The Virus of Sin

There must have been a time when you noticed something wrong with your computer, you shrugged it off. The little cursor arrow began jumping around on your screen when you were trying to move it. But then the problems became more troubling. The computer turned off and restarted again- without permission. Error messages popped up on the screen. Finally the computer programs slowed to the point that you could not get work done. You work on it but keep failing to fix it. Eventually you take the laptop to a technician. He performs diagnostics tests and found over 100 viruses.  The computer was totally infected and could not be cleaned up- it was beyond repair.

When Adam and Eve first sinned in the Garden of Eden, they infected the human race with sin (Romans 5:12). Since then, every person born on earth has been infected with the “sin virus” and we spread it to others. Our nature and our actions are polluted with sin so that, left to ourselves, we have no hope of dealing with our sin problem.

In Romans 3, Paul reveals how deep the problem of sin is. It impacts our morality our minds, and our mouths. It fills our hearts with murderous thoughts and makes us miserable.

If we can’t save ourselves, then God must act. His holy perfect nature demands justice. He cannot allow the guilt and pollution of sin to spread unchecked. He must take action against that which distorts and destroys His creation. He must take action against that which breaks His law- otherwise He would be a negligent judge.

This is where the gospel makes all sense. If we are still imagining we are only slightly bothered by sin and able to save ourselves then we have no reason to trust the gospel-we can just try harder and eventually save ourselves. But if we are spiritually dead (Ephesians 2:1) and unable to do anything to save ourselves, then no one but God Himself can help us. By subsisting Jesus, the sinless Son of God, for us, God’s justices is satisfied.

The problem of what that awful soul-virus, the guilt and pollution of sin, is also solved because we are united to Christ (Galatians 3:26-28) and given access to all the blessings given to Him by the Father- including His perfect, righteous, holy standing before God. This grave problem of life-sapping sin can only be solved by the death of Christ 

Still Hungry? Isaiah 5:16, Romans 2:2, Ephesians 3:6, Galatians 3: 26-28, Ephesians 3:6