The Depth of Sin

Sin is the natural world’s one and only bottomless pit. There is simply no bottom to sin. It is a downward spiral that keeps on looking for a stopping place but finds none. Even at the hour of the final judgment, the Lake of Fire will have a bottomless pit. The depth of sin is out of focus in today’s church world. The average church member has heard the devil’s lie that says we all sin more or less – better stated as more instead of less – until they are inoculated against any fear of sin.

The Bible paints a totally different picture. It was nothing less than sin that demanded a sacrifice as the single answer. The Heavenly Father looked upon the catastrophe of sin and had only two choices. Either the human race must be eliminated – totally destroyed and banished from the universe – or He had to choose the one Kinsman Redeemer out of His own divine nature to be a sacrifice. Not one of the angels was of an eternal nature; they were all created beings. His Spirit would be required to transact the transition from divine into the human family, so His sacrifice was not an option. His only Son, eternal as Himself and holy beyond the reach of sin, would have to be offered as His gift to redeem the human family. God loved us too much to deny us the possibility of returning into His bosom.

Sin had to be held accountable and then canceled, and His divine blood was the price. For four thousand years the groundwork of redemption was prepared. It appears that God’s own plan was held in balance as Noah’s generation descended into the filth of sin. When Noah found grace in God’s heart, the plan for an ark to preserve a remnant was announced to this family. As the flood abated even God hurt inside with the picture of devastation everywhere. He sent a rainbow to seal His promise that He would never send another flood on the earth.

Heaven must have wept as the Son of God left His royal place in the Heavenly City. He was born of a virgin, unspotted by sin, for the purpose of dying as a ransom for fallen man. “He came unto his own (the family of Abraham and Mary), and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:11-12).

There is no Sonship while any soul continues to live in sin. If a saint must keep on sinning, then the sacrifice of Jesus Christ was and is inadequate for cleansing. Apostle Paul left no doubt regarding this fact. I am heartbroken as I watch our church world continue to spiral downward because the present ministry is bent on teaching a powerless Gospel. I challenge you to believe Paul’s plain, anointed message.

He said to the church at Rome, where sin was at its worst level, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 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. For he that is dead is freed from sin” (Romans 6:1-7). This is the royal death that Jesus died and invites you to share.

Is there a cheap way to inherit the Kingdom? If there is, the Bible never taught it and never recognizes it. The church world that continues in sin is paying a horrible price. My generation has seen more calamities in the church house than common sense can tolerate. It’s time that the Saints of God start a revolution back to the heart of God. The price He paid when He sent His Son demands a return to the righteousness that produces holiness.

No amount of separation from an unclean world can make you holy, but His righteousness can. There are many groups of holiness people in our world but a large percentage of them are only external in their claims. I love external holiness, but until it once again becomes the works of His righteousness our effect on the world is marginal and almost non-existent. External holiness without His righteousness has turned off practically the entire church world. Worldly preachers use this deficiency as an excuse to deny purity and godliness. Both extremes are woefully wrong.

The Holy Spirit of God is moving. His great Sovereign presence is wooing hearts back from the powerless churches and vanity of flesh to the beauty of purity of soul and sanctified life. It cannot be stopped by the crazy theologies that continue to surface. Righteousness was assured for the believing and surrendered when the Kinsman Redeemer suffered on the cross. Rich and carnal ministries and churches will not stop the remnant of saintly souls that hunger for His nature. “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled” (Matthew 5:6).

A revival of holiness is in the air!