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Some people would argue that most certainly everyone is not the same. Some are better than others. And they think to themselves, I am not as bad as those people languishing in the prisons, criminals, robbers, murderers, and so forth. While that may be true in a sense, some are indeed better than others. But as far as God’s perfect standard of righteousness is concerned, everyone comes short.
As Romans 3:23 says, “For all,”—not some—”all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”
Since the fall of man in Genesis, man is born in sin. And because he is born in sin, he’s born to death. Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death.” We do not become spiritually dead because we sin. We are spiritually dead because by nature we are sinful.
Today, when we look at the immoral declension of society, our grandparents will tell us the problem is because the young people are not in line with our heritage and our traditions. They have drifted away so far. We don’t have such problems. In those good old days, the environmentalists will tell us that the problem is because we are not in line with the environment.
Man’s trouble is not because he is out of harmony with his heritage or tradition or the environment. It is because he’s out of harmony with his Creator, the Almighty God.
The wages of sin is death means death in every form. The moment Adam disobeyed God, he died spiritually, which means separation from God. However, it also included physical death. Man was never meant to die either spiritually or physically, but due to his disobedience and sin, he died spiritually and physically.
But that is not the end. The final result of the wages of sin is the second death, the eternal death.
If nothing happens, we would still be dead. We would still be living in sin. We would still be facing the prospect of eternal damnation. So what is the thing that is able to so dramatically change our situation? Well, it begins with, “For God so loved the world.” And what did He do?