July 7, 2025 • 23 mins
The familiar phrase "all sin is equal" rolls off the tongue of many believers without a second thought. But what if this comfortable theological shorthand isn't actually biblical? This episode challenges a widely accepted Christian belief by examining what Scripture actually teaches about different sins and their consequences.
Diving into passages where Jesus himself speaks of "greater sin" (John 19:11) and different levels of punishment (Luke 12:47-48), we uncover a more nuanced understanding of how God views our transgressions. The evidence is compelling: while all sin separates us from God and requires grace for redemption, the Bible consistently shows that some sins carry heavier weight, responsibility, and consequence than others.
This isn't just semantic nitpicking—it profoundly affects how we understand God's perfect justice. When we recognize that God looks at our hearts, motives, knowledge, and intent, we gain a deeper appreciation for His righteousness. He doesn't judge the person who steals a pen the same as a murderer, though both have sinned. This understanding doesn't minimize any sin's seriousness but magnifies God's perfect judgment.
Through biblical examples and practical applications, this episode will transform your understanding of sin's nature and inspire a more complete surrender to God. Stop reserving rooms in your heart that you keep off-limits to Him—true faith means signing over the entire deed. Subscribe, share, and join our growing community as we pursue biblical truth together, even when it challenges what we've always believed.
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Now let's get into the video.
Hey, what's up everybody?
Welcome to another episode,faith and Failures.
If you're watching online,whether on Rumble or YouTube,
you can see that I'm a littlebit in a different atmosphere.
(00:47):
We're on vacation, so I got alittle bit of time.
I'm talking a little soft.
The baby's asleep in the nextroom, so I wanted to talk to you
a little bit today about is allsin equal?
So if you're watching online,you'll see that I'm in my studio
.
Usually I'm sharing verses onmy screen, but I can't do that
(01:08):
today because of the setup.
But I wanted to talk about this.
We have and I've said it myself, and I've started reexamining
myself as far as things Ibelieve versus how I was raised
and, that being said, 90% of howI was raised is biblical.
(01:32):
Well, it may be even less thanthat, maybe 70, maybe 80%.
You'll probably understand thiswhen I spit out.
What I'm trying to say is thatwe easily spit out.
What I'm trying to say is thatwe easily we will quote things
or repeat things or regurgitatethings that are actually not
(01:54):
truth, but more of preference,and we call it theology instead
of biblical.
Let me give you a good example.
I was raised where my dad andno shame on my dad, it's just
how he was raised it was themovement at the time Pentecostal
Women didn't wear pants.
You have clean-shaven faces?
(02:19):
Well, no, my dad had a mustache, but like beards and stuff and
it was.
We couldn't go to the movietheater, I couldn't wear shorts
and I know I got some some sexylegs, but my dad would not allow
it.
I guess he didn't want thoseladies out there lusting, just
little things like that.
(02:39):
That were what in the momentsand in the time and the raising,
like they thought that that washow it was supposed to be done,
which is understandable.
I did the same thing with mykids today, like if I tell my
son, hey, don't do this, why?
Cause I said so.
You know there's just don't pusha whole lot of biblical why on,
(03:04):
just like household stuff,because it's kind of like not
everything you find in the Bible, it's more preference.
But I make sure to distinguishthat of like.
Hey, if you're lying, this iswhat the Bible says.
Hey, if you're eating that icecream after I said not to,
you're supposed to obey yourparents or you will die,
something like that.
(03:24):
I think that's in the Word.
So, that being said, as aparent, now that I'm a parent to
a little baby, a little toddler, almost two years old actually
today, yesterday she's 21, soabout one and a half, and then
(03:45):
he's always going to be 17 inNovember I have, over the course
of time, established somemostly unwritten, but I have
established that the punishmentmust fit the crime.
And so I've said in sermons andI apologize for this because
(04:07):
it's actually not biblical isthat all sin is the same, and
while that is technically true,it's actually biblically not.
And what I mean by that is likewe will say all sin is the same
in God's eyes, which is true,but there are different levels
(04:28):
of sin.
