The Misconception About Sin
People believe that when you sin, God stops loving you, but the truth is God always
loves us; the Bible tells us that God is love. Many people think of God as One who
has a bat and will beat down any one who falls, but God is a loving Father who
knows where sin will lead you and tries to warn you of it (Ephesians 4:25-32) which
says “wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor, for we
are members one of another. Be you angry, and sin not; let not the sun go down
upon your wrath. Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more;
but rather let him labor working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may
have to give to him that needs. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your
mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the
hearers. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed to the day
of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil
speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be you kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven
you”.
The truth is when you sin, you open the door to the devil and he comes into your life
and makes havoc of your life (Romans 6:16) “know you not, that to whom you yield
yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin
to death, or of obedience to righteousness”? remember that Jesus said “you cannot
serve two masters”.
When you sin, it brings guilt and condemnation; your conscience condemns you,
and you don’t believe that God will bless you. When we mess up God doesn’t turn
away from us. He loves us unconditionally. Remember that God is the same
yesterday, today and forever. When Adam and Eve sinned, God came looking for
them and He made the first sacrifice to cover them.
Some say that God put them out of the garden of Eden because they sinned, and
yes they were put out, but because He loved them and wanted to protect them from
eating from the tree of life and remaining in that sinful state forever.
God is married to the backslider (Jeremiah 3:11-14) says “the Lord Yahweh said to
me, the backsliding Israel, has justified herself more than treacherous Judah. Go
and proclaim these words toward the north and say, return you backsliding Israel,
says the Lord Yahweh and I will not cause My anger to fall upon you; for I am
merciful, says the Lord Yahweh, and I will not keep anger for ever. Only
acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the Lord Yahweh
your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree,
and you have not obeyed My voice, says the Lord Yahweh. Turn, O backsliding
children, says the Lord Yahweh; for I am married to you, and I will take you one of a
city, and two of a family and I will bring you to Zion”. This is Israel and we are called
the bride of Christ.
God does hate sin, and we are separated from Him by our sin because sin hardens
our heart towards God, sin affects our heart towards God, not the other way around
(Hebrews 3:7-15) “wherefore as the Holy Spirit says, today if you will hear His voice.
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the
wilderness. When your fathers tempted Me proved Me, and saw My works forty
years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, they do always err in
their heart, and they have not known My ways. So I swear in My wrath, they shall
not enter into My rest. Take heed brethren, less there be in any of you an evil heart
of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is
called today; less any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we
are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to
the end. While it is said today if you hear His voice, harden not your hearts as in
the provocation”.
When you look through out the Bible, we see that many of the biblical hero’s failed
and fell into sin; but God was able to use them to do mighty things. Abraham
doubted God’s word and listened to Sari his wife to take Hagar her servant to bear a
child. Yet after building his relation with
God, he became fully persuaded; and not only was able to bear a son through his
wife Sarah when he was about 100 years old, then when he was asked to sacrifice
him on a mountain which God would show him, he took him and would have killed
him, believing that God was able to raise him up again because God had promised
that “in Isaac shall your seed be”.
Moses sinned and killed an Egyptian, and fled when he was found out, and was on
the back side of the mountain 40 years, yet God appeared to him in the burning
bush and Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt.
David fell into sin and had an affair with another man’s wife, then had that man killed
by ordering him to be put on the front line of the battle and then withdrawn from the
others. Yet when David was confronted he repented, read (Psalms 51:1-12) which
says “have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your loving kindness; according to
the multitude of Your tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me
thoroughly from my iniquity; and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my
transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against You, You only have I sinned,
and done this evil in Your sight; that You might be justified when You speak, and be
clear when You judge. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me. Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part,
You shall make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean,
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness, that
the bones which You have broken may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, and
blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit
within me. Cast me not away from Your presence; and take not Your Holy Spirit
from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with Your free
spirit”. David was called a man after God’s own heart.
Saul of Tarsus was killing Christians until he met Jesus on the road to Damascus
and later became the apostle to the Gentiles and was used to write much of the
letters in the New Testament.
The world says “once a sinner, always a sinner” but, God tells us how to be restored
from our sinfulness (II Chronicles 7:14) “if My people, which are called by My name,
shall humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked
ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land”.
And again in I John 1:9 which says “if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”.
We are delivered from the power of darkness, and have been translated into the
kingdom of His dear Son. In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the
forgiveness of sins (Colossians 1:13-14). Our sins were forgiven by the blood of
Jesus Christ from the foundation of the earth. God knew that man would sin and He
provided the way for him to be restored.
The devil will accuse you of your sins, trying to keep you in an unworthy state,
because if you think that you are unworthy, you will not have the faith to receive
what God has already provided for you, but you don’t have to stay there in your sin,
confess and repent and God will restore you. Psalms 119:9-11 says “wherewithal
shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to Your
word. With my whole heart have I sought You; O let me not wander from Your
commandments. Your word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against You”.
Revelation 12:11 says “and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by
the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives to the death”. We have to
be willing to testify what God have done in our lives.
