Most people don’t like the word sin. They get the creeps and horrors when they hear the word sin, but what is sin according to the Bible? Many Christians connect sin to legalism, an obligation, a strict religious regime, the Old Covenant, and a God, Who punishes as soon as a person violates the law (of Moses). The older generation of Christians may be reminded about their youth and the strict way they were raised, the many rules and punishments for violating these rules. The younger generation of Christians considers the word sin as outdated and legalistic. But what is sin? What does the Bible say about sin and the root of sin? Why do so many Christians become angry and have a defensive attitude and walk away as soon as you talk about sin?
People don’t like rules and laws
우리는 시대에 살고 있다, where people want to be free. The majority of people don’t like rules and laws being imposed on them. They don’t want to be bound to rules and regulations. They don’t like to be told what to do and how to live. This rebellious spirit, which is working in the world is also working in the church.
Christians also want to live in ‘freedom’, without obligations. Because Jesus has made them free from sin and the law. It’s all by 우아함, therefore sin no longer exists.
They believe that Jesus has taken away the sins of the world and because of that, there is no more sin. Since there is no more sin, you can’t walk in sin. 당신이 어떻게 사는지는 중요하지 않습니다, you won’t have to change because Jesus has done it all for you.
This deception is taught in many churches and many Christians believe the words of the preachers above the words of God.
Because of this false doctrine, many Christians have created a wrong perception of sin and have become indifferent towards sin and are led astray and can’t hear and bear the truth of the Word anymore. But what is sin? What does the Bible say about sin? And why do so many people have such a defensive attitude towards sin?
What is the first sin in the Bible?
Almost everyone is familiar with the first sin in the Bible, which took place in the Garden of Eden. Although the very first sin took actually place in the heavenly Garden of Eden. But the first sin of man on this earth took place in the Garden of Eden (또한 읽어보세요: 정원에서의 전투).
Man listened to the words of the devil and believed the words of the devil above the words of God and as a result, man obeyed the devil instead of keeping the commandment of God. 이 때문에, man became 하나님께 불순종하다 and His words and chose to believe the words of a stranger instead.
God had warned man out of love. He told the truth. God told them what would happen if they ate from the forbidden tree, namely that they would surely die.
The devil told a partial truth, which is not the truth but a lie.
The devil seduced man through his lie. He not only tempted man through their senses, 정욕, 육체의 욕망, but also their curiosity and pride of their soul, by promising them that they would become like God.
Man chose to believe the lies of the devil above the truth of God, and acted upon the words of the devil, despite God’s warnings.
God had warned them out of love, but man chose to believe the devil above God, whereby man rejected God, their Maker, and made the devil their master.
Man sinned and as a result, the devil became his master and death entered man and the spirit of man died, 하나님께서 예언하신 대로.
Man became separated from God and their relationship was broken. God had not broken the relationship, but man had broken the relationship. 다행스럽게도, God’s love for man didn’t stop after this act of disobedience of man.
God’s love for people
구약에서, we not only see God’s love for man but also His hatred against sin. It was the people, who were stubborn and rebellious and left God’s way to go their own way.
Because of the rebellious behavior of the people towards God and their stubbornness, they got themselves into trouble over and over again.
Instead of listening to God and being led by the words of God, they listened to the devil, who reigned in their flesh.
Since they were carnal and sense ruled and led by their lusts and desires, they automatically did the 악마의 의지 and did those things, which were against God’s will, whereby they brought mischief upon themselves.
But every time they got into trouble and they cried out to God in their distress, God showed His mercy and goodness and redeemed His people over and over again (또한 읽어보세요: 엄격한 하나님인가, 반역적인 백성인가?).
The warnings of God
God constantly warned His people, whom He had set apart from the Gentiles. He warned them because He didn’t want anything bad to happen to His people. God loved His people and didn’t want them to bring a curse and disaster upon their lives.
그러므로, God made His will known to them, 그들에게 그분의 율법을 주심으로써. So that they would get to know their God and have a relationship with Him.
법을 통해서, God revealed Himself to His carnal people. Because how else can you serve a God, if you don’t know anything about that God?
God was (그리고 여전히 그렇습니다) transparent and didn’t keep anything back. He made His will, 그의 본성, and His Kingdom known by the law.
God didn’t force anyone to 그를 따르십시오 and obey His law. His people could make their own decision to be obedient to God’s will and serve Him or not. But they would bear the consequences of their choices.
Since man was carnal and not spiritual, God gave the written laws, because they couldn’t receive His Spirit. Their flesh was affected by evil. The sinful nature reigned in their flesh. And due to the fact that God is a holy God, His Spirit could not live in a flesh that was unclean and has the rebellious hostile nature of the devil and carried sin and death.
The spirit of God’s people was dead. Therefore they could only get to know their God and His will through the words of God, 율법에 기록된 것.