For instance, sodom andGomorrah would be a great story
for you to have a deeperunderstanding of exactly what
I'm trying to say is it wasbecause of their sexual
perversion that God actuallysent the angels of destruction
to go and wipe them off the faceof the map.
It was because of the sexualsin they even wanted to partake
(04:51):
in the humping of the angels.
He even offered his virgindaughters to them and they did
not want that.
They wanted the angels, andthat's how terrible it was.
They saw something new thatthey wanted and desired, and
this is not far off from what Isee our culture today.
So the question of the podcastand the title of this podcast is
(05:14):
going to be is all sin equal?
So let's walk through somestuff.
It's a phrase that believersrepeat over and over again that
sin is sin.
Right, sin is sin.
If you're sinning against God,you're missing the mark.
But I think sometimes we put onall sin at the same level and
(05:40):
that's not true.
Matter of fact, even in theBible the Old, that was directly
a word and was a mandate lawfrom God, and it was different
levels of things that someonedid.
There was a certain punishmentto follow.
So sin is sin, yes, but is thatwhat the Bible actually teaches
(06:03):
?
And, more importantly, couldthis idea be leading us into a
dangerous misunderstanding ofGod's justice, his holiness and
His grace?
So let's on this podcast.
If you're new here, thank you somuch for joining we myself, as
a believer, my first response isnot well, what does your pastor
say?
What does a YouTube channel say?
(06:24):
What are you feeling?
What does your theology say?
It says what does the Bible say?
So let's go to scripture, sowhere the phrase comes from.
So let's go to scripture, sowhere the phrase comes from.
Many people quote Romans 3.23 asthe foundation of this belief.
So for all have sinned andfallen short of God's glorious
standard.
Okay, this is true.
(06:44):
Yes, everyone has sinned, butno one stands righteous on their
own.
But that truth doesn'tautomatically mean all sins are
the same in nature.
We see this in our judicialsystem, where we have different
levels of punishment that fitthe crime.
As a parent, I think I startedthis and didn't actually finish
(07:06):
the thought as a parent, thepunishment must fit the crime.
If my son throws something onemore time after I told him not
to, or he sits somewhere like wehave this little I'm thinking
of it because he did it lastnight this little something
rider.
It's like a basket thing orwhatever you call it.
(07:27):
What do you call it?
Anyways, it's like a littlesquare and you can pull stuff, a
wagon and he sits on it andprobably it won't hurt it.
But my wife told him hey, I'drather you not sit on that
because we don't want it to messit up.
We just got it on the vacation.
Well, he said on it again.
Well, it's my punishment to goout in the middle of the highway
(07:50):
and stone him, or to take aboard or my belt and start
whooping the fire out of him.
Because he's not listening.
He is being disobedient.
He is sinning against hisfather, against his mother,
because we told him not to dosomething.
Yet he's still doing it.
But does the punishment fit thecrime?
No, I get a little loud.
(08:11):
I encourage him very softly toget up before it leads to the
next phase, which is corporalpunishment.
And he gets up and all is rightagain.
So, yes, everyone has sinned.
No one stands righteous ontheir own.
But the truth doesn'tautomatically mean all sins are
the same in nature, consequenceor impact.
(08:33):
For instance, a serial killerdoes not have the same impact in
their sinning as a person whosteals a pen from their job
because their job can't affordit, or copy paper, whatever the
case may be, it's not the same,even though both are sin,
because they are, and stealingis one of the big 10.
(08:54):
Murder is one of the big 10.
But you see how there's adifferent level.
So, yes, all of the evil andthe bad and the stuff, in God's
eyes it is evil and it stillremains bad, but you wouldn't
punish the same when caught, ifthat makes sense.
(09:16):
The Bible shows that God seesthe heart, which is very
important.
He sees the motive and theweight behind every action.
So let's listen to what Jesussaid and how he phrased up when
he was speaking to Pilate inJohn, chapter 19, verse 11.
(09:37):
It says you would have no powerhe's talking to Pilate over me
at all unless it will be givento you from above.
Jesus was not a weenie.
He's saying it to the guy thatdecides his fate.
I love it.
So the one who handed me overto you has the greater sin.
The greater sin.
(09:58):
That means some sins carry moreweight than others.
