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Sin the Deceptive Destructive Power

Sin: Cambridge Dictionary
the offense of breaking, or the breaking of, a religious or moral law:
commit a sin I have committed a sin, for which I humbly apologize.
confess a sin We confess our sins to you, O God, and ask for your forgiveness.
He thinks a lot about sin.
[ + to infinitive ] informal I think it's a sin(= is morally wrong) to waste food, when so many people in the world are hungry.
Humorous For my sins (= as if it were a punishment), I'm organizing the office party this year.

Normal is a disease of sin; it is when human normalize something that so powerful which should be a fundamental truth for every person that lives; you than know it is deceptions at its worse.

What is the one thing missing in Cambridge Dictionary definition of sin?

Hebrews 9:22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

What is sin, honestly what is sin? Is it a word that means a person made a mistake or is it judgments we put on each other because people don’t meet are standards? Is sin a law, is sin real, does it even matter?

WHAT IS THE BIBLICAL VIEW OF SIN?

Christian’s foremost should have a rock-solid understanding of sin why? Because sin is the house that the entire bible is built upon and for; did you know that?

Why did God YHWH sent his Son Christ Jesus into our world? What was the Good news the angels sing; the message given to Mary, to God’s people at the birth of Christ Jesus?

Matt.1:20 But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
1:21 She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins."

Acts 5:31 God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

John 1:29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

God sent his Son for what purposes? A better life? A better marriage, a better job, for us to be a better person, what is the Good News? It is to save us from our sins! What value do we place upon the long awaited purpose of God? Yes, thousands of years in the making not even the prophets had their sins removed once for all times. The very power of God is expressed in His removal of our sins!
Hebrews 9:26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

So what is sin? Can we human forgive sin?

Human cannot forgive sin, did you know that? They believe they can and claim to do so daily. But which one of us can redeem a brother, that is, another human being. If we so boast we forgive a person sins does that mean the person we forgave gets eternal life? Does its mean that God has forgiven the person sin?

Psalms 49:7 none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

Our forgiving someones sin does not put away their sins as if we are their redeemer and the blood of Christ. Our forgiving sins is a token gesture of our own appreciation for God’s forgiveness of our sins, it is for our own peace & the person we forgave.

Humans do not forgive “freely”; just try and you will quickly find we cannot blot out a person sin from our hearts and minds. Thus, we perform a perfunctory forgiveness based upon works of law.

Forgiveness sins debt is by the person action, doing works that prove they are paying back the debt. But we human’s do not havr grace or unmerited kindness. Religion has the same type of debt forgiveness because it was created by sinful human’s thinking in terms of sin debt forgiveness by actions, works! So religion can’t understand God’s complete once for all time forgiveness of our sins never to be remember again, forever!

Micah 7:19 He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Christ Jesus contrast human forgiveness with God’s undeserved kindness towards sinner for Peter:

Matt.18:21 Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"
18:22 Jesus said to him, "I don't tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.

According to God’s word found in our bibles only God has the power to forgive our sins, but why? First and foremost, God does not sin, God cannot sin, God cannot directly deal with sinners nor communicate with sinners, sin is not his creation; did you know that?

James. 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
1:14 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
1:15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

If those statements are true, that is, the truth from God, who is the truth then all people born into sin are dead to God for eternal life. In other words, God is eternal life He can’t be less, so our eternal must come from God’s eternal life that is according to our bibles; It comes from our being able to communicate with God’s by his Holy Spirit, which is also eternal life!

But how does sin communicate with God who is eternal it does not!

Ephesians 2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

Furthermore, without communication with God we fall into error (sin is darkness of error about God), about God and his purpose. You see, God is not an intellectual pursuit we cannot know God unless our sins are forgiven or can we commune with him by Holy Spirit that teaches us all things about God.

1Cor. 2:6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
2:7 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
2:8 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.

The greatest thing we human can receive from God is the redemption from our sins; so we can commune with God, which are the treasures in heaven Christ Jesus spoke about.

Luke 12:33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

First Human Sin!

Why are we talking about the first human sin? Simply because rebellious spirit son’s of God had already sinned against God, before human fell into sin! Sin for Adam and Eve was a CUTTING OFF FROM GOD, never forget that. Cutting off from God meant death, there was no coming back from sin for them or the human race coming out of them. In other words, sin could not just be fixed with a magic wand like we human believes sins can be fixed by saying “I forgive you”.

