From today on I will be posting a little paragraph from the book SIN & REPENTANCE. Since many don't have the book, this way all of you will be able to read and at the same time offering to God your time ok..
Once you have read you ARE TO LEAVE YOUR COMMENT ON THE COMMENT BOX AND EXPLAIN WHAT YOU UNDERSTOOD, what you took for you ok, each comment I will give 50 points for your group.
Chapter 1
SIN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Although sin is defined as breaking the law, as it's written, "whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness" (1 John 3.4), to understand the true meaning of sin we must delve deeper into the subject. Sin is disobedience - voluntary or involuntary - to the Word of God. We see a clear example of sin in the garden of eden, When Adam refused to obey the Word of God and chose to obey the word of the devil instead.
We become servants of him whose voice we obey. as consequence, when we obey God we submit to
Him, but when we disobey the Lord we automatically obey the devil, submitting to him and falling into sin.
When a person rejects the Word of God, he becomes easy prey for the devil and consciously or unconsciously begins to obey him. In other words, a sinner is like a son whose father struggled to bring him up, and upon reaching adulthood refused to honour his father and chose rather to honour and obey his father's worst enemy. Would this be fair?
How Does Sin Come About?
Sinning is simple and easy, and sinners usually justify their behaviour by saying it was unintentional, that they were not being careful or that they were caught at a bad moment. But excuse like these are lies and make a person's situation even worse because they revel a truly unrepentant attitude.
As a matter of fact, there is no involuntary sin. Every human act involves a person's will and attention, without which responsibility cannot exits.
When a person commits a sin, he does so out of his own free will, as it's written, "No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it" (1 Corinthians 10.13).
This means that no one is tempted beyond his ability to resist. What really happens is that, like a seed sown in the heart, sin gradually develops until it bears its "fruits".
The devil continually tempts people in very subtle ways. He offers them things that are pleasing to the eye, as he did to Eve, who, after hearing his words, began to study the forbidden fruit in details. The Bible says, "So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings" (Genesis 3.6).
To be continued tomorrow don't miss...
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