What is your view of sin and liberty?

Kevin Swanson explains that today, sin is often presented as a gateway to happiness. Sin is a rebellion against God’s judgment of sin.

He likens sin to chocolate-covered cockroaches. For the first microsecond, you taste the chocolate, but before you can even begin to enjoy the chocolate, you crunch into the cockroach that represents sin.

Salvation comes when God delivers us from the bondage of sin. While you might deceive yourself into thinking that you are free while living in sin, that is a false and misguided belief. True liberty, as defined by God, comes from being obedient to God’s will and purpose. God defines the terms. We have maximum liberty and joy in His will for us.

2 Corinthians 5:10 (NKJV) – “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.”

Sin is presented sometimes as a way in which a man will be happy. He thinks he'll be happy because he is rebelling for a moment, but it's always followed up with judgment, hardwired into the system. I look at sin as chocolate-covered cockroaches, where you do the initial crunch, and for the first microsecond you taste the chocolate, but crunch, you're into cockroach now. That's sin. Salvation comes when God delivers us from that bondage of sin.

And we're delivered into the freedom of holiness and righteousness. This is maximum liberty as defined by God himself and God defines the terms. It's really the issue. God defines the terms. We have maximum liberty, maximum fulfillment, maximum joy in God's will, in God's purposes for us, which is the way He created us in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness with dominion over the creation.

That's what Jesus restores in our lives. Doors in our lives.