Romans 8:10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

Sin caused irreparable damage that only God could fixes as the creator of all humans. Death entire into humans causing a string of problems; diseases, sorrow, pain, destroying them spiritually.

Sin caused a war between light, God, and darkness in all humans and wicked spirit son’s of God, against a person own flesh (sin) and the Spirit of God; sin created two opposing parties, one light the other darkness, where one party will have to perish and be removed from our world and universe, before God can live in Spirit among mankind like he did with Adam and Eve before their fall into sin. Then people will have peace where death, disease and pain will be no more!

Once something new is broken it is no longer new, it is broke even if we could fix it some what and make it work. Broken cannot be sold as new, such would be a lie and a deception to the buyer only proving the seller is a con and themselves and a broken sinner.

Adam was a new perfect life his fall into sin broke his perfect new life into darkness of sin. He could never be made new again nothing within his broken life gave him the power to make himself new without sin again.

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

To redeem the human race God must pay the price that is so high no living thing in heaven or on earth had the power to paid that price. Only God who created sinless life could provide a sinless life to pay the price to save the world.

God had the power to create Adam, he also had the power to create a second Adam to start a new human race without sin!

Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

1 Corinthians 15:45 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul."{Genesis 2:7} The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

The Destructive Deceptive Power of Sin!

Sin left in the hands of humans and wicked spirit force cut us off from God; it creates a powerful deception that leaves us in darkness while claiming we are in the light. The deception of sin has created a world wide empire of false religion called Babylon the Great she has made herself shamefully rich off of boasting she holds the key of redeems sin.

Revelation 17:4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.

Sin can never be in the light nor the light, for that reason Babylon is called a mystery because she is darkness but makes the world believe she is God’s light; she is the lurking place of unclean sinful humans and demons but she titles herself as the light to a world while be in darkness from God.

Revelation 18:2 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

Babylon hold the infamous title of having the blood of all the righteous saint in her that she has destroyed to cover up her massive sins for those drinking the wine of dilution that she feeds to all the nations of our earth.

Revelation 17:6 I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

She masterfully enslaves the human race in the name of God and Christ Jesus by her deception in forgiveness of sins transforming herself into the Christ Jesus the perfect sinless lamb of God. Let us understand a vital point that the churches of Babylon can never teach you light of Christ, or can they understand God’s love because they exist in sin and darkness.

1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Once we are in sin, that is, we are born into sin, we all sin and fall short of God’s glory, we are not God’s children. In that state there is only one way God provides for forgiveness of sin. Babylon present another way; do we know what that is?

Salvation by good works, did we hear that? Babylon sells her salvation by good works. That is why she is such a mystery and deception to the world.

Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

The salvation God present to the human race is not by them doing good works. No person will ever get out of sin by their good works, or a combination of both saying: “I accept Christ Jesus and here our my good works to prove I am gaining salvation”!

God gives us salvation we do not gain it by works!

Salvation for us has nothing to do with mankind's works it is totally, and completely God’s work, our being in sin means we are dead to God and any work that God accepts; not just a little or a whole lot, but dead, nothing in a dead body can works good or bad! God provides salvation by his own works at a price no human could every supply good or bad, great or small. God provides us salvation by paying the price we cannot pay we are dead to God in sin; God pays for our sin by the precious life of eternal righteous soul of his own Son Christ Jesus.

Galatians 2:16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

A soul that did not sin meaning he is eternal life; that price is so precious God will bring the world to an end for that one life precious eternal life of His son. Every thing that fall short of Christ Jesus redemptive blood of his soul is slavery to sin!

No person place or thing has any right to make themselves the go between God and man by doling out the blood of Christ through doctrine of teachings, position, education, privilege, wealth or calling themselves priest, preacher, teacher, leader, or any other name under the Sun, period!

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Matt.23:8 But don't you be called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
23:9 Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.
23:10 Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.
23:11 But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

Babylon has coined the word “Grace’ that holds the thought of half human efforts and half God’s effort for our salvation. In other words, man’s own will is subjected through man self-control and God’s Holy Spirit making their works holy and acceptable to God.

