Apart from the fear of God, if you would not fear any other thing, please, let the dread of sin makes you flee from it as fast & far as your leg can carry you.
"Before I was afflicted, I went astray [I dipped my hands into sin], But now I keep Your Word" (Ps.119:67, emphasis added).
What is SIN but disobedience to God and His Word — lawlessness...
Sin hurts and ruins a man's life faster and endlessly (except repented and forsaken) than the deadliest disease (coronary artery disease), and dismantles faster than the most dangerous weapon (Tsar Bomba) on earth.
Sin can do more terrible things to a man than the worst of the devil. Sin is older than any man ever lived.
Sin is wild, untameable, untreatable, unsurmountable, by all men's technicality put together. Saying a man can surmount sin is no less true than the moon outshining the sun in brightness.
Sin has only one cure..., "He [Jesus] was manifested to take away [destroy] our sins, and in Him, there is no sin" (1 John.3:5). Men often believe the devil or religion, to think that the solution for sin is by learning rules and regulations. Or by following a particular doctrine or religion. The devil has rules as well as religion, but that has not made either of the two better or holy. Sin was birthed in man (mankind) as a product of a conspiracy of the devil and man against the government of God. And if there should be freedom from sin, it takes God's government to make it possible. And this God has achieved for mankind in the atonement of His beloved Son Jesus.
No matter how many rules you want to obey, or good works you want to do to make God take away His wrath against your sins, you wouldn't be better than the devil any time soon or ever. Only your trust and faith in the atonement of Jesus will make a pardon for you and forever set you free from sin (1 Cor. 1:30). Justification from sin is not a man thing. It is not a religious thing; it is God's gift through your faith in Christ Jesus.
Only Jesus is the cure for sin. Man! You can't handle it your way. Religion will be the least belief that will do it. If you ever take the issue of sin for granted; it will cost you the joy and rest of eternal life, and cause you damnation and everlasting regret and agony after death. The Love and the Grace of God are not extended to hell. Carry your sin to Jesus, He bid you come, that He may give you rest and life that reign and exercise dominion over sin, death, and the devil.
Blessed are they who have genuinely thrown themselves on the Lamb of God. Praise God! Jesus has become righteousness unto them and has made them become partakers of His divine nature.
What about you, have you run to the rest that God has called you to in Christ Jesus? Living in sin is living as a spiritual enemy of God, a breakdown of the bridge between divinity and humanity — no communication, no relationship. The God you don't enjoy now on earth, you can never enjoy after death. Sin forever remains a dishonour to the name and honour of God. Beware, until your sin is taken away by Christ Jesus, you have no right or access to REST IN PEACE (RIP). THERE IS NO PEACE IN HELL WHERE SINNERS DIE AND GO TO.
Thanks for the gift of your time, I am John Ojoagbene!
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