SIN HAS CONSEQUENCES
God is good. God is a good God.
However, the goodness of God won’t erase the fact that sin has consequences.
In John 8:1-11, a woman is caught in adultery and she is brought to Jesus by religious leaders and Pharisees.
The religious leaders and Pharisees had their own agenda which intended on trapping Jesus on the issue.
However, Jesus manages to save the women against her accusers. There are many sermons discussing the story.
I am only going to discuss it from one angle that focuses on verse 11 where God said: ‘Go and sin no more.’
In John 5:1-15, Jesus tells an invalid he had healed : ‘stop sinning or something worse might happen to you.’
In both instances, Jesus clearly told the two to stop sinning. We know that God is good and He accepts us as we come to Him in a sinful state. However, nowhere in the Bible it is said that we have to remain in a sinful state.
Nowhere the Bible states that God will be comfortable with a sin that we would not want to let go.
Some people use their church attendance, their tithing, their service in the church and many other activities they do for the church as an excuse to justify or blanket their sin.
In both instances, Jesus tells the two individuals to stop sinning. One of the reasons why He is telling them to stop was to prevent them from falling in a disastrous consequence that would lead to a worsening situation.
Very often, people omit to preach the fact that ‘sin has consequences’. Of course, there will be instances where a repentant sinner will be able escape consequences through God’s grace. But it won’t always be the case.
Sin has consequences. Those consequences can even stay long after a person has repented.
In my life, I have seen people genuinely repenting from their sins but the consequences of their sins remained. We have to think about those things.
I have seen people who genuinely repented from their sins. However,they never returned to where their lives were before the sin.
I do believe in restoration and I do believe in complete eradication of some sinful consequences. I say ‘some’ because many sinful consequences will not be eradicated especially when it involves justice retribution (e.g: prison sentence for some form of abuse,etc…). Let’s be grown up about it.
I am gonna speak from the heart and with wisdom on this: ‘one of the biggest issues with sinful consequences is that it may (I mean it may) in some cases take resources,time and energy that should have been spent elsewhere, even after genuine repentance.’
As I write this, I sense that there is somebody or a number of people thinking about doing something very stupid and sinful.
This is my question to them: ‘Do you want to deal with the consequences of the sin?’
However, the goodness of God won’t erase the fact that sin has consequences.
In John 8:1-11, a woman is caught in adultery and she is brought to Jesus by religious leaders and Pharisees.
The religious leaders and Pharisees had their own agenda which intended on trapping Jesus on the issue.
However, Jesus manages to save the women against her accusers. There are many sermons discussing the story.
I am only going to discuss it from one angle that focuses on verse 11 where God said: ‘Go and sin no more.’
In John 5:1-15, Jesus tells an invalid he had healed : ‘stop sinning or something worse might happen to you.’
In both instances, Jesus clearly told the two to stop sinning. We know that God is good and He accepts us as we come to Him in a sinful state. However, nowhere in the Bible it is said that we have to remain in a sinful state.
Nowhere the Bible states that God will be comfortable with a sin that we would not want to let go.
Some people use their church attendance, their tithing, their service in the church and many other activities they do for the church as an excuse to justify or blanket their sin.
In both instances, Jesus tells the two individuals to stop sinning. One of the reasons why He is telling them to stop was to prevent them from falling in a disastrous consequence that would lead to a worsening situation.
Very often, people omit to preach the fact that ‘sin has consequences’. Of course, there will be instances where a repentant sinner will be able escape consequences through God’s grace. But it won’t always be the case.
Sin has consequences. Those consequences can even stay long after a person has repented.
In my life, I have seen people genuinely repenting from their sins but the consequences of their sins remained. We have to think about those things.
I have seen people who genuinely repented from their sins. However,they never returned to where their lives were before the sin.
I do believe in restoration and I do believe in complete eradication of some sinful consequences. I say ‘some’ because many sinful consequences will not be eradicated especially when it involves justice retribution (e.g: prison sentence for some form of abuse,etc…). Let’s be grown up about it.
I am gonna speak from the heart and with wisdom on this: ‘one of the biggest issues with sinful consequences is that it may (I mean it may) in some cases take resources,time and energy that should have been spent elsewhere, even after genuine repentance.’
As I write this, I sense that there is somebody or a number of people thinking about doing something very stupid and sinful.
This is my question to them: ‘Do you want to deal with the consequences of the sin?’