Rom. 7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.
7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

Rom. 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

Remember it is in Babylon that her sins have massive up into the heavens when God calls her evil acts of injustice to mind. There is no human righteousness in Christ Jesus it is his own righteous, thus, it is not our righteousness; it is after our redemption of sins that we’re given Christ Jesus righteousness not our own, nor is it be any work we have done good or bad

It is by God by God’s works given us by His unmerited kindness. God undeserved kindness towards us who are dead in our sins. At that point our sins are gone once for all time never to be looked at or brought up again because we are part of Christ Jesus living eternal life that never sinned!

2 Timothy 4:8 From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Philippians 3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

Philippians 1:11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Once man was factor into Christ Jesus who is the unleavened bread of God, the yeast of human sin corrupts God’s kingdom false representatives claiming they could forgive sins created a counterfeit kingdom called Babylon the Great.

1 Corinthians 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Galatians 5:9 A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

Luke 13:18 He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it?
13:19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches."
13:20 Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God?
13:21 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures{literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel} of flour, until it was all leavened."
13:22 He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.
13:23 One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are saved?" He said to them,
13:24 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

Salvation is not a Re-due of Human Race!

There has been an endless debates over who Christ Jesus was before emptying himself and coming to earth as God’s Salvation for the sin of the human race.

Those debating miss the point! Accepting Christ is not an intellectual debate; God’s Son became a “New Creation”! The old thing had past away.

In other words, the old things are not the focus point the target it is rather the removing of sin once for all times by a new creation that count which is the new human race without sin.

In Christ we are dead, gone all things old we are new the start of a new creation, a new heavens and new earth, listen to what the spirit says not our old flesh dead to God but what the Spirit says to the congregation which is not the spirit of error found in the endless debates of Babylon the Great the city of confusion with over 50-thousand sects, divisions of Christian religions.

Titus 3:7 Do not get involved in foolish discussions about spiritual pedigrees or in quarrels and fights about obedience to Jewish laws. These things are useless and a waste of time.

But abstain from foolish debates, from tales of genealogies, from contentions and from the contests of The Scribes, for there is no profit in them and such things are worthless.

The Spirit says:

Revelation 21:1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
Revelation 21:5 He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."

God is not doing a renovation of the old creation he is killing for us and him. God need nothing not one thing from mankind creation under sin, he didn’t consult with human upon creating them and our universe, he did not set into plan a more perfect union that would perfect itself from sin and doubt overtime.

Such evil and false reasoning is how Satan the Devil has mislead the entire world and all of its people and government, religion and commerce.

Isa.40:13 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him as his counselor?
40:14 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
40:15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

Christ Jesus The Pattern of All Children of God who born into Producing the Fruits of Christ Jesus Righteousness.

Christ Jesus the new creation who’s fruits are new producing eternal life for those partaking of them. What part of new is old? None of it, new is not old, listen to what the Spirit says to the congregation?

Revelation 21:1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

God new does not stall at the gate like a show trial, God’s new is off running and completed before mankind has a clue of what new actually means.

New is the end of sin, the end of old, new is ruling from the new Jerusalem who birth’s sinless children, not some church group or organization and certainly not Babylon the Great; new is Christ rulership over a new earth and new heaven, which God’s holiness has cleansed by fire of Christ righteousness without sin.

Hebrews 12:29 for our God is a consuming fire.{Deuteronomy 4:24}

1 Peter 1:7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ--

2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Upon Christ Jesus death in his flesh God resurrected him, God recreated him into his likeness, what is God’s likeness. God is incorruptible, God has never been in sin, or tempted by sin, he can’t be because he is incorruptible which mean every thought every action coming from God is life; death does not exist in God that is why he is always new, fresh, giving.

That is why God and Christ have no sin, death, pain, sorrow sickness or any works of the flesh in them.

In conclusion:

1. God does not deal with sin like religion, or humans do!

2. God kills the power of sin in us once for all times, not many times over years as we struggle in sin.

3. God’s salvation from sin is instant it is not doled out by our good works.

4.) God does not use humans to forgive sin; God must forgive our sins by his legal channel of Christ Jesus.

5.) Although we struggle in our flesh against sin God does not account our sins they are legally paid for and are dead to God forever.

6.) The righteousness of Christ in us, not our own righteous it is Christ righteousness in us that battles against the sinful power of our flesh that he uses to refine our faith into pure gold for God’s glory.

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Please note there are a number of writing on jwsstraighttalk that deals with this subject of sin such as: Not the Putting Away of the Filth of Our Flesh.

There is a search box type in the subject.

Completed: February 05, 2024

by: Daniel a Slave in Christ Jesus