Sin? set me up and killed me? (Romans 7. 11)
Sin seeks to deceive us with its lies and it is not only on April 1, here are 5 lies that it tells us:
LIE: It’s such an insignificant little sin! It’s really not a big problem in God’s eyes.
TRUTH: Every sin is a terrible offense to God; sin is the sum of all evils, the opposite of all good, holy, and beautiful; even the smallest of my sins demands the death of the Son of God; there is no sin. Every sin is a cosmic betrayal.
MENSONGE: I’m going to give in to sin this time, that’s all, I just need to get it out of my system.
TRUTH: Every time I fall into a sin, it becomes more difficult to break the power of that sin. Sin has a way of sinking its barbed hooks deep into my heart. I can’t just sin and then go unscathed. Giving in to sin, more tangled I turn. Sin always leaves scars.
LIE: This sin is part of who I am. I always fight and I’ll always sin like that.
TRUTH: Sin does not define my identity! I am a new creature in Christ. Christ has delivered me from the enslaving power of sin. I certainly do not have to obey the sinful passions that arise in me. I may have to fight forever, but my past doesn’t define my future.
MENSONGE: I need to fall into this sin to be happy
TRUTH: Sin never provides true happiness, promises meekness, but ultimately offers a burden of destruction, dissatisfaction, ruined relationships, and hardness of heart.
MENSONGE: God wants me to be happy, so it is normal to fall into sin.
TRUTH: God really wants me to be happy. However, my happiness will only grow at the height of my holiness. Sin erodes and ultimately destroys true holiness and true happiness.