reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

WHAT IS SIN? SIN IS A TRANSGRESSION OF GOD’S LAW. 1JN:3:4 WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN TRANSGRESSETH ALSO THE LAW: FOR SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. THERE ARE TWO SYSTEMS OF LAW WHICH MEN SHALL BE JUDGED BY ON JUDGMENT DAY. THERE IS THE SYSTEM OF LAW KNOWN AS "THE LAW OF MOSES’", AND THE SYSTEM OF LAW KNOWN AS "THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE" WHICH IS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. THE LAW OF MOSES IS KNOWN AS THE LAW OF SIN, AND DEATH. SALVATION BY THE LAW OF MOSES WAS UNTIL JOHN THE BAPTIST CAME PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS; SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS PREACHED, AND MEN PRESSED INTO IT. LK:16:16 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN: SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS PREACHED, AND EVERY MAN PRESSETH INTO IT. WERE THERE MANY PEOPLE SAVED BY THE LAW OF MOSES? ONLY A FEW. IS:24:5 THE EARTH ALSO IS DEFILED UNDER THE INHABITANTS THEREOF; BECAUSE THEY HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE LAWS, CHANGED THE ORDINANCE, BROKEN THE EVERLASTING COVENANT. 6. THEREFORE THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH ARE BURNED, AND FEW MEN LEFT. THE WORD "FEW" IS DEFINED AS THREE OR MORE. WHY WERE THERE ONLY A FEW SAVED UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES? BECAUSE OF THE ORIGINAL SIN OF ADAM WHICH HAD CONTAMINATED, POLLUTED, AND MADE UNCLEAN GOD’S CREATION; GOD HAD ENMITY, A JUSTIFIED ANGER, TOWARD ALL MANKIND. EPH:2:15 HAVING ABOLISHED IN HIS FLESH THE ENMITY, EVEN THE LAW OF COMMANDMENTS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES; FOR TO MAKE IN HIMSELF OF TWAIN ONE NEW MAN, SO MAKING PEACE; 16. AND THAT HE MIGHT RECONCILE BOTH UNTO GOD IN ONE BODY BY THE CROSS, HAVING SLAIN THE ENMITY THEREBY. SECOND REASON, THE CARNAL MIND THE FLESHLY MIND OF SENSE, AND REASON, WITHOUT THE HOLY GHOST, IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAWS OF GOD, NEITHER CAN BE. ROM:8:6 FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH: BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE. 7. BECAUSE THE CARNAL MIND IS ENMITY AGAINST GOD: FOR IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF GOD, NEITHER INDEED CAN BE. IT WAS NOT UNTIL AFTER THE DEATH, BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST THAT HE CAME TO HIS DISCIPLES, AND BREATHED ON THEM AND SAID RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST. THIS WAS THE RECONCILIATION OF GOD AND MAN. THIS IS, IN MY OPINION, THE GREATEST HAPPENING SINCE CREATION. JN20:21 THEN SAID JESUS TO THEM AGAIN, PEACE BE UNTO YOU: AS MY FATHER HATH SENT ME, EVER SO SEND I YOU. 22. AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE BREATHED ON THEM, AND SAITH UNTO THEM, RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST. IT IS THE HOLY GHOST THAT GIVES GOD’S CHILDREN THE POWER TO LIVE THE SIN FREE LIFE, THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. 1JN:3:9 WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN; FOR HIS SEED REMAINETH IN HIM: AND HE CANNOT SIN, BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD. 10. IN THIS THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE MANIFEST, AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL: WHOSOEVER DOETH NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT OF GOD, NEITHER HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER. FINAL REASON, THE LAW OF MOSES’ HAD TO BE KEPT TO THE LETTER, IF A PERSON TRANSGRESSED THE LAW OF MOSES THAN CAME THE CURSE, AND THEN CAME CONDEMNATION. ROM:7:6 BUT NOW WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE LAW, THAT BEING DEAD WHEREIN WE WERE HELD; THAT WE