Sin!

What a short word - but who can penetrate its deep abyss with thought?

No mind can trace your birth - no eye can see your death.

Before the worlds were born, he climbed the heavens and dragged the angels down.

At the first dawn of life he entered Eden and killed innocence.

It does not end with the end of our times.

It always rolls its deeper and deeper course over humanity.

Sin...

It is the death blow on earth.

He spoiled the beauty of a beautiful world and stripped it of its lovely mantle.

He caused the ground to harden and the leaves to wither and decay.

He turned fertility into weeds and set the skewer with his bristling thorns.

He made the clouds darken and the storm rage.

He raised the storm's roar and flowed lightning with his forked wings.

He set foot in a perfect work, and left a chaotic wreck!

Sin...

It is the ruin of man.

Its most powerful rust has fallen on our inner life.

He expelled the soul from peaceful communion with God.

He changed the loving child into a hardened rebel.

He stole the mind from the light.

It turned reason into a labyrinth of chaos.

He did it from the heart. . .

a nest of unclean birds;

a source of impure streams;

a whirlpool of dark passions;

a hot bed of ungodly lusts;

a den of God-defying schemes!

Sin...

It is the disease - the misery - the shame of our entire race!

It's the spring of all tears!

It's every sigh that comes out of the chest;

every frown that is on the forehead;

every pain that wraps around the limbs is cradled in your arms.

Sin...

It is the mother of that mighty monster - death!

He digs every grave in every cemetery.

Every widow and orphan tastes its gall.

He fills every hospital with patients.

Fills the battlefield with the dead.

It is the core of all suffering.

It is the worm that gnaws at the root of peace.

Sin...

Its terrible destructions do not die in the grave.

There is a region where their torments reign.

He built the prison of Hell.

He lit dull flames.

He forged the chains that bind lost sinners to their fiery beds.

He sharpened the immortal sting of an offensive conscience.

Drive despair into that outer darkness where. . .

there is always crying and crying

and howls of lamentation,

and teeth that forever gnash,

and everything is there, where neither rest nor end is known.

Sin...

He works this bitter and eternal anguish, because the curse of God accompanies him.

He raised a rebellious hand against his will.

He dared to violate His holy law.

He strove to put his honor in the dust.

He trod on the book of the statutes of heaven.

Therefore, the wrath of God fiercely burns against him.

Therefore all misery goes his way.

He must be forever miserable, for he has God against him!

Sin...

Here is the picture where all the horrors meet!

Consider it with a serious eye.

No fiction can color it.

No power can finally describe its terrible reality.

No artist's skill can represent even a flame of consequence.

The awful truth exceeds description.

The lost are eternally ashamed to behold the deserts of sin!

Sin...

Although sin is death, the sinner need not die.

There is an escape fortress.

There is a medicine to heal these wounds.

Though your sins are as countless as the sands? All of them can disappear.

Is he black as the starless night?

Each can be washed.

The dirt can be all cleaned up.

Debts can be eliminated.

The soul can meet the eye of the Triune God without a single blemish.

There is a way by which the vilest can remain pure.

God's love decreed a plan.

He wanted a ransom and his Son achieved it.

Sin...

Get closer to the incredible view!

Every sin must bear its load of woes.

Every curse must be borne.

Every violation of the holy law must drink every cup of condemnation.

Sin...

Jesus comes to help!

The innocent takes the guilty place.

The God-man represents his chosen flock.

He stands as your complete and perfect sin offering.

He pays in anguish and in blood, the entire debt.

His wrath is borne.

His penalties are paid.

Your sufferings are suffered.

His agonies are agonizingly taken.

The work of salvation requires a multitude of afflictions. Infinite affliction is borne by Him.

His Deity enables him—His humanity qualifies him.

Thus, his sin is fully punished-thus, the elect are fully saved!

SOURCE: PASTOR JOSEMAR BESSA

In the Bible, sin means 'missing the mark'. Sin is transgressing, rebelling, disobeying God, not following his perfect standard. Due to sin, everyone was separated from God and condemned to the sad consequence of death. Sin is the cause why there is evil in the world.