Okay, another example would beMatthew 11, 21 and 22.
What sorrow awaits you,chorazin and Bethsaida, for if
the miracles I did in you hadbeen done in wicked Tyre or
(10:18):
Sidon.
So not all sin is weighed thesame on Judgment Day, according
to scripture.
Not what you've been taught,not what a catchy saying is that
(10:40):
people put on a t-shirt, butwhat does the word say?
This has to be the foundationof the belief and theology of
every believer.
We must take our opinions outof reading scripture, remove our
bias.
And what does the word justplainly say?
This is how God is righteousand this is how God is fully
(11:01):
just.
Because he takes all of thesethings into account, he has all
the necessary information tomake the call right.
He looks at our heart, ourmotive, our knowledge and our
intent.
Look at Luke 12, 47 and 48.
Heart, our motive, ourknowledge and our intent.
Look at Luke 12, 47 and 48.
A servant who knows what themaster wants but isn't prepared
and doesn't carry out thoseinstructions will be severely
(11:23):
punished.
But someone who does not knowand then does something wrong
will be punished only lightly.
It's Luke, chapter 12.
That's a clear indication thatknowledge and intent affect the
severity of judgment.
Also, james 3.1.
(11:45):
Dear brothers and sisters, notmany of you should become
teachers in the church, for wewho teach will be judged more
strictly.
There is more of a weight tothe burden of teaching because
you will be held accountable,because you have the knowledge
whether you're teaching right orteaching wrong.
(12:06):
Some are judged more strictlybecause responsibility increases
accountability.
What should we believe instead?
So what's the right perspectiveon?
Is sin all equal?
All sin separates us from God.
All sin Look at Isaiah 59 too.
(12:28):
It's your sin that have cut youoff from God.
Because of your sin, he hasturned away.
But not all sin carries thesame consequences.
Earthly and eternalconsequences vary.
Think of David's adultery withBathsheba.
His sin was forgiven, but hisconsequence was tragic he lost
(12:53):
that firstborn child.
We must take all sin across theboard seriously, but we must
also understand some sinsdestroy lives and dishonor God
more deeply than others.
So instead of saying this,instead of saying sin is sin and
(13:13):
all sin is equal and all thisother stuff all sin is evil, not
equal we should say instead,maybe try this all sin is deadly
, but not all sin is the same.
All sin separates us from God,but not all sin is judged
equally and as harshly, becausesome bear more responsibility
(13:34):
when you're in charge of otherpeople, like I know for me,
being the pastor and leader anddoing a podcast and teaching
people the word of God.
I'm going to be held to a levelof responsibility that I better
be ready for because I have somuch people that listen to what
I say.
(13:54):
That's why I don't teach boring.
Everybody's going to heaven.
Just give your 10% and God willlet you win.
I don't teach that crap becauseI'm going to be held
responsible very seriously.
There's going to be ministersthat are going to stand before
God and God's going to bluntlyand blatantly ask them why did
(14:17):
you not preach Christ crucifiedand pick up your cross daily?
And they're going to not have agood reason, they're not going
to have a good answer and it'sgoing to be tragic because that
blood is on their hands.
So all sin, all sin is evil, allsin separates us.
So all sin, all sin is evil,all sin separates us.
(14:38):
All of us have sinned, but wehave to have a deeper
theological understanding ofwhat does the word say?
And the word doesn't actuallyteach that all sin is equal, but
it does teach and echo everysingle book, every single
chapter that all sin is evil andit will separate us from God,
whether you steal a pen orwhether you murder your brother,
it will separate us from God.
Whether you steal a pen orwhether you murder your brother,
it is a separation from God.
(14:59):
It is missing the mark.
It is not what you are supposedto do, but I felt like I needed
to make a video to help correctthis, that not all sin is the
same, but all sin is evil.
All sin separates us from Godand that's the worst.
Like you may you may not, youmay not Think much about
(15:23):
stealing a pen, but understandthe reason.
All sin is evil is because itis leading you down the path,
the broad path that leads intothe jaws of hell.
It's the narrow path, the hardpath of living right, of doing
right, not that that will see.
