Faith Bible Fellowship

Dear folks,

In yesterday’s sermon I noted that the great problem addressed in the Bible is the presence of sin in our heart as well as the world. Remember sin is a lack of conformity in thought, word and deed to the will of God. The Apostle John calls sin lawlessness. One of the great philosophical questions is “where did sin come from if God is good?” How could the Holy God create a world in which sin is present to cause so much suffering and misery as well as be offensive to its Creator? Many ask what kind of God would create a world with so much misery and death?
Genesis 3 and Romans 5 answer this question. Two points need to be emphasized: one is that God is completely without sin and neither condones or rejoices in its activity. The other is that sin came into the world through the decisions of Adam ana Eve to disobey the plain prohibition of God: “but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
During these Communion Sundays we are examining the Biblical teaching on sin because if we are not informed as to the terribleness of sin the Gospel will be a matter of indifference at best. Radical sickness requires radical remedy. We were spiritually dead so we needed to be made alive, only Christ could do, that for us. We need Christ to take a chain saw to the door of our heart and not politely knock. Dead people do not invite someone in to their spiritual house. (Ephesians 2:1) The Lord’s Supper reminds us in a startling way that only the blood of Jesus can make us alive and clean before God. Without a Biblical understanding of sin the the Blood of the Cross becomes an embarrassment and all quite unnecessary and in bad taste as well.
Read over carefully the second Canon of the Council of Orange in 529 AD.

CANON 2. If anyone asserts that Adam’s sin affected him alone and not his descendants also, or at least if he declares that it is only the death of the body which is the punishment for sin, and not also that sin, which is the death of the soul, passed through one man to the whole human race, he does injustice to God and contradicts the Apostle, who says, “Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned” (Rom. 5:12).
Please pray that the Lord will grant us a broken spirit before Him and a fervent desire to walk in a manner pleasing to Christ.

See you Sunday,

Lee