MY FRIENDS, WHAT DEGREE IS YOUR SIN AND DOES IT MATTER?

Nov. 13, 2015

MY FRIENDS, WHAT DEGREE IS YOUR SIN AND DOES IT MATTER?

“Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me…” Ezekiel 16:49-50 (KJV)

As Christians we attempt to explain away the biblical condemnations of one sin over another. Where Sodom and Gomorrah once existed, is now only uninhabited wasteland. A wasteland that should serve as a reminder how God feels about sin in general.

Satan would like for us to think, one sin in Sodom, was greater than the other. Isaiah reminds us in Isaiah 64:6 (KJV) “But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are like filthy rags…….”

God told Jonah to “Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.” After Jonah had a run in with a big fish and finally focused his attention on where God was leading him. Jonah 3:4 (KJV) tells us

“Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; crying out, in “forty days, and Nineveh will be destroyed.” My friends God did not categorize their offenses, or determine their destruction by social class, race gender or sin.

For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, “ So we now go to Jonah 3:5-8 (KJV) “The Ninevites believed God. In addition, a fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth……and a decree was sent out. cry mightily unto God: yea, and let every one turn from his evil way.” Key word my friends, all of them.

The murderers, the fornicators, the thief’s, the lier, the adulterers, those who coveted, those who worshiped other Gods, the glutton, the homosexual, those who used the lords name in vain, even the gossiper.

All repented. and allowed the Holy Spirit full control to reform and restore them into the  image of Christ. The Ninevites did it in 40 days the man on the cross, in an instant. For others it may become a lifetime process.

So let’s not focus on the sin, for all have sinned. But we must focus on when do we give it all to the Master? And when do we wake up and realize the bridegroom will be here at any moment?

And when do we realize, we don’t have enough oil (holy Spirit), and our lamps will soon go out? And when do we as sinners place our life up against the Saviors and see how far we have to go to have the character, mind, and body of Christ?

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven….” My friends I look at the world we live in today and everything is just about in place for Christ second coming and it is happening right during “breaking news.”

But, the good news of the gospel, God’s chosen, must still continue to proclaim it into all the world as a witness to all the nations, because that is God’s will and “Whoever wants to be a disciple of Christ, must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow Him.” Luke 9:23 (KJV) And then the days will become hours and the hours seconds.

“And then the heaven will depart as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.” and we will look up and say “lo this is our God who we have waited for”

My Friends, where there is no vision, the people perish…..Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)