What is Sin Anyway?

Sin is:
* The evil and bitter nature within every man that hates the Creator.
* A secret pride in being successful.
* A violation of God's will and purpose.
* A wanton revolt against the Almighty who is full of goodness.
* Any transgression of God's divine law inwardly or outwardly.
* Pride in training, appearance, or intelligence.
* Feeling an important, independent spirit.
* Any thought that doesn't include God.
* What you are through and through without the Lord Jesus Christ.
* Feeling bitter over what someone has said about you.
* Having a sarcastic or unyielding spirit.
* To know to do good, and do it not.
* Having a bitter, peevish, sensitive, or "touchy" spirit.
* Saying and doing things to attract attention to yourself.
* Complaining, murmuring, and griping.
* The path to Hell.
* Pure selfishness.
* Thinking you're better than someone else.
* The knowing and willful choice of evil and a maliciousness against God.
* Loving yourself more than your neighbor.
* Speaking evil of another behind their back.
* A high look, a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked.
* A desire to quit trying to do right.
* Disobedience to God's command.
* A want of conformity to the will of God.
* A forgetfulness of your obligations to God, to be unthankful and not give God the glory.
* Any self-loving or self-honoring attitude whether covered or manifest.
* Finding flaws and criticizing others when you are set aside and unnoticed.
* A deceitful and evasive spirit.
* Whatsoever is not of faith.
* A transgression against God's way, a violation of the Law of right.
* Base ingratitude, spite against holiness, and a preference for that which is devilish.
* A choosing of evil and rejection of good.
* A wrong done against the LORD Himself.
* An assault upon the person of God.
* Unwillingness to put out for others unless personal advantage or gain is involved.
* Unnatural or abusive acts to yourself or others.
* Seeking to create false impressions.
* A bitter, malicious attack upon God's Son.
* A breach either in imagination, desire, attitude, word, or action, of the divine Law.
* Any common activity done where one trusts self and not God.
* An abominable thing which God hates.
* Lusting, roaming, wandering eyes.
* Taking a paycheck when you didn't earn it.
* An onslaught against God Himself.
* Evil imagination, dirty thought, lustful craving.
* An attack on God's goodness, an insult to God's wisdom, and an abuse of God's mercy.
* Shirking from duty or stinting (loafing) at work.
* A tendency to retaliate when "crossed."
* Permitting things in your life you would not permit in the lives of others.
* Being shallow or stingy or unclean in thought.
* Talking about someone behind their back.
* Being a joker or jester.
* A failure to perform at the highest possible level.
* Partiality in dealing with certain persons, denominations, classes, or races.
* Treating one person differently than another.
* Thinking of what might have happened if things hadn't happened the way they did.
* Being in constant fear of failure, or taking an unmerciful attitude towards those that fail.
* Being unthankful or unappreciative for the "lot" God gave you in life.
* Putting on a false or exaggerated humility.
* An "I-don't-care-attitude" towards being caught in sin or skipping responsibility.
* Imagining how others are praising you or speaking well of you.
* Straining at the truth.
* Having a feeling of nervousness when you see somebody doing something that you think you could do better.
* Anything that is not good and right and truth before the LORD God.

A little sin won't stay little (I Corinthians 5:6; Galatians 5:9).

The Gospel of Christ is not Salvation in sin, but Salvation from sin, not a license to commit evil, but a deliverance from evil. The two-edged sword of the Gospel divides a man from his sins, and kills his self-righteousness and love for sinning against God. Deliverance from sin is not a work of a religious legal bondage, but the work of God's divine grace, the gracious work of the Holy Spirit. The forgiveness of sins always brings with it a ransom from the dominion of sin. Be honest with yourself, be honest with God, reason with God.

When you love Christ, you will hate your sins with a passion.  Your sin is your enemy and God's. From your very heart give up your sin, and follow after Christ's things. O Lord, please deliver me from every false way for Jesus' sake. The undying worm in hell fire is the love for sin. Your love for sin separates you from God. All are under sin, there is none righteous, no, not one. You must be good and lost, before you will ever sincerely ask Jesus to save you from sinning against God. You will have to get sad, before you get glad.

Turn now from the love of sin and look to Christ Jesus Himself. Christ Jesus will love you out of your love for sin. His bleeding love will make sin nauseating to you (Isaiah 38:17). Sin and you must part. Sin bewitches you, the world enthralls you.  Jesus loved lost souls to death on Calvary. No man in his right mind would ask the surgeon to only take out 97% of a malignant tumor. No, you would want all of a deadly cancer to be removed. You must have the same mind set about your sins with the Great Physician - The Lord Jesus Christ.  Ask Christ to remove all your sins with His scalpel of Grace. Jesus is the Great Savior of unworthy sinners. Self-abhorrence makes Christ dearer to the heart.