Sin: defined – Meadow of Melodies

SIN– transgression of the law; lawless living; lawlessness

1 John 3:4 “Everyone doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.” –Halleluyah Scriptures

1 John 3:4 “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.” –KJV

EXAMPLES of sin provided in His WORD.

Colossians 3:5-9 “⁵Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:^[a] sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ⁶On account of these the wrath of God is coming.^[b] ⁷In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. ⁸But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. ⁹Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self^[c] with its practices.” –ESV

Colossians 3:5-9 “⁵Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: ⁶For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: ⁷In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. ⁸But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. ⁹Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;” –KJV

Committing sin comes with consequences, and it shows the severe perspective YHWH has toward sin. His Word provides the various CURSES that can come on those (individuals, families, nations, etc.) who choose to live lawlessly.

Deuteronomy 28:15-68 ¹⁵“But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: ¹⁶“Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. ¹⁷“Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ¹⁸“Cursed shall be the ^[e]fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. ¹⁹“Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. ²⁰“The Lord will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me. ²¹The Lord will make the ^[f]plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess. ²²The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with scorching,^[g] and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish. ²³And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron. ²⁴The Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed. ²⁵“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become ^[h]troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away. ²⁷The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. ²⁸The Lord will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of heart. ²⁹And you shall grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you. ³⁰“You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not gather its grapes. ³¹Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them. ³²Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be ^[i]no strength in your hand. ³³A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually. ³⁴So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see. ³⁵The Lord will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. ³⁶“The Lord will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone. ³⁷And you shall become an^[j] astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the Lord will drive you. ³⁸“You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall ^[k]consume it. ³⁹You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. ⁴⁰You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off. ⁴¹You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity. ⁴²Locusts shall ^[l]consume all your trees and the produce of your land. ⁴³“The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. ⁴⁴He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. ⁴⁵“Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you ^[m]did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. ⁴⁶And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever. ⁴⁷“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, ⁴⁸therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. ⁴⁹The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, ⁵⁰a nation of fierce countenance, which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young. ⁵¹And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you. ⁵²“They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you. ⁵³You shall eat the ^[n]fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you. ⁵⁴The ^[o]sensitive and very refined man among you will^[p] be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind, ⁵⁵so that he will not give any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates. ⁵⁶The ^[q]tender and ^[r]delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity, ^[s]will refuse to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and her daughter, ⁵⁷her ^[t]placenta which comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates. ⁵⁸“If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, ⁵⁹then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses. ⁶⁰Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. ⁶¹Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed. ⁶²You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God. ⁶³And it shall be, that just as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked^[u] from off the land which you go to possess. ⁶⁴“Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known—wood and stone. ⁶⁵And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but there the Lord will give you a ^[v]trembling heart, failing eyes, and anguish of soul. ⁶⁶Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. ⁶⁷In the morning you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were morning!’ because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and because of the sight which your eyes see. ⁶⁸“And the Lord will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, ‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.” –NKJV

YHWH may seem harsh towards sin, especially if this is the first time you read the passage above, but He is this way for many reasons. He hates sin because it causes harm or can cause harm. Sin can lead to deception, and in turn lead others astray and away from the life Yah has for EVERYONE. Though not all people are considered His children, He desires them to be. Yah through His Set-apart/Holy Spirit, guides people into lawful/righteous living because it protects them from unnecessary harm if they harken to Him. Obeying Him is for our own good, though we realize that or reject it. Please believe He sent His Son for you, to not only forgive you of sins (that every human has), but to CLEANSE you as well! He has provided a clean slate ready for obedience, fueled by the love He showed us first. We are free to love Him back now, by your actions… (or not. He also gave us freedom to choose because He is not one to force or pressure).

1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”
1 John 4:19b-21 “We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.”
1 Timothy 2:3-4 ³For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, ⁴who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

A Personal Note:

I hope whatever is produced through my human efforts in these posts, that it can help you decide whether to choose YHWH and being grafted into His family or choose darkness: to be blotted out, to choose to be forgotten. I hope to be real and let you become aware of everything I know (though it may not be much) about this choice of a neverending stress- and pain-free life that is given as an inheritance to anyone who commits this current, fleeting life to their original Creator. We all have freedom. That is, freedom of choice, but not everyone has freedom from the law of sin and death.

Believers and Doers of His ways have both freedoms… and though you may view a believer’s walk the opposite of a free lifestyle here on earth– it really will be after all this. His ways are not burdensome and many that have walked such a walk can agree to this, not because they are perfect in works or behavior, but because they have the desire to please and trust the One who holds their breath… Which produces success in their efforts.

Out of the curses listed here, YHWH does give BLESSINGS as well. Curses are from disobedience, but blessings are from obedience.

Deuteronomy 28

28 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: ²And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. ³Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.⁴Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.⁵Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.⁶Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.⁷The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.⁸The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.⁹The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.¹⁰And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.¹¹And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.¹²The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. ¹³And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: ¹⁴And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.