My parents narrated how out of anger I bit my mother’s breast when I was nine months old.
This occurred because I was crying for more breast milk, but she needed to attend to other household chores at the time. When she finally carried me unto her lap to feed me, I used all the little strength in me to bite the breast with the few teeth God had given me then. Painful as it was, it began to swell, so she gave me the other one to suck before I remained calm.
Today, the scar of that unfortunate incident as a baby in 1973 remains on that part of my mother’s breasts. The question that comes to mind is; who taught me at the time that I could pay her back with the few teeth I had for having delayed the answer to my request? I was only exhibiting some of the mild symptoms of the Sinvid-01 which had been passed unto me from the seed of my parents and, by extension, the Adamic seed of sin. If vaccination and total eradication of the sinvirus is the goal, then its source, as well as the mode of transmission, is very vital.
In John 8:44, Jesus speaks of the devil as a murderer from the beginning and John says in I John 3:8 that he sins from the beginning. Even though this and other biblical references such as Ezekiel 28:12-17; Revelation 12:4; Isaiah 14:12-15 suggest that the origin of evil can be traced to the fallen angels, the source of sin, so far as the human race is concerned, is Adam and his seed.
That is what Paul teaches us in Romans 5:12: “Through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned.” The last words can only mean that they all sinned in Adam, and sinned in such a way as to make them all liable to the punishment of death. It is not sin considered merely as pollution, but sin taken as guilt that attracts a penalty. God adjudges all men to be guilty sinners in Adam, just as He adjudges all believers to be righteous in Jesus Christ. That is what Paul means when he says: “So then as through one trespass the judgment came unto all men to condemnation; even so through one act of righteousness the gift came unto all men to justification of life. For as through the one man’s disobedience, the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous” (Romans 5:18, 19). Having established the origin of Sinvid-01 and its mode of transmission, we will look at some of its characteristics and properties.
How God sees the Sinvirus
Sin can never be garnished in any way for it to look good in the eyes of God. In Ezekiel 36:17-18, God says He saw Israel’s sinful conduct as a woman’s monthly uncleanliness. Ironically, pictures of how viruses look under microscopic eyes splashed across the media landscape since the Covid-19 outbreak are not any pleasant to watch either. Although it has never been pleasing to God, how He sees sin is not the same as how He sees the sinner or the victims of Sinvid-01. He loves the sinner but cannot adjust Himself in any compromising way to accept sin.
No matter how disgusting sinners around us may appear, we have no business shunning them but rather introducing Jesus, the only tried and tested vaccine, to them. When God saw hatred, one of the symptoms of the sinvirus aroused in Cain, He swiftly intervened and offered him a way out by interrogating the cause of his anger. Cain, unfortunately, ignored all those signals and went ahead to murder Abel, his only brother then, in cold blood. The Lord, who hates sin, brought His verdict afterwards in Genesis 4:6-15.
Apart from being cursed as a restless wanderer, the ground was no longer going to yield its crops for him. When he realised God’s punishment was becoming unbearable and capable of shortening his life span, he ran back to God and cried, “My punishment is more than I can bear.” God heard him and put a mark on Cain, so no one would kill him. Although God is the strictest, fairest and purest judge of all time, His court of appeal is still accessible to all in this life, even after His Supreme Court verdict has been pronounced.
If you are reading this book and you do not have a personal relationship with the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, pause and quickly do the needful by inviting Him into your life and confessing Him as your Lord and personal Saviour. No matter what the sinvirus led you to do, He will still blot all your sins and wash you as white as snow, if you give your life to Him. Billy Graham once said, “Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus cannot cleanse.” It must, however, be noted that it is only within the days of one’s lifetime that Christ’s blood can atone for one’s sins. If you got vaccinated by believing in Christ, but somewhere along the line fell into sin and have sensed its repercussions hitting hard at you, humbly go back to God in prayer, as Cain did. Many believers lose sight of this and have needlessly gone through and served specific sentences, the terms of which could have been re-negotiated through admittance, repentance and appeal to God.
In 2 Samuel 24:1-25, when the repercussion of David’s sin was becoming unbearable for him, he admitted his folly, humbled himself, repented and appealed to God. God then intervened and stopped the angel of destruction from causing further havoc to him and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Do not, therefore, keep silent and suffer! Go to God in prayer, and He will see you through successfully. Apostle Eric Nyamekye, Chairman of The Church of Pentecost, once explained that “it is true that the decree of God stands; however, it is also true that the prayer of the saint can cause God to review what He had decreed.”
Deceitfulness of Sinvid-01
“You will not surely die’’, the serpent said to the woman. For God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God” (Gen 3:4-10). After they ate the fruit, “The Lord God called to the man, where are you? He answered, I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” What a deception! Proverbs 5:4-5 says, “For the lips of an adulterer drips honey and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end, she is bitter as gall, her feet go down to death, and her steps lead straight to the grave.” Why one cannot easily identify sin as a scam until one begins to feel its repercussions remains a mystery. Mark Twain has said, “There’s a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
All who fall into sin feel deceived, disillusioned, disappointed, rejected, depressed and unfulfilled afterwards. It’s just a matter of time to witness the deceitfulness of the sinvirus. It is not only suicidal, it tastes and appears good on the tongue but always ends up with a mouthful of gravels (Proverbs 20:17).
The scriptures in Revelation 20:2-3, 7-8 uncover the main person behind sin and its deception as the ancient serpent who is also known as Satan. The passage says that, for a thousand years; he will be thrown into the abyss and locked to keep him from deceiving the nations. It therefore stands to reason that no one born of a woman can ever extricate him/herself from the power and deception behind sin without the power of the gospel in the person of Christ. Concerning Jerusalem’s sins, this is what God says through Prophet Jeremiah in Lamentations 1:9; “Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was none to comfort her…”
The power of Sinvid-01 doesn’t allow its victims to ponder over its future repercussions, even for a single moment. Apart from hiding from one what it promises to offer in the end, it leaves one at that miserable state without comfort from anyone.
