It Should Have Been Me

The wages of our sin is death.

Is death.

There is a wage that each and every one of us have earned, and that's death.

Starting on a high note this morning.

But I want to tell you this, that sin is a death sentence.

Sin.

When we violate God's law, okay, when we tell a lie, a fib, right, when we steal something, when we gossip about someone, when we look at a woman or a man with lustful thoughts or imaginations, when we respond in violence, when we are corrupt in our heart, whatever it is, if it violates the word of God, we have earned something.

We've earned a wage, right? Everyone loves to talk about minimum wage being increased in the Cook Islands.

there's a greater wage you need to be concerned about.

And it's the wage of your sin.

And each and every one of us who have sinned, and how many people have sinned here? How many people have told a lie in this building? Yeah, if your hand is not up, you just told a lie.

So welcome to the club.

Okay, we've all told a lie, right? We've all fallen short.

We've all stolen something.

You know, it might be something small like a pen or, you know, five bucks out of your mama's purse, whatever.

That's kind of like the lowest of the lows, but whatever big, small, in between, okay, we have all fallen short of God's perfect standard.

That means this, that we have earned a wage of And the Bible says in Romans chapter 6 that the wages of our sin is death.

Not death here on earth, but death in the life to come.

It doesn't mean like if you tell a lie, bang, you're gone.

Oh man, that guy crashed on a bike, he must have sinned.

No, that's not how it works.

It's talking about an eternal death.

We have this life here on Earth, which probably on average is about 80 or so years, but we will die here on Earth, and we will go into a thing called eternity.

Eternity does not end.

There is no end to eternity.