Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. Acts 3:26.

The visible effects of the resurrection of Christ is first, the present enablement power made available for a saved believer to have a upper hand and victory over the old man known as the body of sin, knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Romans 6:6.

The resurrection power of Christ is the same Holy Spirit indwelling the believers. He is the enabler and the operator of any righteous and holy decision and judgment any believer could make in obedience and submission to conform his life according to the law of liberty – the word of God. But if this same power that raised up Jesus from the dead does not have the influence over your life to help you turning away from your iniquities, this could means that you have received another gospel, spirit and another Christ.

The primary work of the presence of God’s spirit in your life is to convince you of sin, righteousness and of judgment to come. Also, he indwells you to empower you to be able to detest, resist and subdue the desires of the flesh and of the world. James 4:5. Worldliness is a sin and believer must trunaway from the world. It defiles the body, soul and spirit to disqualify any believer from seeing God in heaven. James 1:27. Note: the turning away every man from his iniquities involves turning away from yourself to Christ that is now dwelling in you: turning away from the world and from all her lusts and pride in it: turning away from ungodly men and women and old friends of the world before coming to Christ: and turning away from whatever you have to lose to gain Christ.

Second, the resurrection of Christ is for the actual future resemblance of glorification with him in the likeness of his resurrection or glorified body, when he shall come to be glorified in his saints (2 Thessalonians 1:10), if they are presently living as one who is being raised from the state of spiritual death to live a new spiritual life, so that they might see the Lord as he is (1 John 3:2), and to be like him (Philippians 3:20-21), and forever be with him. 1 Thessalonians 4:17: if ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Colossians 3:1-4. Note: believer’s present practice of lifestyle of Christ likeness through the mirror of the word of God is to prepare him for the future glorification with him: for if we are dead with him, we shall also live with him. 2 Timothy 2:11.

As a new creature, except all things are presently new in your life (interior and exterior), and in your ways and conducts before the Lord in a progressive way to attain unto the measure of the fullness of his stature, any future hope of a new spiritual and glorified body like that of Christ in likeness of his resurrection becomes a hope not based on practical facts – whosoever sow iniquity shall fail: be you therefore the doer of the word, not the hearer, not deceiving yourself. Proverbs 22:8 a.

The inheritance reserved in heaven for you is undefiled and incorruptible. 1 Peter 1:3-4.

Though, your new birth is through the incorruptible seed of the word of God, but if you have not come to understand the personal choice and action to take, by turning away from your iniquities and dead works, but you keep living a corruptible life, what do you expect to reap in death at judgment? What else could have done for you that have not been done by Christ? If you will not turn away from your iniquities, you will keep sowing to the flesh to reap corruption in the future, which is the eternal damnation or second death.

Repentance from sin is to turn over a new leaf, that is, to start to act or behave in a better or more responsible way in the Lord: therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, say the Lord God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, says the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. Ezekiel 18:30-32.

If the repentant sinner is to turn away from his iniquity as the text before us demands, lest the iniquities from which his Savoir died and was raised from the dead to pardon, save and justify him be his destruction, he must  act and walk daily through the knowledge of his presumed death and crucifixion with Christ (I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20): to reckon his body to be dead to sin, and to get the vicious habits and inclinations weakened and destroyed by his dutiful, disciplined and mindful walk in the fruit of the spirit against the sin warring in his members which are upon the earth to walk in the flesh. As long as he is walking to fulfill the works of flesh, he is not turning away from his iniquities in Christ, thus he makes a mockery of sin as a fool and he shall weep bitterly at the end of his sojourn on earth throughout all eternity. Proverbs 14:9.

By ignoring the call to turn away from his iniquities, the repentant sinner is despising the spirit of grace and the word of God: thus says the Lord; for three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof: because they have despised the law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked. Amos 2:4.

As long as a repentant sinner has not come to obey the text before us to turn away from his iniquities, he has not repented from anything because (a) he will not be bringing forth fruits worthy of repentance: (b) he is still in his sin and in bondage and gall of iniquity, having not escaped the corruption which is in the world through lusts. This type of behavior in Christ Jesus is self condemned because it is contrary to the purposes of the indwelling divine power given unto us; that, though we live in the flesh, we should not walk in the flesh, but be able to manifest the nature of God (divine nature), having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lusts. 2 Peter 1:3-4.

Moses walked away to turn his back at the pleasure of sin in Egypt, having great future hope and esteem for the true riches of Christ in heaven. This is the greatest recompense of faith in anticipation of retribution of the righteous judgment of God about sin and righteousness for the period of time we spent earth. Therefore, it is for the eternal prosperity of the soul to turn away from the present sin to possess the true eternal riches of Christ which is laid up for us in heaven. Hebrews 11:24-26. Note: called to be saints and to live as becomes saints, but those who will not turn away from their iniquities in Christ have not changed their master, being children of Satan, for the Lord is not the minister of iniquities, but the King of his saints: he that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 1 John 3:8-10.

