we are enlightened as to what is right and good. When we are awake to what is right and good we see our sins more clearly. As we see our sins we need to...sin not.


Heb 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.


Striving against sin.


1Jn 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous


That ye sin not.


1Jn 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.


This answers the earlier question about a difference between unrighteousness and sin. ALL unrighteousness IS sin.


Awake to righteousness and sin not.


If any man sin... we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. We do sin but to excuse sin is not allowed. We cannot accept sin as being a normal part of life. We cannot become complacent in our sinning. We have to AWAKE to righteousness and sin not. We have to strive against sin. Jesus Christ is the only true Righteous One, our Advocate with the Father, we need to go to Him always as our Advocate even as we strive against sin- even as we continue to allow ourselves to be awakened and don't prefer the darkness. Awake we can see our unrighteousness, asleep we cannot see our sin so that we can sin not. Don't condone sin, recognize the evil it is and never forget the evil of sin. Awake to righteousness.


By the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior may we AWAKE to righteousness preferring light to darkness, preferring truth to lies, preferring righteousness to unrighteousnes, preferring not sinning to sinning, all through our Savior!

Amen.