Sin is like a rotten creation …
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The Lord said, “Sin is like a rotten creation.” All of you might have seen and experienced the decay of creation. Fish, meat, food, fruit, wood, iron, clothes, land, and water, all of these things decay and rot. A human being’s body also perishes.
You can see that anything that decomposes does so at a dreadful speed. “Change in quality” is decay. A person, whose quality changes, has rotting faith. When something rots, there is a stench. Where there is decay, flies swarm. Where a person’s faith is rotten, Satan and demons swarm.
People just live their lives without being aware of how dreadful decay is. If a person talks with someone whose faith is rotten, the latter’s decay is immediately spread to the former. In this way, sin causes putrefaction. When you sin, your mind starts rotting, and your action also is rotten because of sin.
Just as you can immediately discern the things that are rotting in the world, it is clearly noticeable when it comes to people, too. You’ve got to look closely. The Bible records, “The mind of human beings and the action of human beings are more rotten and corrupt than creation.” I have explained about ‘sin’ comparing it with decay. Sin causes man’s spirit and body to go bad. Repentance cuts out the rotten parts and brings the decay to an end.