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SIN AND ITS SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION

Sin is not only a deviation or inclination towards evil, proper to human nature, it is a spiritual argument provoked by Satan to have the right of operation and intervention in Adam’s generation.

Sin is a spiritual argument provoked by Satan to have right of operation and intervention in Adam’s generation.

God did not design, nor did He create sin to cohabit with man. For two reasons we affirm this and corroborate it with the Scriptures themselves,

First, the expression, and God saw that it was good, of each of the first five days of the Creation of His work, together with the, and God saw that it was good exceedingly, of the sixth day, shows that in His design, God so harmoniously ordered all things, that something deviant like sin and wickedness would have no place in them.

Second, the Scriptures bear clear testimony that He sustains all things. If He sustains them, His Holiness does not allow anything erring such as sin and wickedness to originate. This is an inalienable foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven.

17 and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Colossians 1:17

10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Hebrews 2:10

24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

Acts 17:24

Sin is not God’s creation, but satanic. It was designed to establish and maintain man in captivity.

The epistle to the Romans affirms that sin entered the world through one man.

12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Romans 5:12

Sin is not in the world, that is, it is not outside, it is coexisting within human nature.

The Holy Scriptures testify that Creation has been subject to vanity,

20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

Romans 8:20

This means that sin is not part of matter but an endemic evil of human nature. This leads us to understand that sin is a condition, not a state.

Speaking about the foundation of the state of sin as a condition of human nature, the apostle Paul wrote what seems to be his testimony in his struggle against his sinful condition,

19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 7:19-23

Sin is spiritual in nature. One of the greatest failures, in matters of religion, that has been recorded in the history of the church, is to believe that sin is in the flesh.

It was this medieval interpretation that led many monastic groups and hermits to punish the flesh, to isolate themselves from others, and to develop penances and pilgrimages, so that by such punishments sinful inclinations could be controlled.

Although the apostle Paul uses the term, flesh, to refer to man’s sinful tendency, he uses it to identify the Adamic inheritance that constituted us all sinners,

9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;…    23 for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Romans 3:9-23

Sin is of a spiritual nature. For two reasons we affirm it, and we corroborate it by the Scriptures,

First, because Jesus was made flesh,

14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

John 1:14

3 concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

Romans 1:3

14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

Hebrews 2:14

…But there was no sin in Him,

21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

2 Corinthians 5:21

22 who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

1 Peter 2:22

5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.

1 John 3:5

Second, since death is on account of sin,

23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:23

…And since Jesus did not die because of the crucifixion, but because He gave up the spirit,

18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

John 10:18

50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

Matthew 27:50

It means that sin is not in the flesh, but is a condition of a spiritual nature.

Sin is the malformation of the Word of the Creator. It is a spiritual process by which Satan transgresses the Word into his power, in usurpation, and establishes it in wickedness.

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

Romans 7:7

This is the argument that supports apostasy as a way to stop God’s work on earth.

The clearest example is the case of the serpent who deceived Eve and induced her to eat of the fruit of which God forbade them to eat. The review of the dialogue and the words of the serpent to Eve, shows the process of usurpation and contamination of wickedness with which they seduce Eve to enter into the condition of sin.

–Ye shall not surely die, is the term that shows the usurpation of the Word,

–But God knows, it is the term that Satan carries with a high content of wickedness, and by Eve’s acceptance of it, soon causes both Adam and Eve to incur sin.

For that reason the Word cannot be used to argue or argue about it. To do so establishes idolatry and false worship,

4 who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

Apostasy, false prophets, false doctrines, the proliferation of pagan religious rituals stigmatized as Christian processes, are formations of sin that Satan builds around communities of faith to distort their spiritual function.

4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

2 Corinthians 4:4

Sin is not reduced to an “action”. A person is not a sinner because of his actions, he is a sinner even if there is no action involved. The actions simply reveal the type of deviation or inclination towards sin.

20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Matthew 7:20

The type of action where sin is manifested serves us to evaluate the areas of the “flesh” that must be worked on to remove Satan’s yoke on the person.

22 that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

Ephesians 4:22

Right after this instruction, note how the apostle cites a series of examples of “actions” to be eliminated.

25 Wherefore (1)putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. 26 (2)Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 (3)neither give place to the devil. 28 Let him that stole (4)steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. 29 (5)Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 30 (6)And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 31 (7)Let all bitterness, (8)and wrath, (9)and anger, and (10)clamour, and (11)evil speaking, be put away from you, with all (12)malice:

Ephesians 4:25-31

This text is useful for us to identify twelve examples of human actions under which Satan has kept the inhabitants of this region subjugated.