(15:43):
Here's the thing.
That path leads you to heaven.
Okay, it goes to the gates ofheaven.
The path there is lightlytraveled and very few will find
it.
That's the word.
So my job as a minister, my jobas a believer, let's go beyond
minister.
My job as a believer is tochallenge other believers and
(16:07):
say listen, this is what theword says and you are doing it
wrong.
This is how you approach abeliever who's doing it wrong.
I don't believe you're actuallytrying to do it wrong.
But now that you have thisknowledge after this, you are
choosing to do it wrong.
And now the burden is on them.
(16:28):
1 John 1, verse 9.
And this is so cool.
But if we confess our sins tohim, talking about God, he is
faithful and he is just.
Why is he?
Just Because he thinks aboutour motive, our knowledge, our
intent.
He looks at our heart.
He cares about the reason we'reactually doing it.
(16:51):
It goes so much deeper Some ofus in the more hardcore
Christian walk when I sayhardcore Christian walk, I'm
thinking like legalistic Peoplewho it's like they wrote the
Bible themselves and they'redoing it perfect and they do
things a certain way and theythink they're holier and they
look down at other people thatdon't do it that way.
(17:11):
And to me that's a Phariseemindset, completely unbiblical.
Well, I guess it's biblical,it's in the Bible, but it's who
Jesus talked against.
But God looks at our heart.
So this is why the Bible tellsus not to judge whether someone
is saved or not, because thattries to put us in the seat of
(17:32):
judgment which only belongs toGod.
So we are called to call eachother out as believers, lift
each other up, help, correct andspur towards conviction, but we
have to remember where we comefrom.
This is one thing that keeps mehumble is I don't ever want to
forget where God brought me from.
(17:54):
I'm not going to do it on thispodcast, but let me tell you.
There were some dark times inmy life and some dark places.
And even though I was in aplace of such darkness, such
evil, doing such evil, yet hestill reached down to where I
was and saved me and pulled meout.
But if we confess our sins tohim, he is faithful and he is
(18:15):
just to forgive us of our sinsand cleanse us from all
wickedness.
He is faithful, he is just, heis gracious.
So, out of that placement, orout of that place where God is
giving us these things, the freegift that Jesus gave his life
(18:36):
for salvation, the grace and themercy that God gives he says
every day, his mercy and graceis new, thank God, because I
need it every single day.
This should spur me, thisshould encourage me, this should
inspire me to live a life forGod, completely, not holding
(19:01):
anything back, not holding anydark part of my life.
I gave this example to mycongregation last Sunday, at the
time of recording this, and Isaid you know, when we come to
Christ, when we give our life toGod, I said think of your heart
(19:21):
as a house and you sign thedeed over to Christ.
Now he is the owner, the way hewants your house to be
renovated, what he wants to becleaned out, whatever he says,
do you do it because now he isthe owner, and gladly so,
(19:44):
because what you owed on thehouse, the debt, has been
completely paid and ownership isnow given, voluntarily, given
to God, to Christ.
And I said but a lot of us inthe church, we have rooms or a
room in the back that we don'twant God to touch.
(20:06):
They're like hey, you can doeverything you want in here, you
can do everything else, you canmake all this, clean it up,
move the furniture, put newstuff on the walls, take the TVs
down.
I don't care, lord, whateveryou want to do, but that back
room back there, that's my area,that's for me.
And so I asked them this area,that's for me.
(20:33):
And so I asked them this ifthat is the case and you're
telling and you're reservingthings and not actually giving
God the entire house, does thehouse actually belong to him?
The answer is no, because if hehas ownership, he has access to
everything.
If he has ownership, he hasaccess to everything.
And that's why we haveunhealthy churches, unhealthy
(20:57):
believers, because we want God'sname on the mailbox but we want
control to still be in our name.
But God doing this, grace andmercy, love and Jesus' sacrifice
and Holy Spirit power and mercyand love and Jesus' sacrifice
and Holy Spirit power.
It should inspire us to livefully for Him.
He doesn't want us to doanything half-hearted, because
that's what he is using as alaunching point or a marker of
(21:23):
whether we actually live for Himor not is what is our heart say
?
