Why Christian Sin?

God gave man conscience so that man knows what is right and what is wrong. There is no need for anyone to tell you, that stealing is wrong, yet you know it is wrong. There is no need for anyone to tell you killing is wrong, yet you know it is wrong. How do you know? You know it because your conscience say so.

For born again Christians our consciences are even more sensitive. Because the Spirit of God lives inside us. Many times when we sin, or we do something displeasing to God, our conscience immediately tells us that we are wrong. The uneasy feeling, lost of peace, and restlessness are the few indication that we have walked away from the track. If we take a step to repent and confess our sin before God, He is faithful and just to forgive us our iniquities. Then we will get back our peace and joy again. When David repented of his sins, he prayed, “ Restore unto me the joy of my salvation.” You see, each time when you sin against God, you will lose your joy.

If you choose to ignore your conscience; for a while, you thought you are free. Temporarily you will not be alarmed by it anymore. Because the Spirit of God works within our conscience, Paul warned us in his epistle that we do not quench the fire of the Holy Spirit. And we do not grieve the Spirit of God. And you must know He will never give you up. He will continue to speak to your heart. However if you continue to ignore Him and to ignore your conscience, He is gentleman enough to leave you alone. Until the day you realize that you can’t live without Him.

Hebrews warned us, if we as believers of Jesus Christ continue to sin, there will be no more sacrifice that is able to redeem us. See Hebrews 10:26-31 “26If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." 31It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

There are two main reasons why Christian sin.

1. No more fear of God in their heart.


2. No more love for God.

To live a God’s fearing life and God’s loving life is a matter of choice. No matter where you are, and in which community you live in, you have to make up your mind, to live a God’s fearing life. We have to decide in our heart that we will not compromise.

Daniel lived in Babylon the most corrupted world of his time. Full of idol worship and lust. However Daniel, right from the start had made up his mind that he will not defile himself. See Daniel 1:8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king`s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

Daniel 1:3-4 Tells us what kind of man Daniel is. 3 And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in certain of the children of Israel, even of the seed royal and of the nobles; 4 youths in whom was no blemish, but well-favored, and skilful in all wisdom, and endued with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability to stand in the king`s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego are another example of men who, no matter what, will not compromise their faith in GOD. Read the story below and see how the refuse to bow down to the golden image made by Nebuchadnezzar.

Daniel 3:14 Nebuchadnezzar answered and said unto them, Is it of purpose, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that ye serve not my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? 15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made, well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands? 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in this matter. 17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of thy hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. 19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated. 20 And he commanded certain mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. 21 Then these men were bound in their hosen, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. 22 Therefore because the king`s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. 23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. 24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste: he spake and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. 25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of the gods. 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: he spake and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the Most High God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came forth out of the midst of the fire.
27 And the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, and the king`s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power upon their bodies, nor was the hair of their head singed, neither were their hosen changed, nor had the smell of fire passed on them.28 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king`s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. 29 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god that is able to deliver after this sort. 30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego in the province of Babylon.

Our mind is the place where all decisions are processed. That is why we need to have our mind renewed. Replacing our thoughts with the thought of GOD. The Bible says in Romans 12:2 “And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of yor mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

Knowing the Law, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, chose to live according to the Word of God. They chose to fear God rather than man. They That says “Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.”( Exodus 20:3-6)

Decide in your heart today, that you will not compromise, that you will live by the the Word of God. Not by the pattern of the world.

Lack of Love

In Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus mentioned two commandments that all the Law and the Prophets hang on. Jesus said "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: `Love your neighbor as yourself.All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

Lack of Love for God and His people will cause us to disobey Him. And disobedient is sin. In John 14:15 Jesus said “If you love me, you will obey what I command.” Love, like faith can never be separated from obedience. If we say we have faith yet we disobey Him, we are not telling the truth. The same goes when we say we love Him, yet we disobey Him, we are liars.

Check your heart today. Is the love for Jesus still as strong as before? This could be the reason why you sin. Because if you truly love Him, you will not in anyway disobey Him.

Amen!