More On Sin
These are just a few more thoughts of depravity—our falling short of God’s righteousness…
Sin connotes the serpent in the minds of men and is a transgression of God’s laws (1 John 3:4). Sin is the inherent unwillingness of man to abide in the sphere of limitation set by God.
While an angel became sin (the source of sin) it was man who brought it into the human race, and death passed to all men (“for all have sinned” Romans 5:12); in Adam (all descendants of), all die (1 Corinthians 15:22). Satan creates nothing—he deceives and destroys everything.
Sin is a state of being. Sin is the absence of good, a perversion of good—a transgression of the righteousness of God.
Even in a sin-cursed world, a sin-caused world, evil hides itself in deceit and disguise lest it be seen in the raw for what it really is—satanic. Man has one enemy—evil disguised as good, justified as being “okay.”
As I think about sin, I must reason that if only one sin would have been willingly committed, and the imputation of that one sin had not been imputed, and the inherent sin nature did not exist, God would still send Christ to rescue the one lost sheep by dying for him on the cross, the same cross where He died for untold billions of sinners an uncountable sins. A corrupted nature begets a corrupted nature (Romans 5:12). The offense of one became the offense of all (Romans 5:18).
All creation—angels, creatures, humans, the very earth itself groans as it awaits restoration by God (Romans 8:19-23).
Sin flows like an infected stream through every generation of men from the time of Adam and to the end of time (Job 14:14). But sin is guilty of punishment. God judges all men as guilty sinners in Adam, just as he judges all believers to be righteous in Christ to the justification of all things (Romans 5:18,19).
God’s Word helps the believer, by the Holy Spirit, to control sin. The power is in the Word (Scripture) used by the Holy Spirit to convict and transform believers, but without the Word stored in your soul and ready for use, the Holy Spirit can’t do His job properly and the believer will fail, repeatedly (and usually blame God for it).
God is light. Men walk in darkness (1 John 1:6-10). Where there is no sin there is no need of God’s grace, therefore because there is sin, there is the cross (Romans 5:20; Ephesians 2:5-9. See also 1 Corinthians 15:25-28; Hebrews 12:22-24; 2 Peter 3:7-13; Revelation 20:11-15).