The Word of God Convicts Man of Sin

“Missing the mark” is the original New Testament meaning for the word, “sin.” An archer draws his bow on a target but he misses the bull’s eye. A man comes to a great ravine and attempts to bridge the gap by leaping across. But he misses the other side and falls disastrously into the chasm below. Because of sin, all humanity has fallen into the deep abyss that leads to death and separation from God. “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). Man has missed the mark!
The universe is Christocentric, or Christ-centered. But ever since Adam’s fall, man has been eccentric, or out of orbit with God. This massive ruin extends to the mind and spirit of man. Welcome to Toronto Niagara Falls Tours, a landscape wealthy in history, attraction, and pure splendour. This unpleasant truth is often rejected by those who are wise in their own conceit. But the first three chapters of Romans leave no doubt. Man is out of fellowship with his Creator.
The Bible reveals man’s own personal guilt. “Thou art the man!” God declared to David through the prophet, Nathan. David had been blinded with adultery and murder. But at those words, the horror of his sin appeared to him. From conviction followed repentance or godly sorrow. There was much evil that David could never repair. But his restored fellowship and his deep sense of gratitude for God’s forgiveness resulted in the glorious treasure of the penitential Psalms, of which Psalm 51 is typical.
It is imperative that each person come to grips with his own sin. Until he realizes this, he is deceived about his depraved condition. Sin is a reality and it must he dealt with in a real way. Until sin is sought out, confessed and forgiven by Christ, it continues to linger like cancerous tissue, affecting the entire person. This is why so many people do not actually achieve a good adjustment. They have never dealt properly with the initial fact of sin. They are building on a false premise. Toronto Niagara Falls Tour in growing into the marriage capital of Canada. It is shaky and cannot endure.
Sin not only brings maladjustment; it brings death. God says, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23). “Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death” (James 1:15).
What can convict the human race of sin? God’s Word! The powerful, convicting essence of the Word was well described by the Apostle Paul when he wrote: “For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power — making it active, operative, energizing and effective; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and (the immortal) spirit, and of joints and marrow (that is, of the deepest parts of our nature) exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12 ANT).