Consequences of sin in the life of a

Cristiano

GENERAL OBJECTIVE
That each Server of our Communities carries out a service with more efficiency and
making, giving a strong response like Mama María did by saying
“Hágase en mí según tu palabra” y tener una formación permanente y sólida basada
in personal and community needs.

THEME 'SIN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, WHAT PREVENTS ME FROM WALKING ALONGSIDE'
MY BROTHERS

Purpose. To recognize that in our lives we are still wounded by sin, that
Many times it is reflected in our service, or in our community life.

If we think that 'in God we live, move, and are' (Acts

17,28), and it is He who "works in us to will and to act according to
with his good pleasure" (Phil 2:13), it seems that to resist in us the action
from The One who is giving us being and acting, to reject Him, to offend Him,
to prefer our will to theirs, that is to say, to sin, could produce
in us the annihilation of our being, a relapse into the
nothing. However, it is not so, but rather that during the present life,
time of grace and conversion, the mercy of God endures
our misery, always offering ourselves to those we reject
through sin the grace of conversion and forgiveness.
Original sin produced in man and in the world
tremendous consequences, effects that are seen updated in a certain
measured by all subsequent personal sins. Sin, teaches
Trento left the man under the influence of the Devil and an enemy of God; and
the whole person of Adam was changed for the worse, both body and soul
It deteriorated deeply.
all of human nature, stripping it of holiness and integrity in
the one that had been created, tilting it towards evil, obscuring reason,
weakening the will, severely disturbing the sensations,
passions and feelings. He made man a mortal, a living debtor
of death. At the same time, the entire creation became hostile to
man, for whose sin "the earth was cursed" (Gen 3:17), remaining
subject to "the bondage of corruption" (Rom 8:21).
Therefore, sin is always at the origin of the countless
sufferings and evils of humanity, and of each man, throughout
of the centuries. And it will be until the glorious Christ returns and submits all
the things "to whom He subjected everything, and God may be all in all"
things" (1Cor 15:28).
Mortal sin separates man from God, and leaves him, if he is a Christian,
like a dead member of the mystical body of Christ, like a
Sarmiento of the holy vine that is dead, without life and without fruit;
naked of the shining habit of grace, and profanes the Temple
I live for God. Through Him, all the merits acquired by the
good works - although the return to grace can make them revive
The sinner, subject to Satan, becomes so through sin.
mortal deserving of eternal condemnation. "The crown of our fell
head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!" (Lam 5:16)
Sin somehow annihilates the human person by separating them from
God, by distorting in her the image of God. Men through sin
"they served the creatures instead of the Creator, who is blessed for the
centuries" (Rm 1:25), and from there came upon him all the evils that...
they crush (1.25-33). The sinner, because of his sin, says St. Augustine, "he
apart from God, who is the true light, and becomes blind. Not yet
feel the sorrow, but he already carries it with him" (Sermon 117,5). "Does it seem to you
Is this sorrow small? Is the hardening of the heart a trivial matter?
lacegueradel understanding?» (In Psalms 57,18). «As the body
it dies when the soul is lacking, just as the soul dies when it loses God.
And there is a difference: the death of the body necessarily happens; but
"The soul's act is voluntary" (In Ioannis 41,9-12; cf. Rom 7,24-25).

"The demons are not the ones who have crucified him, it is you who has done it with them."
crucified and you continue to crucify him still, delighting in vices and in
the sins." (Saint Francis of Assisi)

The sin is to prefer the pleasure of a moment to friendship with God.

Hurtado

The sin

When contemplating the problem of evil in the world, we find that the cause
first, what prevents the love of God from manifesting in us and being realized
Happiness plan is SIN. It's as if sin were an umbrella that doesn't let us
let us soak with the living water of God's love. Close the door to love and to the
blessing of God, and not content with that, brings evil into the world through him,
death, violence, hatred, and fear.

What is sin? It is a transgression against justice or love— or both at the same time—
towards God, our neighbor, or towards ourselves. It is to follow the wrong path,
knowing or assuming that it is. It is to prefer darkness and abhor the light (Cf. Jn 3,
19—20).
Sin destroys not only human dignity but also the divine life in man, which
What is the greatest harm that a person can inflict on themselves and others.
lowers, humiliates, alienates, and disintegrates. It breaks their dignity and identity, their royalty.
it takes away the meaning of his life.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your mercy. By your abundant

compassion, erase my rebellions. Wash me more and more of my wickedness, and
cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 51:1, 2

What happens when a Christian sins?

