THE WAGES OF SIN

When man sinned in the Garden of Eden, his entire being was affected.

-          His spirit: disconnected from God. He lost relationship with God (God is Spirit)

-          His body: became vulnerable to affliction, oppression, and sickness

-          His soul: became destined for hell.

No wonder man died the most horrible kind of death – spiritual death.

Then came Jesus, and restored the life that was lost, and now have we hope of eternal life in no other than Christ Jesus.

When we now continue in sin, we are despising the redemptive work of Christ on the cross and making our spirit once again disconnected from God, our body vulnerable to satanic oppression and afflictions, and the soul hell-bound.

When a man sins, something dies somewhere in him. Though because the death is not always physical people think nothing happens. But there is spiritual death and it is worse than physical death. For example, whenever you commit fornication, something dies in your future. This is so true. Look at Joseph, should he have committed sin with Portiphar’s wife, he certainly won’t die physically immediately, but the future (the spiritual) would have been gone. This is one meaning of the scripture “the soul that sinneth, it shall die” (Ezekiel 18:4b). It is spiritual death here, and in eternity. “For the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). This will not be our portion in Jesus’ name.

Indeed, the real enemies of humanity are not witches, sicknesses, demons, or poverty, it is sin. When we overcome the life and power of sin, we have overcome the devil...and we shall inherit eternal life.

May the powers of sins and negative addictions be broken in our lives in Jesus’ name. Amen.