Some Interesting Facts You Should Know About Sin (Part 2)

John 8:34 - Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin. NASU

• Fact Number Three 

Sin will cost you more than you ever wanted to pay. When I think of this statement about sin I always think about Judas of Iscariot.
 
Lk 22:3-6 - And Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot, belonging to the number of the twelve. 4 And he went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers how he might betray Him to them. 5 They were glad and agreed to give him money. 6 So he consented, and began seeking a good opportunity to betray Him to them apart from the crowd.
 
Matt. 27:3-4 - Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us?
 
Luke informs us that Judas went and hung himself after he realized what he had done.
 
Acts 1:18 - (Now this man (Judas) acquired a field with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.)
 
Yes, it cost him his life, his reputation and whenever someone hears the name Judas it will always be connected with the one who is a traitor. What a price to pay for allowing sin to rule your actions.
 
Some sins have cost people their jobs, their families, their reputations and even their lives. Sin will cost you more than you ever wanted to pay. 

• Fact Number Four

Sin no longer has control of you. I want to leave you with the encouragement from the apostle Paul:
 
Romans 6:1-2 - Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
 
Romans 6:6-7 …knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin.
 
Romans 6:12-14 - Therefore do not let sin  reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive

from the dead, and your members as  instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
 
Paul is informing us in verses three through seven that we have been baptized into Christ Jesus and in so doing we have gone through a death that has separated us from sin or as Paul says we have been "freed from sin".
 
Many times Christians find themselves remembering their sins from the past and when they get caught in this vicious cycle of remembering their sins they feel as though they are not going to make it to heaven because of their sinful past.
 
If you find yourself in this awful cycle of remembering do yourself a favor and read Romans 6:1-7. These verses will tell you what has happened to the sins of your past and what has happened is you have BEEN FREED from them.
 
Don't allow the devil to feed you a bunch of lies about your past sins that have been covered by the blood of Jesus.
 
Let me quote to you something Dr. Don Wilson preached when he was the minister at CCV (Christ's Church of the Valley):
 
Sorrow Looks Back
Worry Looks Around
Faith Looks Ahead.
 
If you're sorrowful it is because you are looking back. If you're worrying it is because you're looking around at all the things you believe might happen. If you're happy it is because you're walking by faith knowing God is in control.
 
Think About These:
 
Secrets sins won't stay secret sins very long.
 
Sin would have fewer takers if its consequences occurred immediately.

Stay Pumped,
 
Gary A. Serago

Minister of God's Word