BBD 04.29.14 Sinful Mistakes (New)

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04.29.14

Sinful Mistakes

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life
in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 6:23.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. - 1 John 1:9.

Atari
made a costly mistake back in 1982, which resulted in a $75 million dollar loss
and the downfall of the gaming industry. ET was a hit movie, and to try to cash
in on the favorability of the movie Atari rushed into production the ET video
game. Wikipedia quotes author Steven Kent as
saying the game was “infamous with primitive graphics, dull game play and a
disappointing storyline.” Wikipedia also cited an editor for The
Miami Herald as saying the game was difficult to learn to play. The Atari ET
game crashed and burned! The game was originally put on the market with a price
of $49.95, but was discounted so many times it was finally selling for less
than a dollar. What did Atari do? Atari literally buried their mistake at an
Alamogordo, New Mexico trash landfill. Rumors had circulated about the burial
for years and recently they were proven true when an excavation found 782,000
game cartridges buried in the landfill. (Orange News 04.29.14; Wikipedia)

Atari is not alone in the making of mistakes. Here are a few of
the more famous or notorious historical mistakes: The leaning tower of Pisa
took 177 years to build and was not meant to lean. It was built on unstable
ground with a foundation of only three feet, and the result was that less than
a decade after construction was finished the tower began to lean. Then there
was the “unsinkable” RMS Titanic
which did sink due to design flaws and with a huge loss of life because of the
inadequate number of lifeboats. In 1961, Decca Records auditioned a group, but
decided they wouldn’t be marketable. Not long after the turndown by Decca, the
Beatles signed with EMI. Albert Einstein’s teachers thought that he was a
really bad student. Western
Union in 1876 turned down
Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone saying, “This telephone has too many
shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.”

Have you ever made a mistake that you wish you could bury? Have
you ever made a mistake that you are so ashamed of that you never mention it? I
have made some mistakes that are that bad. Actually, these mistakes are not
just mistakes, they are sins I have committed. I am not proud of these moral
failures. I don’t want to talk about them; I don’t want to even think about
them, and I try not to. I just want to bury those sins.

The
spiritual reality is that God doesn’t want to think about your sins. He doesn’t
want to see your sins, and He doesn’t want to remember your sins. What does God
want to do with your sins? He wants to bury them! Micah
7:19 tells us where God wants to bury your sins, “You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.” This has
often been called God’s Sea of
Forgetfulness. Then God says in Hebrews 10:17
(Also Isaiah 43:25), “Their
sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

What
must happen before God buries our sins? 1 John 1:9
tells us, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Confession as used in 1 John 1:9 involves more
than just saying what we did or didn’t do. According to W. A. Criswell, “The idea of confession is to view sin as God views it
and to identify with His judgment against sin.” In other words, we
agree with God that what we have done or not done was a sin, that it was bad,
and we repent of it, turn from it, we want to change from doing what we have
sinfully done or not done in the past. God can forgive our sins because the
penalty of those sins has already been paid by Jesus on the cross. We just need
to receive the “gift” of forgiveness that God
freely offers.

Copyright © 2014. Ed Wrather. The
Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June 8, 1998
the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed Wrather
began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of these first
devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to prison
facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

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Burning Bush websites:

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If for
some reason you do not receive your email version of the devotional please
check the Burning Bush website at http://www.theburningbush.net for the “Devotional of the Day” and read the devotional there.

The Burning
Bush Devotional

04.29.14

Sinful Mistakes

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life
in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 6:23.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. - 1 John 1:9.

Atari
made a costly mistake back in 1982, which resulted in a $75 million dollar loss
and the downfall of the gaming industry. ET was a hit movie, and to try to cash
in on the favorability of the movie Atari rushed into production the ET video
game. Wikipedia quotes author Steven Kent as
saying the game was “infamous with primitive graphics, dull game play and a
disappointing storyline.” Wikipedia also cited an editor for The
Miami Herald as saying the game was difficult to learn to play. The Atari ET
game crashed and burned! The game was originally put on the market with a price
of $49.95, but was discounted so many times it was finally selling for less
than a dollar. What did Atari do? Atari literally buried their mistake at an
Alamogordo, New Mexico trash landfill. Rumors had circulated about the burial
for years and recently they were proven true when an excavation found 782,000
game cartridges buried in the landfill. (Orange News 04.29.14; Wikipedia)

Atari is not alone in the making of mistakes. Here are a few of
the more famous or notorious historical mistakes: The leaning tower of Pisa
took 177 years to build and was not meant to lean. It was built on unstable
ground with a foundation of only three feet, and the result was that less than
a decade after construction was finished the tower began to lean. Then there
was the “unsinkable” RMS Titanic
which did sink due to design flaws and with a huge loss of life because of the
inadequate number of lifeboats. In 1961, Decca Records auditioned a group, but
decided they wouldn’t be marketable. Not long after the turndown by Decca, the
Beatles signed with EMI. Albert Einstein’s teachers thought that he was a
really bad student. Western
Union in 1876 turned down
Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone saying, “This telephone has too many
shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.”

Have you ever made a mistake that you wish you could bury? Have
you ever made a mistake that you are so ashamed of that you never mention it? I
have made some mistakes that are that bad. Actually, these mistakes are not
just mistakes, they are sins I have committed. I am not proud of these moral
failures. I don’t want to talk about them; I don’t want to even think about
them, and I try not to. I just want to bury those sins.

The
spiritual reality is that God doesn’t want to think about your sins. He doesn’t
want to see your sins, and He doesn’t want to remember your sins. What does God
want to do with your sins? He wants to bury them! Micah
7:19 tells us where God wants to bury your sins, “You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.” This has
often been called God’s Sea of
Forgetfulness. Then God says in Hebrews 10:17
(Also Isaiah 43:25), “Their
sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

What
must happen before God buries our sins? 1 John 1:9
tells us, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Confession as used in 1 John 1:9 involves more
than just saying what we did or didn’t do. According to W. A. Criswell, “The idea of confession is to view sin as God views it
and to identify with His judgment against sin.” In other words, we
agree with God that what we have done or not done was a sin, that it was bad,
and we repent of it, turn from it, we want to change from doing what we have
sinfully done or not done in the past. God can forgive our sins because the
penalty of those sins has already been paid by Jesus on the cross. We just need
to receive the “gift” of forgiveness that God
freely offers.

Copyright © 2014. Ed Wrather. The
Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June 8, 1998
the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed Wrather
began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of these first
devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to prison
facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The .org
Burning Bush website

is being updated.

The Burning Bush websites have
received visits from more than 170 countries. Celebrating 15 years online since
January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush Devotional has been
spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000 subscribers across the
world.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top left hand corner of all of the pages.

Prayer Warriors Wanted! Please join the
Burning Bush Prayer Group. The group began in 1998. Send prayer requests and
receive prayer requests. To join send an
email to: bbpg-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Ed Wrather has retired from
pastoring full-time and has more time to pursue other ministry opportunities.
You can make contact at edwrather@yahoo.com or theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

Prayer Requests: Please pray for
the people of Ukraine and Venezuela. Many prayer needs are posted at the
Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You can also post your prayer
requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for
me.).

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

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