"SIN IS A GRAVE"

 

         *SIN IS A  GRAVE*

We hear in the news about people committing horrific crimes. Men who rape and kill a 5-year-old girl, a mother who poisons and kills her own children, drunkards who torture their family, politicians who do injustice for money, and many more like this...

*The criminals who come into the news make the public angry.* People curse them and even try to kill them. But what is the truth? Even those people, who are cursing them are caught up in such sins. Maybe not to the degree of those criminals but to some extent. These people are doing it in their minds but the criminals did them in their actions. Someday *these people also going to commit the same crimes when the opportunity arises.*

*Why do humans commit such atrocities?*

Scripture says: *As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins (Ephesians 2:1). ...we were dead in transgressions (Ephesians 2:5).*

*Just as a dead man cannot rise up and function, so a man who is in sin cannot stop his sin and do good.* They have no control over their sinful deeds. He cannot say no to sin. He is dragged by sin to all sinful places.

That is why Jesus said on the cross "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." So there is no use in accusing them and condemning them. They are controlled by an outside force.

*What is the solution?*

*The Son of man Jesus came into the world to save the man who is dead in sin and laid in the grave. He accepted the penalty for man's sin in His body and died on the cross. And by His resurrection from the grave, He helps the dead man to resurrect from his grave of Sin.*

*...that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead.* (Ephesians 2:5)

Every man who has accepted Jesus as his personal Savior and has his sins forgiven and is raised from dead.* Sin can no longer control him. He has the power to say no to sin. *

*Why do Christians who have been resurrected from sin again sin?*

This question may come to you. *There are many Christians who are raised from sin but still live in the grave.* This is why it is said: "Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." (Ephesians 5:14)

*If you are saved and still live in sin, you are fully responsible for it.* Because Christ has raised you up. You are the one who needs to leave the tomb of sin.

*Repent O Christian! you who are still sleeping in the tomb. You are not dead, you are just sleeping in the grave. Sin controls the people of the world (who are dead in sin), but it cannot control you (because you are raised from the dead). You can get rid of your sinful habits. It is your responsibility to say no to sin and come out of the tomb.*

*Christ will enlighten you when you come out of sin. Your life will be reshaped. You will be a blessing to many.*

May the Lord bless you!

Bro. Allwin Johnson