How long has it been since you heard one of those Hell &       Damnation Sermons?…Why… I would be tempted to guess about a time a while back, when there were no cushions in the pew and many of those old pews had straight backs. I don’t mean to be harsh, times are different, people are different but somewhere along the way I once heard someone say…”the Lord is the same yesterday, today and will be the same tomorrow!”We spend a lot of time talking about sin, particularly someone else’s…that makes sense because there are none of us without sin…so we ought to recognize it easily. Just what is a sin? I have come to believe that it is anything that separates us from God. Now that leaves a world of bad out there all around us. “Let us go among the  heathens”.…that’s from a movie and was a line spoken by Ward Bond and is really not relevant here…just thought I would throw that in. Now you may not agree but those heathens… that be us!  What is sin, biblically speaking. Sin isn’t just a mistake or poor decision. It is much more than that. Sin separates us from God but He provided a solution in His son Jesus. God defines sin as any thought, word, or deed that breaks his law. God’s law is the absolute standard of what is good and right. God gave humans free will, so humans are responsible for their own actions. Now there are any number of ways to pursue this subject about what is the UnSpoken Truth. I don’t intend to lay out a list of what to do or as is typical of most Christian denominations that list of do nots.  As you have read above the only true standard to define SIN is God’s Law and the best place to do that would be The Word…the written word of God…The Holy Bible. I would like to add this caveat…read and pray over the word…seek an ongoing relationship with God. Scripture tells us that Abram, whom God later renamed Abraham was favored by God…because of the intimate relationship between them. Abraham had the privilege of walking and talking with God and Abraham was obedient to God in all things. Christianity is no easy path and the Bible spends a lot of time speaking about sin because it is a fundamental problem for humans. The Unspoken Truth concerns the fact that there will be a judgement…there will be no exceptions, sin has consequences. 

Sin brings lasting punishment.

Sin leaves humans to rely on their own resources for a solution.

Sin hinders a person’s relationship with God.

 The whole point of this discourse is an old man’s lament to the state of the church today. There is really only one very specific way to deal with SIN. We must confess our sins to receive salvation and maintain fellowship with God and we must strive to “walk in the light” by reflecting God’s perfection in our lives. A simple layman’s view…The need to Repent of our Sins.The Jewish people, God’s chosen people, got entangled in the law…their law and put forth a path of 613 additional laws…

The 613 laws are a set of rules that governed the Israelites’ day-to-day life, ceremonial worship of God in the Temple, and moral rules that summarized all of the Old Testament laws as to how people interacted with God and with each other. These laws were also the constitution of Israel and were necessary for running a righteous, theocratic government under Yahweh. According to Jewish tradition, the Torah contains 613 commandments. 

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God confronts sin with compassion, God offers redemption through Christ, and God calls people to repentance. There are still many churches that preach redemption first and Jesus Christ being the path to that, however,  Social activism is now a big part of many churches today and lessens and obscures the UnSpoken Truth.

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