Sin is a problem that everyone faces. We blame PROBLEMS on all kinds of different issues… depression, drugs and alcohol, fear, doubt, skepticism and so many other categories that man has created. God’s Word, on the contrary, calls all of this SIN. Simply, trying to do life apart from God… is SIN. The actions we take in not responding to God is called SIN.
God is the architect, the engineer, the CREATOR of your physical body, your human mind, and your eternal soul. He made you, He knows you and He knows what’s good for you and He knows what will hurt and destroy you.
Augustine explains this so well when he says,
“Sin comes when we take a perfectly natural desire or longing or ambition and try desperately to fulfill it without God. Not only is it sin, but it is also a perverse distortion of the image of the Creator in us. All these good things, and all our security, are rightly found only and completely in Him.”
In 1 Samuel5 we saw the Philistines capture the Ark Of The Covenant and bring it into their temple and placed it alongside of their god Dagon. From there, Dagon fell prostrate before the Ark twice and the second time was destroyed. Do you want to be free from sin? Do you want sin to lose its power in and over your life? Bring the ark of the Lord into your heart. Read your Bible daily. Cling to the CROSS of Jesus Christ as your salvation. Be in church regularly as it’s there the cross-pollination takes place and you will bear fruit that remains. May Dagon fall in your life… in Jesus name.
By His Spirit,
Pastor Bill