Sin is subjection to Satan.  It is not about “mistakes”, conscious or unconscious, committed under the pressure of some particular situation, it is about an authority and subjection that Satan maintains over the person, the families, the communities, the regions, which have been transformed into the personality of each person.

4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

1 John 3:4-9

Sinful tendencies are evidence of the presence and establishment of Satan, and the movement of the kingdom of darkness.

The Scriptures point out that sin no longer has jurisdiction over one who has been born again of water and the Spirit, that the body of sin has been crucified with Jesus.

6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?…      6 knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Romans 6:1-7

So, although it may seem strange to hear it, the struggle against sin is a real spiritual struggle, fought in the flesh, not in the mind as some claim, to free oneself from the yoke that Satan kept for years over the person, over the family, and even over the region.

pastor Pedro Montoya

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Iniquity, transgression, and the Righteousness of the Kingdom. PART THREE. Reading corresponding to the module of The Doctrine of the Foundation of Dead Works.

PART THREE: RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE KINGDOM

Kingdom Righteousness is not, nor is it reduced to, a collection of doctrines by which Righteousness is established.

Although the people of Israel received the Law of Moses, and it was established to them that whoever fulfilled them would live by them,

5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

Romans 10:5

However, in Moses’ teaching it was also stipulated that it was not only a matter of “fulfilling” the commandments of the Law, but of doing them for the love of God,

20 that thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Deuteronomy 30:20

In the testimony of the prophets, it is also stipulated that it is the love and fear of God that determines the Righteousness of the Law,

24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

Ezekiel 18:24

19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

Ezekiel 33:19

It may be the case of someone who complies, but if in his heart there is wickedness, his compliance with the Law becomes unrighteousness,

9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

Deuteronomy 15:9

The Righteousness of the Kingdom depends on the Righteousness and judgment of the attitude with which the person does all things. Therefore, in the teaching of the Gospel established by the apostle Paul, it is emphasized that the Righteousness of the Kingdom begins from the decision of the person to build a life of faith,

8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Romans 10:8-9

This teaching is not Paul’s own; he took it from the Law. Moses established it in his time to explain how the Righteousness of the Kingdom operates,

11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it…    16 in that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Deuteronomy 30:11-16

The Righteousness of the Kingdom consists in the conviction that a person develops about the transcendence of his acts in observance of what he knows of God, whether this is written or received as spiritual instruction.

The righteousness of the Kingdom is based on the conviction of the Will of God, from the personal commitment that each person develops in his intimate communion with God.

14 The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.

Psalm 25:14

The Righteousness of the Kingdom is built upon the life of faith, through the establishment of right judgment according to the Will and Purposes of God.

5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness…    9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness…    11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

Romans 4:5-11

This makes the righteousness of the Kingdom to be founded on the life of faith of each one, as it is discovered from the conviction of Abraham in his subjection to the revelation he had received from Jehovah God.

6 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Genesis 15:6

The life of faith arises from the deposit of Revelation that each one receives in his interior, by the Spirit of God, in the interaction and submission to His Will.

33 but this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Jeremiah 31:33

Note how the prophet establishes the value of the personal relationship by making use of two terms that concern the individuality of personal existence. The use of the words, bowels, and, hearts, are to indicate not the life product of collectivity, but the life in oneself born of conviction and covenant with God.

This conception does not belong only to the Old Covenant according to the Law, it is presented as part of the New Covenant, cited on two consecutive occasions in the most emblematic epistle of the church.

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Hebrews 8:10

16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

Hebrews 10:16

This Word belongs to a prophetic Word about the deportation of Judah to Babylon, we find it in the book of the prophet Ezekiel. It emphasizes that although the Word is addressed to an entire people, its activation depends on the individual value that each one gives to the life of faith,

19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

Ezekiel 11:19

26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 36:26

Faith is by measure, as the following text reveals,

3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith…   6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

Romans 12:3-6

Not everyone has the same measure of faith, and therefore, not everyone has the same level of Justice, and it is in the first place, because not everyone has the same commitment before His Will; and in the second place, because not everyone abominates in the same intensity the things that are abominable to God, and this because they do not know what God abominates.

In reading the first five books of the Bible, the books of Moses, one discovers the principle of the life of faith. It is simple. Faith, and therefore, the Righteousness of the Kingdom, is founded on the knowledge of what is sin and what is wickedness; of what is pleasing to God, and what is abominable in His sight.

How can one develop fear of God if one does not know what He abominates?

No one can claim to have faith if in his actions he is tolerant of acts of injustice. No one can grow in faith if his actions do not establish justice. The Righteousness of the Kingdom is founded upon acts carried out in the consciousness that such are done in the presence of the Almighty.

