“I’m a pretty good person, I pay my bills, I follow the law, I take care of my family and help others when I can…”
"Sin" means to "miss the mark"
What follows that may be something like:
- So why would God send a good person like me to hell?
- “Sinners” are those really bad people that are in prison for murder and rape.
- Don’t all “good” people go to heaven?
- What’s the big deal if I cuss, lie, drink and cheat once in awhile?
Please consider this – God has a Law, and His Law is very clear (Psalm 19:7-11), there are things that God says are wrong, and He calls them sin. The word “sin” in the Bible comes from a Greek word which means to “miss the mark.”
God says:
Do not lie (Ephesians 4:25), do not bear false witness (Exodus 20:16), and keep your word when you make a promise (Matthew 5:37; Ecclesiastes 5:4).
- Have you lied? Have you ever broken your word or not kept a promise? Have you ever cheated to get ahead?
- Where does being dishonest put you with God? Read Revelation 21:8.
Do not use God’s name in vain (Exodus 20:7). God’s name is holy and special and is not to be used as a cuss word, nor is His name to be thrown around as a slang term, or as the part of some joke.
- How have you used God’s name? If you have misused God’s name, then you are guilty of blaspheming (speaking against) God.
- Where does that kind of talk put you with God? Read Matthew 12:36-37.
Do not commit adultery (in other words, cheating on your spouse – Matthew 19:9; Exodus 20:14), and do not commit fornication (in other words, any sexual activity outside of marriage; marriage as God defines it, is between a man and a woman, Matthew 19:4-6; Ephesians 5:3).
- Jesus said that someone who lusts for another in his heart has committed adultery in the heart (Matthew 5:28).
- Have you committed adultery or fornication? Have you lusted in your heart for others?
- Where does this kind of behavior and thinking put you with God? Read Hebrews 13:4 and Galatians 5:19-21.
Are you ready to accept the fact that no one really is a “good” person before God? Paul, an apostle of Jesus, wrote that, “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
Where does your sin, any kind of sin, put you in relationship to God? Read Isaiah 59:1-2.
Do you want to do something about your sin? Do you want to make things right with God?
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1 Corinthians 6:9-11
”Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”
