The Christian's View of Sin

Opposing ANY sin, which the Bible condemns, because it is an affront to God is neither bigotry nor prejudice. It matters not the nature of the sin or the acceptance of the sin by the world at large. A spiritual revulsion and hatred toward sin IS born out of the love for the holiness and righteousness of God and must characterize those who belong to Him (Ephesians 4:22-24). This is so because by His own initiative God promises to save ALL sinners (you and me) through His Son, who call upon His name in obedient faith (Romans 10:11-13; Titus 2:11-14). 

All who profess to be followers of Christ (Christians) must maintain clarity as to their relationship to the world! James gives us clarity when asks and answers, "Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God." (James 4:4) I want the world to reject me; I do not want to belong to it I want to belong to God! I know of no other way to belong to Him than to be crucified with Christ or to glory and boast in the cross, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. (Galatians 6:14).

We have neither understood the word of God nor accepted it as truth until we hate EVERY false way (Psalms 119:104, 128). All immorality (homosexuality, adultery, etc.) and violence (murder, child abuse, etc.) and worldliness (drunkenness, lying, etc) are false ways - they are sin! Christians need to understand that neither sin nor the world are Christian friendly. If sin or the world every becomes friendly to us, we no longer belong to Him. 

The world was never Jesus friendly! They crucified Him on a cross and because of His great love for all men He willingly bore that cross. Yet, it is by that very humiliation of the cross that those of us who put our trust in Him can have our hearts and hopes lifted because the cross did not have the last word! God raised Him up! This is the message of nearly ever sermon recorded in the New Testament book of Acts. He is risen and because He lives we can live and because we live, we love Him and because we love him, we hate all sin, especially in ourselves, because He bore the sins of all that we might live.Yes, the sins of those who committed violence, to those who practiced immorality, to those who were worldly all these types of sinners were saved turning from their sins to Christ being baptized for the remission of their sins. (Acts 2:36-38; 22:16; I Corinthians 6:9-11).

Check your view of ALL sin and the world - do NOT let it become friendly to you! Put enough distance between yourself and sin that neither YOU nor the world is mistaken about either your intention or your identity!