Knowing what is pleasing and displeasing in the eyes of God is important, and vital to grow in Justice. It is the didactics of the Law of Moses. Let us note that before he died, Moses read the blessings and curses to all the people.

15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 in that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Deuteronomy 30:15-16

Even to go out to war it was necessary to have knowledge about life and good, death and evil. It is the protocol of the Kingdom upon which the development of the spiritual life rests.

19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 that thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Deuteronomy 30:19-20

Moses commanded that once they entered the land, and possessed it, they would read to the people the blessing and curse contained in the Law,

29 And it shall come to pass, when the Lord thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

Deuteronomy 11:29

Joshua carried out the act as commanded by Moses,

33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

Joshua 8:33

Why the importance of this ritual of reading the blessing and curse? Simple. Because Justice is not built on ignorance. Faith is knowledge and conviction.

And here it is useful for us to establish the teaching of the apostle Paul addressed to the community of Rome,

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

Romans 7:7

The apostle establishes the process of the construction of the righteousness of the Kingdom, and the formation of a life of faith: The Law-Word brings to light what is hidden in me, names it, and declares it an abomination to the Lord God. From there on, the life of faith takes charge of eradicating it from the substance of the person. Acts of Righteousness begin to emerge.

The doctrine of Christ does not set aside what was established by Moses, it reveals to me what is happening spiritually so that with conscience I can work it with greater accuracy. Once the Law has shown me the actions that are sin in me, it introduces me to Christ so that through faith in believing in Him, I may be free from the law of sin.

24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Galatians 3:24

Christ Jesus is symbolically present in each sacrificed animal that the priest presented in propitiation for the sinful actions that came to light.

18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

1 Peter 3:18

So again, the Righteousness of the Kingdom and the life of faith is not ignorance, but knowledge of what is in me that is displeasing to God.

The didactics of the Law uses the knowledge of what is abominable in the eyes of God, so that by identifying and naming them, they can be brought in sacrifice before the altar.

Here we have to denounce the deficiency of contemporary Gospel proclamation, which does not consider it necessary to read the Law of Moses. Its ignorance has led to the establishment of human, philosophical doctrines, which are based on moral knowledge and discard the Revelation of God. Many seminaries and centers of theological studies should consider integrating in their respective curricula the exhaustive study of the Law.

The second principle of the righteousness of the Kingdom and of the life of faith is: Establish truth.

32 and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 8:32

It is not enough to know what is abominable in the sight of Jehovah God, it is necessary to establish His Truth. In the conjugation of both, knowledge of what is abominable in His sight, and the establishing of Truth, the Gospel of the Kingdom is built.

What is truth?

Unlike as presented by various modern trends, truth is not the affirmation of facts, as defined by philosophy; or the opposite of a lie, as promoted by religion; nor the antithesis of deception, as propagated by atheistic existentialism.

Truth is the establishment of God’s Revelation as to the knowledge He allows us to have. Anything that does not proceed from or to God’s Revelation is a lie and deception. We find it in the final words of Moses,

29 The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 29:29

Note how the text ends: all the words of this law. The commandment is inclusive. It means to teach not only what is pleasing to Him, but to teach also about what is displeasing, what is abominable to Him, so that the man of God develops discernment and learns to execute the Righteousness of the Kingdom.

Truth is that which is established by God. This is faith and its development. Hence the importance of Moses’ command to Joshua to read the blessing and the curse of the Law.

Truth demands the right knowledge, the knowledge established by God. A knowledge not originating from God is a lie, and establishes deception, and must be discarded. God’s truth is truth even if the facts indicate or pretend to establish the contrary.

The life of faith is the result of living according to the righteousness of the Kingdom. The righteousness of the Kingdom is based on knowledge of God’s truth.

Truth demands that naivety and ignorance be annulled. It is appropriate to point out the words of the book of Ezra,

10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

Ezra 7:10

Restoration, even, is the result of a life of faith that discards naivety and ignorance as a way of life,

13 And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.

Nehemiah 8:13

Truth is the foundation of the Gospel of the Kingdom,

25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Ephesians 4:25

The revelation of God, and the openness of the congregation to it, depends on the degree of truth that the community develops,

26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

1 Corinthians 14:26

Paul teaches it in all his epistles, it is part of the proclamation of his Gospel.

19 speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Ephesians 5:19

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Colossians 3:16

In the West we will soon have a collapse of faith among many Christian communities, and it is due to a bubble life that has been built on the false knowledge that God seeks our welfare.

A secular knowledge of financial cut-throat has been mixed with the proclamation that God makes us prosper in our land. Many today are building their own fortunes on this basis and forgetting to build in faith and righteousness.

