Sin Is Still Sin Even If Behind Closed Doors – Sunday Thought For The Day

The other night as I laid in bed meditating and praying about my day, a thought came into my mind.  Perhaps it was more of a realization than a thought.  Let me share it with you.

Seemingly out of nowhere a remembrance of the times I had said, “I don’t care, it doesn’t matter to me” and/or “it’s not my business.”  What stirred in my spirit, was the context I had carelessly uttered those words.

No few times during my life as a born again Christian, I have spoken those words in reference to people mired in sinful behavior.  Specifically, I have spoken them when referencing homosexuality and other sexually perversion.  Referencing homosexual perversion, I’ve said, what they (homosexuals) do in their own bedrooms doesn’t matter to me as long as they don’t force it upon the public.  As I lay in bed that night, I realized how wrong my reasoning had been.

I’m not leading up to calling for laws governing perversion in the bedroom.  I am specifically addressing my expressing an acceptance of sin as long as it is hidden from my sight.  As I ruminated upon my words over the years, I realized that I needed to care about what these people are doing in their bedrooms.  But, not for the reasons you might think.

I had better care because, if I truly do not care, I am absolving myself of any and all responsibility to share Christ and the word of salvation with them.  I am in essence, letting them wallow in the sin God calls an abomination, and sentence themselves to eternal damnation.

I realized that: “…God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son” to suffer the cruelest of deaths as a sacrifice for my sin, so that I could receive salvation through faith in His blood.  I realized that it was my responsibility before God to care about the unsaved who are mired in sin.

I’m not advocating for laws and government control regarding sexual sin.  I am talking about not wanting to see people die and suffer eternal damnation.  There are only two eternities; heaven and hell.  If God had taken the position of not caring about me before I was saved, what hope would I have had?

The point is, we are supposed to care about the unsaved.  In Matthew 9:36, we read: ‘But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them…”  Jesus had compassion on them.

I realized, my saying that I didn’t care what they did behind closed doors was foolish.  Just because sinful behavior is taking place behind closed doors, doesn’t mean its no harm, no foul as the old bromide states.  We cannot hide sin from God.  And that’s what I was in essence saying, and at worst I was saying enjoy your sin, which is ensuring your eternal damnation.

I am thankful that my Father in heaven brought this to my attention.  To my discredit, I had never given thought regarding how wrong my words had been, when presented in contrast the Word of God.

What about you?  Are you comfortable letting people wallow in sin, as long as you don’t see it?  I’m not saying close a blind eye to sin.  I’m saying tell the sinner(s) they need Jesus.

READ:

Matthew 12:36-37 (KJV)

36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.