You might be a person who does a lot of good things. You may
be hoping that you're good outweighs your bad. But did you know that good
usually does not weigh as much as bad?
You could spend your whole life doing good things, but one
bad thing can erase all the good that you've done. Let me give you an example.
Jerry Sandusky is the former Penn State football coach
accused of molesting children. Many people talk about how nice Jerry Sandusky
was. He did a lot of nice things four people in his life. But, do you care
about those things after finding out he was raping children. All the good that he has done in his life has
been wiped out by the bad things but he has done. If he lived his life for 20
years straight doing good things, but for only one day, raped a little boy,
what weighs more?
You might say to yourself, that is an extreme example. The
Jerry Sandusky case is an extreme case, so let me move away from it.
Many people might do something nice for their spouse from
time to time. They might do nice things over long periods of time. But even after 10 years of marriage, if that
person has an affair, all the nice things they did for those 10 years is wiped
out.
There's a big reason for this. You can't fix your sinful
nature. You can't undo sinful actions. You can try to make people feel better
about your sinful actions, by trying to make up for what you've done, but you
can never take it away.
I believe God allows this to happen in life so that we get a
better understanding of how awful sin is.
Here's a question for you. How many things can you commit
before God will condemn you?
Do you know the answer? If you don't, I can give you it, and
it's much simpler than you might think.
It only takes one sin to make you an imperfect person.
Because you are imperfect, you are incapable of entering into a perfect heaven.
One sin condemns you no matter how many good things you've done.
Here's an example for you. Adam and Eve committed one sin
and was kicked out of the perfect Garden of Eden. Think of how simple that once in was. It was
the equivalent of a child grabbing a cookie from the cookie jar when being told
not to do so. We don't even view that as
a big deal, yet all of mankind was condemned through Adam and Eve due to that
type of sin.
Imperfection is never perfection. None of us are capable of
making ourselves perfect again. But now you know why I say the following at the
end of my show. “Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, no man comes
to the father but through him.”
Every other religion says your good will be weighed against
your bad. How cruel is that! It's cruel because they never tell you how far is
too far. You can never know which sin will put you into condemnation.
You see, the Bible is not being cruel to you by saying one
sin condemns you. It is opening your eyes to the fact that you need the
savior. It also proves that everyone in
the world is in the exact same boat as you. You can stay that sinking boat if
you choose to, or you can allow yourself to be rescued. The choice is yours.
