IT'S A SIN

(l John 5:17)   "All unrighteousness is SIN"

Definition:  (SIN)  From Strong's Greek dictionary reference 266 (hamartia) [ham-ar-tee-ah]   Offence, Sin.  The word comes from reference 264 (hamartano) [ham-ar-tan'o] which is from the root of reference 3313 "meaning to miss the mark" (and so not to share in the prize), to err; your faults; offend; sin; trespass.

From Zondervan Bible Dictionary, "Sin may then be defined ultimately as anything in the creature, which does not express, or which is contrary to the Holy character of the Creator.  Sin then is not merely what we do but what we are.  There is sin in our race and in our nature."

"Sin is any want of conformity to, the expressed or implied directives of the creator.

(I John 5:17)  "All UNRIGHTEOUSNESS is sin"

Definition:  (UNRIGHTEOUSNESS) Strong's Greek Dictionary, Reference 93 (adikia)

[ad-ee-kee-ah] from Reference 94 (adikos) [ad-ee-kos] meaning legal injustice.

(Properly the quality, by implication, the act) morally wrongfulness (of character, life or act) iniquity, unjust, unrighteousness, wrong, wicked, treacherous.

(Isaiah 54:17)  ..."This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their Righteousness, is of me, saith the Lord".

(Isaiah 64:6)   "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our RIGHTEOUSNESS are as filthy rags"...

Definition:  (RIGHTEOUSNESS)  From the Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (ts-daqah) [ydrf-se-kse] Reference 6666 and 6663 meaning justice; rightness; virtue; make right; cleanse; clear self; be turned to righteous.

From Zondervan Greek Bible Dictionary: (dikaiosyne) Meaning rightness, making right, justification, as judged by the standard of God's holy law, which is derived from His holy character conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God."

CONCLUDING DEFINITION OF SIN

From the previous definitions you can see that the definition of SIN is anything you do, say, or think, which is not what God would say, do, or think is sin; or anything  that you don't do, say, or think, which is not exactly what God would not do, say, or think becomes a sin of omission. 

If your life in any way is short of being just as God you are a sinner.

Now, let us look at some scriptures concerning sin. 

(Psalms 51:5)   "Behold I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceive me".

(I Kings 8:46)  ..."For there is NO MAN THAT SINNETH NOT"...

(Proverbs 21:4)  "An HIGH LOOK and a PROUD HEART, and the PLOWING OF THE WICKED,  is sin."

(Proverbs 24:9)  "The THOUGHT OF FOOLISHNESS IS SIN"...

(Psalms 14:3)  "They are ALL gone aside, they are ALL together become filthy: there is

                          NONE THAT DOETH GOOD, NO NOT ONE."

(Galatians 3:10)  "...CURSED is EVERY ONE that continueth not in ALL THINGS which are                                     written  in the BOOK OF THE LAW to do them."

(James 2:10)  "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet OFFEND IN ONE POINT,

                        he is GUILTY OF ALL."

(Romans 5:12)  "...For that ALL have SINNED.'

(Galatians 2:16)   "...For BY the WORKS of the LAW shall no flesh be JUSTIFIED."

(Romans 3:10)   "As it is written, there is NONE RIGHTEOUS, NO, NOT ONE."

(1st John 1:8) "If we say that we HAVE NO SIN, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us

(1st John 1:10)   "If we say that WE HAVE NOT SINNED, we make him a liar, and His word is                                not in us. "

(James 4:17)   "Therefore to him that Knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him IT IS SIN.

(James 2:9)  "But if ye have RESPECT TO PERSONS, ye commit SIN, and are convinced of                            the law as transgressors."

(Galatians 3:22)  "But the scripture hath CONCLUDED ALL UNDER SIN, that the promise BY 

FAITH of Jesus might be given to THEM THAT BELIEVE.

These are just a few of the many scriptures that show man is born in sin, has a sinful nature, and will continue to be a sinner until he dies.

If you say you have not sinned His word is not in you. If you say you are not sinning now you are deceiving yourself, and the truth is not in you.  If you show more respect to your children, husband, mother, dad, etc., than you would a stranger, you have committed a sin.

According to James 4:17, if you know you should be visiting the sick in the hospital, or you should be ministering to the shut-in, in the jail or in the nursing home, or you should not eat that cake when your already over weight, or smoke that cigarette, or waist your God given time watching things on T.V. that are unprofitable, you are committing a sin.

There are many people who are proud of themselves because they say, "I'm a pretty good person--I haven't killed anyone, stolen, cheated, etc."  The scripture says if you offend in just one point you are guilty of all. If you have not kept the law of God completly and never broken a commandment, you are guilty of braking all the commandments. It's all or none, with God. We will not be graded on how we compare with everyone else around us, we will be judged on the law of God.  And not keeping every bit of it, is the same as not doing any of it.

Now, you can see why the definition that I gave you at the beginning of this book said that anything in thought, word or deed that was not just as God would do, would cause you to become a sinner. And what is the consequence for being a sinner? "THE SOUL THAT SINS SHALL SHURELY DIE"  (Ezekiel. 18:20)

There is a reason for the law of God being so stern, and now that God's Word has shown us that we are lost sinners, doomed for damnation, let us look at God's Word for the solution.

