BIBLE PROOF OF INBRED SIN Part 2

The wisdom of the fathers

BIBLE PROOF OF INBRED SIN continued Part 2

Still another recognition of inbred sin is to be found in Hebrews 12:1: “Lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily besets us.” There is a marked difference in the Scripture between the plural “sins” and “sin” in the singular number. Both Paul and John are very clear in their discrimination between the two. The first are to be forgiven, the second is to be “destroyed,” “put off,” “laid aside,” etc. It is sin in the singular number that “the Lamb of God takes away;” it is sin in the singular number that is cleansed by the blood of Christ while we are in the light as he is in the light, and having fellowship one with another; right then while in the light the Blood cleanses away that sin of the singular number. It is that same “sin” as opposed to transgressions or “sins” that the apostle says is to be “laid aside.”

What is this “sin which does so easily besets us” that is spoken of here but inbred sin. The colored preacher was not so far wrong when he read the verse: “The sin which doth so easily “upsets us.” It is the besetting sin of every child of Adam. It is in all, but cannot be forgiven. The words used to describe the manner it is dealt with are “put off,” “taken away,” “laid aside” and “destroyed.”

(from "The Old Man" by Rev. B. Carradine)