“Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lust thereof. 13. Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under law but under grace. 23.The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Sin is one of those facts of life that we have to deal with every day. (As though you didn’t already know that.) In fact, it is the major thing that we have to deal with, because God hates sin. He hates it because it is disobedience to Him. He hates it because it drags us down. God knows that sin is sin and that because we do not commit adultery, or something like that that we consider a “big” sin, we have no problem with it. God hates all sin – let’s just rejoice that He loves us in spite of it. Let’s look at the seriousness of sin: We will begin with the last verse written above: “The wages of sin is death…” Sin kills!!! When people are in the throes of sin, they do not feel like it is sin because it brings physical and mental pleasure. But the inescapable fact is that sin kills: "for the wages of sin is death.” Go back to the Garden of Eden. What did God tell Adam and Eve would happen if they ate the forbidden fruit? He told them that they would die. We know that they did not die immediately, but they did eventually die. In fact, the rest of their lives became what we can call “the process of dying.” All we have to do is look at our aging bodies and realize that we are dying. Sin has killed everyone since Adam and Eve, for the Bible tells us in Romans 3:23 that “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Sin is serious because it not only kills us, it ruins our lives if we let it have control of our lives. Paul wrote: “Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin.” “Members” means parts of our bodies. For example, we are not to use our hands as instruments of unrighteousness. With just a little imagination, you can recall ways that you can use your hands to sin. (Don’t get too carried away.) Another example, and perhaps a more pertinent one, is our brains. Since the thought is the father of the deed, we need to be careful where we let our thoughts go. In fact, sin is a thought before it is a deed. That is why the Bible reminds us time and time again to be careful what we think about. Satan is aware of all that I have just written, and he is always at work on our minds, trying to sidetrack us from wholesome thinking. How do I know so much about this? Well, I have a brain – enough said, or written. We know that sin is serious because of what it cost God to deliver us from it. Romans 6:23 tells us: “The wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” It is not our own righteousness, or our own will power, that delivers us from sin. It was/is Jesus who delivers us from sin. He did it by His death on the cross. He paid the price for our sins on that cruel cross. 1 John 4:10 tells us: “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” “Propitiation” means that Jesus took the wrath of God that was rightfully ours, upon Himself on the cross. That is why Jesus cried out: “MY God, My God, why have You forsaken me….” Jesus paid the price that we owed in order to give us the salvation that we can only have by faith in Him. I hope that you have already taken God up on His offer of Jesus to save you from sin, from its penalty and its doom. Sin does not have to rule the day, because God has made it possible for us to defeat sin through the blood of Jesus Christ. Either rejoice in the fact that you have trusted Jesus to save you, or do it now. Bro. Joe
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