SHOULD SERVE IN NEWNESS OF SPIRIT, AND NOT IN THE OLDNESS OF THE LETTER. WHAT COLOR IS SIN? SIN COMES IN TWO COLORS SCARLET, AND CRIMSON. SCARLET, IS A RED WITH AN ORANGE TINT, AND CRIMSON IS A RED WITH A PURPLE TINT. IS:1:18 COME NOW, AND LET US REASON TOGETHER, SAITH THE LORD: THOUGH YOUR SINS BE AS SCARLET, THEY SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW; THOUGH THEY BE RED LIKE CRIMSON, THEY SHALL BE AS WOOL. WE, AS CHILDREN OF GOD, CANNOT SEE THE FULL EFFECTS OF SIN, BUT WHEN GOD LOOKS AT HIS CREATION HE SEES TWO SHADES OF RED, SCARLET, AND CRIMSON. FOR EXAMPLE WHEN MEN GO TO BUILD A CHURCH. FIRST THEY BLESS THE GROUND UPON WHICH THE CHURCH IS TO BE BUILT, AND THERE IS A CHANGE COMES OVER THE GROUND, THE GROUND BECOMES SANCTIFIED; FREE FROM SIN. AND, THE TITLE PASSES FROM MAN TO GOD. IT IS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER GROUND, AND MUST BE TREATED WITH GREAT RESPECT. EX:3:4 AND WHEN THE LORD SAW THAT HE TURNED ASIDE TO SEE, GOD CALLED UNTO HIM OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE BUSH, AND SAID, MOSES, MOSES. AND HE SAID, HERE AM I. 5. AND HE SAID, DRAW NOT NIGH HITHER: PUT OFF THY SHOES FROM OFF THY FEET, FOR THE PLACE WHEREON THOU STANDEST IS HOLY GROUND. REMOVING OF THE SHOES WAS NOT BROUGHT OVER TO THE NEW TESTAMENT. UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES EVERYTHING WAS VERY STRICT. FOR EXAMPLE TO GATHER STICKS ON THE SABBATH DAY UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES IS THE DEATH PENALTY. CAREFUL WHAT YOU DO ON THE SABBATH DAY IF YOU VISIT ISRAEL NM15:32-35. WHERE IS SIN LOCATED IN THIS PRESENT WORLD? WHEN ADAM TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, AND SIN CAME INTO THE WORLD. SIN ROSE UP HIGH, AND WENT FAR CONTAMINATING, THE GROUND, THE PEOPLE, THE ANIMALS, THE FISH, THE BIRDS, AND CREEPING THINGS. (LV:11:1-44) LV:11:1 AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES AND TO AARON, SAYING UNTO THEM, 2. SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SAYING, THESE ARE THE BEASTS WHICH YE SHALL EAT AMONG ALL THE BEASTS THAT ARE ON THE EARTH. 3. WHATSOEVER PARTETH THE HOOF, AND IS CLOVEN FOOTED, AND CHEWETH THE CUD, AMONG THE BEASTS, THAT SHALL YE EAT. 4. NEVERTHELESS THESE SHALL YE NOT EAT OF THEM THAT CHEW THE CUD, OR OF THEM THAT DIVIDE THE HOOF: AS THE CAMEL, BECAUSE HE CHEWETH THE CUD, BUT DIVIDETH NOT THE HOOF; HE IS UNCLEAN UNTO YOU. 7. AND THE SWINE, THOUGH HE DIVIDE THE HOOF, AND BE CLOVENFOOTED, YET HE CHEWETH NOT THE CUD; HE IS UNCLEAN TO YOU. HOW IS IT THAT WE, CHILDREN OF GOD, CAN EAT SUCH THINGS AS HOG, CATFISH, SQUIRREL, RABBIT, AND OTHER THINGS THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY UNCLEAN? WHEN CHRIST JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED THERE WAS A FOUNTAIN OPENED THAT CLEANSES OUR FOOD. ACTS10:10-15 ACTS:10:15 AND THE VOICE SPAKE UNTO HIM AGAIN THE SECOND TIME, WHAT GOD HATH CLEANSED , THAT CALL NOT THOU COMMON . WHY DO WE, AS SAINTS OF GOD, BLESS OUR FOOD? OUR FOOD IS SANCTIFIED, CLEANSED OF SIN, BY THE WORD OF GOD, JESUS CHRIST, AND THANKSGIVING. 1TM:4:4 FOR EVERY CREATURE OF GOD IS GOOD, AND NOTHING TO BE REFUSED, IF IT BE RECEIVED WITH THANKSGIVING: 5. FOR IT IS SANCTIFIED BY THE WORD OF GOD AND PRAYER. ALL MANKIND WAS IN ADAM AT THE TIME THAT HE TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, BECAUSE OF OUR PHYSICAL UNION WITH ADAM SIN WAS IMPUTED UNTO ALL MANKIND. AND WE ALL DIED THE SPIRITUAL DEATH. 