Sin Sickness

Isaiah 53:5"...and with his stripes we are healed."

What is taking place on the cross? Jesus is making atonement for our sins.

Sin has separated us from God. We are sick with sin; it has corrupted every bit of us and has made us repulsive to God who is holy and righteous.

We might nod our heads in agreement as we think about ourselves, or we might wag our heads in protest thinking that we are not really so bad.

How we feel about our condition, however, is as relevant as the feelings of a cancer patient. He might feel sick or very well, but unless something is done he will die.

Satan loves our sin-sickness. He loves it especially because he hates God so much; he loves the idea of men and women made in the image of God perverting that image.

He loves the fact that people made to glorify God and glory in that work instead rebel against him and treat him as their enemy.

We are all sick with sin however we might seem to ourselves or others. We are all the servants of Satan, however in control of ourselves we might seem, or in the service of God. The best that a “loving” person or a “moral” person might do without Christ is to show that Jesus’ work on the cross isn’t necessary. The “good” person who sets Jesus aside makes as much a mockery of Jesus as his persecutors.

We are sick with sin. We are in bondage to sin. We are slaves to sin, prisoners of the law of sin. Our condition is hopeless. Meditation won’t free us; channeling won’t free us; doing good works won’t help; disciplining ourselves to be moral won’t do it; becoming a church person won’t help. Nothing can free us from our bondage,

nothing but a champion to take up our cause, and that champion is Jesus.