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Post date: Jan 14, 2017 5:13:20 AM
Sin is not like wearing the wrong t-shirt or having incorrect table manners, sin is like having incurable bone cancer. The only way to get rid of the disease is to kill the host.
Because we were born in sin and our parents lived in sin we don't really see it it as a problem. The clearest evidence to fallen man that something is badly wrong is death. Despite us thinking that we are good people, we all die in the end and our bodies are decaying from day one. This freaks everybody out
Sin is to creation, like a bug is to software
Sin is to creation like AIDS virus is to the human body
Sin is to creation like a scratch is to an INTEL microchip engineer
the aberration in each example above will lead to malfunction and catastrophic failure (death)
the creator in each example above has no choice or inclination than to fix the problem.
The only way to stop sin is to kill the sinner. Behavior modification though good intentions and self-control may hide the damage for a while is some areas but does not fix the root error.
And so God cursed all men to death, simply because death is the only solution for sin.
17 “but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Genesis 2:17
20 “The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
Ezekiel 18:20
As an aside: Satan has his own version of the truth and to this day many people still believe him
4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.
5 “For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3:4-5
Death is the only way to separate sinner form his sin.
The miracle and wonder of the cross is that in Christ God has already killed us, so that we can be dead to sin. This is the supreme miracle of the ages and THIS is what Jesus did for us.
We experience the power of being dead to sin through FAITH and baptism into Jesus Death. This why Jesus died. Resurrection (new creation or born again) follows death by faith in Christ Crucified.
Jesus death to sin on the cross is your death to sin. We access it by faith and baptism.
Those who reject the death on the cross will spend eternity "alive" in the Second Death also know as hell or more accurately Gehenna.
3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.
10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
Romans 6:3-10
19 “For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God.
20 “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
21 “I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”
Galatians 2:19-21
24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 5:24
6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
Romans 7:6
This death to sin and the resurrection that follows it become yours and real and powerful in your life when you BELIEVE IT.
May God the Holy Spirit open our eyes to see what Christ did for us when died to sin in the flesh and set us free form the power of sin.
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