축복과 저주
법을 통해서, God not only revealed His will, Kingdom and His righteousness, 이는( 영) 생명, but God also revealed sin, which leads to bondage and (영) 죽음. .
왜냐하면 그들은 육신에 속하고 영적이지 아니하였기 때문입니다., God made known to them what would happen if they stayed obedient to God and keep His law and walk in righteousness and what would happen if they decided to become disobedient to God and do their own will and become trespassers of the law and walk in sin.
If they chose to obey God and keep His commandments and trust in Him they would be blessed.
But if they chose to do their own will and go their own way, then they would live under the curse (또한 읽어보세요: Do the mountains of blessings and curses still exist in the New Covenant?).
하나님은 진실을 말씀하셨다, because what He said and promised, we see in the lives of people.
구약 전체에 걸쳐, God warned His people through His written Word and the mouths of the prophets. Every time God called them 회개 and to return to His commandments and His law.
God didn’t want to freighted or scare His people, 많은 사람들처럼, 말하다. But He warned them, because of His great love for people.
God is the Creator of heaven and earth and His laws are settled in the universe forever.
God knows everything, He knows the nature, will and the mission of the devil for humanity, because He created the devil. He knows that the devil is a liar, a thief and a destroyer and that everyone, who believes in him shall be deceived and eventually be destroyed.
God doesn’t want anyone to perish and therefore God warned people and still warns people for sin.
죄란 무엇인가?
성경에 따르면 죄란 무엇인가? Sin is disobedience to the God and His Word, which represent God and His Kingdom. Sin means disobedience to the words and the will of God and obedience to the words and the will of the devil, 육신으로 다스리시는 분.
If you walk in sin, you walk in the will of the devil and exalt the devil by your works. By sinning you build his kingdom on earth.
God revealed sin through His law. 그러므로, through the law sin was no longer hidden for people.
아무도 없다, who can say that he, 아니면 그녀, didn’t know. Because God has revealed everything through His Word.
But because of the spiritual blindness, ignorance, and a lack of knowledge of God’s Word, many Christians lead a destructive life and are on their way to hell.
If a person decides to not believe God and not obey Him, the person shall automatically do the will of the devil. Since the devil is the father of fallen man ((또한 읽어보세요: the will of God versus the will of the devil).
Many Christians confess they believe and 하나님을 사랑하십시오, but their lives and works don’t confirm the words they confess. Because they don’t submit themselves to Jesus; the Word and don’t do what He says. They don’t do the will of God and are not taught, corrected and led by the Word and the Holy Spirit.
Instead they feed themselves with the knowledge and wisdom of the world. They live according to what the world says, and what their carnal mind and intellect, 세상이 만들어낸 것, 말한다, and they walk after the lusts and desires of their flesh. And so they live their own lives, 그들이하고 싶은 일을하고 있습니다.
They remain carnal and live like the world, just like all those people, 세상과 세상의 통치자에 속한 사람, 악마.
They love the world and the works of the flesh and are not willing to change. They don’t want to put off the works of the flesh, but they want to stay the way they are. 그렇기 때문에, they become irritated, angry and hostile, or even walk away, when you talk about sin or confront them with their sinful behavior.
Put off the works of the old man
To give an example, let’s have a look at lying. God is the Truth and He doesn’t lie. Therefore His words are reliable and trustworthy (이동 34:6, 신명기 32:4, 예레미야 10:10).
God doesn’t want you to lie, because in His Kingdom there is no lie. That’s why God has given the commandment to not lie. God gave this commandment to His people, who lived in the Old Covenant and belonged to the generation of fallen man, who was a prisoner of the sinful flesh. 그러므로 하나님은 말씀하셨습니다, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” Since the flesh wants to lie by nature.
이 계명은 새 언약에도 여전히 적용됩니다. 그렇지만, people don’t belong to the generation of the old creation anymore, but belong to the generation of the new creation through regeneration in Christ. The flesh with its sinful nature has died in Christ and the spirit has been raised from the dead in Christ.
The new creation is born of God and has the nature of God and shall speak the truth.
The sons and daughters of God shall not lie but shall just like their Father speak the truth.
예수님을 보세요. Jesus always spoke the truth and didn’t lie. His words were often confronting and hard to hear, but Jesus never lied. Jesus didn’t compromise with the world to be liked and accepted by the people and to win people. Jezus didn’t speak what the people wanted to hear, but Jesus stayed faithful to His Father and spoke the words of His Father.
Jesus kept speaking the truth, 결과에도 불구하고. Because by speaking the truth of God, Jesus was hated by the world and persecuted, delivered and eventually killed.
The devil is a liar and in him is no truth. He is the father of lies and therefore his words are not reliable but are lies.
그것들을 위해, who put their trust in him and follow him, his lies will be their refuge and under his falsehood will they hide (또한 읽어보세요: 거짓의 도피처에 숨어).
너희는 너희 아비 마귀에게서 났느니라, 그리고 당신의 아버지의 정욕은 할 것입니다. 그는 처음부터 살인자였습니다, 그리고 진실로 거주지가 아닙니다, 그분 안에는 진실이 없기 때문입니다. 그가 거짓말을 할 때, 그는 자신의 말을합니다: 그는 거짓말 쟁이이기 때문입니다, 그리고 그것의 아버지 (남자 8:44)
하지만 거듭난 그리스도인 are sons of God (이는 남성과 여성 모두에게 적용됩니다.) and have the Holy Spirit of God abiding in them. 사실 때문에, that the Holy Spirit is living inside of them, 하나님의 뜻; His commandments are written upon their new hearts.
그들은 할 것이다 회개하다 of the sin of lying and shall not lie anymore, 하지만 진실을 말할 것이다. because their new nature wants to speak the truth.
They shall also speak the truth regarding the gospel of Jesus Christ, and shall not waver for the world and turn the Word and the gospel of Jesus Christ into a lie. Believers shall not compromise with the world but shall stand upon the truth of God and His Word, despite the hatred and 세계의 박해.
When someone claims to be 다시 태어나다, but doesn’t remove the lie, but keeps speaking lies and little white lie or changing the words of God into lies and adjust to the will, lusts and desires of carnal man, then the person doesn’t walk as the 새로운 창조 하나님의 뜻 후에, but still lives as the 오래된 창조, who has the nature of the devil and does the will of the devil.
모든 사람, who lies, walks after the flesh in sin and does the will of the devil. Take for example Ananias and Sapphira, who died because of their lie.
서로 거짓말을하지 마십시오, 당신이 그의 행위로 노인을 끄는 것을보고; 그리고 새 사람을 입었습니다., 자기를 창조하신 분의 형상을 따라 지식에 새롭게 되어 (골로새서 3:9-10)
Many say they believe, but only few can prove it
육신의 마음은 하나님에 대한 적절성이기 때문입니다: 왜냐하면 그것은 하나님의 율법에 적용되지 않기 때문입니다, 참으로 그 어느 것도 할 수 없습니다. 그러면 육신 안에있는 사람들은 하나님을 기쁘게 할 수 없습니다. (로마서 8:7-8)
Many say they believe in God and loves Jesus, but only few can prove it. 그만큼 늙은 육신 남자, who is led by his senses and walks after the flesh, shall never be able to please God. Because the old man has a carnal mind and shall not submit himself to God’s Word.
The old man belongs to the world. 그러나 말씀은 말한다., that friendship with the world is enmity with God (제임스 4:4).
The old man is rebellious and stubborn and walks in disobedient to God and His Word and obeys the words of the world; 마귀의 말.
The old creation lives in a covenant with death
As long as a person walks in sin; in disobedience to God and obedience to the devil, a person proves by his or her deeds, that the person is a 죄인; 악마의 아들. 사람, who perseveres in sin is bound by death.
The person has a covenant with death and sin reigns as king in his/her life (또한 읽어보세요: Let no sin reign as king in your life!)
Although the person might think to be delivered from sin in Jesus Christ and be saved, but the reality is that as long as the person keeps sinning, the person is not delivered from sin. 누구, who is delivered from sin is truly delivered from sin and shall no longer persevere in sin and live in disobedience to God.
Sin means doing the 악마의 의지, who is the adversary of God. 그러므로 여러분, who habitually keeps living in sin is an adversary of God.
Although Jesus has dealt with sin and has given everyone the ability to be redeemed from the power of sin and death, which is the punishment for sin, sin still exists.
It is a lie from the devil to say, that in the New Covenant there is no sin, because Jesus has dealt once and for all with sin, and therefore it doesn’t matter how you live and what you do.
그러나 진실은, that it does matter how you live and what you do (또한 읽어보세요: 당신이 계속 죄를 지르면 죽지 않겠습니까??).
이후 큰 시련 and the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 베드로, 폴, 남자, 제임스, and the other apostles still wrote about sin. They warned the churches about the danger of sin, 죄의 속박, consequences constantly wrote about the danger of sin, 죄의 속박, consequences of sin, and commanded them to remove the sins from their lives and from their midst and repent.
Paul even commanded the church at Corinth to remove a person, who didn’t want to listen and persevered in sin, 교회에서 (또한 읽어보세요: 사람을 사탄에게 전달한다는 것은 무엇을 의미합니까??).
If sin would not matter or would not exist, then why did the apostles urged the believers, who sinned to remove the sins from their lives?
If sin would not matter and would no longer exist, then why did Ananias and Sapphira die?
And if sin wouldn’t matter and wouldn’t exist after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, then why did Jesus confront the seven churches with their sins and called them to repentance?
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