[size=4]Are our sins really that heavy?[/size] “..You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea” – Micah 7:19 [size=3]Go to a river and throw a pebble, go to a water fountain and throw a penny, nickel or even a quarter, go to a lake and thrown a stone. Go to the beach and throw a rock into the ocean. As you could see those items don’t float back up as wood does but it will sink down. The prophet Micah might have been on top of a hill looking down into the deep sea, as he heard the crashing waves, when he wrote that above. The sins we’ve committed in the past, present or the future, do weight as a pebble, rock, money, stone, so they do in fact put much pressure down on us very much. When we don’t confess them little by little, the weight gets heavier. What we sometimes don’t realize is that sin weights very much, and so we sin each time without knowing. Two-thousand years ago Jesus took the weight upon himself all our sins combine(they must’ve weighted mega-tons), when all those sins put the weight upon Him on the cross, He separated from the Father because He couldn’t see our sins and when the Father pour His wrath upon and said “My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me”. Jesus took the just punishment, which we all deserved for our sins upon Him so we wouldn’t suffer the weight of our sins what we all deserved in hell. The Christian today has a choice to be “weighted” down with his or her sin(s) when they committed one or more without asking forgiveness to the Father, or get rid of them by repenting and confessing so its weight will be gone and will give it all to Jesus. Does a stone wash ashore on the bay? No, it stays down under the water, in same way the Father doesn’t impute upon us our sins ever again, but we are cleansed from its unrighteousness and forgiven. That’s why Jesus said “Come to Me, all you who are labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest”. Jesus wasn’t speaking of physical hard labor but spiritually about the soul of the individual that is pressed down with sin. He invites us everyday to come to Him, so He will give us His rest and have His peace. When Paul had spoken about the oldman in Colossians; he was explaining to us today, that all of us carry the dead person we once were before conversion on our backs, that’s why he said “Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth”. I don’t think we want a 200 lbs or 300 lbs dead corpse upon our shoulders? So each time we decide to feed the oldman or old you, with our sins, the dead person who from our past is alive once again. However, when we don’t feed it, we are starving it and will stay as good as dead. During that time it will not bother us much often, for a quite a while as we get the Word in us and are controlled by the Spirit. The choice is ours we either decide to feed the old man every time sin comes to be carrying a huge bounder of sin all day long or not be weighted down with it to be free from all condemnation, guilt, shame and regret. Christian, this evening are your sins weighting you down? Why not at this moment, pause, and search out the depths of your heart as you ask the Father to reveal them to you?[/size]