Sin Sin is a very
serious matter. Our sins are why Jesus died on a cross. Sin is what separates
us from God: Isaiah 59:1-2 Surely the arm of the LORD
is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have
separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that
he will not hear. Who is a sinner?
Everyone is a sinner! That is why every single human being needs Christ. Isaiah 64:5-6 All of us have become like
one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all
shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away. No one
calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your
face from us and made us waste away because of our sins.
Romans 3:10-12,23
As it is written: “There
is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one
who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good, not even one… for all have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God What is sin? Sin
means to “miss the mark.” It means to “fall short.” Simply put, sin is
wrongdoing. Here are some passages where the Bible defines sin:
Galatians 5:19-21
The acts of the sinful
nature are obvious: adultery, fornication, impurity, licentiousness,
idolatry, sorcery and witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage,
selfishness, dissension, party spirit, envy, murder, drunkenness, carousing,
and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who live like
this shall not inherit the Colossians 3:5-10
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to
your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and
greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You
used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must rid
yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and
filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have
taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self,
which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Mark 7:20-22
And he said, “What comes out of a man is
what defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil
thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit,
licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. Revelation 21:7-8
He who conquers shall have
this heritage, and I will be his God and he shall be my son. But as for the
cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators,
sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that
burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.” James
4:17
Anyone, then, who knows
the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins. What is the
penalty for sin? Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is
eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
It only took one
sin for Adam and Eve to die spiritually. That is how serious and deadly
sin is to us. Once we have sinned, we die and become separated from
God and are in need of the Redeemer and the forgiveness that is made possible
through the work Jesus did on the cross. |