What does our heart say?
What does our heart say?
What does our heart do?
What is our motives?
What is our reasons for servingin the church?
Are we doing it to be seen?
Are we doing it because we feelwe're obligated?
Why do we give our money?
Are we doing it because a guysays we're supposed to?
Are we doing it because we feelguilty?
Or are we being cheerful giversbecause we believe in what the
(21:47):
body is doing?
And if you don't believe inwhat the body's doing, aside
from money, you shouldn't begoing to that church.
If you're not willing to putthe money where you say you
believe, then you shouldn't bethere.
I hope this podcast episodehelped further your
(22:07):
understanding of grace and mercyand realizing that all sin is
not equal, but all sin is evil.
So, yes, we all sin, we allmess up and at the same time, we
all have access to grace.
We all have access to mercy,and so show that grace and mercy
(22:30):
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Hey, what's up everybody?
Welcome to another episode,faith and Failures.
If you're watching online,whether on Rumble or YouTube,
you can see that I'm a littlebit in a different atmosphere.
(00:47):
We're on vacation, so I got alittle bit of time.
I'm talking a little soft.
The baby's asleep in the nextroom, so I wanted to talk to you
a little bit today about is allsin equal?
So if you're watching online,you'll see that I'm in my studio
.
Usually I'm sharing verses onmy screen, but I can't do that
(01:08):
today because of the setup.
But I wanted to talk about this.
We have and I've said it myself, and I've started reexamining
myself as far as things Ibelieve versus how I was raised
and, that being said, 90% of howI was raised is biblical.
(01:32):
Well, it may be even less thanthat, maybe 70, maybe 80%.
You'll probably understand thiswhen I spit out.
What I'm trying to say is thatwe easily spit out.
What I'm trying to say is thatwe easily we will quote things
or repeat things or regurgitatethings that are actually not
(01:54):
truth, but more of preference,and we call it theology instead
of biblical.
Let me give you a good example.
I was raised where my dad andno shame on my dad, it's just
how he was raised it was themovement at the time Pentecostal
Women didn't wear pants.
You have clean-shaven faces?
(02:19):
Well, no, my dad had a mustache, but like beards and stuff and
it was.
We couldn't go to the movietheater, I couldn't wear shorts
and I know I got some some sexylegs, but my dad would not allow
it.
I guess he didn't want thoseladies out there lusting, just
little things like that.
(02:39):
That were what in the momentsand in the time and the raising,
like they thought that that washow it was supposed to be done,
which is understandable.
I did the same thing with mykids today, like if I tell my
son, hey, don't do this, why?
Cause I said so.
You know there's just don't pusha whole lot of biblical why on,
(03:04):
just like household stuff,because it's kind of like not
everything you find in the Bible, it's more preference.
But I make sure to distinguishthat of like.
Hey, if you're lying, this iswhat the Bible says.
Hey, if you're eating that icecream after I said not to,
you're supposed to obey yourparents or you will die,
something like that.
(03:24):
I think that's in the Word.
So, that being said, as aparent, now that I'm a parent to
a little baby, a little toddler, almost two years old actually
today, yesterday she's 21, soabout one and a half, and then
(03:45):
he's always going to be 17 inNovember I have, over the course
of time, established somemostly unwritten, but I have
established that the punishmentmust fit the crime.
And so I've said in sermons andI apologize for this because
(04:07):
it's actually not biblical isthat all sin is the same, and
while that is technically true,it's actually biblically not.
And what I mean by that is likewe will say all sin is the same
in God's eyes, which is true,but there are different levels
(04:28):
of sin.
For instance, sodom andGomorrah would be a great story
for you to have a deeperunderstanding of exactly what
I'm trying to say is it wasbecause of their sexual
perversion that God actuallysent the angels of destruction
to go and wipe them off the faceof the map.
It was because of the sexualsin they even wanted to partake
(04:51):
in the humping of the angels.
He even offered his virgindaughters to them and they did
not want that.
They wanted the angels, andthat's how terrible it was.
They saw something new thatthey wanted and desired, and
this is not far off from what Isee our culture today.
So the question of the podcastand the title of this podcast is
(05:14):
going to be is all sin equal?
