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Struggles by Non-Christians
I think I'm unregnerate, reprobate, vessel of wrath, despairing, tried all I can think of
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<blockquote data-quote="redleghunter" data-source="post: 74248967" data-attributes="member: 348895"><p>[USER=262261]@Gracia Singh[/USER] and [USER=105812]@Oscarr[/USER] have given you very good advice. </p><p></p><p>You just may be under conviction of your fallen nature. It seems from what you wrote you don’t believe or trust Christ to take your sins as far as the East is from the West. </p><p></p><p>You and everyone should have a fear of God. He will judge our transgressions. Yet God came in the flesh to wipe our sins away and give us His Righteousness.</p><p></p><p>He loves us so much He even says:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><p style="margin-left: 20px">"<span style="color: #5900b3"><strong>Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.</strong></span></p> </p><p></p><p>That’s a promise for all who believe in Him. They will have everlasting life. </p><p></p><p>We also see:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong><u><span style="color: #5900b3">2 Corinthians 7: NASB </span></u></strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #5900b3"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #5900b3"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-10.htm" target="_blank"><strong>10</strong></a>For the sorrow that is according to <em>the will</em> <em>of</em> God produces a repentance without regret, <em>leading</em> to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.</span></p> </p><p></p><p>And:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Romans 10: NASB</span></u></strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #0000ff"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-6.htm" target="_blank"><strong>6</strong></a>But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?’ (that is, to bring Christ down), <a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-7.htm" target="_blank"><strong>7</strong></a>or ‘WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”<a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-8.htm" target="_blank"><strong>8</strong></a>But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, <a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-9.htm" target="_blank"><strong>9</strong></a>that if you confess with your mouth Jesus <em>as</em> Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; <a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-10.htm" target="_blank"><strong>10</strong></a>for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. <a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-11.htm" target="_blank"><strong>11</strong></a>For the Scripture says, “WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.” <a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-12.htm" target="_blank"><strong>12</strong></a>For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same <em>Lord</em>is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; <a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-13.htm" target="_blank"><strong>13</strong></a>for “WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.”</span></p> </p><p></p><p>King David when he committed adultery and gave orders for the murder of the husband of Bathsheba was convicted, confronted by God through the prophet Nathan. Here is David’s prayer of repentance. </p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"><strong><u>Psalm 51: NASB</u></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"><strong><em>A Contrite Sinner’s Prayer for Pardon.</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"><strong>For the choir director. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.</strong></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-1.htm" target="_blank"><strong>1</strong></a>Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness;</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-2.htm" target="_blank"><strong>2</strong></a>Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> And cleanse me from my sin.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-3.htm" target="_blank"><strong>3</strong></a>For I know my transgressions,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> And my sin is ever before me.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-4.htm" target="_blank"><strong>4</strong></a>Against You, You only, I have sinned</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> And done what is evil in Your sight,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> So that You are justified when You speak</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> And blameless when You judge.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-5.htm" target="_blank"><strong>5</strong></a>Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> And in sin my mother conceived me.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-6.htm" target="_blank"><strong>6</strong></a>Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-7.htm" target="_blank"><strong>7</strong></a>Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-8.htm" target="_blank"><strong>8</strong></a>Make me to hear joy and gladness,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-9.htm" target="_blank"><strong>9</strong></a>Hide Your face from my sins</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> And blot out all my iniquities.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-10.htm" target="_blank"><strong>10</strong></a>Create in me a clean heart, O God,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> And renew a steadfast spirit within me.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-11.htm" target="_blank"><strong>11</strong></a>Do not cast me away from Your presence</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-12.htm" target="_blank"><strong>12</strong></a>Restore to me the joy of Your salvation</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> And sustain me with a willing spirit.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-13.htm" target="_blank"><strong>13</strong></a><em>Then</em> I will teach transgressors Your ways,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> And sinners will be converted to You.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-14.htm" target="_blank"><strong>14</strong></a>Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <em>Then</em> my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-15.htm" target="_blank"><strong>15</strong></a>O Lord, open my lips,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> That my mouth may declare Your praise.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-16.htm" target="_blank"><strong>16</strong></a>For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it;</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> You are not pleased with burnt offering.