“The wages of sin is death.”  (Romans 6)

 

The best way to define the term systemic is to use an example.  When I was a landscaper I used chemicals to control weeds. Weed killers are systemic and that means one would apply the chemical to the flowering portion of the weed and the weed would absorb the killer into itself and the chemical would work it’s way through and down to the root system.  By this method the killer kills the entire weed and not just what one can see above ground.

The weed is a picture of sin in the Scriptures.  Genesis tells us that due to the fall the thisle would populate the ground.  In Christ’s parable of the wheat and the tares, the tares or the weeds are planted by the enemy and they take over the field. This is what sin is, it is systemic and it populates the field of the human person.  Sin has effected every aspect of the individual and the human culture.

Sin has effected and corrupted mankind at every level and in everyway.  Sin has corrupted the mind of the individual, the emotions and mental state of the individual, and the will and actions of the individual.  Sin has effected and corrupted the institutes of religion, government, family, schools, and business.  Sin is the spiritual cancer of humanity.  I truly believe the reason cancer exists is to provide humanity with an object lesson of sin and it’s corruption.

How does cancer work?  It get’s started in one part of the human body, and spreads through out. Cancer can corrupt the brain, the heart, the sexual organs, the digestive systems, and every other possible target.  This is how sin works as well and it effects and spreads and corrupts the same areas in a spiritual and very real way.

Our chosen text above is from Romans 6, we read, “The wages of sin is death…”  This tells us sin is the reason for human death and therefore it is the cause of all things that cause death whether it be sickness, murder, injury, etc.  Paul is not merely saying that individual sin is the cause of an individual’s death, but sin is the cause of death by outside agencies.  Murder and violence are wages of sin, read Roman chapter one (1) and see what Paul says about sin, Read Galatians five (5) and see the works of the flesh, Read 2 Timothy three (3) and see Paul continue his litany of sin and sins.

Reader, Sins will not decrease until SIN is addressed.  Sins as we have written recently are the symptoms of SIN.  The symptoms cannot be dealt with in any real way until SIN is dealt with in a real way.  Look at the city of Ninevah.  Ninevah was a corrupt and wicked city, riddled with violence and unrighteousness.  God sent Jonah, not with the message to cease sinning but to repent of SIN and turn from it.  Sodom and Gommorah was not so fortunate.  The corruption of homosexuality was not the issue in Sodom….NOW WAIT and hear me out for a second.  Homosexuality was the judgment of God upon Sodom for their corruption due to the cancerous nature of SIN.  Read Romans one (1), Homosexuality is the reaction of God upon a nation that forsakes Him for homosexuality is meet and appropriate for the nation that turns from God.  Homosexuality was the symptom of the SIN that corrupted that city and it is the same in America.  Homosexuality is not America’s affront to God but is God’s answer.  Homosexuality is not the cause of God’s anger, it is the Lord’s angry response.

Also listed in Romans one (1) as a sign of God’s judgement is murder and the disobedience of children to authority!!!  Can God and His Word be any clearer?  What is America plagued with but homosexuality, disobedience of children to authority and murder.  America has been warned by the spirit of Jonah in the preaching of the church or at least part of the church for far longer than forty (40) days.  I fear this nation is past the possibilty of redemption for God has already sent judgement in the form of the sins listed above as well as the abandonment of the church as a whole.

God has departed and the vacuum He has left has been “filled” with “all unrighteousness…” (Romans one (1)).

This nation is hell-bent on focusing on simple remedies to the symptons of SIN.  The answer to teen pregnancies and STDs is condoms and education or abortion or pills.  The answer to poverty is money and not the improvement of character, the answer to violence is gun control, the answer to mental illness is medication, etc. etc. etc.  No one is will to do deeper to the heart of the issue and the heart being the issue.  All outward expression whether it be word or deed, comes from within and not from without.

Reader, you may or you may not agree with what is written here and it may be you cannot or will not see it, I know not but I know the SIN corrupted and SIN addicted and those that find pleasure in SIN like those in government will not see it, hear it, or believe it.  This house that is built upon the sands of subjectivity and outward fixes, this house that is divided against itself is sure to fall…so says the Carpenter.

Godspeed.