What the Bible says about Turning away from Sin
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Nehemiah 9:1 The twenty-fourth day of the seventh month is two days after the Last Great Day! They are still there en masse! What are they doing immediately after the Feast? They are fasting and repenting as a group, together! What an impressive example for us end-time believers! What might God do for us, for the church, for the world even, if His called people would humble themselves and fast and pray and seek Him after hearing His words at His Feast? Notice what God tells Solomon in II Chronicles 7:14: "If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land." This is exactly what the Jews under Nehemiah were doing. But it does not end there. These children of Israel now do something about what they have heard all feast long. And what they do is in many respects far harder than overcoming some of the problems that face us! Staff The Feast Is Over . . . Now What? Related Topics: Fasting | Humble Oneself | Overcoming | Repentance | Repentance and Fasting | Turning away from Sin | Turning from Sin

Proverbs 21:16 Note the word "wanders." Most of us do not intend to go astray; we wander into unrighteousness, sin. The results, whether we deliberately do it or wander into it, are the same. A man who wanders will rest in the congregation of the dead. The assumption in the verse is that the person never gets back on the track. The wanderer, even though he does not deliberately plan to go in that direction, if he does not consciously turn away from it and get back onto the path—back on the track—will likely end up in the grave, just as it says. John W. Ritenbaugh Examples of Divine Justice Related Topics: Turning away from Sin | Wandering | Wandering from Truth | Wandering Out of the Way

Daniel 9:15-19 At the end, Daniel asks God for compassion on them (and on the city and the Temple), that God would forgive and rescue them for His own name's sake. He asks for forgiveness so God Himself could be glorified by His people—because, as we are, we are not in a state to glorify Him. We need to be "turned around," personally and individually. John W. Ritenbaugh Avoiding Superficiality Related Topics: Forgiveness | Glorifying God | Repentance | Repentance as Change | Turning away from Sin

 

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