Transcript: Understanding Passive Sins: Foundations of Sin

Good morning and good evening wherever you are. I greet you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We are going to talk through a series on the most difficult and complicated concept in this world. It's called a sin. Yes. you may belong to any religion you may believe in any kind of doctrines or philosophies but there is one common terminology between all the sects of the people all the tribes of the people regardless of whichever gender you are, caste you are there is something called a sin that comes and alarms us deep down in our heart you may be even an atheist You may not be belonging to any specific religion and your belief is not basically based on any kind of, you know, the religious books that we are talking about Bible or Bhagavad Gita or Quran. however deep down in your heart when you do something incorrect according to your conscious you call it a sin or people translate it to something as guilt i'm feeling very guilty after i have spoken like that i feel very guilty of my action but actually you know what the trigger is basically you felt something is not right you felt something hurt the other person we may go through this kind of feelings, sensations, emotions day in and day out in our life but it is actually called as sin now this is what we are going to deep dive and get into the series of going through various aspects of sin just to understand how to overcome it because I come from a Christian background and I read the Holy Bible and I have read it quite a lot and what I've understood is the world was created without sin however sin found its dominance through certain actions and then Jesus was sent to this world to help us overcome sin if you look at the whole Bible God talks and instructs people more about sin I don't want to get into too much of Bible instantaneously but let's first understand the basics, the foundation Now what is sin by definition? Sin is something like this, it's defined Sin in the ordinary sense of the word consists of evil acts, whether of thought, word or deed well if you google and read any definition you won't understand a thing so now let's get into the actual sense the essence of what sin is all about now if you look at we live in a culture where the concept of sin has become entangled in legalistic arguments over right and wrong now some may say my action was right but to the other person the action is absolutely wrong the reason because what he thinks is right the other person thinks it is absolutely sin for example you switch on your television set and you get into the news channel news channel one will say this politician what he did was absolutely right but news channel two will absolutely say no no no this is exactly wrong so what is right and wrong is something that we are basically led to some sort of perplexions, right? And that really confuses. And sin is exactly something like that, right? You won't be able to judge it right. And when many of us consider what is sin, if you are from the Christian background, as I said before, we think of violations of the Ten Commandments, apart from which, Bible is also talking about 613 commandments in Old Testament. Holistically, if you look at Bible, God had instructed all the Christians, whoever are the followers of God by himself. And you need not be a Christian necessarily. If you look at all the 613 commandments, these are further classified as 248 positive commandments and 365 negative commandments. All of this is basically to lead the life in a more appropriate way, very useful for the mankind, live like a human, exercise humanity and be good to yourself and do good to the society you can also look at it in that tense and as a Christian it is impossible to or as a human being why you should be a Christian you can be a normal human being it is impossible to memorize these commandments just like lawyers do in the court and fight a case therefore it becomes very complicated to judge and justify the aspect of sin I am still in the foundation just trying to set the basics right before we deep dive into the actual concepts of what is sin and what are the different types of sin and what not. We will do a serious. However, we are in the jury of judging things somehow because we are part of democracy. I live in India and there are various countries that are democratic. You can practice any religion except for a few communistic countries, communist countries where you cannot practice any religion publicly. You are stipulated to certain way of worship, certain way of practicing certain doctrines, the religious doctrines. But in a country like India, it's democracy. It's democratic. And you belong to this kind of nation. As long as you are a citizen of this kind of country, you can practice any law related or associated to any religion. and democracy allows that. Example is we tend to think of murder and adultery as major sins compared with lying, cursing, cheating, etc. Although democracy has promised punishments for major and minor sins, we don't tend to get rid of minor sins. And this is where actually the bigger crimes are getting evolved. You see, for example, if you know at the root of it, when you sow a seed that this tree is not going to produce fruits it's easy for you to basically pluck out that tree at a level of one feet but if you let it grow for 40 feet you know what it is going to be to chop a tree nowadays you have modern equipments but imagine you just have an hammer it's going to be kind of multiple weeks or months for you to chop down that tree. Sin is as difficult as that and it's very complicated. And that's where the major and minor sins when you classify, you got to stick to the minor sins. And what are these minor sins? It's very complicated. How do I understand? For some minor sinners, you know, I just spoke a lie. I just misled a person. So what? Because it's quite