The evils of sin

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and spiritual blessings of submission</A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#0000BF" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>Church of God, In Truth</B></div> <div> <A HREF="faith_and_patience.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Faith and Patience">Faith and Patience</A></div> <div> <A HREF="the_gifts_of_the_maji_and_ou.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Gifts of the Maji and our Destiny">The Gifts of the Maji and our Destiny</A></div> <div> <A HREF="solomons_wisdom.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Balanced Outlook on Live!">A Balanced Outlook on Live!</A></div> <div> <A HREF="what_is_truth.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What is Truth?">What is Truth?</A></div> <div> <A HREF="satans_snare.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Satans Snares">Satan's Snares</A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="are_you_ready_for_the_return.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Are you ready for the return of Christ?">Are you ready for the return of Christ?</A></div> <div> <A HREF="readers_corner___september_2.htm" TARGET="_top" 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<div> <A HREF="id387.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Understand Gods Healing Plan">Understand God's Healing Plan</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id386.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Feed Gods Household">Feed God's Household</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id382.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Religion could not save us">Religion could not save us</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id381.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Know Thyself">Know Thyself</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id380.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Fear Factor">Fear Factor</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id378.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Accountability">Accountability</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id374.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Why they will fight Christ at his coming">Why they will fight Christ at his coming</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id373.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Most High rules in the Kingdom of Ma">The Most High rules in the Kingdom of Man</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id372.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sharing Gods Word">Sharing God's Word</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id371.htm" TARGET="_top" 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Rich Man</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id359.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Keep Gods Sabbath Holy">Keep God's Sabbath Holy</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id358.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jesus Christ, The PassoverThe WavesheafT">Jesus Christ, The Passover---The Wavesheaf--The Firstfruit</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id357.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wave sheaf">Wave sheaf</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id356.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Let no man take your crown">Let no man take your crown</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id355.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gods three appointed harvests">God's three appointed harvests</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id343.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Modern day Israel">Modern day Israel</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id339.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Planting of America">The Planting of America</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id342.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Where is God?">Where is God?</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id344.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The power of words">The power of words</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id340.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Promises of the fifth commandment">Promises of the fifth commandment</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id341.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Out of Egypt I called my son">Out of Egypt I called my son</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id345.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=". . . and my People love to have it so!">. . . and my People love to have it so!</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id347.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Betrayal of Christ">The Betrayal of Christ</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id348.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Purpose of Gods Law!">Purpose of God's Law!</A></div> <div> <B>The evils of sin</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id350.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="He who overcomes">He who overcomes</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id351.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sharing Gods word">Sharing God's word</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id352.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Out of Egypt I called my son">Out of Egypt I called my son</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id318.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="GODS HOLY DAY OFFERINGS">GOD'S HOLY DAY OFFERINGS</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id320.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Time to count">Time to count</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id323.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Trumpet of God">Trumpet of God</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id324.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="To forgive is divine">To forgive is divine</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id325.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Overcoming bad habits">Overcoming bad habits</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id328.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Little Fock">Little Fock</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id329.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Government in Gods Church">Government in God's Church</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id330.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HWA Radio Transcript 1979">HWA Radio Transcript 1979</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id333.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Is God speaking to us?">Is God speaking to us?</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id334.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Do you believe God?">Do you believe God?</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id335.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Warnings and Exhortation">Warnings and Exhortation</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id336.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Righteous Judgment">Righteous Judgment</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id337.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The physical and spiritual blessings of ">The physical and spiritual blessings of submission</A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=380 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>The evils of sin</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> “THE EVILS OF SIN”</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> We are reminded in Leviticus 23, “These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's Passover.  And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of Unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days you must eat unleavened bread. In the first day you shall have an holy convocation: you shall do no servile work therein. But you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: you shall do no servile work therein” (Lev. 23:4-8<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >).</FONT></div> <div>      <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Leaven is used in scripture as a metaphor for sin.   It is one of the most common ingredients on the face of the earth.   So is sin! Leaven puffs up .  So does sin! God uses the days of unleavened bread as a memory aid to make us conscious of sin. Whenever a little bit of sin in a person or church is permitted, looked over and compromised with, then this  sin will work  like leaven in bread, it will eventually leaven the whole lump, leaven the whole church , leaven the whole world.       </FONT></div> <div>      We are living in a "politically correct" society today where everyone  is afraid to step on anyone toes.  