As Luke and Vader dueled in the Emperor’s throne room, Luke almost lost himself to anger as he hammered against Vader’s lightsaber, driving him to the ground.
At the last moment, Luke recognized what he was doing.
With a look at Vader’s severed mechanical hand and then at his own, Luke tosses away his lightsaber and tells the Emperor, “Never! I’ll never turn to the dark side. You’ve failed, Your Highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me.”
Luke’s recognition of his anger helped keep him from being turned to the Dark side, but it did not prevent him from experiencing pain.
We need to recognize the sin in our lives.
Before someone becomes a believer, it is difficult to see that our lives are consumed by sin because, without the Holy Spirit, a person cannot understand or see spiritual things.
In 1 Corinthians 2:14, we read, “the natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.”
Once we are redeemed and coheirs with Christ, Romans 8:1 tells us, “there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
All of our sins, past, present, and future have all been paid for by Jesus.
Should we keep sinning?
No!
Look at Romans 6:1-14. In 6:14, Paul tells BELIEVERS, “sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.”
When we recognize that we are doing something wrong, we stop doing it immediately.
Tell God that you are sorry for sinning(repent through confession), ask for and accept that He has forgiven you (1 John 1:9), and know that Jesus died once and for all (Hebrews 10:10).
Believers are not yet perfect. We are saved and being perfected.