common in corporate world that it's like a competition. That the more we fool others, the more we speak lies in a more appropriate way that others do not tend to believe that this is a lie, you're always a successor. Is it a sin? It's very tough. It's very tough for a debate. And what makes us to decide this? Because major crimes or sins involves terrible punishments if proved, such as lifetime sentence, hanged until death, etc. But how about lying to your colleague, as I said before? How about speaking likes to your wife or boss? how about stealing by forging official documents which none can find there are very smart players in incorporate or also in the in the in the judiciary departments they forced the documents in such and such way that even in a million years you won't be able to detect but don't you call that as a sin all right now let's refer to bible a bit right let's start with the basics of the Bible foundations. Now Genesis chapter 1 verse 2 says, the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep and the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Right? This is how God this is how the form of the world was before even God created with his beautiful creations and if you read the whole chapter of Genesis 1 and 2 you will find how beautifully created. And since our series is were very much focused on sin and sinful deeds. I would like to refer to Genesis chapter 3 and 4, where you can see that how Eve got tempted with a tree where God was specifically instructing, please do not eat that fruit, minus that you can eat any of the fruits. I've created everything. See, even with little children, if you would tell them, do not touch that thing, that's where their focus would go, right? It's a natural phenomenon. But have you ever realized how that phenomena have come into this world or into your brains? It's exactly from this act of Eve that days and months and weeks, I think she might have thought through it. And what is so specular about the tree or the fruit that the Lord God has instructed? And that's where Satan played a role, exactly talking about that tree to Eve and deceiving her. and after that if you read in genesis chapter 3 verses 14 and 15 so the lord god said to the serpent because you have done this you cursed more than any all cattle and more than every beast of the field on your belly you shall go and you shall eat dust all the days of your life Take a pause here This is about serpent right But this was not the form of devil before he became serpent And Bible is very passive about it. Therefore, we will also not get into the details. However, this is how the serpent took its form of going in the belly. It became a reptile. The devil became a reptile. and then verse 15 is very important even at the beginning of the world even all this incidents happens, the Lord God is talking about Jesus Christ here and I will put enmity between you and the women and between your seed and her seed he shall brew his your head and you shall brew his heel now this is talking about Jesus Christ getting nailed, his heels and hands were basically bruised he was nailed to the tree and after he was resurrected from the tomb on the third day romans chapter 16 verse 20 says that his head was crushed under our foot right he the son of righteousness went all the way and he conquered satan the devil the old serpent which deceived the world jesus christ came as second adam and he has basically triumphed over the death and victoriously he has overcome the sin. Now, why I'm talking about all this is because this is where the concept of God's judgment comes, questioning your holiness and honesty before God because he's omnipotent and omnipresent. Even Hindu doctrine calls it as bhakti, introduced roughly between 7th and 11th centuries, starting from maniyas and alvars, that later taken by Chola and Pandya emperors to construct temples, a place where people can come and search for divinity, introspect or examine their inner feelings, confess and get rid of sins that are contemptuous. Okay. Excuse me. Now, even during this process, general tendencies that people think of wasn't bigger crime and sins, but not really the so-called little ones. there are sins which falls under formidable category if you look at if you really look at it seriously which are counted as ignorable or tough to be followed right there are two different categories within this within this major and sorry within this minor sins category since that are ignorable you don't even think that it is so serious ignore it so what speaking a lie so what hurting someone's feelings so what bad-mouthing about someone bible technically calls this kind of attitude as slandering slanderers will have their place in hell read the bible very carefully in the new testament it talks about how worse it is a crime to slander someone especially talking about or gossiping about somebody in their absence these are sins that are ignorable or tough to be followed. Is it possible, brother, for me to not talk about someone in their absence? The whole world is basically revolving around gossips. And I was just Googling the other day, and interestingly Stanford University did a research where they found if corporate is investing certain millions of dollars in manufacturing and software, 40% of their money goes waste, And can you believe it goes based because of what? Gossip. We waste time creating politics, badmouthing about people, talking ill about others. Why? Because you don't like someone excelling. You want to overcome them. You want to basically supersede them. But do it in the most rightful way. But not in the form of gossips or slanders and all that. You see what I'm talking about? I'm talking about a sin or a crime or a mistake that is falling under the ignorable category. And this is tightly coupled with the minor sins. And we shall discuss what those are during the next few sessions. But we are