In Psalm 51, we find the story of King David's sin. He committed

a horrible, hateful, and harmful sin, despite being a child of God. I hope
to meet David in heaven. He was a man after the heart of
God despite having committed such an abominable, terrible sin and
despicable. What we see is this: If a Christian is bound to the
sin is tied to suffering.

Remember that Psalm 51 was written by David after he had turned back his
heart to God. He remembers the consequences of his sin and writes his
history.

SIN DIRTIES THE SOUL

Here David is praying: 'Oh God, wash me; Oh God, cleanse me.' But he is a
king who wore royal robes, sleeps on a silk bed, bathes in a tub of
marble with scented soap, but still feels grimy, dirty.

Did you know that if you are a child of God and sin, you will feel spiritually dirty? And
if you do not feel dirty when you sin, you need to ask yourself if you have become
safeguard.

No pig has ever said: 'I feel sorry because I am dirty.'

the son of God realizes that he is dirty when he sins.

Many people have a form of religion, but they have never been cleansed. They have
they have been starched and ironed, but they have never been washed, nor sanctified and
much less justified:

1Co 6:11 And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been sanctified,
sanctified, you have already been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the
Spirit of our God.

Some people think that simply stopping doing wrong, going to the
assembly or going to mass and reading the Bible, they have already been washed and sanctified,
Not knowing the process of God, they have never been cleansed of their sins.
past and sanctified in the glorious name of Jesus Christ in the waters of
baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

They have a dirt that is present all the time, to the point that in
reality never feels dirty.

But when a true child of God sins, he feels dirty. If you are a child
of God and has sinned, has felt this way. I want to tell you this: If you can
to sin without feeling dirty and filthy spiritually, one needs to ask oneself if
has ever been saved; if you know that the glorious name of Jesus was
invoked for the forgiveness of sins and sanctification, if he really knows the
Sir.

SIN DOMINATES THE MIND

In verse 3, David says: 'For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my'

sin is always before me." Think of the expression: "And my sin
is always in front of me". Day and night, night and day, what David had
the event had been recorded in such a way in his consciousness,

It echoed so much in his spirit that he was aware of it all the time.
A test to know if you are saved is not to see if you can sin, but to see if
You can sin and simply ignore it, forget it.

If you are a child of God, the Holy Spirit will not allow you to ignore or forget it.
The Holy Spirit will touch the wound and apply pressure.

David said: "My sin is always before me." The sin committed
dominated his mind.

You can push him and get him out of the way of the door, but he
He will circle the house and enter through a window. He will present himself in her subconscious.
with an irritable temperament, lack of concentration, insomnia, lack of joy.
Your sin will be there night and day. If you can simply sin and
forget it, he needs to ask himself: "Have I really been saved?".

There are two types of wounds that can reach the human soul, to the psyche.
human
One is the guilt and the other is the sadness.

Sadness is a clean wound; it hurts for a while and will heal, but guilt is
a dirty wound. It simply gets infected and keeps going like this without stopping until
sea cleaned.

That's why David prays: 'Oh God, my soul feels dirty, my mind is dominated'
for the what he fact
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SIN DISHONORS THE LORD

In verse 4, David says to God: 'Against you, against you alone have I sinned and have
done the bad before your eyes. Let you be recognized as just in your word and held
for pure in your judgment.

Think about the first part of the verse where he says: 'Against you, against you'
"I have only sinned." But, against whom did David sin?

In thinking about that, you might say: "In committing adultery, David sinned against"
against his own body. Obviously, he also sinned against his family. And not only did he sin
against his body and against his family; he sinned against the nation of Israel". None
of these sins he mention.
He saw sin for what it really is, an affront against the Omnipotent.
God!

As David loved God, his heart was broken. That is why he said: 'Against you,
Against you alone have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight.

When a person wants to commit adultery, they sometimes plan a date.

clandestine, a confidential meeting in a hidden place.
But David realized: 'My God, you were watching me. Your eyes saw
what I did. Oh God, my God, God, the God that I love, Lord, I have sinned
against you. I have not only broken your law, but I have also broken your heart.

A man who is not saved sometimes feels bad about what sin does to him.
A man who is saved feels bad for what his sin does to God. That
it is the difference.

