Shalom,
I want to share again from Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost For His Highest" devotional for today!
The Nature of Degeneration
Just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned… —Romans 5:12
The Bible does not say that God punished the human race for one man’s sin, but that the nature of sin, namely, my claim to my right to myself, entered into the human race through one man. But it also says that another Man took upon Himself the sin of the human race and put it away— an infinitely more profound revelation (see Hebrews 9:26). The nature of sin is not immorality and wrongdoing, but the nature of self-realization which leads us to say, “I am my own god.” This nature may exhibit itself in proper morality or in improper immorality, but it always has a common basis— my claim to my right to myself. When our Lord faced either people with all the forces of evil in them, or people who were clean-living, moral, and upright, He paid no attention to the moral degradation of one, nor any attention to the moral attainment of the other. He looked at something we do not see, namely, the nature of man (see John 2:25).
Sin is something I am born with and cannot touch— only God touches sin through redemption. It is through the Cross of Christ that God redeemed the entire human race from the possibility of damnation through the heredity of sin. God nowhere holds a person responsible for having the heredity of sin, and does not condemn anyone because of it. Condemnation comes when I realize that Jesus Christ came to deliver me from this heredity of sin, and yet I refuse to let Him do so. From that moment I begin to get the seal of damnation. “This is the condemnation [and the critical moment], that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light…” (John 3:19).
SIN will NOT keep you from Heaven when you leave this life! SIN is no longer the problem because JESUS BECAME sin with OUR sin so that WE could become the Righteousness of God - IN HIM! What WILL keep a person from Heaven when they leave this earth is to reject JESUS and HIS free GIFT of Salvation through His shed blood! Refuse to live another day without JESUS! Recognize that you ARE a SINNER and that you NEED a SAVIOUR! JESUS became the ONE you need! Believe and Receive JESUS today! Whatever are you waiting for? Here is Hillsong with "The Passion":
Shalom in Him!
