Now, not everybody is as bad as they could be. Not everybody is as bad as everybody else. Not everybody is as bad as possible. But everybody is bad enough to be damned to hell. And everybody is incapable of meeting God’s standard. What is God’s standard? To be as morally perfect as God is, and perfectly obedience to his law. If you are not as perfect as God and you’ve ever broken his law, you’re subject to eternal death. Universal death indicates universal sin nature. Universal sin nature implies sinning. Do you understand that? Death implies a sinful nature. Sinful nature implies sinning. Somewhere, somewhere down the road in the past, somebody brought this into the human stream. And we now know who it was. It was — it was that Adam, and his wife Eve. You say, I wish they hadn’t done that. Do you want to know something? If they hadn’t, you would have. So would I. Well, we’ve looked at what is sin, what is it like and who is affected by it. I want to answer a couple more questions next Sunday night.
The fourth question; what does sin do to us? This is really interesting. What does sin do to us? And then lastly: How did sin come to affect us? That’ll take us into the sin of Adam, and we’ll get back to Genesis 3. And when we get into it, you’re going to be fascinated by what is there. Can I close by saying this? Don’t shut down your mental faculties at this moment. I almost feel like I should have preached these sermons today in reverse. I preached on repentance this morning and sin tonight. It really goes the other way, right? This morning, we were asking you to repent. Well, tonight we told you what to repent of. Isn’t it wonderful to know that with all that reality about who we are, God forgives sinners? That is the glory of the gospel.
As you heard in the testimonies so clearly tonight, the glory of the gospel is all of this is true about us, and this is exactly who we are, and this is exactly what we deserve, eternal punishment. But the fact of the matter is God has placed our iniquity on Christ. Great reality. He bore our sins in His own body. He was made sin for us, so God punished Him in our place. That is the glory of the gospel, isn’t it? And if you come to God and ask Him with a truly penitent heart, believing in Jesus as your substitute, ask God to forgive your sin, he will hear that prayer and answer it. Amen.
Father, thank you for a great, great evening, great day, and such great truth from your profound word. We are eager to acknowledge our sin. As David said, his sin is ever before him. Lord, we never can escape the reality of it, and we continually confess it. We continually repent of it, and we continually thank You for forgiving us. And we continually bless your name and the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for bearing our punishment on the cross and dying in our place, that we might know life eternal. We praise you and we bless you. In our Savior’s name, Amen.
“This article originally appeared here at Bible Bulletin Board.”
