For me, one of the strongest, deepest, most compelling reasons for believing the Bible is because it has the most accurate explanation for what is wrong with us… I have never run into anything remotely like the Bible when it comes to an accurate fix on what is wrong with the human heart…
The New Testament Church got its definition of sin from the Old Testament, the only written Word of their day. It defines the problem for which the New Testament presents the solution. The Law and the Prophets relentlessly expose the nature of human sin from God’s perspective.
For several years now I have studied the last half of the Old Testament carefully, and from that reading I compiled a huge list of God’s creative descriptions of sin. I’ve boiled the essence of that list into the following descriptive phrases in the language of today:
- Going
our own way
- Doing
our own thing
- Defiantly
resisting authority
- Stubborn
disobedience
- Willful
rebellion
- Defensive
and antagonistic attitudes
- Self-centered
focus
- Compulsively
competitive nature
- Addiction
to control
This analysis of sin… is as powerful in provoking the human conscience today as it was two thousand years ago.
“But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 3:21-24 NKJV)
-- Adapted from “Follow Me: Experience the Loving Leadership of Jesus” by Jan David Hettinga
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