So, <B>not much </B>is said about sin and God's laws anymore.  Most are afraid they might offend someone or keep someone from attending Sabbath services with them.</div> <div>      God's word has a great deal to say about the leavening of  sin and law.  When rooting out the meaning of sin, it  literally means "missing the mark."  God has set up His target [His guidelines and laws];  and  whenever we miss His target or mark, we sin against Him and we break His laws.</div> <div>      Let's consider what sin is and does, knowing that sin is the  transgression of the law of God. “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law” (1 John 3:4). </div> <div>      We will address several areas of sin and God's laws.  1.) Sin is a divider.  “Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear: but your iniquities [lawless-ness] have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear” (Isa. 59:1-2).  Sin divides, breaks up, or cuts off our fellowship with God.  </div> <div>      2.)  Sin separated man from God in the garden of Eden. Sin separated the Israelites from God.  And even today, sin and law breaking continues to separate men from their Creator.  Sin and breaking of God's  law not only separates man from God, it also separates  families.  Think of what the sin of adultery has done to marriages.  Think of what the sin of drugs  has done to destroy relationships with friends and their families.</div> <div>      3.) Sin also divides brethren. Look what the Apostle  Paul's says about how a carnal attitude prevents spiritual growth. “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.  I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for to this time you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able. For you are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are </div> <div> you not carnal, and walk as men?” (1 Cor. 3:1-3).</div> <div>      The tragic thing about the Corinthians was that they still had not grown spiritually enough to receive deeper truth  from the Apostle Paul.  Envying, strife, carnality  and divisions are at the root of most church problems and all come under the heading of sin.  Someone once said about a church problem, "The wicked sin, break laws  and the righteous suffer."  That is often true regarding church problems.</div> <div>      4.)  The evils of sin is- Sin is a destroyer!  We are all aware of the clear message in  Romans 6.  “For the wages of sin [breaking God's laws] is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom 6:23).  </div> <div>      Jesus Christ alone has acquired eternal life and this same eternal life is offered to all  who find redemption in His blood.  This is brought to our attention every year at Passover.  The Apostle Paul writes of a comparison between the effects of Adam's sin and the effects of Christ's redemption.  “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Rom 5:12).  And then in Verses 18-19, “Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”</div> <div>      By Adams disobedience to God's commands, many were made sinners, so also by Christ's obedience to the Father, many who trust Him are declared righteous.  Once Adam and Eve sinned, God designed a plan to bring man from his sinful carnal human level- to the God level of thinking and existing.  <B>This is where the Old Testament and the New Testament work together</B>:  Expressing physical laws and spiritual laws! The New Testament  magnifying many of the Old Testament laws.</div> <div>      The Bible is one complete book- with God being its author. The Old and New Testaments supports one another.  Breaking God's laws as written is a sin.  Christ said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am <B>not</B> come to destroy [to abolish, to annul],  but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle  shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.  Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least Commandments, and shall teach men [mans traditions] so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 5:17-19).  </div> <div>      God created His laws for all of us, so we can literally become Gods!!  This offends many people when they hear that said.   Read what the Apostle John wrote.  “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew Him not.  Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.  And every man that has this hope in Him purifies himself, even as He is pure” (1 John 3:1-3).    This means we are to be removing sin [leavening]) out of our life, if we are to remain being called “sons of God.”</div> <div>      The people of this world do not understand us nor the way we behave and do things, just as the world did not understand Jesus Christ when He was here on earth.</div> <div>      In one of David's prayers he prayed, “As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Your likeness” (Psa. 17:15).  David believed in the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead and the reality of having a  future life.  Jesus Christ carries on with David's thought. There we read of Christ's close relationship with God the Father and how the Jews two months before the feast of Tabernacles, picked up stones and were tempted to kill Christ because of this same understanding.  “I and My Father are one.  Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.  Jesus answered them, many good works have I showed you from My Father; for which of those works do you stone Me? The Jews answered Him, saying, for a good work we stone You not; but for blasphemy; and because that You, being a man, makest yourself God.  Jesus answered them, is it not <B>written</B> in your law,<B> I said</B>, you are gods?” (John 10:30-34).  Where did God inspire this to be written before?  One place is in the Psalm of Asaph.  “I have said, you are gods; and all of you are children of the most High” (Psa. 82:6).  </div> <div>      It is in God's plan to reproduce Himself through human beings.  We are made in God's  image.  In the book of Genesis, we read- God the Father and Jesus Christ carrying on a conversation about who's image they will create man in!  “Then God [Elohim, plural more than one God] said, let Us make man in Our image,  after Our likeness: So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them” (Gen. 1:26-27).  </div> <div>      We know the story of Adam and Eve and how their sin of disobeying God's direct command, <B>not to</B> <B>eat</B> of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  Because of their sin, man has been following their  bad example down through history!  This  is the reason why  Jesus Christ had to come in sinless flesh,  to chart the path, by example, for mankind to follow.  Jesus Christ paid the ultimate sacrifice for our sins! We are reminded of this yearly at the Passover service.</div> <div>      The Torah, God's law and curriculum that leads us from point A to point B-charts  mans course toward the light of God's truth.  We are reminded by Christ, “It is written, that man shall not live by bread alone, but by<B> every word of God” </B>(Luke 4:4).  These words of God are found in the New Testament and the Old Testament.  “Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the <B>apostles ( New Testament ) and prophets, [Old Testament], Jesus Christ </B>Himself being the chief corner stone [<B>author]</B>” (Eph. 2:19-20). The apostles learned from the prophets of old, just as we must learn from both the prophets and the apostles.   We can not think in terms of getting the cart ahead of the horse!   If we do we will jack knife and we will go nowhere!  </div> <div>      Jesus Christ was sent in the flesh as the messenger to introduce God the Father and to be the first born of the future first fruits.  Many sceptics do not believe that!  They reject Jesus as the Messiah- their savior.  John tells us  to search the scriptures for they testify of Christ.  “Search the scriptures; [ N.T.& O. T.]  for in them you  have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me” (John 5:39).  </div> <div>      We must prove Christ by bringing Him through the door of the Old Testament. Notice further, what Christ told the Pharisees during His earthly ministry.  “For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed Me: for he wrote of Me.  But if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe My words?”(John 5:46 -47).  This is talking about the Torah, God's laws in the first 5 books of the Bible.  If we today, cannot know and believe the things Moses wrote to be true-How can we believe Christ's words to be true?     </div> <div>      When doing more curriculum comparing:  Isaiah, in the Old Testament proves that Jesus Christ  was  the son of God and the Messiah, the Saviour. “Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel” (Isa. 7:14).   We see Christ was to have a human mother, but not a human father!  And His name was to be “Immanuel,” translated means, “God with us.”</div> <div> <I>“Emmanuel” was not so much a personal name, as it was a title descriptive of His mission:  “ For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace”</I></div> <div> <I>                                           (Isa. 9:6).</I></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>