SIN IS DEATH | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 25, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 25.

SIN IS DEATH.

Not only is the penalty of sin death, but sin of itself is death. Not only is death in the sin, but the sin of itself is all death. Sin may not appear death. In the beginnings of leprosy we do not see the dread disease, but when full grown we see it in all its fearful effects and repulsiveness. But it is no less incurable in the beginning than when fully developed. The human family is stricken by the dread disease of sin. In its incipient stages it does not seem death, and we laugh at its presence, amuse ourselves with its mild stings, and slumber under its intoxicating wine; yet, nevertheless, “sin, when it is full-grown, bringeth forth death.” Death is its legitimate fruitage. He, therefore, who chooses sin chooses death. It matters not how harmless, beautiful, entrancing, delightful, or joyous sin may seem, to choose it means to choose death.

To choose sin against light and warning, means to reap by and by utter extinction of being. For it is not God’s will that sin should exist forever; he will sometime have a clean universe, where all intelligences praise him.

Rev. 5:13. Sin will be destroyed, and every soul which has identified himself with sin will be destroyed with it. He thereby cuts himself off from the life of God, and must apart from him inevitably and eternally perish.