Sickness And Sin
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
One thing that really concerns this writer about modern life, is how
sin is constantly called sickness. A man commits some moral outrage and
they say he is sick — they even tell him that.
I went to see a man some time ago who had fallen into
unspeakable immorality and it had caught up with him. For years his
sanctimonious life had been a sham; now the mask was torn off and he
was in trouble — deep trouble.
I had been telling him that now his best course was to make a
clean confession — to the courts and to God. But someone else had
gotten to him first. While he stood by, listening, this man had told
his wife: “You must get Jim to see that he’s sick and needs help. I’m
not condoning what he has done, but I’m hopeful that if he gets the
proper help he can be cured.”
What a way to evade the sin question! Of course the man was
sick — I imagine you and I would be sick too if we lived as he had been
living! But let’s get this straight: His sick- ness came from his sin,
not his sin from some sickness. He would have been far better off to
sob out his heart in contrition before God for his sin than to excuse
his conduct on the grounds of illness. Rom. 5:12 says: “By one man sin
entered into the world and death by sin,” and Rom. 6:23 says: “The
wages of sin is death.”
The sobering fact is that while there may be differences in
the kinds of sins we commit, or in the degrees of our sin, Rom. 3:23
declares that there is no difference in this, that “all have sinned and
come short of the glory of God.”
This is why we are so pleased and proud to proclaim “the
gospel of the grace of God,” how Christ paid the penalty for our sins
that we might have a perfect standing before a holy God, “being
justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus” (Rom. 3:24). “Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift!” (II
Cor. 9:15).
Les Feldick Ministries
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