1COR:15:22 FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE. NOW WHEN A CHILD IS BORN INTO THE WORLD, HE IS ALIVE PHYSICALLY, BUT DEAD SPIRITUALLY. IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT WE, AS CHILDREN OF GOD, MUST BE BORN AGAIN. WE MUST BE BORN OF WATER, BAPTIZED , AND BORN OF THE SPIRIT. WE MUST RECEIVE THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST. IT IS THE HOLY GHOST THAT BRINGS LIFE TO THE SOUL. JN:3:5 JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 6. THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. WHY MUST THE ELECT OF GOD BE BORN OF WATER, BAPTIZED? WHEN WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, ARE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SIN, WE ARE TRANSLATED OUT OF THE WORLD, AND INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST. GAL:3:27 FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST. ETERNAL LIFE IS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. 1JN:5:11 AND THIS IS THE RECORD, THAT GOD HATH GIVEN TO US ETERNAL LIFE, AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON. WHERE IS SIN LOCATED ON THE HUMAN BODY? SIN COVERS THE FEET. EXCEPT THE MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST, SAINTS, WASH YOUR FEET, YOU HAVE NO PART WITH CHRIST. JN:13:4 HE (JESUS) RISETH FROM SUPPER, AND LAID ASIDE HIS GARMENTS; AND TOOK A TOWEL, AND GIRDED HIMSELF. 5. AFTER THAT HE POURETH WATER INTO A BASON, AND BEGAN TO WASH THE DISCIPLES’ FEET, AND TO WIPE THEM WITH THE TOWEL WHEREWITH HE WAS GIRDED. 6. THEN COMETH HE TO SIMON PETER: AND PETER SAITH UNTO HIM, LORD, DOST THOU WASH MY FEET? 7. JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHAT I DO THOU KNOWEST NOT NOW; BUT THOU SHALT KNOW HEREAFTER. 8. PETER SAITH UNTO HIM, THOU SHALT NEVER WASH MY FEET. JESUS ANSWERED HIM, IF I WASH THEE NOT, THOU HAST NO PART WITH ME. 9. SIMON PETER SAITH UNTO HIM, LORD, NOT MY FEET ONLY, BUT ALSO MY HANDS AND MY HEAD. 10. JESUS SAITH TO HIM, HE THAT IS WASHED NEEDETH NOT SAVE TO WASH HIS FEET, BUT IS CLEAN EVERY WHIT: AND YE ARE CLEAN, BUT NOT ALL. BEFORE GOD CALLS THE ELECT TO REPENTANCE, AND GIVES THEM THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST ALL OF GOD’S CHILDREN ARE CARNAL MINDED. THE CARNAL MIND, THE MIND OF SENSE, AND REASON, WITHOUT THE HOLY GHOST, IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAWS OF GOD, NEITHER INDEED CAN BE. IT IS FOR THIS REASON ISRAEL UNDER THE LAW THAT GOD GAVE TO MOSES COULD NOT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. IT WAS NOT UNTIL AFTER HIS DEATH, BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION, THAT JESUS CAME TO HIS DISCIPLES, AND BREATH ON THEM, AND SAID RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST. THIS WAS THE RECONCILIATION OF GOD, AND MAN. ROM:8:6 FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH; BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE. 7. BECAUSE THE CARNAL MIND IS ENMITY AGAINST GOD; FOR IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF GOD, NEITHER INDEED CAN BE. 8. SO THEN THEY THAT ARE IN THE FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD. BEFORE GOD CALLS HIS CHILDREN TO REPENTANCE, AND GIVES THEM THE WASHING OF REGENERATION , AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST, WE ALL RUN WITH THE CHILDREN OF SATAN DOING THOSE THINGS THAT ARE NOT PLEASING TO GOD. EPH:2:3 AMONG WHOM ALSO WE ALL HAD OUR CONVERSATION IN TIMES PAST IN THE LUSTS OF OUR FLESH, FULFILLING THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH AND OF THE MIND; AND WERE BY NATURE THE CHILDREN OF WRATH, EVEN AS OTHERS. THERE IS NO SIN IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. 