If we have hidden sin in our life, Who do we think were fooling?

Answer 1

Fooling others is easy. Fooling ourselves is easier still. But fooling God is impossible.

Answer 2

You can have hidden sin in your life and you can fool a lot of people, friends, family, co-workers, even follow church members.People will even try to fool themselves into thinking that is is okay to do what they are doing as long as no one else knows, but the one person you cannot fool is God and His Son. Growing up as a pastor's daughter I saw a lot of hypocrites in the church.
These people claimed to be Christians and outwardly appeared so, but in the privacy of there own homes, or when they were away from church it was apparent that they weren't.

We are told that we will know them by their fruits, not just by what they say.

Answer 3

Well the truth is my dear we all have hidden sins in our lives - we all have. Wether its stuff from the past or present we have it, and if you think you dont have just hang on a minute baby its still coming. This is life, it aint all sweet and rosey, and aint all honorable and admirable. Sometime life is nasty. Sometimes you find yourself in situations you never in your wildest dream saw your self in. Sometimes we act in properly evil ways. We do these things to ourselves and to others and we try to hide them. And thats life. A good thing its not just our flaws and mistakes that define us, there is is so much more within. Yes we do these things... but we get up, shake the dirty off, clean yourself up, learn from it and move on child. The book of proverbs says a righteous man falleth seven times! Its in our nature to fall and hide, just as its in our nature to get up and need grace and forgiveness to walk away. We are after all human and this is life.

Answer 4

Don,
All have sinned according to the Letter to the Romans. GOD will send CHRIST to Judge and all sins will be Judged then. None can fool the Messiah. Have a great New Years!
Thanks,
Eds

EDIT:
Sin is a transgression of GOD'S LAWS.


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Answer 5

I dont know what everyone thinks,but I do KNOW this. WE can only fool ourselves. Noone fools God. He knows not only what you do , but HE knows your heart and what you think and want to do, even if you dont actually go do it. We cant hide a thing from God. Not even our thoughts.
The New covenent is clear, we not only are not to break the law, but we arent to even think of it, and when we have the mind and nature of Christ, we will not even want to sin. 1 John 3:9, as sin will be as ugly to us as it is to God.
God commanded that IF YOU LOVE ME OBEY ME. Its not merely a suggestion. HE wants nothing hidden and covered and a person claiming grace has me covered on everything. Hogwash. Grace and mercy, and the power of hte Holy Spirit, yes are to forgive you, for what you dont yet know is sin, but its not to make you free to sin. GOD FORBID
IT is to free you from sin by the shed Blood Of Jesus Christ.
PPL say we cant live a sinless life, then you call God a liar. God God demands we live a sinless life once we are born again with the new nature of Christ.
Its not just suggested folks. The old fallen sin nature is gone once you are truly Born again.
God bless you for the question. God doesnt want sin hidden and covered HE wants it brought up to be focused on, dealt with and allowing God to deliver you from it. HE wants us to be < NOTHING BROKEN NOTHING NEEDED TO BE FIXED.
to wholeness and completion in Christ.
Jesus obeyed the Father unto perfection and that is required of us.
WE are to be as Adan and Eve before the fall In purity and rightouess and holy living, yet we have the knowledge of sin, and know of it and want no part of it.
By the power of the Holy Spirit, it is done. Sin is finnished in the minds of ppl with the mind of Christ THe devil may try to bring it to you, but when you are one with Jesus Christ, you will not even want to give in to temptation.
God is so good to give us Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
LEts tap into all the things of God today and be FULLY HIS>
God bless you.

Answer 6

Brother Don,

I totally agree with your responder. Anna: "As a friend of mine said once: "I think that the flaws we so readily point out in others reflect those we are most ashamed of in ourselves." Wise words."
It is SOOO easy to see the "sin" in others...but if we look hard enough, and with total honesty, most of the time the sins we condemn in others so readily...are the very sins we ourselves are doing to some degee.
Funny how that "works". But it is very true.

Answer 7

No one! God is not fooled, He knows everything.

And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment Hebrews 9:27

The Great White Throne Judgment

11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Answer 8

Not God.

Santification is a life long process - being 'clean' before God needs to be done on a daily basis.

God wants us to eliminate both sinful thoughts and sinful behavior. To do this we must deal with thoughts and deeds in the order of their priority.

Sin follows a progression. Our sinful desires breed sinful actions. "After desire has conceived," James has written, "it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death" (James 1:15).

The analogy James makes between the life process and the growth of sin is powerful. Just as conception is the secret and unnoticed act of a cell's fertilization, so too our thoughts are secret, lodged deep within us. And just as the tiny fertilized cell requires nutrients from outside itself, so our thoughts require feeding to develop into action.

Our thoughts feed on what is close and available. Not that Christians should live in caves, but eliminating certain television programs, books, periodicals, movies, and so on can greatly help to eliminate sinful thoughts.

Yet even without such stimuli we still sin. It is not that which is outside us that defiles us. We must go deeper, for very few sins are not premeditated.

"For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander" (Matthew 15:19). Jeremiah also saw the heart as a source of evil: "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure" (Jeremiah 17:9).

When we deal with evil thoughts, therefore, we must pray with David, "Create in me a pure heart, O God" (Psalm 51:10). God cares more about sins of the heart than about our failure to keep a list of do's and don'ts, though our churches may set lofty standards of behavior and never mention the great need to cleanse and renew our minds-just as the Pharisees cleaned the outside of their cups while the inside remained rank (Matthew 23:25).

Let us therefore reaffirm our need to let God examine and burn from us the dross of evil thoughts.

God knows everything-even our ugly, dirty, selfish, disgusting thoughts. He knows! He has caught us!

If we were more aware of God's listening ear, we would be less concerned with the great cover-up we produce in our minds to keep evil from being seen by those around us, and we would expose it for what it is-sin! We're not fooling God with our religious sacrifices before men on Sunday morning. The sacrifices acceptable to God are "a broken spirit" and "a broken and contrite heart" (Psalm 51:17). A contrite person is one who is humbly apologetic and ashamed. A little shame before God's throne would do us good.

Answer 9

Ourselves, mostly. God is not mocked. Seeing yourself from the outside can be a salutary experience.

As a friend of mine said once: "I think that the flaws we so readily point out in others reflect those we are most ashamed of in ourselves." Wise words.

Answer 10

You are right, Jesus knows our heart and he is the only one who will Judge our sin, so why bother fooling every one else when our only judge already knows.

Best thing to do is repent and move on as a Christian should. But habits are hard to break.

Maybe you could pray that God will help you help others. (: