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Saturday, Feb 11, 2012

The Fallacy of 'Insignificant Sin'

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April 27, 2007|12:46 pm

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 NIV)

Persons out of Christ often try to comfort themselves with the remembrance that they have never in their lives committed any really great sin. Little trifling acts of wrongdoing perhaps, but nothing of any consequence, so surely God will overlook their rather insignificant transgressions when He settles their accounts.

In the first place, a man's status before God is decided not by the number and enormity of his sins but by whether those sins have or have not been forgiven, whether he is on God's side or the side of the devil.

The soldier who mutinies is held responsible for his mutiny even if he does nothing more than stand up and let himself be counted among the rebels. His crime lies in his break with his superiors and his willingness to go along with the enemies of his country. That he performs no extraordinary feats of violence may mean no more than that he is an ordinary fellow incapable of great deeds of any sort for or against his country.


Prayer
O Christ, thank You for paying the debt for all of my sin, all of it!

Thought
Unforgiven sin is never insignificant. The wages of sin - terrible, awful sin or relatively insignificant - is death, eternal death. It is eternal death we face unless we receive the gift of eternal life in Christ Jesus.

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