WHAT ABOUT SIN? - 1

WHEN SIN ENTERED THE WORLD

I shall endeavor to teach on the subject of sin as revealed by the eternal spirit of God. This is because as popular as this topic is, it is obvious that many are yet to understand the doctrine of the bible on it. One of the reasons why we have many denominations today is due to their varying belief on the doctrine of sin. I shall therefore do justice to this controversial but simple topic in the next three days. May the Holy Spirit unite the Church under the umbrella of love and truth with adequate knowledge of the Word in Jesus name

Now when did sin enter the world? Oh, that may sound as personification to you, but we mean “when sin was first recorded on this earth realm”. Definitely, we all are aware of how the first man, Adam ate the fruit that was forbidden by God. And as a result fell from his original position with the Godhead and was chased out of God’s presence.

In the book of Romans, Paul said man “came short of the glory of God” as a result of sin. That is, there was a glory which man could have enjoyed but man was deprived of this glory. That was just the summary of the consequences of the sin of the first man, Adam.

Now further in the same book of Romans, Paul again gave an overview of how sin came to be.

He said, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world…”

I have heard a preacher sometime ago say that the word “entered” is wrong English, that since sin is not a man, then “entered” is not the right verb. Well, “sin” in the passage is noun and singular and not the actions of sin. It represents the root of the sin of the world. Sin entered the world means, sin was first recorded in the world. So Paul said this came by one man. That is, sin would not have gain entrance if not for the man Adam.

Get it straight; the sin that entered through Adam REIGNED for many generations. This shows that the sin is a noun. Since noun is a naming word, then it suffices to show that sin is an entity or a being. Now if sin entered the world just like Satan, Death and Hell entered the world, recall that “Hell” and “Death” were also personified and said to be riding horses in the book of revelation as revealed to the Apostle John, though symbolic, it actually connotes their “being” or “spirit person”. The same applies to sin. Sin is said to “enter” and as a result “reigned”.

Now, when sin entered, the configuration of man which was made in the image of God was distorted. The bible records it that their “eyes were opened”, these do not mean an opening of the physical eye, but a KNOWLEDGE WAS GIVEN. That was why the result of the “opened eyes” led to the discovery of their nakedness. When sin entered into the world, it entered into the settings of man and tampered with it. When sin entered into man, it killed man’s spirit.

At first when God said, “if you eat of the fruit of the garden, Adam will surely die”, he meant Adam will be RECONFIGURED, he meant Adam will BE SEPARATED FROM THE GODHEAD. Man’s configuration in the beginning was strictly God’s image and God’s likeness. However, when the first man ate the fruit of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, man opened the gates of his whole being to sin. The fruit they ate was the portal, eating it opened the portal for sin to enter the world. If Adam had eaten from the tree of life that day, they would have similarly opened the portals of life and Immortality.  As sin is to death and life is to immortality.

Again when sin entered the world, the world was hijacked from man. Sin did not only kill the spirit connection of man, it also took the keys of dominion from man. Man was meant to rule all of God’s creation, but he gave the keys of this kingdom to Sin. Sin was Satan’s channel of dominion. Although Satan is the god of this world, but he has been reigning through sin. So sin reigned and ruled man.

Man became helpless; man became totally separated from God. God could not reach man again; man could not reach God again. There was a great indignation, a broken relationship between man and his maker.

The entrance of sin, was a big blow to man. This is because when the portal of evil (via the forbidden fruit) was opened, many other evil spirits followed suit. Some of these evil personalities are sickness, poverty, deafness, blindness, barrenness, dumbness, death, and hell. All these are no ordinary neither are they natural occurrences; they are actually spirits that flooded the earth realm upon the opening of the portal by Adam’s disobedience. Our previous verse continued by saying that “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, AND DEATH BY SIN; and so death passed upon all men…” “Death here is the compound word for sickness, poverty, blindness, barrenness etcetera.

God’s original purpose and plan for man is not to be poor – Adam had everything he wanted supplied, not to be sick – Adam was functioning like God on earth, so he could not fall sick. All these things are as a result of sin. Death reign by sin.

Sin entered the world, and ruined the beautiful world created by God.

Sin entered the world, and all men became sinners, whether you commit a sin or not, as long as you are identified with Adam, you become a sinner. Sin entered the world, and made the world in need of a savior.