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-17.htm" target="_blank"><strong>17</strong></a>The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #8000ff"> A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p> Advice? Pray to our Heavenly Father. </p><p></p><p>Heavenly Father you have convicted me of my self centered sinful nature. My sins are great and before you. I am a damned and destitute sinner in need of Your Grace. I need Jesus as my champion. You sent Your Son Jesus Christ in Whom you are well pleased to die for my sins, give me His Righteousness and rise from the dead three days later to grant me eternal life with you. It is nothing I could ever do. How can I? You loved me so much that while I was still in my sin a child of wrath and dead in my trespasses, You made me alive together with Jesus Christ. It is by Your unmerited Grace I am saved through faith in the saving Work of Jesus Christ. You will clean me of all iniquity and sin, wiped away. It is nothing I can do or boast of. You will make me a new creation and give me The Holy Spirit as the Promise of the eternal reward. I will be Your workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="redleghunter, post: 74248967, member: 348895"] [USER=262261]@Gracia Singh[/USER] and [USER=105812]@Oscarr[/USER] have given you very good advice. You just may be under conviction of your fallen nature. It seems from what you wrote you don’t believe or trust Christ to take your sins as far as the East is from the West. You and everyone should have a fear of God. He will judge our transgressions. Yet God came in the flesh to wipe our sins away and give us His Righteousness. He loves us so much He even says: [INDENT][INDENT]"[COLOR=#5900b3][B]Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.[/B][/COLOR][/INDENT][/INDENT] That’s a promise for all who believe in Him. They will have everlasting life. We also see: [INDENT][INDENT][B][U][COLOR=#5900b3]2 Corinthians 7: NASB [/COLOR][/U][/B] [COLOR=#5900b3] [URL='http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/7-10.htm'][B]10[/B][/URL]For the sorrow that is according to [I]the will[/I] [I]of[/I] God produces a repentance without regret, [I]leading[/I] to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.[/COLOR][/INDENT][/INDENT] And: [INDENT][INDENT][B][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Romans 10: NASB[/COLOR][/U][/B] [COLOR=#0000ff] [URL='http://biblehub.com/romans/10-6.htm'][B]6[/B][/URL]But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?’ (that is, to bring Christ down), [URL='http://biblehub.com/romans/10-7.htm'][B]7[/B][/URL]or ‘WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”[URL='http://biblehub.com/romans/10-8.htm'][B]8[/B][/URL]But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, [URL='http://biblehub.com/romans/10-9.htm'][B]9[/B][/URL]that if you confess with your mouth Jesus [I]as[/I] Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; [URL='http://biblehub.com/romans/10-10.htm'][B]10[/B][/URL]for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. [URL='http://biblehub.com/romans/10-11.htm'][B]11[/B][/URL]For the Scripture says, “WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.” [URL='http://biblehub.com/romans/10-12.htm'][B]12[/B][/URL]For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same [I]Lord[/I]is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; [URL='http://biblehub.com/romans/10-13.htm'][B]13[/B][/URL]for “WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.”[/COLOR][/INDENT][/INDENT] King David when he committed adultery and gave orders for the murder of the husband of Bathsheba was convicted, confronted by God through the prophet Nathan. Here is David’s prayer of repentance. [INDENT][COLOR=#8000ff][B][U]Psalm 51: NASB[/U][/B] [B][I]A Contrite Sinner’s Prayer for Pardon.[/I][/B] [B]For the choir director. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.[/B] [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-1.htm'][B]1[/B][/URL]Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-2.htm'][B]2[/B][/URL]Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity And cleanse me from my sin. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-3.htm'][B]3[/B][/URL]For I know my transgressions, And my sin is ever before me. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-4.htm'][B]4[/B][/URL]Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-5.htm'][B]5[/B][/URL]Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-6.htm'][B]6[/B][/URL]Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-7.htm'][B]7[/B][/URL]Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-8.htm'][B]8[/B][/URL]Make me to hear joy and gladness, Let the bones which You have broken rejoice. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-9.htm'][B]9[/B][/URL]Hide Your face from my sins And blot out all my iniquities. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-10.htm'][B]10[/B][/URL]Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-11.htm'][B]11[/B][/URL]Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-12.htm'][B]12[/B][/URL]Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-13.htm'][B]13[/B][/URL][I]Then[/I] I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners will be converted to You. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-14.htm'][B]14[/B][/URL]Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation; [I]Then[/I] my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-15.htm'][B]15[/B][/URL]O Lord, open my lips, That my mouth may declare Your praise. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-16.htm'][B]16[/B][/URL]For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering. [URL='http://biblehub.com/psalms/51-17.htm'][B]17[/B][/URL]The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.[/COLOR][/INDENT] Advice? Pray to our Heavenly Father. Heavenly Father you have convicted me of my self centered sinful nature. My sins are great and before you. I am a damned and destitute sinner in need of Your Grace. I need Jesus as my champion. You sent Your Son Jesus Christ in Whom you are well pleased to die for my sins, give me His Righteousness and rise from the dead three days later to grant me eternal life with you. It is nothing I could ever do. How can I? You loved me so much that while I was still in my sin a child of wrath and dead in my trespasses, You made me alive together with Jesus Christ. It is by Your unmerited Grace I am saved through faith in the saving Work of Jesus Christ. You will clean me of all iniquity and sin, wiped away. It is nothing I can do or boast of. You will make me a new creation and give me The Holy Spirit as the Promise of the eternal reward. I will be Your workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. [/QUOTE]
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