What Ever Happened To Sin?

Having been this morning catching up on the news from the weekend, it is interesting to see how people rationalize their sin. Maybe a definition of what sin really is, would be needed about right now. According to scripture, sin is an act of disobedience against a Holy God. God loved us and gave His only Son to be the sacrifice that was needed for our transgression, that being rejection of His Son in our lives [John 3:16].

In basketball or football terms, there are boundries that the game must be played in. To operate outside those boundries, you cannot play the game.

So it is with God. He set the boundries that we should live in in the first five books of the Bible. Sad to say, we have "lost" God's Word in many of our churches today. How many churches today in this land really rest upon the Word of God and preach it? Although there are still many faithful pastors, there are many who have departed from the faith. They have lost the Bible in church. Remember when Jesus was a boy, Mary and Joseph lost Him in the temple. Believe me, Jesus, as well as the Bible, is lost in the church today.

We also see this in 2 Kings 22, where God's Word was lost but found: And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it [2Kings 22:8].

Then we read, "And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king" [2Kings 22:9-10].

Imagine this! Now Josiah is hearing the Word of God for the first time!

"And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes" [2Kings 22:11].

The message God returns to Josiah through Huldah the prophetess, reveals God's justice.

"Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:

Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched" [2Kings 22:16-17].

When they lost God's Word, they lost the fear of God. And when you loose the fear of God, you lose the fear of sin. Many people think that today, if God sees our sin and doesn't stop us, that it is all right with Him and He has changed His mind. We, in America are setting the stage for the final curtain to go up.

And when it does, it will be a "good day to fly"