What scares a slave when he disobeys? The whip. But

when a child disobeys, they are hurt by the displeasure it causes to their
father.

When you love God, you can know that you are saved when it is sin, and
not the punishment, what burdens his conscience.

David possibly thought: "My sin has not only stained my soul, not only
has dominated my mind, has dishonored my God! God, I have sinned against you.

SIN DEPRESS THE HEART

In verse 8 of this psalm, David speaks about the consequences of his

sin
Make me hear joy and gladness, and these bones that you have will rejoice.
broken

He is depressed. He has no joy, he has no delight. It seemed exciting.

while I was doing it, while I was committing the sin! But the Bible says:
Tasty is the bread that is ill-gotten for man; but when he has filled his...
"the mouth will turn into gravel" (Proverbs 20:17).

David had lost his joy. Look at verse 12: 'Restore to me the joy of your'
salvation...". It does not say: "Lord, restore my salvation," because he had it. But
I had lost the joy of having her.

The most miserable person on earth is not the one who is lost, but the one who
he is saved but does not have communion with God. Only one thing can take it away
joy of his heart; there are not two, nor three, nor four; it is only one, and that is the
sin. And only one type of sin: his.
When someone sins against you, that is that person's sin. Your
Reaction to what was done to you can take away your joy.
If you were to hit me in the face, that wouldn’t be able to take away my joy.
heart. It could hurt me and take away my happiness, but it could not take away the
joy.

You may take the joy away from you, but not from me. If I reacted against you
incorrectly, that would take away my joy.

By the way, if you want to see what I am or what anyone else is

yes, do not look at their actions, look at their reactions, for these show what
they really are. Hitting me in the face would simply give you
an opportunity to see my reaction. If you want to see what it is filled with a
person, just look at what comes out of her when she is pushed.

If you push someone and anger emerges from that person, then that
the person is filled with anger. If you push someone and what emerges is
Jesus, that person is filled with Jesus.

What I am saying is that joy must be constant, regardless of what

any other person do.
But you say: "Well, wait a moment, I cannot be happy all
the time". I agree with you, one cannot be happy all the
time. I am not talking about happiness, I am talking about joy. There is a
difference between happiness y pleasure.
Happiness depends on what happens. That's why we call it happiness. If what happens to
What happens to you is good, you will be happy. If what happens to you is bad, you will not.
will be happy.

Sometimes bad things happen to us; we cannot expect to be happy all the time.
time. You wouldn't want to be happy all the time. You would get sick and
I would get tired of being happy all the time. You don't have to always be.
with a smile on his face. Being happy all the time would be like eating
ice cream at every meal.

Jesus was a man of sorrows. He wept. He was not happy all the time, but
he was filled with joy. When facing the cross, he spoke to his disciples and said:
I have spoken these things to you so that my joy may be in you and your joy
"these things have been fulfilled" (John 15:11).

He faced the cruel Calvary but spoke of joy. It's no wonder that
Pablo could write from a atrocious prison this command: "Rejoice in
The Lord always! Again I say: Rejoice!" (Philippians 4:4).
The joy of the Lord is constant, and it is our strength. Happiness is like a
thermometer that records circumstances. Joy is like a thermostat
that controls the circumstances. It is wonderful when you can
to experience, at the same time, happiness and joy. Those are times
extraordinary.

When happiness leaves, joy becomes the most important thing. And sometimes God
it brings pleasure, not to take away the pain, but to help him endure it. And in the midst
from unbearable pain, there can be a supernatural joy.
SIN SICKENS THE BODY

Sin, without repentance, can really make your body...

sick. See again verse 8: 'Make me hear joy and gladness, and let me'
these bones you have broken will rejoice.
David does not have a fracture, but he talks about broken bones. He is wearing a
literary figure.

And David is saying something like: 'God, you are oppressing me. Let me hear joy.'
and joy so that the bones you have broken can rejoice.
Sometimes we have the idea that if we sin, God will simply...
to expel. Oh, no! He does not kick us out, but he does oppress us more strongly.

God was putting pressure on David, and that is why David expresses those feelings.
words before the Lord. That was one of the ways I could know that it was
savior. God was not going to let him go because of the sin that was in his life, but
he simply squeezed it tighter.

How long can someone withstand that pressure in their life without their
Does the body get affected? In Proverbs 17:22, the Bible says: "A cheerful heart
It improves health, but a crushed spirit dries the bones.