So let's walk through somestuff.
It's a phrase that believersrepeat over and over again that
sin is sin.
Right, sin is sin.
If you're sinning against God,you're missing the mark.
But I think sometimes we put onall sin at the same level and
(05:40):
that's not true.
Matter of fact, even in theBible the Old, that was directly
a word and was a mandate lawfrom God, and it was different
levels of things that someonedid.
There was a certain punishmentto follow.
So sin is sin, yes, but is thatwhat the Bible actually teaches
(06:03):
?
And, more importantly, couldthis idea be leading us into a
dangerous misunderstanding ofGod's justice, his holiness and
His grace?
So let's on this podcast.
If you're new here, thank you somuch for joining we myself, as
a believer, my first response isnot well, what does your pastor
say?
What does a YouTube channel say?
(06:24):
What are you feeling?
What does your theology say?
It says what does the Bible say?
So let's go to scripture, sowhere the phrase comes from.
So let's go to scripture, sowhere the phrase comes from.
Many people quote Romans 3.23 asthe foundation of this belief.
So for all have sinned andfallen short of God's glorious
standard.
Okay, this is true.
(06:44):
Yes, everyone has sinned, butno one stands righteous on their
own.
But that truth doesn'tautomatically mean all sins are
the same in nature.
We see this in our judicialsystem, where we have different
levels of punishment that fitthe crime.
As a parent, I think I startedthis and didn't actually finish
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the thought as a parent, thepunishment must fit the crime.
If my son throws something onemore time after I told him not
to, or he sits somewhere like wehave this little I'm thinking
of it because he did it lastnight this little something
rider.
It's like a basket thing orwhatever you call it.
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What do you call it?
Anyways, it's like a littlesquare and you can pull stuff, a
wagon and he sits on it andprobably it won't hurt it.
But my wife told him hey, I'drather you not sit on that
because we don't want it to messit up.
We just got it on the vacation.
Well, he said on it again.
Well, it's my punishment to goout in the middle of the highway
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and stone him, or to take aboard or my belt and start
whooping the fire out of him.
Because he's not listening.
He is being disobedient.
He is sinning against hisfather, against his mother,
because we told him not to dosomething.
Yet he's still doing it.
But does the punishment fit thecrime?
No, I get a little loud.
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I encourage him very softly toget up before it leads to the
next phase, which is corporalpunishment.
And he gets up and all is rightagain.
So, yes, everyone has sinned.
No one stands righteous ontheir own.
But the truth doesn'tautomatically mean all sins are
the same in nature, consequenceor impact.
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For instance, a serial killerdoes not have the same impact in
their sinning as a person whosteals a pen from their job
because their job can't affordit, or copy paper, whatever the
case may be, it's not the same,even though both are sin,
because they are, and stealingis one of the big 10.
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Murder is one of the big 10.
But you see how there's adifferent level.
So, yes, all of the evil andthe bad and the stuff, in God's
eyes it is evil and it stillremains bad, but you wouldn't
punish the same when caught, ifthat makes sense.
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The Bible shows that God seesthe heart, which is very
important.
He sees the motive and theweight behind every action.
So let's listen to what Jesussaid and how he phrased up when
he was speaking to Pilate inJohn, chapter 19, verse 11.
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It says you would have no powerhe's talking to Pilate over me
at all unless it will be givento you from above.
Jesus was not a weenie.
He's saying it to the guy thatdecides his fate.
I love it.
So the one who handed me overto you has the greater sin.
The greater sin.
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That means some sins carry moreweight than others.
Okay, another example would beMatthew 11, 21 and 22.
What sorrow awaits you,chorazin and Bethsaida, for if
the miracles I did in you hadbeen done in wicked Tyre or
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Sidon.
So not all sin is weighed thesame on Judgment Day, according
to scripture.
Not what you've been taught,not what a catchy saying is that
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people put on a t-shirt, butwhat does the word say?
This has to be the foundationof the belief and theology of
every believer.
We must take our opinions outof reading scripture, remove our
bias.
And what does the word justplainly say?
This is how God is righteousand this is how God is fully
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just.
