1- What is a sin?
The big question of this tutorial being sin, we must know what exactly is a sin.
To put it simply, a sin is a transgression of a law or established norms.
Obviously the sin according to the creator of this world (God) would therefore be to transgress his law.
As God means so well in his word (1 John 3:4): Everyone who sins transgresses the law, and sin is the transgression of the law.
Sin therefore according to God means transgressing the law of God which came through the prophet Moses
John 1:17: For the law was given by Moses, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
2 - The law of God
One might think that the law is of the past or that it has been abolished, but Christ tells us the opposite in Matthew 5:17-20: Do not believe that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets;
I have come not to abolish, but to accomplish. ¹⁸ For verily I say unto you, Until heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall not disappear from the law, until all be come to pass⁹ He therefore who shall remove one of these lesser commandments, which will teach men to do the same, will be called the least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever observes them, and teaches them to observe them, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Having a clear view of sin leads us to examine the law that God gave to Moses and first check whether we are able to fully comply with God's law.
When we go through the pentateuch we count 10 commandments and 603 articles of law, ie 613 rules in total.
Among other things, laws that are generally ignored.
Let's take the text from Leviticus 19:19: You shall observe my laws. You shall not couple cattle of two different species; thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed; and thou shalt not wear a garment woven of two kinds of threads.
Understand then that the fact of dressing oneself in a garment woven of linen and cotton is a sin.
If you wear a garment of 2 types of threads you are sinning against God.
Leviticus 11:7: You shall not eat a pig which has a split horn and a cloven foot, but which does not chew the cud: you shall regard it as unclean.
Know that pork meat is the most consumed in the world but God has forbidden its consumption in his law.
Eating therefore pork and all its derivatives (sausages and others) constitutes a sin against God.
Exodus 20:8-10: Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. You will work six days, and you will do all your work. But the seventh day is the sabbath day of the LORD your God: you shall do no work, neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor the stranger. who is within your gates.
This law recommends us to do no work, no work, no cooking on the Sabbath day except to keep this day holy.
We also see that the majority of men break this law.
We see that it is very difficult for a man to keep this law.
Even obeying 600 commandments and disobeying one makes you guilty of all the law (James 2:10: For whoever keeps all the law but sins against one commandment becomes guilty of all of them.)
Now, we are told, the wages of sin is death.
If by the law of the commandments of God we cannot attain perfection then the question arises as to why God who knows everything gives us this law? What was his intention in giving us this law?
3- The role of the law
The Apostle Paul answers this question in Galatians 3:24: So the law was like a schoolmaster to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
In reality the role of this law is just to lead us to Christ.
So how does this law do it?
Romans 7:7:23: What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Far from there ! But I only knew sin by the law. For I would not have known covetousness, if the law had not said, Thou shalt not covet. And sin, seizing the opportunity, produced in me by commandment all kinds of lusts; for without law sin is dead. For me, being once lawless, I lived; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. So the commandment that leads to life happened to me to lead to death. For sin seizing the opportunity, seduced me by the commandment, and by it slew me. The law therefore is holy, and the commandment is holy, just, and good. Has what is good then been a cause of death for me? Far from there ! But it is sin, so that it might manifest itself as sin by giving me death by what is good, and that, by the commandment, it might become condemnable in the highest degree. We know, indeed, that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold to sin. Because I don't know what I'm doing: I don't do what I want, and I do what I hate. Now, if I do what I do not want, I thereby recognize that the law is good. And now it's not me who does it, but it's sin that dwells in me. What is good, I know, does not dwell in me, that is to say in my flesh: I have the will, but not the power to do good. Because I don't do the good that I want, and I do the bad that I don't want. And if I do what I don't want, it's not me who does it anymore, it's sin that dwells in me. So I find this law within me: when I want to do good, evil is attached to me. For I delight in the law of God, according to the inward man; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members.
The law therefore shows us the good and the bad according to God and confirms to us that we can never respect it because we are weak in this human flesh.
The main reason for our weakness before the law of God is truly our fundamental nature marked with sin as Mark 7:23 says: He said again: That which comes out of a man is that which defiles a man. . For it is from within, it is from the heart of men, that come evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, fraud, disorder, envious eyes, calumny, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.
Christ says that every man is born from birth with at least 12 kinds of sin.
The law therefore acts as a mirror that shows us our spots so that we can know that we are sick in order to hasten to the salvation of Christ.
The law can therefore never lead us to salvation otherwise Christ would have come in vain Galatians 2:21: I do not reject the grace of God; for if righteousness comes by law, then Christ died in vain.
Having therefore understood our sinful nature and acknowledged our sins before God we can now seek God's mercy to avoid the retribution of God's judgment.
