So Your Sins Were not So Bad?

Have you ever met people who believe they were never bad? I met someone who proclaimed that his sins were not as bad as the sins of others. I had to laugh, no one is good before they are born again. Everyone who is not born again is going to hell, that's how bad their sinfulness is even if all they ever did was steal a pencil from a friend.

All sin is so evil that it cannot be in the presence of a Holy God. Even one small sin is enough to keep us out of heaven and into hell. It is not the one sin that is the problem, it is the sinfulness of the entire being that causes one to commit the one sin.

All the good deeds of unsaved people are as filthy rags to God. Everyone who is not born again do their good deeds to be elevated in their own eyes and the eyes of others, not to please God. God is not even a mention on the minds of unsaved people.

Those who think their sins were not as bad as the sins of others don't realize that sinfulness is in the heart even before there is an act. People who care deeply about impressing others can very effectively hide their evil, even through an entire lifetime.

This is why people are so shocked when someone does a heinous act against another human being when all their lives they lived exemplary in front of the community. Evil is in the heart before its ever an act.

It is hard to imagine that a born again believer who has been broken over his sinfulness would ever think his sins were not as bad as the sins of others.

This man was not only arrogant but often rude to others thinking that his rudeness was justified, even denying he was rude. There were also times when this man would claim his rudeness was just a joke and his offense should have been amusing.

There are more pretenders in the church gatherings today than there are authentic believers. We are seeing more people easily angered at the mention of truth than ever before. In the past non-believers had respect for Christians. Today we have "Christians" who are angry all the time at the suggestion that they might need to adjust their beliefs to match the Biblical principles.

I have had more people in the church angry at the mention of truth than non-believers.

2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths."

There are many myths floating around the church gatherings today, spurning God's Word to elevate self. We are truly in the last days. For us it is hope to see these things happening, but for the world who rejects Christ it is very bad news.