1JN:3:5 AND YE KNOW THAT HE WAS MANIFESTED TO TAKE AWAY OUR SINS; AND IN HIM IS NO SIN. IS IT POSSIBLE FOR ELECT OF GOD RID THEMSELVES OF THE SIN DONE IN IGNORANCE? YES, WHEN GOD CALLS THE ELECT TO REPENTANCE, JUSTIFIES, AND GLORIFIES THEM. IF THEY WILL REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST THE WATER OF THEIR BAPTISM WILL WASH THEIR SINS AWAY. I BELIEVE THAT THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST IS THE MASTER KEY TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. ACTS:2:28 THEN PETER SAID UNTO THEM, REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED EVERY ONE OF YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST. WHEN YOU, THE SAINTS OF GOD, ARE SICK IF YOU WILL CALL FOR THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH, AND ALLOW THEM TO PRAY OVER YOU, AND ANOINT YOU WITH OIL, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, THE PRAYER OF FAITH WILL SAVE THE SICK, AND THE LORD WILL RAISE THEM UP, AND IF THEY HAVE COMMITTED SINS IT SHALL BE FORGIVEN THEM. JMS:5:14 IS ANY SICK AMONG YOU? LET HIM CALL FOR THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH; AND LET THEM PRAY OVER HIM, ANOINTING HIM WITH OIL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD: 15. AND THE PRAYER OF FAITH SHALL SAVE THE SICK, AND THE LORD SHALL RAISE HIM UP; AND IF HE HAVE COMMITTED SINS, THEY SHALL BE FORGIVEN HIM. WHEN A PERSON FIRST RECEIVES THE HOLY GHOST THEY ARE A BABE IN CHRIST. AND FROM TIME TO TIME THEY WILL TRANSGRESS THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD IN IGNORANCE. IF A CHILD OF GOD SINS IN IGNORANCE, HE CAN CONFESS HIS SIN, AND GOD IS FAITHFUL TO FORGIVE HIS SIN. 1JN:1:9 IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS, AND TO CLEANSE US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. WE, THE CHILDREN OF GOD, WILL NEVER COME INTO CONDEMNATION IF WE WILL ABSTAIN FROM THE WORKS OF THE FLESH. RECORDED IN GALATIANS 5:19-21 ROM:8:1 THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO THEM WHICH ARE IN CHRIST JESUS , WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. 2. FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HATH MADE ME FREE FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES IF A PERSON SINNED IN IGNORANCE HE COULD BRING A SHE GOAT TO THE PRIEST, AND THE PRIEST OFFER IT UP AS A SACRIFICE UNTO GOD, AND THE SIN BE FORGIVEN. BUT IF A PERSON SINNED PRESUMPTUOUSLY, WILFULLY, THERE WAS NO SACRIFICE THAT COULD BE OFFERED UP FOR THAT SIN THE SIN WOULD REMAINED. NM:15:30 BUT THE SOUL THAT DOETH OUGHT PRESUMPTUOUSLY, WHETHER HE BE BORN IN THE LAND, OR A STRANGER, THE SAME REPROACHETH THE LORD; AND THAT SOUL SHALL BE CUT OFF FROM AMONG HIS PEOPLE. 31. BECAUSE HE HATH DESPISED THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND HATH BROKEN HIS COMMANDMENT, THAT SOUL SHALL UTTERLY BE CUT OFF ; HIS INIQUITY SHALL BE UPON HIM. A SIMILAR LAW WAS BROUGHT OVER INTO THE NEW TESTAMENT, IF A PERSON SINS WILFULLY AFTER THEY HAVE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST, AND HAVE COME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, THERE IS NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SIN. HEB:10:26 FOR IF WE SIN WILFULLY AFTER THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, THERE REMAINETH NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SINS, 27. BUT A CERTAIN FEARFUL LOOKING FOR OF JUDGMENT AND FIERY INDIGNATION, WHICH SHALL DEVOUR THE ADVERSARIES. WHY IS THERE NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR THE WILFULLY SIN? THREE REASONS. HEB:10:29 OF HOW MUCH SORER PUNISHMENT, SUPPOSE YE, SHALL BE THOUGHT WORTHY, WHO HATH TRODDEN UNDER FOOT THE SON OF GOD, HATH COUNTED THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT WHEREWITH HE WAS SANCTIFIED, AN UNHOLY THING, AND HATH DONE DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE? WE, AS SAINTS OF GOD, ARE NOT TO EAT WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE. 1COR:5:11 BUT NOW I HAVE WRITTEN UNTO YOU NOT TO KEEP COMPANY, IF ANY MAN THAT IS CALLED A BROTHER BE A FORNICATOR, OR COVETOUS, OR AN IDOLATER, OR A RAILER, OR A DRUNKARD, OR AN EXTORTIONER, WITH SUCH AN ONE NO NOT TO EAT. THIS VERSE OF SCRIPTURE GIVES HOPE. ROM:4:8 BLESSED IS THE MAN TO WHOM THE LORD WILL NOT IMPUTE SIN.