“When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel. Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals; and they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them and bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger” (Judges 2:10-12 NKJ).

Time and time again God brought the children of Israel through one disaster after the other; caused by their turning from God. God also dealt much punishment to them because of their disobedience. I Cor. 10:1-12 tells us how God reacted to the sins of Israel: twenty three thousand people fell in one day.

Verse 11 tells us “Now all these things happened to them as examples, and were written for our admonition, upon whom the end of the ages have come.” The word admonish means: “a putting in mind;” in other words a warning for us to heed. So if one wants to know how God responds to sin, we just go look at the history of Israel and see what God did. I Cor. 10:11 is a warning to us.

Is it possible that another generation has risen up that does the same thing as the children of Israel did? Should people be warned as Deuteronomy 12:8 says? (“You shall not at all do as we are doing here today – every man doing what ever is right in his own eye.”)

Is it possible that we in America have forgotten that God hates sin? Sin is older than man. It originated in the mind of Satan before the creation of man. Satan sinned first because of pride (Isaiah 14:12-14). When sin entered the world it became universal. “All have sinned…” Romans 5:12.

Is it possible that man has moved so far away from God that he no longer is concerned, so he just does what he wants? A right concept of sin is therefore imperative for if man errors here, he errors everywhere. If he does not have, scriptural views of sins nature, he will not have, scriptural views, of sins remedy. Mans view of sin differs considerably. What one calls sin, another does not. But to accept the Biblical verdict on sin is to accept the Bible provision of salvation from sin by the Savior. The Bible teaches us that anything that is contrary to the laws of God is sin.

At the outset, we cannot emphasize too strongly the necessity of understanding that God hates sin, as revealed in His word. In these apostate days, there is an insistence upon a change of evangelical phraseology. Ruined by the fall, redemption by the blood, are deemed to be outdated. Terms like “sin,” being “lost,” “hell-bound,” “saved by the blood,” are no longer intelligible to the modern, cultured mind. Such language is antiquated. Old truths must be given a modern dress. But no matter how we try to camouflage sin, it is still sin. The church of the Lord Jesus Christ needs to stand against and speak out against all of the un-Godly sins that our country promotes.

The only cure for sin is accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior. His blood covers all sins (John 3:16-18).

Hugh Sherrill

Pastor Philippi

Baptist Church

1444 SE County Rd 18

ems-hugh43@comcast.net