I conclude by quoting the words of the prophet Micah,

8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Micah 6:8

And the words of the prophet Hosea,

19 And I will betroth thee unto me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

Hosea 2:19

12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

Hosea 10:12

7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Hosea 12:7

6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

Hosea 12:6

The purpose of Grace is for everyone to draw closer to Jesus, and to learn to live in direct dependence on the Lord. The problem, however, does not consist in an absence of teaching about who Jesus is, but in the fact that many times the man and/or woman of faith result in “developing” actions, habits and customs that they do not know that such acts are an abomination to the Lord. According to your understanding of the reading, what is wickedness?

The purpose of Grace is for everyone to draw closer to Jesus, and to learn to live in direct dependence on the Lord. The problem, however, does not consist in an absence of teaching about who Jesus is, but in the fact that many times the man and/or woman of faith result in “developing” actions, habits and customs that are not built according to the principles of Righteousness of the Kingdom of God. What principles of Righteousness have you implemented in your life?

All Bible texts are taken from the Authorized King James Version (AKJV).

pastor Pedro Montoya

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Iniquity, transgression, and the Righteousness of the Kingdom. PART TWO. Reading corresponding to the module of The Doctrine of the Foundation of Dead Works.

PART TWO: WHAT IS SIN?

Unlike what we learned as children, that sin is an action pointed out by the elders, and penalized by God, we will realize from the Scriptures themselves, that sin is a natural condition in which the person or persons live. It is not an action. Actions are simply the degree of visible evaluation of the condition of sin in which the person lives.

Sin is a state of life, and the person cannot, no matter how hard he or she tries, get out of that condition on his or her own.

The apostle Paul dealt with the subject in a masterful way when, guided by the Holy Spirit, he established that sin obeys a spiritual law, and defined it as the law of sin.

23 but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Romans 7:23-25

As such, because it is a genetic and spiritual condition, the condition of sin can only be broken through the process of regeneration.

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Romans 8:2-3

Sin is also an argument from wickedness. By argument from wickedness, we refer to any verbal or factual process by means of which valid justification is established to oppose the work of God.

And it is not only a philosophical, logical justification, because in the reading of the Scriptures we find that there are also of a spiritual type.

The clearest example is found in the account of chapter three of Genesis, which describes the “argument” that the serpent put before Eve, by virtue of which both Adam and Eve opposed the Word that Jehovah Elohim had determined with respect to the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Genesis 3:4-5

Sin is to be under the effects of the satanic argument interposed to cause the man of faith to resist the voice of God.

17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus; 18 who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

2 Timothy 2:17-18

Sin as such has the capacity to fascinate people,

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Galatians 3:1

For this reason, and knowing the havoc it causes, the apostle Paul recommended both Titus and Timothy to beware of all vain speech, of all repetition, and even of theological discussions.

20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

1 Timothy 6:20

16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

2 Timothy 2:16

5 having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

2 Timothy 3:5

9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Titus 3:9

Even the Word itself, if interpreted, can provoke fascination among the people to whom it is sent,

5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Matthew 4:5-6

Sin is subjection to Satan.  It is not about “mistakes”, conscious or unconscious, committed under the pressure of some situation, it is about an authority and subjection that Satan maintains over the person, the families, the communities, the regions, which have been transformed into the personality of each person.

4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

1 John 3:4-9

Sinful tendencies are evidence of the presence and establishment of Satan, and of the movement of the kingdom of darkness.

As for the dynamics that sin develops to introduce sin within any community, we denounce the following,

The first arises from Adam and Eve’s act of disobedience: sin leads a person to transgress the Word of God,

4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

1 John 3:4

All transgression of biblical and spiritual principles, consciously or in ignorance and/or by accident, is sin, and involves those who were led to transgress in a state of insanity, bewitchment, or hypnotism.

The second stage is a little more complex since it does not necessarily involve the transgression of the Word of God as the basis of sin. This stage is defined by the attitude, intention and/or posture that the person adopts towards something or someone,

17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

James 4:17

This definition applies to anyone who has knowledge and conviction of what he has to do, but does not do it. His inaction is counted as sin.

Third, sin is doing nothing to stop wickedness. When wickedness is not stopped, it accumulates and generates sin. Sin is the accumulation of wickedness.

17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

1 John 5:17

Sin is not reduced to an “action”. A person is not a sinner because of his actions, he is a sinner even if there is no action involved. The actions simply reveal the type of deviation or inclination towards sin.

20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Matthew 7:20

The type of action serves to evaluate the areas of the “flesh” that must be worked on to remove Satan’s yoke on the person.

22 that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

Ephesians 4:22

All Bible texts are taken from the Authorized King James Version (AKJV).

pastor Pedro Montoya

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