What Is Sin?

 

 

My unsaved friend

Do you know what is sin?

Even with a moral compass

One is still dim.

 

One may be good

In the way he understands

But sin is not something

That happened to man.

 

Sin is a phenomenon

That brought on death;

Both spiritual and physical

And severed man’s rest.

 

Ye shall surely die

God did say said to Adam

So that when Adam disobeyed

It brought death to man.

 

A missing of the mark!

This was Adam’s sin

And Adam having disobeyed God

Separated God from him.

 

 

A clear directive

Given by Almighty God,

First of all, Eve was deceived

And this triggered the fall.

 

Sin is a transgression

Or a missing of the mark

Which Almighty God established

From the very start.

 

Sin is clearly defined

1^st John chapter 3 verse 4

Then go on to Mark chapter 12

And read some more.

 

There is a difference

Between sin and crime:

A crime contravenes a state’s law

But sin is contra Divine.

 

 

Sin is a transgression

Of God’s perfect law

Hence, the ten commandments

Showed man his flaw.

 

Man could not appease

The Most Holy God

And this was clearly shown

From his initial fall.

 

  

 

Given a single directive

Adam miserably failed,

There in the garden of Eden

The enemy prevailed.

 

Mrs. Adam was deceived

While Mr. Adam succumbed

And just as God had indicated

Man was undone.

 

All have sinned

Meaning all in the earth,

Sin’s curse falls on everyone

Of a natural birth.

 

And the wages of sin

Is eternal death,

Eternally separated from God

And void of His rest.

 

But there remains a rest

For the people of God

Guaranteed by the second Adam

Who did not fall.

 

Believe on the Lord Jesus

And you will be saved,

This is the so-great salvation

Almighty God gave.

 

Having shed his blood

Only Jesus can forgive sin

And now he invites all and sundry

To come unto him.

 

 

We must love Yahweh

With all of our heart,

With all our mind and strength-

This is where we start.

 

We must love others

Just as we love ourselves,

These two define the benchmark

Of spiritual health.

 

Sin occurs every time

That we miss this mark

Whether we sin in word or deed

Or in our heart.

 

It is only by the Holy Spirit

One can hit God’s mark,

It is His indwelling Holy Spirit

That transforms the heart.

 

The spirit of the law

Is what we must achieve;

The Holy Spirit helps us to do this

Once we believe.

 

The greatest sin is rejecting

The Lord Jesus Christ

For in so doing we make of no avail

His atoning sacrifice.

 

Stewart Russell © June 21, 2024

 

Salvation and Its Jargon 4

 

 

The world is under God’s “judgment”

Ever since “Adam’s fall”,

God’s “justice” does not excuse sin

Absolutely no sin at all.

 

Hence God’s judgment on sin

And on the entire world:

Remember sin is any “transgression”

As shown in God’s Holy Word.

 

But God demonstrated His mercy

When He sent Jesus, His Son

To break all of sin’s shackles

And bring us glorious “freedom”.

 

This speaks of our redemption

And our freedom from sin’s bondage,

Making Jesus our kinsman “Redeemer”

That relieved us of sin’s luggage.

 

In Christ we are set apart

This in fact is our “sanctification”:

It is the work of the Holy Spirit

That follows our “justification”.

 

In Christ we are made “righteous”

And set apart for God’s holy use,

It is “just as if I’d” never sin,

Satan has no grounds to accuse.

 

Stewart Russell © June 2018

Let’s Get It Right

 

Sounds like a discussion

But there may not have been one

“Let us make Man”

Was before creation’s dawn.

Sounds like a conclusion

But that may not have been so

That’s how we would think

That the matter should go.

Sounds like a decision

And certainly a unanimous one

The first two were made

And from them all others were born.

That God is the Creator

Should be obvious to all

And that our parents’ transgression

Brought with it the fall.

“Let us make man”

To whom was God talking?

And concerning Adam and Eve

With whom were they walking?

You may want to argue

That God talked to Himself

But if such were the case

You would question his health.

There must have been somebody

That the “us” include

The Trinity is my position

That is what I conclude.

In the beginning was the Word

According to John chapter 1

In the beginning God

Created the very first dawn.

“Let there be light”

That’s what He said back then

Out of that first utterance

We have the where and the when.

  

So at the beginning of time

We have God and the Word

But there was another,

Yes, there was a third.

Who was that third person?

Okay, I will show him to you,

In order to find the answer

Just read Genesis 1 verse 2.

He was the Spirit of the Lord

Yes, a “he” and not an “it”,

The third person in the Trinity

That’s the Holy Spirit.

A truth we do not understand

But how else can we explain it?

These are three and yet the same

God, the Word and Holy Spirit.

He is the Spirit of truth

Just as Jesus had said,

Right there in John 14: 16 to 17

You'll see once you have read.

The world cannot receive him

Because it knows him not

But he indwells the believer

And cleans every spot.

For he dwells with you now

But he shall be in you then

Jesus had told his disciples

As they listened to him.

Another time he told them

That he must go away,

And to them he promised the Spirit

That came on Pentecost Day.

And since the Spirit has come

He guides us into all truth

Such that born again believers

Are the evidence and the proof.

The Spirit searches all things

Yea, the deep things of God,

None but him can discern them

Don’t be fooled by the Fraud.

Romans chapter 15 verse 30

Tells of his great love,

The love of the Spirit who like Jesus

Also descended from above.

The Spirit can be vexed

As in Isaiah 63 and verse 10

And we should not grieve the Spirit

Knowing we are sealed by him.

The Holy Spirit speaks

And Scripture shows he can hear,

There are many verses in the word

With you I can share.

Acts 13:2 is certainly one

1Timothy 4:1 is surely another,

If you have ears then heed the Spirit

Revelation 2 is a timely reminder

The Spirit is a helper

He helps us in our weakness

He testifies of Jesus

And he fills with his sweetness.

The Spirit of God 

Is the same Spirit of Christ,

Read John chapters 14 and 15

And this will suffice.

The Holy Spirit is a person

Just like God and the Word are,

Through him we were brought nigh

And now we are no longer afar.

He’s more than an active force

As some purport him to be,

He is in fact the third person

Found in the Trinity.

The Spirit is one with God 

He is one with the Son

And it will boggle our mind

But these three are one.

In the beginning he was there

Along with God and the Word,

In the Bible we read

They created the world.

These three are involved

In making a sinner whole

The Father, the Word by the Spirit

Indwells every believer’s soul.

Stewart Russell © February 2018