Because he takes all of thesethings into account, he has all
the necessary information tomake the call right.
He looks at our heart, ourmotive, our knowledge and our
intent.
Look at Luke 12, 47 and 48.
Heart, our motive, ourknowledge and our intent.
Look at Luke 12, 47 and 48.
A servant who knows what themaster wants but isn't prepared
and doesn't carry out thoseinstructions will be severely
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punished.
But someone who does not knowand then does something wrong
will be punished only lightly.
It's Luke, chapter 12.
That's a clear indication thatknowledge and intent affect the
severity of judgment.
Also, james 3.1.
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Dear brothers and sisters, notmany of you should become
teachers in the church, for wewho teach will be judged more
strictly.
There is more of a weight tothe burden of teaching because
you will be held accountable,because you have the knowledge
whether you're teaching right orteaching wrong.
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Some are judged more strictlybecause responsibility increases
accountability.
What should we believe instead?
So what's the right perspectiveon?
Is sin all equal?
All sin separates us from God.
All sin Look at Isaiah 59 too.
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It's your sin that have cut youoff from God.
Because of your sin, he hasturned away.
But not all sin carries thesame consequences.
Earthly and eternalconsequences vary.
Think of David's adultery withBathsheba.
His sin was forgiven, but hisconsequence was tragic he lost
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that firstborn child.
We must take all sin across theboard seriously, but we must
also understand some sinsdestroy lives and dishonor God
more deeply than others.
So instead of saying this,instead of saying sin is sin and
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all sin is equal and all thisother stuff all sin is evil, not
equal we should say instead,maybe try this all sin is deadly
, but not all sin is the same.
All sin separates us from God,but not all sin is judged
equally and as harshly, becausesome bear more responsibility
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when you're in charge of otherpeople, like I know for me,
being the pastor and leader anddoing a podcast and teaching
people the word of God.
I'm going to be held to a levelof responsibility that I better
be ready for because I have somuch people that listen to what
I say.
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That's why I don't teach boring.
Everybody's going to heaven.
Just give your 10% and God willlet you win.
I don't teach that crap becauseI'm going to be held
responsible very seriously.
There's going to be ministersthat are going to stand before
God and God's going to bluntlyand blatantly ask them why did
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you not preach Christ crucifiedand pick up your cross daily?
And they're going to not have agood reason, they're not going
to have a good answer and it'sgoing to be tragic because that
blood is on their hands.
So all sin, all sin is evil, allsin separates us.
So all sin, all sin is evil,all sin separates us.
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All of us have sinned, but wehave to have a deeper
theological understanding ofwhat does the word say?
And the word doesn't actuallyteach that all sin is equal, but
it does teach and echo everysingle book, every single
chapter that all sin is evil andit will separate us from God,
whether you steal a pen orwhether you murder your brother,
it will separate us from God.
Whether you steal a pen orwhether you murder your brother,
it is a separation from God.
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It is missing the mark.
It is not what you are supposedto do, but I felt like I needed
to make a video to help correctthis, that not all sin is the
same, but all sin is evil.
All sin separates us from Godand that's the worst.
Like you may you may not, youmay not Think much about
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stealing a pen, but understandthe reason.
All sin is evil is because itis leading you down the path,
the broad path that leads intothe jaws of hell.
It's the narrow path, the hardpath of living right, of doing
right, not that that will see.
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Here's the thing.
That path leads you to heaven.
Okay, it goes to the gates ofheaven.
The path there is lightlytraveled and very few will find
it.
That's the word.
So my job as a minister, my jobas a believer, let's go beyond
minister.
My job as a believer is tochallenge other believers and
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say listen, this is what theword says and you are doing it
wrong.
This is how you approach abeliever who's doing it wrong.
I don't believe you're actuallytrying to do it wrong.
But now that you have thisknowledge after this, you are
choosing to do it wrong.
And now the burden is on them.
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1 John 1, verse 9.
And this is so cool.
But if we confess our sins tohim, talking about God, he is
faithful and he is just.
Why is he?
Just Because he thinks aboutour motive, our knowledge, our
intent.
He looks at our heart.
He cares about the reason we'reactually doing it.