still not done laying the foundation of the basics. And we need to ensure that we understand sin as a concept. And that's exactly what we are trying to do in this intro session. the truth is that sin as defined in the original translations of the bible it means to miss the mark right it's something like missing the mark when you're trying to shoot something as a target these days if you shoot any animal it's a crime you will be jailed but for example you just get into an indoor game and there are various circles and you point to the innermost core of the circle and you shoot if you miss that mark you miss the mark that's what i'm trying to say and that's exactly what bible is talking about the mark in this case is the standard of perfection established by god and evidenced by jesus viewed in that light if you see we are all sinners apostle paul says in romans 3 23 all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. In light of this, it does no good to compare ourselves to others. Yeah, it doesn't take us anywhere. Can you compare yourself with Apostle Paul? Apostle Paul himself had certain shortcomings. Once what happened is he ended up shaving his head. Why? Because he was trying to, you know, do something with the Gentiles. Just take and read, I don't remember the exact book, but you can take and read the books written by Paul. And Paul ensured, I don't remember who was the writer, it was probably Timothy. Record that in the Bible. I want people to know that every one of them have basically gone short, fallen short of their glory of God. And we all have sinned. 1 John 1 chapter 1 verse 7 and 9 says that all of us have to go and confess before God that we are sinners and if we do not do that we are basically liars and we are calling God a liar too and one who accepts that he is a sinner he can become righteous simply by being cleansed through the blood of God our Lord Jesus Christ and you are no more a sinner anyway returning back to this we cannot escape our failure to be righteous in our own strength that's exactly the point bible is trying to say how much ever you may try to overcome sin you will time and again fall good example is ten commandments there was a young person who came to jesus and said hey you know what how can i be more righteous and what is that i shouldn't be doing and you know that parable of course and Jesus point was you are perfect in everything but you lack in one thing you have so much of money why don't you sell and give to the poor because this man this young man had lust for money and that's the important commandment in the Bible in the 10 commandments you shall not lust because God is more prominent and he's stronger in wisdom right and he knew even if you had come past all these 9 commandments as how it was demonstrated in that young man's life. He could not overcome that one sin. It's lust. And lust is a big concept. We will deal through it in one of our series. But what I'm saying here is, somehow you will be short of glory. Somehow you will be a sinner. Why? Because in this world, that's why we refer to the Bible, Genesis chapter 3, as how sin entered to this world. And furthermore, if you look at Genesis chapter 4, the sin became even worse. Earlier, the sin was sin entered into this world through disobedience. She was not ready to follow the commandment, but she got deceived. Why? Because she was lustful about eating that fruit and ensuring she basically violated that commandment of being obedient to God. And the second sin which entered was even worse because, see, the beauty of sin, or it's not beauty, the worst thing of sin is, you let it grow, it will start bearing its own fruits, bad fruits, bitter fruits, right? The sin entered through this world, into this world, through the form of disobedience. And now you see, the sin is taking a different form. It's called as murder. Genesis chapter 4, Adam and Eve, as husband and wife, they begot Cain and Abel. And you can read chapter 4. Cain was basically jealous of Abel because God accepted the first fruits of not first fruits actually the offerings of abel abel was basically a sheep keeper and he was taking care of the sheeps and cattle and he gave the best of his you know offerings whereas cain did not give best of his offering but he was very jealous because god accepted the offering of abel and he rejected cain and and that led to the to the to the act of murdering his own brother and the blood was shed upon the ground and that's why Bible says in the Old Testament Leviticus you can book off Leviticus and Exodus if you can read God strictly said the commandment do not eat the blood do not you know cook the blood and eat why because blood is life and why because he has told that is due to this reason the blood that was shed on the ground is talking to me where is Abel God comes and asks Cain Cain and Cain said, am I the caretaker of this guy Abel? He was very arrogant because he was angry and he's talking arrogantly to God and God is saying that his blood is talking to me. His blood cries out to me. And this is for all the murderers, right? That the worst sin Today none of us want to murder Why Because the law will judge you and you will be thrown to jail But given a choice if there is no law and no government officials are going to be after you no police is going to chase you don't you think you will murder at least one person per day? There is so much anger deep down in your heart, given a choice, we will definitely murder. And those days, Abel didn't have any police, Abel didn't have court, judiciary to go and basically summon him and all that. therefore not not able i'm sorry cain and therefore cain picked the choice of murdering his brother today if that is a situation now don't think you are so very uh righteous and different from uh cain no we are just like cain only thing we are bound by the law and deep down within us we still have that anger anger on