Bible
Study - Are You Really Sure Of Your Eternal Salvation?
Lesson 4
Our Sin Problem
Man has a sin problem. Our
sins separate us from God. Isaiah 59:2,
"But your iniquities have separated you from your God;
and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that he will
not hear". It is our sins that have caused the
separation. In Romans 3:23, we are told,
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory
of God". There is not an accountable person living
or who has ever lived (except our Lord), who can say that
he has never sinned. We are all in need of salvation.
I John 1:8 says, "If we say we
have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is
not in us". The easiest person to deceive is ourselves.
When we rationalize away what God says, this is what we are
doing. God says that man has a sin problem, but man says that
he does not. Who is right and what are we doing to God when
we say that we have no sin? Continuing our reading in I John
1:10, "If we say that we have
not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us."
God is always right when he tells us that we have all sinned.
In Romans 6:23 we read,
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of
God is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord".
Death is a separation. When we die physically, our body is
placed into the grave, but our spirit is separated from our
dead body and goes back to God, who gave it. We are told in
Ecclesiastes 12:7, "Then the dust
will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return
to God who gave it". In physical death, there
is a separation between our body and our soul.
In Romans 6:23, we saw that,
"For the wages of sin is death". This is a spiritual
death, which is a separation from God in eternity for those
who are lost. Since God is in heaven, and those who experience
this spiritual death are separated from God, they cannot go
to heaven. This leaves only one place for them to go, hell.
We see hell spoken of as the second death in Revelation 21:8,
"the lake which burns with fire
and brimstone: which is the second death".
Questions Lesson
4
Our Sin Problem
(click on the button of the
answer of your choice)
1) (Isaiah 59:2) What separates us from
God?
A great space.
Our goodness.
Our sins and iniquities.
2)
If sin separates us from God, he will still hear us.
3) (1 John 1:8) If we say we have
no sin
We are deceiving ourselves.
We are correct.
We don't really know for sure.
4)
If we say we have never sinned we are telling the truth.
5) (Romans 3:23) How many accountable
people have sinned?
Few.
Many.
All.
6)
God knows when we sin.
7) (Ecclesiastes 12:7) In physical
death
Our soul is separated from the body.
Both our soul and body go into the grave.
Both our soul and body cease to exist.
8)
In death our soul ceases to exist.
9) (Romans 6:23) If we die with our sins
We will have a second chance in purgatory.
We will be eternally separated from God (spiritual death).