GOSPEL NUGGET #315

Sin Is No Cheap Thrill

Nu 32:23 "...be sure your sin will find you out."

You can pursue a life of sin and seemingly get ahead and away from it, but be sure of this, it will pursue you and track you down and overtake you when you least expect it.

Sin is a relentless and merciless creditor that will follow you wherever you go and ruthlessly demands that you pay your debts. The ghosts of your sins in the past will eventually catch up with you to haunt you, distress you and even destroy you.

A sinful act hardens into a sinful habit, a sinful habit solidifies into a sinful character. And a sinful character will eventually make a mess of himself with others.

Let a man or a woman alone in his lust and greed and eventually he or she will be involved in a situation where he or she in effect punishes himself or herself with guilt, shame, suffering, sorrow and pain. All these because of his or her own fault.

God oftentimes uses one sin as an instrument in exposing another. A man indulging in some private sin sets himself up for a public one. Just give him time and he will expose himself.

Slowly, subtly but surely, your sin will come back to you and announce to the world that he belongs to you.

God will make you realize that sin always has an inescapable consequence, temporal and eternal. You will always reap a harvest to the sin that you sowed, sooner or later. Be sure your sin will find you out.

But there is a way to deal with the eternal consequence of your sin. I say eternal because God never promised everyone to remove the temporal consequence of our sins. "If the righteous is repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!" Prov. 11:31

To remove or not to remove the temporal consequence of our sins is His discretion. The way to deal with the eternal consequence of our sin (punishment in the lake of fire) is to have our sin removed, dismissed and taken away!

If that is the case, then the eternal consequence of our sin will never find us out! "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" John 1:29

Come to Christ in repentance and faith and have your sins taken away before it finds you out. And the eternal consequence of your sins will never find you out because it found Him with your sins on the cross!