Freedom

There is for sure a way in which a man might generally repent of sin as a category and desire to follow God. Then there are specifics to be considered as the layers of the onion are peeled. God accepts our initial repentance and receives us into His kingdom. Then He works to help us grow and learn more and more. Exodus

This is written to help you keep your ship afloat and sailing with the wind.

Titanic sins and pin-hole sins. Both can sink your boat. Some are just more obvious than others. You don't want to start out from shore thinking your boat is sound, only to get a hundred miles out and discover all the while worm holes had been leaking water into your boat and you seem doomed to sink before reaching your destination. Like the man who started to build a city, but later discovered he could not finish.

Jesus said to believe in Him.

His name is Jesus and I will tell you what it means. YESHUA. See Isaiah 12:2

To understand what Yeshua means read Isaiah 12:2.
Behold, God (EL)is my salvation (YESHUA); I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD (YAHH) JEHOVAH (YEHOVAH) is my strength and my song; He also is become my salvation.
In the Hebrew, the word YESHUA is used for savior and salvation. In the Greek, the word Jesus means Savior and Salvation. This verse sums up the message to us from the entire scripture, that God is become our Salvation. It has three names for God. El, Yahh, Yehovah (referencing the three in heaven that are one ((1 John 5:7,8 KJV)) and then it says HE is become (notice this is a present tense, is) my SALVATION (YESHUA)

YESHUA means the total huge concept of the whole Bible story, that God our Salvation is manifest in the flesh, and the three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, are one. Jesus is the word. See 1st John 5:7,8 in King James Version

To say the name with understanding is to say in one word, the fullness of the godhead is manifest bodily ( See Colossians 2:9) in Jesus Christ. The entire scripture story is summarized in the Hebrew of Isaiah 12:2 and that scripture is summarize within a single word within it when understanding comes, that word is YESHUA. It means, God is manifest in the flesh. God is our Salvation. So when the early church was baptizing in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. (Matthew 28:19) (Acts 19:5) When one is baptized in the name of Jesus, or in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, whether they realize it or not, they are being baptized in that total truth of God as their Salvation , YESHUA.

Blessed are the poor (I'm convinced this is talking about an attitude and cleanness of heart that many poor people have) There are still poor people in the world who have not turned to thievery, stealing, bitterness, or drugs who are living content with their lot, being kind to their friends and strangers alike. And who have no mask of deceit. Just basically honest and pure of heart.

The apostle explained it

Repent from your sins

Believe on the LORD

Be baptized

Follow Jesus (The apostles were told by Jesus to go into all the world, preach the gospel, baptize them, and make disciples)?

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; And [that] I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. See Leviticus 26:40,41,42

We need to know that Jesus bore the punishment of our iniquity. So we must also know our iniquity, our sins: we must behold, acknowledge, our sins. See 1st John 1:9

An overview of sin gives these thoughts: Scripture has concluded all under sin. Gal 3:22 So sin is something that covers everyone born into this world through the seed of Adam. But we receive the promise of deliverance from that sin and bondage of sin by the faith of Jesus Christ. Which means as we believe what Jesus did for us, we receive what He did for us.

Sin is the transgression of the law. The law includes the law of love which Jesus gave.

We are called to love one another with the love wherewith God loved us.

We are called to love God with all our heart and soul and mind and strength.

We are called to love our neighbor as ourself.

And we are called to not transgress the law as set forth by Moses and the prophets. Remember, the just shall live by faith. Those who are justified in the sight of God shall live by faith towards God. By faith we are the righteousness of God.

Love is the fulfilling of the law Romans 13:10
He that loveth hath fulfilled the law. Romans 13:8

It is recorded in Mark 12:33 when Jesus said, "And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love [his] neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." I give this reference for two reasons. It points to understanding what we do. It points to a contrast between two systems as it clearly states love is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Now we must remember to understand the word sacrifices. It is not just sacrificing a goat. The term sacrifice comes to mean "doing our own thing for God" instead of what He leads us to do.

John 13:34 "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."

So we see the new covenant is a covenant based on divine love through faith toward God who is divine love.
This simplifies many things and frees us from ordinances and details of burnt offerings from the old covenant. During the last many years, people have focused much on this theme of love as the fulfilling of the law. Then they have failed to study the law. They have failed to love the law and to know it so they might know how not to sin against God. And we have arrived at a kind of false soft wimpy love. God's love is a totally balanced love that is one with His nature as revealed in scripture by His Spirit. A man should not just use the four letter word love as an excuse for not studying all the things of God as a guide for what love is and what love means.

One must study to show himself (Ref 1st Timothy 2:15) approved unto God even in the understanding of love. There is a distinction between love and lust. Most people can easily see the difference; however many confuse the words in their understanding.

To gain the understanding we must read and read again the things of God. It all knits together more and more finely as we grow more familiar with the word of God.

SIN DEFINED IN SCRIPTURE

Romans 14:23 for whatsoever is not of faith is sin

I John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

Numbers 15:31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity [shall be] upon him.

I Samuel 15:24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

I Kings 8:47 [Yet] if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

I Chronicles 10:13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, [even] against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking [counsel] of [one that had] a familiar spirit, to inquire [of it];

II Chronicles 24:20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.

Isaiah 42:21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make [it] honourable.

Isaiah 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Daniel 9:11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that [is] written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression.

Romans 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? [is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

Romans 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.

Romans 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Romans 7:10 And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.

Romans 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].

Romans 7:12 Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Romans 7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

II Corinthians 12:21 [And] lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and [that] I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

Philippians 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

James 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all.

James 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

James 5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

I John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

I John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

I John 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

I John 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

If you don't repent, you'll keep on going down the same road.
Here are a few things for conviction of sin and a need for repentance. Seven Deadly Sins

The Law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul Psalms 19:8 The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.

Psalms 19:7 The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple.

Psalms 19:8 The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.

Psalms 19:9 The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether.

Psalms 19:10 More to be desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Psalms 19:11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: [and] in keeping of them [there is] great reward.

Psalms 19:12 Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret [faults].

Psalms 19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins]; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

Psalms 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.