Just as joy is medicinal, discouragement is poisonous. We see that David

is under terrible pressure. When a person is under pressure
psychological and spiritual, your body can be affected. We call that
psychosomatic disease. Psycho means 'mind'; soma means 'body'. The
the mind causes the body to get sick, even due to very things
common.

In 1 Corinthians 11:30, Paul exhorts the Corinthians for having acted

irreverently at the Lord's Supper. He says: "That is why there is among you
many sick and weakened, and many sleep." He was referring to them being
dead due to sin in their life. Sin makes the body sick. The heart
joy and the joy of the Lord are a wonderful medicine. The Bible says: '...
the joy of the Lord is your strength" (Nehemiah 8:10).

When you are happy in Jesus, you sleep better. When you are joyful, you
digests their food, their gastric juices flow, their glands function when
They must do it, because there is joy in the Lord.

Sin spoils the spirit

Certainly, sin degrades the spirit. David says: "Create in me, oh God,"
a pure heart and renew a steadfast spirit within me" (v. 10). The spirit of
David was bitter and ruined.

Saved people, who do not have communion with God, are irritable.
abusive and difficult to deal with. Some of the most irritable people you
have known in life are Christians without spiritual communion. They have a
bitter spirit and nothing pleases them.

You know, no dish on the table can look good if you are suffering from
indigestion. Nothing pleases those people. You can tell when a
The person is falling back into their bad habits.

In a church, those people begin to have a critical spirit. Throughout

In the church, there are enough people and things to criticize. If you focus on
that, just look around you. When people are relapsing into
sin, stop setting your gaze on the Lord and start setting it on the
errors of those for whom Jesus died.

Notice how quickly David judged the other man. He judged him for having
stolen a lamb. But he had stolen a woman. He judged someone
for killing an animal, but he had killed a human being. With a beam in
his own eye, wanted to try to take the speck out of another person's eye.
The one who falls into sin always acts that way. He always has a
bitter and vile spirit that finds faults in everyone else

People who are not in communion with God are quick to find
the faults of others. If you want, you can always find faults because
simply put, we are all a society of sinners who, after all,
we realized that and came together to do something about it...
small churches have their own guardians. They are people who believe
that God has placed and anointed them to ensure that everything goes well in their
church.

Sin destroys the testimony

Here we have David, a man after God's own heart who loved the
God, but he committed a horrible sin. Sin not only degenerates the spirit,
but destroys the testimony.

This is one of the worst things that can happen in a child's life.
God because of sin. Observe Psalm 51:14: "Deliver me from murderous deeds,
Oh God, God of my salvation, and with joy my tongue will sing of your righteousness.

Do you know why people don't sing in the worship service? Because they don't.
is full of the Spirit. It is simply full of sin. It has nothing for
sing. They have lost their song because they have lost their testimony.

Look at verse 15: 'Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will proclaim your praise.'
praise". David was not praising God because his lips were
sealed. Their sin had destroyed their testimony and the praise had
drying.

I wasn't leading souls to Christ, so what are the consequences?

from sin in a Christian? It pollutes the soul, dominates the mind, dishonors the
Lord, it depresses the heart, sickens the body, degenerates the spirit, and destroys.
the testimony.

Can a Christian sin? Yes, they can. Can a Christian sin and not
suffer? No, remember that the most miserable man on Earth is not the one who
It is not the saved man, but the man who is saved and does not have communion with God.
it says in verses 12, 13: 'Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and a'
generous spirit sustain me.
Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will
"they will convert you." Can you see what happened? There was no praise, there was no
song, no soul won. Why? I will tell you: because sin had
destroyed his testimony.

Sometimes in church you will see people who barely sit down with their
arms crusaders.
It seems they say: 'Bless me if you can.' And why aren't they praising...
God? Why are they not in communion? Why are they not joyful? Why
Can't they say: 'Glory to God'? Why can't they lift their hearts to
Jesus in praise? Because something is wrong inside.

What are the consequences of sin in a Christian?

It dirties the soul, dominates the mind, dishonors the Lord, depresses the heart,
it sickens the body, degenerates the spirit, and destroys the testimony.
Can a Christian sin? Yes, they can. Can a Christian sin and not
suffer? No,
Remember that the most miserable man on Earth is not the one who is not
saved, but the man who is saved and does not have communion with God.