“Unfailing love and faithfulness make atonement for sin. By fearing the LORD, people avoid evil.”

Proverbs 16:6 NLT

Today we are reminded that love covers a multitude of sin. The problem that man faces is sin. From the moment that Adam and Eve sacrificed their standing with God, sin has been at work to keep him bondage and captivity. The Apostle Paul wrote to the church at Rome,

“Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all people [no one being able to stop it or escape its power], because they all sinned.” Romans 5:12 AMP

Man was trapped with no way out of the situation. Death was reigning over him and there was no hope past the grave! God did not create man to sin but rather to have the capacity not to! God created man with the possibility of moral character and so the door to the possibility to sin was there. Man was given the freedom to chose which path to walk. They were free to determine which road they would walk. The problem arose when they chose to reject the way of God and become self-determinate beings! The cause of man’s plight is not ignorance of the right way but his own desire, which leads him to substitute his will for God’s. By deliberate choice, man separates him or herself from God who created him believing they will have freedom and life. That is the ploy of the enemy! Instead of experiencing freedom and life, man receives bondage and death. Realizing this the Apostle Paul states an important fact and relevant question.

“For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh [my human nature, my worldliness–my sinful capacity]. For the willingness [to do good] is present in me, but the doing of good is not. 19For the good that I want to do, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20But if I am doing the very thing I do not want to do, I am no longer the one doing it [that is, it is not me that acts], but the sin [nature] which lives in me 21So I find it to be the law [of my inner self], that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22For I joyfully delight in the law of God in my inner self [with my new nature], 23but I see a different law and rule of action in the members of my body [in its appetites and desires], waging war against the law of my mind and subduing me and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is within my members. 24Wretched and miserable man that I am! Who will [rescue me and] set me free from this body of death [this corrupt, mortal existence]?

Romans 7:18-24 AMP

“Who will rescue me and set me free?” The next verse gives us the answer,

“Thanks be to God [for my deliverance] through Jesus Christ our Lord!…”

Romans 7:25A AMP

No man was able pay the price for mankind as they were all trapped in sin. Satan thought that he had won the victory over God by destroying the apple of God’s eye. But wait! There was a a way! The Gospel of John tells us that,

“And the Word (Christ) became flesh, and lived among us; and we [actually] saw His glory, glory as belongs to the [One and] only begotten Son of the Father, [the Son who is truly unique, the only One of His kind, who is] full of grace and truth (absolutely free of deception).” 

John 1:14 AMP

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believe in Him will have freedom from the power of sin and eternal life! Many ask, “Why did God have to come?” The answer is simple,

“Therefore, since [these His] children share in flesh and blood [the physical nature of mankind], He Himself in a similar manner also shared in the same [physical nature, but without sin], so that through [experiencing] death He might make powerless (ineffective, impotent) him who had the power of death–that is, the devil– 15and [that He] might free all those who through [the haunting] fear of death were held in slavery throughout their lives. “

Hebrews 2:14 AMP

So unfailing love and faithfulness toward mankind led to its freedom through grace! Grace remember is not the freedom to sin but rather the freedom not too hence leading to a path of righteousness and respect toward the One who saved us! Have a blessed day, Pastor Ken