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SIN
By Rev. Galvin Templar 6-1-2010
www.ChurchOfArmenia.com
www.FinalCommission.com
Beloved, for any responsible person sin is a matter that
defines the quality of life. No human being can claim to be sinless
because we all sinned. "For all have sinned
and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans
3:23). Many of us take different
stand on the matter of sin. Some of us believe to have no sin, some of
us think we can win over sin with our human powers, and some think
enjoying life to the full will cover the sinful nature. "If
we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not
in us." (1st John 1:8).
The exact definition of sin is in Bible, 1st
John 3:4 "Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is
lawlessness." God has given us His law for us to obey and
follow. Adding or removing from the laws of God and going beyond the
true teachings of Jesus and falsifying them is sin. "
Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ
does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the
Father and the Son.(2 John 9-11). If we live according to our
will and not God's Will, that also is considered to be a sin, (James
4:13-17) "Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we
will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business
and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen
tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little
while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the
Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you
boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the
good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins."
If we decide to justify ourselves with ignorance of sin we are
guilty, (Leviticus 4:22) " When a leader
sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the commands
of the Lord his God, he is guilty." Or
if we allow our will to do whatever is not of the truth , it is sin
too. (Hebrews 10:26) "If we deliberately
keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no
sacrifice for sins is left." We
constantly try to justify our sins by their values of being small or
big. It may be true that some sins are far reaching and more
destructive than others, however they are all sins; the big sin does
it's damage immediately and the small ones grow to be big in time.
Failing the laws and God's Love is sin. (James
2:10) "For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just
one point is guilty of breaking all of it."
Sin separates us from the Love of God. (Isaiah
59:2) "But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your
sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear."
Any separation from God Almighty is because of sin, and if
anyone thinks there are no consequences for sinning, (Romans
6:23) "For the wages of sin is death,"
Some people think sin to be a figment of an imagination, but actually
sin is very damning. Maybe if we ask people who committed sins in
their lives they will tell what happened and what was the consequences
of it. Sin offers pleasure, but its pleasures are fake and temporary.
There are people who feed on sin and sin in their thinking, (Proverbs
24:9) "The schemes of folly are sin, and men detest a
mocker." We can see people sinning in their deeds,
(John 3:19) "This is the verdict: Light has come into the world,
but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were
evil." in their thoughts, and their speech. (James
3:5,6) "the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes
great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small
spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of
the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his
life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell."
Acts of sin are violations of the divine standard.
Sin causes waste, hardens our hearts, deceives us, enslaves by
separating us from God and grieves God. This sin matter is very evil
and destructive to anyone who commits it. The power of evil of sin is
not stronger than the power of love of God. God Almighty sent His only
Son Jesus Christ for the remission of our sins. (John
3:16) "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal
life. Jesus came to earth to remove sin, first by forgiveness
and then by victory over sin in our daily lives. Jesus died on the
cross for our sins, after three days he resurrected from the dead and
ascended to heaven then sent The Holy Spirit of God to comfort and
strengthen all who worship His Holy Name. Amen.
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