politicians anger on your colleagues anger on your neighbors anger on anybody who comes on your way evil while while you're driving your vehicle you tend to kill somebody right right but you were you're basically scared of law judging you and you being thrown to jail or maybe you're hanged to sentence to death and cain didn't have that problem and he murdered comfortably his brother and then he threw him but the blood that was shed on the ground cries to god yeah this is the worst sin we are talking about. I'm just talking about the minor and major sins. Major sin is something that shedding blood and the blood cries out to God and God is not going to be quiet because Bible says God is just God. He's righteous and he's going to judge people. Yeah, you read the Bible and how he judged David, his favorite servant. Yet when he committed sin, murdering somebody in the matter of Bathsheba, he went and judged him. He punished him. Yeah. But what happens when the minor, and that's Old Testament. Like in the New Testament, it's all about conscious. Why? Because Bible says that your body is the living temple of God and Holy Spirit is dwelling within you. Therefore, you're conscious. You're conscious. New Testament is taking us to the different level. What is the different level? Old Testament is talking about judging post your actions. But New Testament is talking about conscious. This is before your actions. Before even you would convert that sin into an action. How? It can be basically unplugged out of your memory, your thoughts, your mind. Take and read Romans chapter 12. It's talking about renewal of mind. Presenting yourself as a living sacrifice. We will be talking about that in our upcoming series. And that's the difference between this major and minor sins. Major sins are talking about actions. Minor sins are talking about conscious. Okay, I don't want to get into the depth because we will be doing more of these studies in our upcoming series, but we are still sticking to our foundations, the basics. And this is by God's design because only when we understand our weakness will we consider relying on the atoning sacrifice of Jesus. Since I do not know what other religions are practicing, I am a Christian by birth, I can talk more about Jesus and his sacrifices, but I don't want to get into the depth again we will be deviating therefore does it mean that we can sin and ask for forgiveness using it as a license to sin some of the preachers i would call them as false preachers they took grace for granted i'll be talking about grace also in a moment but grace is not about you sinning and then again sinning and again repeating the sin recurring no grace is about realizing how much it cost for Jesus to purchase us for a price by shedding his precious blood? How much is cost for the Father by sending his only son? Yet when we were sinners, he loved us and he has given his only begotten son to be laid as a sacrifice on the cross of Calvary. A lamb without blemish was killed for us. When you think of this, you will not have a desire to repeat sin. And, brothers and sisters, do not say that, you know, I am under the grace grace is something like you regret and you repent and you feel sorry enough and you do not repeat that sin you give away that sin, be an overcomer be an overcomer, that's exactly the grace the answer is a big no if somebody says that yeah brother, don't worry, you can repeat your sin and then anyway, grace is there you go and ask God to forgive you wash by his precious blood refer to this 1 John 1 verses 7 and 9 how many other times you go to God he is slow to anger, bound to compassion, Psalm 145 verses 8 and 9 but you also need to read the verse Psalm 103 verse 9 it says that the spirit of God will not strive with man forever because there is an upper limit even for God and you know that upper limit for some people, maybe it's 30 times, for some people it's, I do not know the number, God alone knew the number but you can be sure there is a limit for God to tolerate your sinful deeds he's not going to judge you why because bible talks about the white judgment and all that i don't want to get in there but god will god is a gentle god you know you all of us know that right holy spirit is so gentle he will just walk away and which is even worse than getting punished while you are still being on earth repenting and coming back to god right now bible is encouraging overcomers right the whole idea is behind behind repentance is getting getting one stronger and be an overcomer and all the other way around of sinning and repenting in cycles you know we we have the habit of doing things in cycles why grace is there anyway brother do not be worried no that's not the true concept of god concept of bible in the New Testament. The true meaning behind repentance is regret enough and move on, carry on, do not look back. No turning back is the principle. Since people fail to adopt to this reason, they really fall short of confidence, thus ending in suicidal and all those things. You know, do you know where this idea of suicidal comes? Because Satan will ensure that you're absolutely convinced you are an utter failure that there is no way you can be an overcome and that's exactly opposite to what bible talks about bible teaches you that walk in confidence in your confessions and hope take and read hebrews chapter 10 verse 23 your confidence and your hope you will not be having an old favorite mind but you shall trust the promises of god because he who called you is faithful this is what hebrews chapter 10 verse 23 says if you are a person who abide by this principle understanding what the Bible is, there is no way that you can be convinced that you are a failure forever, eternally, that there is no way you can overcome. And Satan has played a wonderful role in convincing people that you can never be an overcomer. Therefore, you deserve to die, kill yourself. Why? There