Whoever lives in sin is a slave to sin and does the will of the Devil, the father of sin. Our flesh is weak and subject to error. However, God sent Jesus to free us from sin. Jesus never sinned, but offered himself as payment for our sins.

Now those who receive Jesus as their Savior and live a life separated from evil, are freed from the power of evil. Whoever lives with Christ will no longer be a slave to sin, and will be united again with God!

When you sin, confess and forsake evil, God is faithful and just to forgive and purify your life.

Therefore, think about this: Whoever knows that he should do good and does not do it, commits sin.

James 4:17

Each one, however, is tempted by his own evil desire, being dragged and seduced by it. Then that desire, having conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, after being consummated, brings forth death.

James 1:14-15

Everyone who practices sin transgresses the Law; in fact, sin is the transgression of the Law.

1 John 3:4

If we claim that we are without sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:8-9

We know that the Law is spiritual; I, however, am not, for I was sold as a slave to sin. I don't understand what I do. For I do not do what I wish, but what I hate. And if I do what I don't want, I admit that the Law is good. In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

Romans 7:14-17

When he comes, he will convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment. Of sin, because men do not believe in me;

John 16:8-9

Who hides their sins

does not prosper,

but who confesses them and forsakes them

finds mercy.

Proverbs 28:13

So I acknowledged before you my sin

and I did not cover up my faults.

I said, "I will confess my transgressions,"

to the Lord,

and you forgave the guilt of my sin.

Psalm 32:5

Against you, against you alone, I have sinned

and I did what you reproached,

so that just is your sentence

and you are right to condemn me. I know I'm a sinner since I was born;

yes, since my mother conceived me. I know that you desire the truth in your heart;

and in my heart you teach me wisdom. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;

wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me hear again joy and gladness,

and the bones you have crushed will rejoice. Hide the face of my sins

and blot out all my iniquities.

Psalms 51:4-9

We are like the unclean - all of us!

All our acts of righteousness

they are like filthy rags.

We wither like leaves,

and like the wind our iniquities

take us away.

Isaiah 64:6

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:23

Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

John 8:34

Whoever practices sin is of the Devil, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this the Son of God was manifested: to destroy the works of the Devil.

1 John 3:8

For your name's sake, Lord,

forgive my sin, which is so great!

Psalm 25:11

how happy is that

who has his transgressions forgiven

and your sins blotted out!

Psalm 32:1

If you do good, won't you be accepted? But if you don't, know that sin threatens you at the door; he wants to conquer you, but you must dominate him".

Genesis 4:7

Who can discern his own mistakes?

Absolve me of what I don't know!

Psalm 19:12

So now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life has set me free from the law of sin and death.

Romans 8:1-2

She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."

Matthew 1:21

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

2 Corinthians 5:21

"When you get angry, do not sin". Appease their wrath before the sun goes down

Ephesians 4:26

"If your brother sins against you, go and, alone with him, show him his fault. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

Matthew 18:15

Therefore, do not allow sin to continue to dominate your mortal body, making you obey your desires. Do not offer your body members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; rather offer yourselves to God as those who have returned from death to life; and offer your body members to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace. And then? Are we going to sin because we are not under law but under grace? In no way! Don't you know that when you offer yourself to someone to obey him as a slave, you become slaves to the one you obey: slaves of sin that leads to death, or of obedience that leads to righteousness? But thank God that, although you were slaves to sin, you came to obey from your heart the form of teaching that was given to you. You were freed from sin and became slaves to righteousness.

Romans 6:12-18

Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other to be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

James 5:16

Brethren, if anyone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual must gently restore him. But let each one of you take care that you are not tempted either. Bear one another's heavy burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:1-2

But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Matthew 18:6

We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not reach him.

1 John 5:18

If you forgive someone's sins, they are forgiven; if you don't forgive them, you won't be forgiven".

John 20:23

But now that you have been freed from sin and become God's slaves, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the end of it is eternal life.

Romans 6:22