TO UNDERSTAND THE MERCY, GRACE, JUSTIFICATION, FORGIVENESS OF
GOD, WE MUST FIRST UNDERSTAND SIN - AND HENCE WHY WE NEED MERCY,
GRACE, FORGIVENESS.
FRUITS OF SIN
Gen. 3:7. And eyes of them both were opened, and they know that
they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made
themselves aprons. 8. And they heard the voice of the LORD God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his
wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst tho
trees of the garden. 9. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and
said unto him, Where art thou 10. And he said, I heard thy voice
in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid
myself. 11. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast
thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou
shouldest not eat? 12. And the man said, The woman whom thou
gayest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13. And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou
hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did
eat. 14. And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou
hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every
beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt
thou eat all the days of thy life: 15. And I will put enmity
between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it
shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 16. Unto
the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy
desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 17.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice
of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded
thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for
thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy
life: 18. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee;
and thou shalt eat the herb of the field: 19. In the sweat of thy
face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for
out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt
thou return. 20. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she
was the mother of all living. 21. Unto Adam also and to his wife
did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. 22. And
the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to
know good and evil and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take
also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 23.
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to
till the ground from whence he was taken. 24. So he drove out the
man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims,
and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of
the tree of life.
(All these verses are explained in various studies of mine - Keith Hunt)
Gen. 4:9. And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother?
And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? 10. And he
said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood
crieth unto me from the ground. 11. And now art thou cursed from
the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's
blood from thy hand. 12. When thou tillest the ground, it shall
not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a
vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. 13. And Cain said unto the
LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14. Behold, thou
hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth: and from
thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond
in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that
findeth me shall slay me.
Gen. 6:5. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually. 6. And it repented the LORD that he
had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7.
And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from
the face of the earth, both man, and beast, and the creeping
thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have
made them.
(These verses you will also find explained in other studies - Keith Hunt)
Deut. 29:18. Lest there should be among you a root that beareth
gall and wormwood; 1 Kin. 13:33. After this thing Jeroboam
returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of
the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he
consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high
places. 34. And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam,
even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the
earth.
Job 4:8. Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow
wickedness, reap the same.
Job 5:2. For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the
silly one.
Job 13:26. For thou writest bitter things against me. and makest
me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Job 20:11. His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which
shall lie down with him in the dust.
Psa. 5:10. Destroy thou them, 0 God; let them fall by their own
counsels; cast them I out in the multitude of their
transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
Psa. 9:15. The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made:
in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 16. The LORD
is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared
in the work of his own hands.
Psa. 10:2. The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let
them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psa. 94:23. And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and
shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God
shall cut them off.
Psa. 141:10. Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that
I withal escape.
Prov. 1:31. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own
way, and be filled with their own devices.
Prov. 3:35. The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the
promotion of fools.
Prov. 5:22. His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and
he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. 23. He shall die
without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall
go astray.
Prov. 8:36. He that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all
they that hate me love death.
Prov. 10:24. The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but
the desire of the righteous shall be granted. 29. The way of the
LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the
workers of iniquity. 30. The righteous shall never be removed but
the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. 31. The mouth of the just
bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
Prov. 11:5. The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his
way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. 6. The
righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but
transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness. 7. When a
wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of
unjust men perisheth 18. The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but
to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward. 19. As
righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth
it to his own death. 27. He that diligently seeketh good
procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come
unto him. 29. He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the
wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Prov. 12:13. The wicked is snared by the transgression of his
lips: but the just shall come out of trouble. 14. A man shall be
satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence
of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him. 21. There shall no
evil happen to the just but the wicked shall be filed with
mischief. 26. The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour:
but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Prov. 13:5. A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is
loathsome, and cometh to shame. 6. Righteousness keepeth him that
is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
15. Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of
transgressors is hard.
Prov. 22:8. He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the
rod of his anger shall fail.
Prov. 27:8. As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man
that wandereth from his place.
Prov. 28:1. The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
Prov. 29:6. In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare:
but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
Prov. 30:20. Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth,
and wipeth her mouth, and saith.. I have done no wickedness.
Isa. 3:9. The show of their countenance doth witness against
them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe
unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. 11.
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of
his hands shall be given him.
Isa. 9:18. Wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the
briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the
forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Isa. 14:21. Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity
of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land,
nor fill the face of the world with cities.
Isa. 50:11. Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass
yourselves with the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye
have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Isa. 57:20. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it
cannot rest, whose waters cast up mireand dirt. 21. There is no
peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Jer. 2:17. Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou
hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? 19.
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backsliding
shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil
thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and
that my fear is not in thee, saith the LORD God of hosts.
Jer. 4:18. Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto
thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it
reacheth unto thine heart.
Jer. 525. Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your
sins have withholden good things from you.
Jer. 7:19. Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they
not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Jer. 14:16. They shall have none to bury them, them, their wives,
nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their
wickedness upon them.
Jer. 21:14. But I will punish you according to the fruit of your
doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest
thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
Ezek.11:21. But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart
of their detestable things and their abominations, I will
recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the LARD. Ezek.
22:31.
Ezek. 23:31. Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore
will I give her cup into thine hand. 32. Thus saith the Lord GOD,
Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt
be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much. 33.
Thou shlt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of
astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria,
34. Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt
break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts for I
have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 35. Therefore thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy
back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Hos. 8:7. For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the
whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so
be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Hos. 10:13. Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity;
ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy
way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
Hos, 12:14. Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly:
therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach
shall his Lord return unto him.
Hos. 13:9. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is
thine help.
Mic. 7:13. Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of
them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Mark 7:21. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil
thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22. Thefts,
covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye,
blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23. All these evil things come
from within, and defile the man.
Acts 9:5. And he said. Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I
am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick
against the pricks.
Rom. 5:12. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world,
and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all
have sinned: 13. (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin
is not imputed when there is no law). 14. Nevertheless death
reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned
after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure
of him that was to come. 15. But not as the offence, so also is
the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead,
much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by
one man, Jesus' Christ, hath abounded unto many. 16. And not as
it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was
by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences
unto justification. 17. For if by one man's offence death reigned
by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of
the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one; Jesus
Christ. 18. Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon
all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the
free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 19. For
as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the
obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20. Moreover the
law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin
abounded, grace did much more abound: 21. That as sin hath
reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through
righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom. 7:5. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins,
which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth
fruit unto death.
1 Cor. 3:3. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you
envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk
as men?
1 Cor. 6:9. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit
the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of
themselves with mankind, 10. Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the
kingdom of God. 11. And such were some of you: but ye are washed,
but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the
Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Gal. 5:19: Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are
these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20.
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies, 21. Envyings, murders, drunkenness,
revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I
have also told you in time past, that they which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal. 6:7. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a
man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8. For he that soweth to his
flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to
the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
1 Pet. 4:3. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have
wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in
lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings,
and abominable idolatries.
..........
AH THE SUBJECT OF SIN AND ITS FINAL RESULT IS NOT A
PLEASANT TOPIC TO SYUDY, BUT IT IS NEEDFUL THAT WE DO.
FOR ONLY BY STUDYING AND MEDITATING ON SIN CAN WE COME
TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF GOD, THAT GRANTS
MERCY, GRACE, JUSTIFICATION AND FORGIVENESS. WE CANNOT
FULLY UNDERSTAND GOD'S GRACE UNLESS WE UNDERSTAND THE
DEPTH OF SIN AND IF NOT REPENTED OF, THE SURE AND DIRE
CONSEQUENCES.
Keith Hunt
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