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Thursday, September 08, 2011

Presumptuous sin

Psalm 19:13a reads, "Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins; Let them not rule over me;"

A presumptuous sin is a sin that you willfully and knowingly commit on the presumption (however far at the back of your mind it might be) that you will be forgiven for it.

A presumptuous sin has the same flavor as when some scoundrel determines to borrow money from someone while intending from the very beginning to default on the loan.

It is to stare into God's face, and say, I will disobey, because I know you will forgive me.

David prayed that the Lord would keep him back from sins of presumption.

Do you?

posted by Daniel @ 7:34 AM

2 Comments:

At 12:11 PM, September 08, 2011, donsands said…

That's a good prayer. At 58 my presuming sins are still emotional, and mostly pride with resentment seems like.

"But God..."

Thanks for the short but essential teaching Daniel.
At 11:42 AM, October 05, 2011, Larry Geiger said…

Yeah. Sometimes.