Many of those who are in the church, but will not turn everyone from his iniquities, have chosen to get to heaven through the false and wide way which is leading to eternal destruction: enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in there at: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it. Matthew 7:13-14.

The power and true blessing of Christ death and resurrection is seen and known in the fruits of the life that is manifesting the true grace of God (1 Peter 5:12) which is empowering, facilitating and teaching him denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, to live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world (Titus 2:11-12): blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies and that seek him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. Psalms 119:1-6.

God’s ways are not the ways of man. The former is the way of righteousness and the latter is the pathway of death: in the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death (Proverbs 12:28): but, as long as anyone in Christ has not turned away from their iniquities, they are in the pathway of death. These honor God with their mouth, while their heart is far from him, if they will not turn away from their sins. It is spiritual dishonesty, and a crafty lifestyle, if a believer will not to turn away from his iniquity, if he has not renounced the hidden unfruitful works of darkness in his life: if you have avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, you must walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice. Deuteronomy 26:17. 

Is he not the God of truth without iniquity? Deuteronomy 32:4. Let us therefore walk in Christ, as the truth is in him (order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. Psalms 119:133), by turning away from all iniquities, unto the everlasting pathway: search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalms 139:23-24.

It is only those who are truly tired of themselves and sin, will take upon themselves Christ easy yoke and his light burden, by turning away from their in iniquities, to find rest for their souls, but the way of sinner is hard. Proverbs 13:15. His way is falsehood, evil, dark, grievous, rebellious, unstable, crooked, perverse, wicked and corrupt: it is the way that seems right to a man, but the end is death (Proverbs 14:12): who is wise, and he shall understand these things? Prudent and he shall know them? For the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. Proverbs 14:12. Hosea 14:9.

Those who will not turn away from their iniquities in Christ will not have him as their Shepherd, that he might lead them in the paths of righteousness. Such will not be established before the Lord because of the way they have personally chosen to walk will be their shame and eternal ruin: I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity: I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies: I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. Psalms 18:23. Psalms 119:59 &101.

There is no actual, fruitful and rewarding walk with God except we first come out of the world ways of life, mentality, practices, belief, and away from their vain customs and conducts from which we have all gone astray in the times past, until the Lord lay our iniquities upon Christ to bring us back to the Bishop and Shepherd of our souls. 1 Peter 2:25. Note: they are not blessed in Christ, neither are they blessed by him, if anyone is in Christ, but are not living momentarily and continuously in the newness of life, which is the testimony of a life which has indeed turned away from his iniquities, the blessing from Christ resurrection manifested by the new and transformed resurrected life of his redeemed.

Those who will not turn away from all their iniquities will always have something left behind them to be used by the tempter. As long as we are living in the world of corruption, we shall always be tempted according to the degree of the affection of the flesh left unbroken and not crucified in us (James 1:12-15): and they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Galatians 5:24.

How can you be perfecting holiness in the fear of God, if you have not first turned away from your iniquities? 2 Corinthians 7:1. Whether as a first comer unto Christ or a saved, forgiven, washed by the blood of the Lamb, justified and sanctified believer in Christ, the purpose of our calling is holiness: but there is a generation of believers who are pure in their own eyes, but they are not cleansed from their filthiness, because they will not turn away from it. Proverbs 30:12.

Not to presently turn away from your iniquities in Christ is to invite (a) God’s present and unpleasant chastening against your life: but God shall wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalp of such a one as goes on still in his trespasses. Psalms 68:21: (b) he will gather such soul in hell with the unrepentant sinners at death, because they have not prepared themselves to walk in the way of the Lord, to make a straight path for themselves while they live, by turning away from their iniquities. Mark 1:3.

Genuine believers who have turned away from their sins to follow after the Lord in truth are called upon to turn away from the false brethren who will not turn away from their iniquities in the Lord: this know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 2 Timothy 3:1-5.

There is no doubt that a genuine encounter with Christ shall bring forth a drastic impact of turning away from sin in the life of a believer, such as was seen in the life of Apostle Paul who met Christ on his way to Damascus to persecute the Christians: for godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world works death. For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. 2 Corinthians 7:10-11. Note: Note: except we turn away from our iniquities unto that which was called in the times past as the Way (Acts 22:4) to scandalize the primitive church and to shame those who are called out of the world in separation unto the Lord, we are not yet on our way to heaven.

We are not indeed saved, if we are not under any factual conviction by the judicial work of the Spirit of God to convince us of righteousness, sin and of the judgment to come: if we have not made the choice to separate from our iniquities to follow after the Lord single heartedly, and to make mention of his name in truth.