The DECEITFULNESS OF SIN

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This week we have been reading about the deceitfulness of sin, so here is Bicento sharing a few truths from the Scripture about this topic: THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN

CIRCUMSTANCES in our world today are becoming so bad, that people today are not interested anymore to hear and read anything about SIN. Nevertheless according to the source of all wisdom, which is the Word of God, declares: SIN is the cause of all evil, which has taken place since the beginning of human history, and continues until this very day.
This TRUTH we can read very explicitly in the Scriptures. For example: Romans 5:12-21, declares very clearly that sin entered the word by one person, and death accompanied sin. That is how sin was passed onto all people, because all have sinned.
Dear friends, with all due respect to all people, since we were created in the image of God, but lost that glory because of sin, we will try to show how sin entered the world. To be precise and sincere, SIN entered the world through DECEITFULNESS.
The deceiver is the Devil or Satan, and the first victim was Adam. For that reason, ever creature, lovely and innocent that are born today, no matter what nationality or race they may be, are born with a sinful nature.

That friend, is an irrevocable truth against which we could do absolutely nothing. But thanks be unto God and Father, Who could do something and did that which was/is impossible for us, but POSSIBLE for Him. HE did this through His Beloved and Only Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

The Antilles and Aruba have heard again and again, and yet again that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that who ever would believe in Him, would not perish but have Everlasting life. (John 3:16). That being the case, why then are there only some who believe in the grace of God in these three islands – Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, for that matter in any part of the world. The answer to that question is found in the Scriptures themselves. The same deceiver that deceived that first human being in the Garden of Eden continues to deceive the entire world, including the Antilles and Aruba.

In the book of 1 John 5:19 the Apostle declares the following: "We know that we are the children of God, and that the whole world is under control of the evil one." This simply means that we, Antillians, Arubans and yes, the entire world; if any one of us has not become a son of God through personal faith in the Son of God, he/she is NOT a child of God and is under the control and dominion of the evil one, who is Satan.

"How, or in what way could something like this have happened?" you may ask, even though you call and consider yourself a Christian. The answer, too, is very clear in the Scriptures. Satan is busy deceiving people in every manner he can, and one of them is this: to make every person believe that he is a Christian because his or her parents were called Christian, and who had baptized them when they were babies. That act made them a Christian. Parents of true believing Christians on these three islands were all deceived in the same manner. That is before they repented and believed the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, believing from the heart that Jesus carried his/sin in His body on the cross, and died for our sins and was raised from the dead for our justification! We will continue this message in our next Blog. Make sure and read these verses: 1 Peter 1:1-12 and 1 John 2:15-27.