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What do you think about sin? When you hear the word, what does it mean to you? Would you prefer it to be called something else or does it not matter in the least because it’s an irrelevant concept to you? If you do think or care about it, and you’ve not repented of those sins you’ve committed, what do you think God will do when you come before Him in judgement?
I think most of us bandy the term about without much thought, and we look at the world and much of the evil within it and think we’re okay because perhaps we’re not a murderer or serial adulterer or whatever. Here on earth, we tend as a society to grade sin – we consider ourselves to be “good” if we figure we don’t do anything to harm anyone else, and we consider murderers and the like to be evil and utterly sinful by comparison. I had a very interesting conversation with some Catholic ladies recently when a Protestant lady with them said she didn’t like to call herself a Christian because she still did so many “bad things” to which one of the other ladies replied “We (i.e. the Catholic Church) don’t care what you’ve done bar murder – you’re still entitled to call yourself a Christian” with the underlying implication that applied to ALL people, whether Catholic or not. I stated I disagreed and laid out my rather more fundamentalist views on the issue and the reply I got was “Well, if you’re not a Muslim, and you’re not a Hindu, or a pagan, what’s left?” So it’s obvious it’s now become purely a label for Westerners who don’t subscribe to any other particular faith. Sin therefore has a gradient from the least (perhaps a “white” lie) to the worst (murder/torture etc), and many errantly think their sins are so minimal as to be of no concern to God, and thus Heaven’s door should be well open to them! Well think on…..
Israel
Don’t get me wrong – like many, I don’t always agree with the decisions taken by Israel’s rather humanist leftist Government but regardless of that, you have to know that Israel is also God’s timepiece. If you want to know what the future will hold or how things are going to pan out in this world, look to Israel. Throughout history the Land and it’s people the Jews have proven themselves to be under God’s direction and protection many, many times. However, equally so, they’ve been under God’s Judgements many times, and while I know it’s not PC to say it, IF you believe in a totally Sovereign God as I do and IF you believe His Will is perfect as I do, then you have to accept the Holocaust as being part of His plan for His people. To do otherwise, is to give Satan a level of power he has not got. Read Job if you want to see why – no matter what Satan wants to do to God’s people, he has to ask God for permission first!! I’m not saying that God was judging His people per se in the Holocaust – I’m just saying it had a purpose in His Plan for them.