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It goes so much deeper Some ofus in the more hardcore
Christian walk when I sayhardcore Christian walk, I'm
thinking like legalistic Peoplewho it's like they wrote the
Bible themselves and they'redoing it perfect and they do
things a certain way and theythink they're holier and they
look down at other people thatdon't do it that way.
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And to me that's a Phariseemindset, completely unbiblical.
Well, I guess it's biblical,it's in the Bible, but it's who
Jesus talked against.
But God looks at our heart.
So this is why the Bible tellsus not to judge whether someone
is saved or not, because thattries to put us in the seat of
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judgment which only belongs toGod.
So we are called to call eachother out as believers, lift
each other up, help, correct andspur towards conviction, but we
have to remember where we comefrom.
This is one thing that keeps mehumble is I don't ever want to
forget where God brought me from.
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I'm not going to do it on thispodcast, but let me tell you.
There were some dark times inmy life and some dark places.
And even though I was in aplace of such darkness, such
evil, doing such evil, yet hestill reached down to where I
was and saved me and pulled meout.
But if we confess our sins tohim, he is faithful and he is
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just to forgive us of our sinsand cleanse us from all
wickedness.
He is faithful, he is just, heis gracious.
So, out of that placement, orout of that place where God is
giving us these things, the freegift that Jesus gave his life
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for salvation, the grace and themercy that God gives he says
every day, his mercy and graceis new, thank God, because I
need it every single day.
This should spur me, thisshould encourage me, this should
inspire me to live a life forGod, completely, not holding
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anything back, not holding anydark part of my life.
I gave this example to mycongregation last Sunday, at the
time of recording this, and Isaid you know, when we come to
Christ, when we give our life toGod, I said think of your heart
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as a house and you sign thedeed over to Christ.
Now he is the owner, the way hewants your house to be
renovated, what he wants to becleaned out, whatever he says,
do you do it because now he isthe owner, and gladly so,
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because what you owed on thehouse, the debt, has been
completely paid and ownership isnow given, voluntarily, given
to God, to Christ.
And I said but a lot of us inthe church, we have rooms or a
room in the back that we don'twant God to touch.
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They're like hey, you can doeverything you want in here, you
can do everything else, you canmake all this, clean it up,
move the furniture, put newstuff on the walls, take the TVs
down.
I don't care, lord, whateveryou want to do, but that back
room back there, that's my area,that's for me.
And so I asked them this area,that's for me.
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And so I asked them this ifthat is the case and you're
telling and you're reservingthings and not actually giving
God the entire house, does thehouse actually belong to him?
The answer is no, because if hehas ownership, he has access to
everything.
If he has ownership, he hasaccess to everything.
And that's why we haveunhealthy churches, unhealthy
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believers, because we want God'sname on the mailbox but we want
control to still be in our name.
But God doing this, grace andmercy, love and Jesus' sacrifice
and Holy Spirit power and mercyand love and Jesus' sacrifice
and Holy Spirit power.
It should inspire us to livefully for Him.
He doesn't want us to doanything half-hearted, because
that's what he is using as alaunching point or a marker of
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whether we actually live for Himor not is what is our heart say
?
What does our heart say?
What does our heart say?
What does our heart do?
What is our motives?
What is our reasons for servingin the church?
Are we doing it to be seen?
Are we doing it because we feelwe're obligated?
Why do we give our money?
Are we doing it because a guysays we're supposed to?
Are we doing it because we feelguilty?
Or are we being cheerful giversbecause we believe in what the
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body is doing?
And if you don't believe inwhat the body's doing, aside
from money, you shouldn't begoing to that church.
If you're not willing to putthe money where you say you
believe, then you shouldn't bethere.
I hope this podcast episodehelped further your
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understanding of grace and mercyand realizing that all sin is
not equal, but all sin is evil.
So, yes, we all sin, we allmess up and at the same time, we
all have access to grace.
We all have access to mercy,and so show that grace and mercy
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to other people.
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Monday, which is when I putepisodes out of every month.
Last month, june, I actuallydid an interview with somebody
who her father molested herentire childhood from, I think,
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the age of 11 to 19.
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