THE WAGES OF SIN…

𝘙𝑜𝘮 6:23 𝐾𝘑𝑉 𝐹𝘰𝑟 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑤𝘢𝑔𝘦𝑠 𝑜𝘧 𝘴𝑖𝘯 𝘪𝑠 𝑑𝘦𝑎𝘵ℎ; 𝘣𝑢𝘵 𝘵ℎ𝘦 𝘨𝑖𝘧𝑡 𝑜𝘧 𝘎𝑜𝘥 𝘪𝑠 𝑒𝘵𝑒𝘳𝑛𝘢𝑙 𝑙𝘪𝑓𝘦 𝘵ℎ𝘳𝑜𝘶𝑔𝘩 𝘑𝑒𝘴𝑢𝘴 𝘊ℎ𝘳𝑖𝘴𝑡 𝑜𝘶𝑟 𝐿𝘰𝑟𝘥.

Today’s Devotional…

Almost every Christian believes that the wages of sin is death, according to the scriptures. But few understand what this means.

Given that every human being who ever lived in sin (no matter how long) eventually died, it would sound like the satisfaction of God’s justice concerning sin and death.

But no, what you have to understand is that the wages of sin was not actually the death of the sinner, but another. Let me take it deeper:

The death of sinners did not earn them forgiveness. Even in their death, they remained “dead sinners.” If this were not the case, then all dead people in Adam would have been free from sin, therefore naturally reconciling God.

The law, of sin and death draws its roots way back from the garden of Eden in Gen 2:17, where God says that the day Adam eats of the tree in the midst of the garden, he would die.

The death God was pointing to was not necessarily the death of Adam but the death of Christ.

This is because only Jesus, who was destined to appear in a yet distant future, had the pure and unique blood that could be accepted for the atonement of the sin Adam had just committed.

So, the penalty for sin was actually the death of the sinners but the death of Christ. For even though it was appointed for all men to die naturally or otherwise, it was only the death of Jesus Christ that took away the sin of the world.

May this devotional become a thought-provoking stimulus to push you to seek in the finished works of Christ, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen

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