The big question of this tutorial being sin, we must know what exactly is a sin.
To put it simply, a sin is a transgression of a law or established norms.
Obviously the sin according to the creator of this world (God) would therefore be to transgress his law.
As God means so well in his word (1 John 3:4): Everyone who sins transgresses the law, and sin is the transgression of the law.
Sin therefore according to God means transgressing the law of God which came through the prophet Moses
John 1:17: For the law was given by Moses, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
2 - The law of God
One might think that the law is of the past or that it has been abolished, but Christ tells us the opposite in Matthew 5:17-20: Do not believe that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets;
I have come not to abolish, but to accomplish. ¹⁸ For verily I say unto you, Until heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall not disappear from the law, until all be come to pass⁹ He therefore who shall remove one of these lesser commandments, which will teach men to do the same, will be called the least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever observes them, and teaches them to observe them, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Having a clear view of sin leads us to examine the law that God gave to Moses and first check whether we are able to fully comply with God's law.
When we go through the pentateuch we count 10 commandments and 603 articles of law, ie 613 rules in total.
Among other things, laws that are generally ignored.
Let's take the text from Leviticus 19:19: You shall observe my laws. You shall not couple cattle of two different species; thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed; and thou shalt not wear a garment woven of two kinds of threads.
Understand then that the fact of dressing oneself in a garment woven of linen and cotton is a sin.
If you wear a garment of 2 types of threads you are sinning against God.
Leviticus 11:7: You shall not eat a pig which has a split horn and a cloven foot, but which does not chew the cud: you shall regard it as unclean.
Know that pork meat is the most consumed in the world but God has forbidden its consumption in his law.
Eating therefore pork and all its derivatives (sausages and others) constitutes a sin against God.
Exodus 20:8-10: Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. You will work six days, and you will do all your work. But the seventh day is the sabbath day of the LORD your God: you shall do no work, neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor the stranger. who is within your gates.
This law recommends us to do no work, no work, no cooking on the Sabbath day except to keep this day holy.
We also see that the majority of men break this law.
We see that it is very difficult for a man to keep this law.
Even obeying 600 commandments and disobeying one makes you guilty of all the law (James 2:10: For whoever keeps all the law but sins against one commandment becomes guilty of all of them.)
Now, we are told, the wages of sin is death.
If by the law of the commandments of God we cannot attain perfection then the question arises as to why God who knows everything gives us this law? What was his intention in giving us this law?
3- The role of the law
The Apostle Paul answers this question in Galatians 3:24: So the law was like a schoolmaster to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
In reality the role of this law is just to lead us to Christ.
So how does this law do it?
Romans 7:7:23: What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Far from there ! But I only knew sin by the law. For I would not have known covetousness, if the law had not said, Thou shalt not covet. And sin, seizing the opportunity, produced in me by commandment all kinds of lusts; for without law sin is dead. For me, being once lawless, I lived; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. So the commandment that leads to life happened to me to lead to death. For sin seizing the opportunity, seduced me by the commandment, and by it slew me. The law therefore is holy, and the commandment is holy, just, and good. Has what is good then been a cause of death for me? Far from there ! But it is sin, so that it might manifest itself as sin by giving me death by what is good, and that, by the commandment, it might become condemnable in the highest degree. We know, indeed, that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold to sin. Because I don't know what I'm doing: I don't do what I want, and I do what I hate. Now, if I do what I do not want, I thereby recognize that the law is good. And now it's not me who does it, but it's sin that dwells in me. What is good, I know, does not dwell in me, that is to say in my flesh: I have the will, but not the power to do good. Because I don't do the good that I want, and I do the bad that I don't want. And if I do what I don't want, it's not me who does it anymore, it's sin that dwells in me. So I find this law within me: when I want to do good, evil is attached to me. For I delight in the law of God, according to the inward man; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members.
The law therefore shows us the good and the bad according to God and confirms to us that we can never respect it because we are weak in this human flesh.
The main reason for our weakness before the law of God is truly our fundamental nature marked with sin as Mark 7:23 says: He said again: That which comes out of a man is that which defiles a man. . For it is from within, it is from the heart of men, that come evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, fraud, disorder, envious eyes, calumny, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.
Christ says that every man is born from birth with at least 12 kinds of sin.
The law therefore acts as a mirror that shows us our spots so that we can know that we are sick in order to hasten to the salvation of Christ.
The law can therefore never lead us to salvation otherwise Christ would have come in vain Galatians 2:21: I do not reject the grace of God; for if righteousness comes by law, then Christ died in vain.
Having therefore understood our sinful nature and acknowledged our sins before God we can now seek God's mercy to avoid the retribution of God's judgment.
