The Problem with Sin
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The Problem with Sin.
The Problem with Sin.
The Apostle Paul who wrote in a letter to Roman Chruch “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
If the Bible says that all have sinned. So the question we need to ask is “What is a Sin?”
Paul also wrote “The wages of sin is death.”
So understanding what sin is is pretty important, cause what is earned for sinning is death. This death isn’t a physical death but it is a spiritual death.
So what is a sin and why is it such a problem?
A quick definition is “sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in action, in attitude, or in nature.” Sin is defined in relation to God and His moral law. Sin includes not only individual acts like stealing, or lying, or murder, but also attitudes that are contrary to the attitudes that God requires of us.
There is a specific commandment that God gives to children and it is “Honor your father and your mother.” How are you doing with this one?
In order to know what a sin is they we need to look at what God gives as a law.
And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Every single word of the Law and the Prophets Hinged on these two commandments- Love of God more than anything else, and Love of those who God created in His own image.
The term “Law and Prophets”- simply in referring to the entirety of the Old Testament. Everything Hinges on this one-thing and it is love for God over everything else including the desire of sin.
Sin is directly against God. When you begin to go down the road of doing something you know is wrong, ask yourself do I love God more then this thing.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
Eve saw it was desirable to the eye. Have you ever looked at why you sin? Why do you do the things you know are wrong- There is a desire to do them. I want to look at this, or take this, or hit this person like this.
There is a natural desire to sin-
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Why do we do what is wrong? We desire to to it. Why do bad things happen? People desire to sin. Murder is a sin that is decided way before it happens, just like all sins are. They are sins of omission, meaning we fail to act according to God’s laws and we are liable for the consequences
So sin is done because we desire to do it. We lie cause we desire not to get in trouble. We steal because we desire that something.
The Bible says that we are accurately enslaved to sin. Meaning Sin is the slave master and we are what the slave master tells us and do wha the slave master tell us to do.
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
Because of the fall of Adam and Eve way back in Gen 3, all of humanity has inherited a sin nature. Meaning we are sinner cause we sin, we sin because of who we are sinners. We have a sin nature that inclines us towards sin and rebellion against God.
Human beings are enslaved to sin. We continually live with ability to sin against God and His commandments. We always have the ability to love something more then God.
The Apostle Paul writes,
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
When we experience salvation through the work of Jesus Christ we are able to overcome sin’s enslavement through the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is our Great Redeemer who has delivered us from slavery and bondage to sin.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
God is a God of grace., and at the Heart of the salvation (atonement) is Jesus Christ substituting Himself for sinners like us, when he died on the cross in our place.
who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
We broke the Law, He was perfect and fulfilled the law, and yet He died in our place.
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Sin is always a choice. Choosing to love and desire something more then God, and the result is death. We can pay that price or we can receive the gift of Christ’s substitution, which gives us eternal life.