T H E   S O L U T I O N

(Galatians 3:6)   "...Abraham BELIEVED God, and it was ACCOUNTED to him for RIGHTEOUSNESS."

(Galatians 3:8)   "And the scripture, foreseeing that God would JUSTIFY the heathen THROUGH FAITH..."

(Galatians 3:11)   "But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident,

FOR THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH."

(Galatians 3:23-24)  "But BEFORE FAITH CAME, we were kept under the law, shut up unto THE FAITH which should afterwards be REVEALED.  Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith."

(Galatians 5:4)  "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; YE ARE FALLEN FROM GRACE."

(Galatians 5:5)  "For we through the spirit WAIT for the hope of righteousness BY FAITH."

(Ephesians 2:8-9)  "For by GRACE are ye saved THROUGH FAITH and that not of yourselves:  it is the GIFT OF GOD".  "NOT OF WORKS, lest any man should boast."

(Romans 3:28)  "Therefore we conclude that a man is JUSTIFIED BY FAITH without the deeds of the law."

(Romans 8:24-25)  "For we are saved by HOPE: but hope that is SEEN is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?  But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it."

(Hebrews 10:38)  "Now the JUST shall live by FAITH."

(Hebrews 11:1)  "Now FAITH IS the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things NOT SEEN."

(Hebrews 11:7)  "...Righteousness which is BY FAITH."

(Mark 5:34)  "...Thy FAITH hath made thee whole."    

(Luke 7:50)  "Thy FAITH have SAVED THEE; go in peace."

(Acts 15:9)  "...Purifying their hearts BY FAITH."

(Acts 26:18)  "...sanctified BY FAITH that is in me."

(Romans 3:22)  "Even the righteousness of God which is BY FAITH...."

(Romans 4:17)  "...God, who quickeneth the dead, and CALLETH THOSE THINGS WHICH BE NOT AS THOUGH THEY WERE."          (THAT IS FAITH)

(Romans 4:5)  "But to him that worketh not, but BELIEVETH on him that justifieth the ungodly HIS FAITH IS COUNTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS."

(Romans 4:6)  "Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God IMPUTETH RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHOUT WORKS."

(Romans 4:7)  "Saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose

SINS ARE COVERED."

(Romans 4:8)  "Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not IMPUTE SIN."

T H E   L A W   D O N E   AW A Y   W I T H

(Romans 4:15)  "...for where no law is, there is no transgression."

(Romans 5:13)  "For until the law sin was in the world: But sin is not imputed

when there is no law."

(Ephesians 2:15)  "Having ABOLISHED in his flesh THE ENMITY even THE LAW OF COMMANDMENTS...."

(II Corinthians 3:7)  "But if the MINISTRATION OF DEATH, written and ENGRAVEN IN STONES, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be DONE AWAY."

(II Corinthians 3:9)  "For if the MINISTRATION OF CONDEMNATION be glory, much more doth the MINISTRATION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS exceed in glory."

(II Corinthians 3:11)  "For if that which is DONE AWAY was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious."  (SOMETHING WAS DONE AWAY WITH AND SOMETHING REPLACED IT)

(Colossians 2:14)  "BLOTTING OUT the handwriting of ORDINANCES that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, NAILING IT TO THE CROSS."

(Ephesians 2:16)  "And that he might RECONCILE both unto God in one body BY THE CROSS, having SLAIN THE ENMITY thereby."

(Romans 8:1-2)  "There is therefore now NO CONDEMNATION to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.  For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath MADE ME FREE from the LAW OF SIN AND DEATH."

              CHRISTIANS TRYING TO PLEASE GOD BY THEIR WORKS                    INSTEAD OF BY FAITH.

(Galatians 3:1)  "O foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you, that ye should not OBEY THE TRUTH,...?"

(Galatians 3:2)  "...Received ye the spirit by the works of the law; or by the hearing of FAITH."

(Galatians 3:3)  "Are ye so foolish? having begun in the SPIRIT, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?"

When people made their salvation dependent on things that they do or don't do, instead of on what God has done for them, they make Christ of no effect (Galatians 2:21).  They make the Christian religion the same as all the other pagan religions of the world. Where righteous works make you righteous with God.  A Christians good works have nothing to do with there salvation. A born again Christian does goods works because they are born again. Because they are born of the Spirit of God, they want to do godly things. This does not mean that Christians are purfect in the natural realm, but God who sees things in the faith realm, counts them as though they were already a reality. And If your faith, or desire, your hope, is to be Christ like, then God will take the substance of things hoped for, and count them as though they were, and this is true savation. This is the truth that will make you free, free from condemnation, free from fear.

If you have never been born again a new creature in Christ Jesus, it is very easly to do, all it takes is a desire, and a made up mind that you want to serve Jesus Christ. He has alreay paid the price at the cross, for all the sins you have ever made, or ever will make.  But we are all free moral agents, and God has given us the option of making the decision. If you will repent,

(be sorry) for being a rebellious sinner against God and his Christ, and ask Jesus Christ to forgive you of every sin you have commited, and then ask him to come into your life, and be the central part of your being. If you will do that, this is what the bible says will happen:

(Ist. John 1:9) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 

(Luke 15:10)  Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.   

(Rom 6:22-23)   22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.   23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.  

(John 5:24) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

(John 3:36) He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

(John 3:16-17)  16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.