is no point living your life. You see, you started with this minor sin, then it become major sin and major sin can even also kill you. This is the power behind counting sin or danger behind counting sin so lightly this is the power of sin leading you to death that spiritually and then death physically yeah if someone asks you a question what do i do about becoming perfect and call myself righteous though my through my works or actions apostle paul puts this in perspective in romans chapter 3 verse 20 therefore no one will be declared righteous in his side by observing the law rather through the law we become conscious of sin listen to me brothers and sisters do not believe if somebody's telling you hey you know what the old testament is about law new testament is about grace again i'm touching upon grace but never forget you have to be the follower of law jesus said himself i did not come here to abolish the law but i have come here to fulfill the law. Jesus himself was the follower of the law. And that's one reason that he stood in that long queue and he got unbaptized on the day, right? Calling himself as a sinner. Why? Because that is the principle. That is the principle of Bible that you need to get baptized. And he follows that law, the commandments, right? And be the doer of the law, right? That's the basic. The baby which is born doesn't start walking. Imagine if the baby just born is going to start walking in the labor room. I'm very sure the doctors and all those who are helping in that room will flee away. You'll be scared. It's a scary moment, right? There is a process. There is a chronological order. There is a sequential order. The order is basically that's why Bible have not got rid of Old Testament. There are totally 66 books and majority of the books are there in the old testament why god let it for a purpose right you need to understand how the law is basically written and what are those laws what are those commandments then you understand what is right and wrong you discern you get a discerning spirit to judge and then you will have some maturity and wisdom knowledge to understand why jesus have come what was the reason objective of jesus being given to us as messiah i already told you that it has been written at the beginning itself the foundation of the basic Christian principles in Genesis chapter 3 itself was talking about Jesus, he's going to come but after that there were so many incidents and laws were given to people of Israel and why? because to correct them to prove that how much ever they follow the law, they're not going to be called as righteous but by not following the law, you will not even understand your failures you will not be able to value the grace are you with me brothers yeah so God wanted us to recognize our sins even though you have not murdered or committed adultery you will find themselves convicted of lying or of worshipping false idols like wealth or power ahead of God by the way idol here is not only talking about this statue worship right It about worshipping money Some people worship power They can't live without money or power. It's an idol. We must resist the temptation to act as if we are righteous, especially by leaning on our good works. You with me? We must be in a position to resist the temptation. James 4.7 says, resist the devil and he will flee from you when you say devil, can you say devil really? no, you can see the works of the devil, the works of the devil have taken various forms right, he works in minds and that's why Romans chapter 12 is very important for you to read how the acts of mind can come and the whole Romans chapter 12 especially verses 14 to 15, you will understand how basically you need to bless and not to curse people and etc. I'm again connecting with slandering and all that right during the whole chapter you will understand if we claim to be without sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us if we confess our sins he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness if we claim we have not sinned we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives 1 John chapter 8 verses 8 to 10 1 John chapter 1 verses 8 to 10 you see how dangerous it is some people even don't realize what is actual sin because according to them murdering is sin stealing is sin and yeah for some even lying is sin but how about your consciousness brother Jesus said you look at a woman with lust in your heart you've already committed adultery but in the Old Testament only if you're committed adultery okay they caught one lady and they stoned her to death. But how about the men who went and slept with her? Yeah, Old Testament has got its own loopholes. Consciousness is something that New Testament and Jesus has increased the bar. He raised the bar. Enough of you living in the old laws and commandments several years. But why, brother, you are only talking about grace? Why are you not talking about these kind of standards which Jesus had elevated through the New Testament? testament the same jesus told that control your eyes yeah lust starts with eyes and then it converts a start gets into mind and then into heart and from heart it comes out in the form of actions you start you know going behind that female then you start lusting for her talking to her trying to you know have sex with her and whatnot but what is the what is the preliminary form of this whole act called prostitution or adultery. The preliminary form is thought, conscious. You need to keep that right. You need to set that right. Jesus is exactly talking about that. Therefore, the ideal fact is, admit, resist. These are the principles. And overcome, which is the logical concept of being free of sin. A large bunch of people don't sin because they are scared of punishments as I said before, when they reach eternity as preached by the divine books now this is a different form of what I had explained, the earlier