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“For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”
Romans 5:19 KJV
Today marks the beginning of a very special week here on Mornings With Jesus, which I am calling SIN week: Learning to overcome sin with the Son, S O N!
As we launch off into sin week, it’s important for us to know what sin is and how it got here in the first place.
To answer that first part,
According to the Bible, sin is transgression against the law.
However, the Bible also says sin is not charged against anyone where there is no law.
Now the law did not come about until the time of Moses, but we know that the effects of sin were felt way before Moses, right after Adam and Eve disobeyed God.
They were kicked out of the garden of Eden and so much evil persisted from that time on…
There was so much evil that God destroyed all mankind save Noah and his family in the flood.
With all that said, there seems to be a contradiction at play:
If sin doesn’t exist without the law, why would God bring the law to mankind?
The simple answer is this:
the Law was given as a gracious act of God to show mankind their depravity, to show them their need for a savior! The Law was given to show mankind the reason for the death and destruction that was reigning on the inside of them, of us!
Now I actually posed this question to the Lord and He gave me an awesome illustration to better drive home the fact of how gracious of an act it was that God would bring the law to us.
Let’s suppose you have something lodged deep in your throat, a quack toy of some kind. You have no idea how it got there, it happened to fall in your mouth one day while you were napping and lodged itself there. Ever since that time, when the moment is just right, you make a squeeking sound. This has been getting steadily worse and yet you have no idea where it is coming from or what is causing it!
One day, someone comes along, a doctor, and says, “I think I know what may be causing this, come to my office and let me perform an Xray!”
Relunctantly you agree to go. While there however, the Xray snaps a photo of what is going on inside your throat!
It becomes quite clear that there is something lodged in there! Upon closer examination, you find that of all things it is a small quack toy belonging to your child!
Apparently, while you were napping away in your chair, your child was playing on your lap and stuck this toy down your throat!
Within this story, the child represents Adam and Eve. They were playing around with the toy that God told them not to mess with and it lodged itself deep within the heart of mankind!
The Bible says, by one man’s disobedience, sin entered the world!
But it doesn’t stop there! Although it very well could have. God could have just left us in our mess. After all, we were the ones to forsake Him and His command, not the other way around!
Instead, in His lovingkindness, He came along with His Xray machine, the law, and presented it to Moses, of all people, a murderer wandering in the desert!
What an awesome God we serve, who instead of utterly forsaking us, not only showed us an Xray of what was going on inside of us, the sin problem, but also became sin for us to loose the pangs of death, Hell, and the grave!
In this first episode of sin week, SIN-gular, it is vitally inportant that we realize that God is so kind!
It was a singular act of disobedience that thwarted mankind into the depths of despair called sin, BUT praise be to God Almighty, because it was His singular act of Love sacrificing Himself for all mankind that provided a way for us to be free from the chains of sin!
Listen,
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By Joshua Scott Zeitz“For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”
Romans 5:19 KJV
Today marks the beginning of a very special week here on Mornings With Jesus, which I am calling SIN week: Learning to overcome sin with the Son, S O N!
As we launch off into sin week, it’s important for us to know what sin is and how it got here in the first place.
To answer that first part,
According to the Bible, sin is transgression against the law.
However, the Bible also says sin is not charged against anyone where there is no law.
Now the law did not come about until the time of Moses, but we know that the effects of sin were felt way before Moses, right after Adam and Eve disobeyed God.
They were kicked out of the garden of Eden and so much evil persisted from that time on…
There was so much evil that God destroyed all mankind save Noah and his family in the flood.
With all that said, there seems to be a contradiction at play:
If sin doesn’t exist without the law, why would God bring the law to mankind?
The simple answer is this:
the Law was given as a gracious act of God to show mankind their depravity, to show them their need for a savior! The Law was given to show mankind the reason for the death and destruction that was reigning on the inside of them, of us!
Now I actually posed this question to the Lord and He gave me an awesome illustration to better drive home the fact of how gracious of an act it was that God would bring the law to us.
Let’s suppose you have something lodged deep in your throat, a quack toy of some kind. You have no idea how it got there, it happened to fall in your mouth one day while you were napping and lodged itself there. Ever since that time, when the moment is just right, you make a squeeking sound. This has been getting steadily worse and yet you have no idea where it is coming from or what is causing it!
One day, someone comes along, a doctor, and says, “I think I know what may be causing this, come to my office and let me perform an Xray!”
Relunctantly you agree to go. While there however, the Xray snaps a photo of what is going on inside your throat!
It becomes quite clear that there is something lodged in there! Upon closer examination, you find that of all things it is a small quack toy belonging to your child!
Apparently, while you were napping away in your chair, your child was playing on your lap and stuck this toy down your throat!
Within this story, the child represents Adam and Eve. They were playing around with the toy that God told them not to mess with and it lodged itself deep within the heart of mankind!
The Bible says, by one man’s disobedience, sin entered the world!
But it doesn’t stop there! Although it very well could have. God could have just left us in our mess. After all, we were the ones to forsake Him and His command, not the other way around!
Instead, in His lovingkindness, He came along with His Xray machine, the law, and presented it to Moses, of all people, a murderer wandering in the desert!
What an awesome God we serve, who instead of utterly forsaking us, not only showed us an Xray of what was going on inside of us, the sin problem, but also became sin for us to loose the pangs of death, Hell, and the grave!
In this first episode of sin week, SIN-gular, it is vitally inportant that we realize that God is so kind!
It was a singular act of disobedience that thwarted mankind into the depths of despair called sin, BUT praise be to God Almighty, because it was His singular act of Love sacrificing Himself for all mankind that provided a way for us to be free from the chains of sin!
Listen,