Study by: Harriet Bond
Date: November 17, 2009
People believe that when you sin, God stops loving you, but the truth is God always
loves us; the Bible tells us that God is love. Many people think of God as One who
has a bat and will beat down any one who falls, but God is a loving Father who
knows where sin will lead you and tries to warn you of it (Ephesians 4:25-32) which
says “wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor, for we
are members one of another. Be you angry, and sin not; let not the sun go down
upon your wrath. Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more;
but rather let him labor working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may
have to give to him that needs. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your
mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the
hearers. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed to the day
of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil
speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be you kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven
you”.
The truth is when you sin, you open the door to the devil and he comes into your life
and makes havoc of your life (Romans 6:16) “know you not, that to whom you yield
yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin
to death, or of obedience to righteousness”? remember that Jesus said “you cannot
serve two masters”.
When you sin, it brings guilt and condemnation; your conscience condemns you,
and you don’t believe that God will bless you. When we mess up God doesn’t turn
away from us. He loves us unconditionally. Remember that God is the same
yesterday, today and forever. When Adam and Eve sinned, God came looking for
them and He made the first sacrifice to cover them.
Some say that God put them out of the garden of Eden because they sinned, and
yes they were put out, but because He loved them and wanted to protect them from
eating from the tree of life and remaining in that sinful state forever.
God is married to the backslider (Jeremiah 3:11-14) says “the Lord Yahweh said to
me, the backsliding Israel, has justified herself more than treacherous Judah. Go
and proclaim these words toward the north and say, return you backsliding Israel,
says the Lord Yahweh and I will not cause My anger to fall upon you; for I am
merciful, says the Lord Yahweh, and I will not keep anger for ever. Only
acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the Lord Yahweh
your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree,
and you have not obeyed My voice, says the Lord Yahweh. Turn, O backsliding
children, says the Lord Yahweh; for I am married to you, and I will take you one of a
city, and two of a family and I will bring you to Zion”. This is Israel and we are called
the bride of Christ.
God does hate sin, and we are separated from Him by our sin because sin hardens
our heart towards God, sin affects our heart towards God, not the other way around
(Hebrews 3:7-15) “wherefore as the Holy Spirit says, today if you will hear His voice.
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the
wilderness. When your fathers tempted Me proved Me, and saw My works forty
years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, they do always err in
their heart, and they have not known My ways. So I swear in My wrath, they shall
not enter into My rest. Take heed brethren, less there be in any of you an evil heart
of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is
called today; less any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we
are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to
the end. While it is said today if you hear His voice, harden not your hearts as in
the provocation”.
When you look through out the Bible, we see that many of the biblical hero’s failed
and fell into sin; but God was able to use them to do mighty things. Abraham
doubted God’s word and listened to Sari his wife to take Hagar her servant to bear a
child. Yet after building his relation with
God, he became fully persuaded; and not only was able to bear a son through his
wife Sarah when he was about 100 years old, then when he was asked to sacrifice
him on a mountain which God would show him, he took him and would have killed
him, believing that God was able to raise him up again because God had promised
that “in Isaac shall your seed be”.
Moses sinned and killed an Egyptian, and fled when he was found out, and was on
the back side of the mountain 40 years, yet God appeared to him in the burning
bush and Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt.
David fell into sin and had an affair with another man’s wife, then had that man killed
by ordering him to be put on the front line of the battle and then withdrawn from the
others. Yet when David was confronted he repented, read (Psalms 51:1-12) which
says “have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your loving kindness; according to
the multitude of Your tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me
thoroughly from my iniquity; and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my
transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against You, You only have I sinned,
and done this evil in Your sight; that You might be justified when You speak, and be
clear when You judge. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me. Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part,
You shall make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean,
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness, that
the bones which You have broken may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, and
blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit
within me. Cast me not away from Your presence; and take not Your Holy Spirit
from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with Your free
spirit”. David was called a man after God’s own heart.
Saul of Tarsus was killing Christians until he met Jesus on the road to Damascus
and later became the apostle to the Gentiles and was used to write much of the
letters in the New Testament.
The world says “once a sinner, always a sinner” but, God tells us how to be restored
from our sinfulness (II Chronicles 7:14) “if My people, which are called by My name,
shall humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked
ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land”.
And again in I John 1:9 which says “if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”.
We are delivered from the power of darkness, and have been translated into the
kingdom of His dear Son. In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the
forgiveness of sins (Colossians 1:13-14). Our sins were forgiven by the blood of
Jesus Christ from the foundation of the earth. God knew that man would sin and He
provided the way for him to be restored.
The devil will accuse you of your sins, trying to keep you in an unworthy state,
because if you think that you are unworthy, you will not have the faith to receive
what God has already provided for you, but you don’t have to stay there in your sin,
confess and repent and God will restore you. Psalms 119:9-11 says “wherewithal
shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to Your
word. With my whole heart have I sought You; O let me not wander from Your
commandments. Your word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against You”.
Revelation 12:11 says “and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by
the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives to the death”. We have to
be willing to testify what God have done in our lives.
Study by: Harriet Bond
Date: November 17, 2009