form was you will be judged by the judiciary of this earth the laws, the rules of the penal court for example, but people who escape that they do not sin, they are basically also scared of something which is preached in the divine books that is the final judgment white throne judgment but in general almost every religion speaks about punishments post death if they would sin during their stay on earth in simple words it talks about hell after life from earth which is several degrees of sin such as you know getting pierced in the needle thrown into a lake of fire and even Bible talks about that right but Bible does not go into the depth talking about what could be the various forms of punishments it generally talks about a place called as hell lake of fired that's it but the various other books i have heard from some of my hindu friends in in in the gita there are various degree of punishments for different types of sins which is good to know but then we need not get there necessarily why because jesus simplified it for us hey you know what always have that realization that god is in you one john four four says that greater is within you than there is in this world. If you can understand the greater is within you, there is no way that your eyes will fall for lust, that your hands will fall for any kind of murdering, that your body, every organ in your body, every thought process will work in harmony with the Spirit of God that is within you. This is what Jesus was trying to explain. Right? And we will see that. Bible says in Romans 6.23, For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord, our God. Romans 6, 12 and 14 says, Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lust. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Be very careful when you read these kind of verses, right? You can twist this, you are not under law, therefore you can ignore law. No, Bible doesn't say to ignore law or abolish law. No, No, it's helping you to realize grace is so much powerful and important for you to follow certain principles to stay away from sin. Whereas law is the one which will guide you and help you to live inside that circle of getting understanding and basic knowledge, the foreknowledge of understanding what sin is. When you have do's and don'ts, that's when you will understand what you should not be doing. this is where law is going to help you but grace will help you overcome that how can you overcome out of your own works out of your own deeds and righteous no, it's a dog done Paul said that all my righteous deeds are like dog done you cannot get rid of sin by your own deeds by your own works but by the grace of Jesus Christ what is grace which will help you to overcome help you to become overcomers and not live in sin. Help you to overcome sin, basically. And Romans 5.8 says that. But God demonstrates His own love towards us that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Yeah. Yeah. As we read in 6.23, for the wages of sin is death. Sin cannot be overcome without death. As I said, the death will be initially starting with a spiritual death and then it will become a physical death. And physical death can come in various forms. Yeah, you're getting into some sort of lustful sins. You will get vulnerable to certain diseases through which you can die. Right. And certain bondages, it can be in the form of accidents. Why? Because you will become you will become devil's captive. And you know what are the three characteristic features of devil? he's a murderer, he's a destroyer and he's a stealer he will steal off your liberty from Jesus Christ and he will separate you then he will destroy your life by instilling all kind of bad habits and then finally he will murder you murder you yeah it can be in the form of sicknesses, diseases, accidents and what not and suicidal, killing yourself yeah but the basic is sin sin can ruin a righteous righteous person's life and who's righteous? all of us are righteous those who are washed by the blood of Christ who believes that Jesus died for me they are righteous, Bible says that there are no two ways about it but how do you live your life after that in conscious in diligence in holiness Revelation 21 11 says that those who are holy shall become more holy those who are righteous shall become more righteous Why? Because there is no upper limit. There is no saturation point when you are on this earth. Why? Because the ruler of the world is devil and he's a sinner. He's a fallen angel from heaven. And his only job is to get rid of these men of God, women of God. They are created in God's image. If you take and read Genesis chapter 1 verse 27. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created him. Male and female, he created them. Can you imagine? when devil Satan looks at us he looks at God and God is his number one enemy he rebelled against God and he was thrown and we are his enemies too but do not worry, do not worry we are under the grace Bible says in 2 Corinthians 9-8 for there is all sufficiency through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ yeah, and there is an abundance in every good work that you do what is that good work? believing in God. Walk in faith. Alright. Thank you brothers and sisters for listening to me. I think this was a very useful session setting the foundation, setting the basics. As I said, we are going to go in series talking about sin. During our next session, we will be talking about what is original sin? How can we judge if something is a sin or not? We will be getting into more of the details and what is unforgivable sin? What are the different types of sin? So these are the things which we will be talking about and then onwards we will be getting into the nine deadly sins which Bible is also talking about. We will be getting into the study of every individual sin and we will be basically learning concepts from that. Thank you and God bless you.