Man has a sin problem. Our sins separate us from
God. Isaiah 59:2,
"But your iniquities
have separated you from your God; and your sins have
hidden His face from you, so that he will not hear".
It is our sins that have caused the separation. In
Romans 3:23, we
are told, "For all have
sinned and fall short of the glory of God".
There is not an accountable person living or who has
ever lived (except our Lord), who can say that he
has never sinned. We are all in need of salvation.
I John 1:8 says,
"If we say we have no
sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in
us". The easiest person to deceive is
ourselves. When we rationalize away what God says,
this is what we are doing. God says that man has a
sin problem, but man says that he does not. Who is
right and what are we doing to God when we say that
we have no sin? Continuing our reading in
I John 1:10,
"If we say that we have
not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not
in us." God is always right when he tells us
that we have all sinned.
In Romans 6:23 we
read, "For the wages of
sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life in
Jesus Christ our Lord". Death is a
separation. When we die physically, our body is
placed into the grave, but our spirit is separated
from our dead body and goes back to God, who gave
it. We are told in
Ecclesiastes 12:7,
"Then the dust will
return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will
return to God who gave it". In physical
death, there is a separation between our body and
our soul.
In
Romans 6:23, we saw that,
"For the wages of sin
is death". This is a spiritual death, which
is a separation from God in eternity for those who
are lost. Since God is in heaven, and those who
experience this spiritual death are separated from
God, they cannot go to heaven. This leaves only one
place for them to go, hell. We see hell spoken of as
the second death in
Revelation 21:8,
"the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which
is the second death"
Questions Lesson 4
Our Sin Problem
(click on the button of the answer of your choice)
1) (Isaiah 59:2) What separates
us from God?
A great space.
Our goodness.
Our sins and iniquities.
2) If sin separates us from God, he will still hear
us.
3) (1 John 1:8) If we say we have no sin
We are deceiving ourselves.
We are correct.
We don't really know for sure.
4) If we say we have never sinned we are telling the
truth.
5) (Romans 3:23) How many accountable people have
sinned?
Few.
Many.
All.
6) God knows when we sin.
7) (Ecclesiastes 12:7) In physical death
Our soul is separated from the body.
Both our soul and body go into the grave.
Both our soul and body cease to exist.
8) In death our soul ceases to exist.
9) (Romans 6:23) If we die with our sins
We will have a second chance in purgatory.
We will be eternally separated from God (spiritual
death).
We will cease to exist.
10) If we are separated from God, we are lost.
11) (Revelation 21:8) The second death
Is when we die physically.
Will never happen.
Is Hell which is the lake of fire and brimstone.