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Sin is Disobedience to God, His Law and His Commandments

What is Sin?

Sin can be complex and confusing. There are such a multitude of sins that can cause different consequences to us when they are committed. Sometimes, we don’t even see the consequences of sin because they may happen to us later on when the time is right. We don’t recognize that the bad thing that happened is the result of a sin we committed in the past. This is one of the reasons why we need to learn about sin.

Jeremiah 17:9,10, ‘The heart is more devious than any other thing, perverse too: who can pierce its secrets? I, Yahweh, search to the heart, I probe the loins, to give each man what his conduct and his actions deserve.’

Ezekiel 11:21, “But those whose hearts are set on their idols and their filthy practices I will call to account for their conduct – it is the Lord Yahweh who speaks.”

The Many Different Kinds of Sin

The complexity of sin can branch out into different stages and intensity. Mark 7:21-23, ‘It is what comes out of a man that makes him unclean. For it is from within, from men’s hearts, that evil intentions emerge: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within and make a man unclean.’

Galatians 5:19-21, ‘When self-indulgence is at work the results are obvious: fornication, gross indecency and sexual irresponsibility; idolatry and sorcery; feuds and wrangling, jealousy, bad temper and quarrels; disagreements, factions, envy; drunkenness’, orgies and similar things. I warn you now, as I warned you before: those that behave like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.’

Read Romans 1:18-25. Romans 1:26,27, ‘That is why God has abandoned them to degrading passions: why their women have turned from natural intercourse to unnatural practices and why their menfolk have given up natural intercourse to be consumed with passion for each other, men doing shameless things with men and getting an appropriate reward for their perversion.’

Satan and his Demons

If you’re not right with God, then you’re an easy target for an assault by Satan and his demons. Satan is the ruler of this world. He can influence you to do many sins and sin keeps us disconnected from God. Satan is the father of lies and the great deceiver.

God did not create the Lake of Fire for us, He created it for the devil and his angels. Matt.25:41, Next He will say to those on His left hand, “Go away from me with your curse upon you, to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”

Detaching Oneself From the World

It’s not easy giving up the things of the world because we already filled our hearts with the things of the world that please us. We can’t see the damage that this world does or has done to our spiritual self, mainly because being disconnected from God we are blind to the things (people, places and materialism) that keep us from developing a relationship with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

Unfortunately, people are going to make the wrong choice by choosing to be attached to the world which brings death: 1John 2:15,16 “You must not love this passing world or anything that is in the world. The love of the Father cannot be in any man that loves the world, because nothing the world has to offer – the sensual body, the lustful eye, pride in possessions – could ever come from the Father but only from the world; and the world, with all it craves for is coming to an end; but anyone who does the will of God remains forever.’

The sad part about this is, we are dead and don’t even know it. Without believing (be and live) in Jesus we have no chance of overcoming our carnal self (the flesh) and sin. The flesh will remain dominant over the spirit and soul therefore resulting in the second death.

Jesus the Way, the Truth and the Life

Choosing to be in Jesus Christ will bring life: John 3:16-18, “Yes, God loved the world so much, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not be lost but may have eternal life. For God sent His Son into the world not to condemn the world, but so that through Him the world might be saved. No one that believes in Him will be condemned; but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already, because he has refused to believe in the name of God’s only Son.”

John 14:6, Jesus said: ‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.’ We need to build a solid relationship with Jesus. That way, He can teach us and show us the way back to God. So, pick up your cross and follow Him daily.

Rev. 3:21, ‘Those who prove victorious I will allow to share my throne, just as I was victorious myself and took my place with my Father on His throne.’

Rev.20:6, ‘Happy and blessed are those that share in the first resurrection; the second death cannot effect them but they will be priests of God and of Christ and reign with Him for a thousand years.’

God Wants Us to Have Eternal Life

God does not want anyone to perish, He wants everyone to spend eternal life with Him. But, those that reject His begotten Son, Jesus Christ shall perish. He gave us a choice: Stop sinning and be saved by believing in Jesus Christ or reject His offer and live your life your way.

God our Father gave us free will to make a choice, He does not condemn us, it’s our fault if we end up in the lake of fire. When you die, it would be best to be right with God or you will suffer in the torments of the lake of fire and Sulphur.

Great White Throne Judgement

Rev. 20:13-15, ‘The sea gave up all the dead who were in it; Death and Hades were emptied of the dead that were in them; and everyone were judged according to the way in which he had lived. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the burning lake. This burning lake is the second death; and anybody whose name could not be found written in the book of life was thrown into the burning lake.’

How much more does God have to prove to us that He Loves us? He sent His Son Jesus Christ to live amongst us, experience what we go through in life, to teach us and show us the Way, bring us the Good News about the Kingdom of God, and then give up His life for us so that we may be forgiven of our sins and live with Him, with God and the Holy Spirit for eternity.

God is a God of love. He has done everything in His power to save us from certain death. He can only do so much because He gave us free will to make our own choices to live the life that WE choose to live knowing that by our choices, we could end up in Heaven or the Lake of Fire.

When you govern your own self, you make yourself a god and therefore you are practicing idolatry. God has been very patient with us, giving us plenty of time to make up our minds where we want to be when we die.

The World in it’s Present State

Romans 1:28-32, ‘In other words, since they refused to see it was rational to acknowledge God, God has left them to their own irrational ideas and to their monstrous behavior. and so they are steeped in all sorts of depravity, rottenness, greed and malice, and addicted to envy, murder, wrangling, treachery and spite.

