scripture
Matthew 5:27-30
"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.”
quote
Greg Gordon writes in his article, The Sinfulness of Sin, ‘C.H. Spurgeon the ‘prince of preachers’ over 100 years ago defined sin in one of his sermons: “Sin is a defiance of God to his face, a stabbing of God, so far as man can do it, to the very heart! Sin is a monster, a hideous thing, a thing which God will not look upon, and which pure eyes cannot behold but with the uttermost detestation. A flood of tears is the proper medium through which a Christian should look at sin.” Sin is surely a monster, an unnatural wickedness appearing so horrible to the mind of man. May we loath and hate sin.’
story
A few weeks ago I went to pick up a pizza at Rusty’s. As I approached the door I saw a couple walking up with two very adorable, small girls that were skipping. As I followed them inside I looked at the father’s shirt and became very angry. His shirt back had a black and white 4-5” image of a totally nude girl on the back. His girls ran up to him and asked if they could go see the arcade and my heart was crushed for these girls because of what their father was wearing.
Beginning some months ago I started to see vinyl stickers on cars of nude female silhouettes, one with a devil tail and the other with wings. I think that the same week that I saw those start becoming more popular I also saw full color nude magnets on a truck. Oh the ungodly madness this world craves.
thought
Do we hate sin or do we tolerate it? Do we tolerate it or do we even accept it? We as Christians should do neither! If we love God then we must hate sin. We must see sin for what it is. Let us stop looking at sin as just some trifle thing. Let us start calling a spade a “spade” and sin “sin”. It should not surprise us that the world acts like the world. However, it should upset us. It should bring us to a deep hatred for darkness and an even deeper love for the light. It should motivate us to evangelism with an urgency that souls are perishing while we often times stand idly by.