Libelers, slanderers, enemies of God, rude, arrogant and boastful, enterprising in sin, rebellious to parents, without brains, honors, love or pity. They know what God’s verdict is: that those who behave like this deserve to die-and yet they do it; and what is worse, encourage others to do the same.’

This is exactly what is going on in the world today, people are totally out of control. It looks like a world of mass confusion. All these groups of people with different ideologies looking to conform people into accepting their way of living just like it says in scripture: ‘and what is worse, encourage others to do the same.’ Watch out because they are going after your children with their perverted views.

As you can read in the scripture, God has had it with the rebellious people of today: ‘God has left them to their own irrational ideas and to their monstrous behavior.’ The way this world is going, it won’t be long before God pours out His wrath upon the wicked and evil people in this world. God is going to reach a point where He will not tolerate it anymore as it is written in Revelation because prophecy will be fulfilled.

Aimlessly Wandering Around in the Darkness

As long as you stay blind to the Truth, you will never see the madness of this passing world. You will always be aimlessly wandering around in the darkness not knowing where you are going. Always seeking happiness in the things of the world that don’t last. You find happiness one minute and it’s gone the next.

It’s not that way with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. They offer peace, joy, happiness, truth and life that will last for all eternity and they will prove it to you. When you think about it, you don’t realize how close you are to eternity do you? It’s because we don’t know when we are going to take our last breath. The most important thing that you could ever think about at this moment is, ‘Where am I going to spend eternity?’ Will it be in heaven or the lake of fire?

Keeping Truth Locked Up

All in all, we keep Truth suppressed and deceive ourselves by justifying our wicked and evil thoughts, behaviors and our tongue. Here, in scripture is a good example of what happens: James 1:14,15, ‘Everyone who is tempted is attracted and seduced by his own wrong desire. Then the desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it too has a child, and the child is death.’

For instance, your eyes see something that you desire and this desire enters in to your soul. There it will conceive and give birth to sin. As you act upon this sin whether it is by thought or some sort of behavior, the sin grows to maturity and has a child which is death.

Why this child becomes death is because you just created a sin that will be held accountable against you on judgement day. There is a way to get rid of any and all sins that are occupying your soul, it’s called “Repentance”. Because Jesus Christ took the sins of the world upon Him just before He died on the cross, we can be forgiven.

No Such thing as a White Lie

There is no such thing as a white lie, a lie is a lie no matter how small or insignificant it may seem. I worked in an office once and I saw this type of lie happen all the time. Someone would call the office asking for a specific person. You tell that person that there is a call for them. They tell you to tell them that you’re with a client or some other excuse that’s not true.

So what do you do? Do you lie for this person knowing that if you do you would be lying to? This is one of those lies that people look at as what they call a white lie. It seems that it doesn’t do any harm to anyone but actually it does, you and the other person because you both told a lie. I wouldn’t do this for anyone and many times they wanted me to lie for them even the boss.

I look at people who do tell lies like this as being dishonest and I lose my trust in them. They do this sort of thing to easy without giving it a second thought. My integrity is important to me and it’s important to God. I would like God to be able to evaluate me and believe in me that He can trust me with any job He may want me to do for Him.

What Does God Think About Liars?

This scripture talks about the one hundred and forty thousand: Rev. 14:4,5, ‘These are the ones who have kept their virginity and not been defiled with women (virginity in the OT stands for faithfulness, and ‘adultery’ or ‘fornication’ for idolatry); they follow the Lamb where ever He goes; they have been redeemed from amongst men to be the first fruits for God and for the Lamb. They never allowed a LIE to pass their lips and no fault can be found in them.’

Rev. 21:8,’But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word, or worship obscenities, for murderers and fornicators, and for fortune-tellers, idolaters or any other SORT of LIARS, is the second death in the burning lake of sulphur.’ God takes honesty seriously, He does not take to kindly to Liars. Look at where the scripture says Liars are going.

Stealing is Never a Good Choice

Things all over this world are not looking good. There is severe famine, droughts, floods, unemployment, inflation, homelessness and much, much more. These things are also the results of sin. There is one sin that has always been a problem and it’s getting quite a bit of attention and that would be Stealing.

Stealing is one of the 10 commandments and it does make God angry with us when we commit theft. God will take care of us if we obey Him and put our trust in Him. He promises us that in scripture. Jesus tells us also in Matt. 6:25-34 about how much God cares for us over His creatures. He also tells His apostles how little their faith is.

Don’t Steal No Matter How Desperate You Are

God will always take good care of us, but we have to trust Him and believe in Him. Jer.17:7,8 ‘A blessing on the man who puts his trust in Yahwey, with Yahwey for his hope. He is like a tree by the waterside that thrusts its roots to the stream: when the heat comes it feels no alarm, its foliage stays green; it has no worries in a year of drought, and never ceases to bear fruit.’

The first thing we need to do is surrender ourselves to God and put God in the center of our life. Turn your worries, fears and doubts over to Him over to Him, He can manage our life much better then we can. We need to place our hope in Him and only Him. It’s important to build up our faith if we are going to survive any hardships that come our way. Read Romans 5:1-11.

Believe in His blessed Son Jesus Christ by asking Him to be your Savior. Believe that He was sent by God to be born here on earth to teach us, bring us the Good News, be put to death on the cross, buried and resurrected on the third day. Jesus took on the sins of the world before He died on the cross and defeated death by being resurrected by God.

We need to acknowledge our sins and repent of them. Here are some articles on Repentance:

Ways To Grow Spiritually

Be Repentant of Your Sins

Sinners Prayer-Repent for Real?-Ready For Jesus?