We Have Sinned

By David J. Stewart

       You'd better thank God that He took you back the day you got saved. Hebrews 13:5 promises that God will NEVER leave nor forsake us. Amen! No matter how deep you may choose to go into sin, God is still by your side... brokenhearted, but still abiding faithful. 2nd Timothy 2:13, “If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.” God abideth faithful, always willing to forgive, waiting patiently for all men to repent (2nd Peter 3:9).

Christ is our divine example to follow ladies. If you want to exemplify Jesus in your life, then you ought to express unconditional love of God toward an imperfect husband. You stand by your man! Tammy Wynette had it right when she sang the famous song, STAND BY YOUR MAN (and the feminists hated her for singing that song).

Proverb 24:16, “For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.” I don't care who you marry, he will commit sin at some point. he will mess up, some men more than others. You may think that your husband is much worse than other men, but you don't know what goes on in the secret lives of anyone. All have sinned (Romans 3:23, Ecclesiastes 7:20). Even great preachers are dirty sinners at heart.

Please listen to this 8:44 minute sermon clip from Pastor Jack Hyles. The sermon is titled, YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN (but the truth applies to you ladies too). Brother Hyles confronts a woman who has an arrow on her abdomen pointing down to the most sacred place on a woman's body (her private area). Brother Hyles shares his heart on the matter. This clip is so precious and filled with truth. No man is fit to enter the pulpit. God only saves THE UNGODLY (Romans 4:5-6). Aren't you glad that God isn't as hard on us as we are on each other? We never forget! If a person sins, we throw it in their face 20-years later. That's heathendom.

In the 1980's I was sitting in church listening to Dr. Hyles preach one Sunday night. He wonderfully said something I'll never forget. He said, “First Baptist Church of Hammond will become a great church when we stop saying 'he has sinned' and 'she has sinned' and we start saying 'we have sinned.'” Amen!!! Oh if married couples would learn this truth! If you ladies truly understood this truth you'd never, ever, file for divorce. WE HAVE SINNED! nearly every woman who files for divorce childishly and hypocritically blames her husband, roasting him and crying aloud, broadcasting his sins for everyone to hear. She's trying to justify her sin of divorce by telling everyone how wicked her husband is! She's being a gigantic hypocrite! No one has a right to condemn another human being like that (James 4:12; 5:9). A wife that files for divorce is not prudent. If she had any genuine love, she'd not go around parading her husband sins. It is wrong!

There have been umpteen celebrity divorces in the news in recent years. I remember when Sandra Bullock received a big award from Hollywood. She cried and said she owed it all to her husband Jesse James. Then it came out shortly thereafter in the news that he had been unfaithful to her. The newsmedia stalked them. One guy shoved a camera in Jesse's car and he hit the guy, ending up arrested and in jail. The newsmedia are the scum of the earth! All you heard in the newsmedia was how evil Jesse is and how wonderful Sandra is. Sandra divorced Jesse. A month later she made headlines at an MTV event when she locked lips in a LESBIAN KISS with Scarlett Johansson at the 2010 MTV awards. What a big hypocrite!

Divorce is hypocrisy and you hypocrites who divorce your husband are going to be shocked on Judgment Day when all your sins are made public (Luke 8:17). People categorize sin, deciding which sins are worse than others. God doesn't do that. Prayerlessness is akin to atheism, murder and adultery. If we don't pray, God is going to hold us accountable for disobeying his command to pray without ceasing (1st Thessalonians 5:17). Your problem is that you think your husband's sins are worse than yours, but God says they're just as bad (James 2:10). WE HAVE SINNED! If you don't see that then you need to get right with God, for you don't know Him as you should. God's love is UNCONDITIONAL. The idea that it's ok to jump ship when one's spouse goes into sin is no where taught in the Word of God. A just man falleth seven times, yet riseth again! You women divorce your husband after he messes up 2 or 3 times. jesus said to forgive not 7, but 70 times 7 in Matthew 18:22. Stay married! Don't quit! Ok, your husband is a sinner... SO ARE YOU!

It was AFTER David commit adultery and murder that God used him to pen the Psalms. In fact, Psalm 51 could not have been written if David hadn't sinned, because it was his prayer of repentance to God.

Peter was used by God AFTER he cursed and denied Christ, preaching the spirit-filled sermon on the Day of Pentecost and 3,000 men were saved!

Jacob's name was changed to Israel (a prince of God) AFTER he'd been away from God for many years. Jacob had deceived his father on his death bed to steal his brothers inheritance. It was AFTER all the sin and deception that God blessed Jacob and changed his name to Israel.

John Mark was used to write the Gospel of Mark AFTER he had forsaken Paul on his first missionary journey. God used Jonah to preach a great revival that led Nineveh to repent, AFTER Jonah had fled in disobedience to the commandment of the Lord.

It was AFTER Samson went with a harlot that God used him to defeat the Philistines, bringing the pillars of the temple in upon each other, and killing more men in his death than he did in his life.

The pages of the Bible read as a who's who of imperfect men that God used to accomplish great things. Everyone stumbles and deliberately sins at times. None of us has the right to cast a stone. Jesus said in Matthew 7:2 that God will people by the same measure by which they judge others. WE HAVE SINNED! I judge no one! I'm the biggest sinner that I know (and so are you if you're heart is right with God). James 2:10 says committing even one sin makes us guilty in God's eyes of all. This means no one has a right to condemn others.

A “hypocrite” is someone who views another person as being a bigger sinner than them self. You are just as sinful as the next guy. Those who think otherwise will be shocked on Judgment Day when God exposes your true wickedness. Some of the most horrible sins are pride, idleness, covetousness, greed, arrogance, envy, prayerlessness, idolatry, selfishness and self-righteousness and vain glory. These sins are prevalent in American society and not recognized as sins by most people. The biggest sin of all is failing to recognize one's sinfulness.

I'm going to say something that most women won't agree with, because you have not known the closeness of the love of God. The true God of the Bible is remarkably forgiving and His mercy is never ending. Read Psalm 136 and you'll notice that all 26 Verses end with the same wonderful words... FOR HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOR EVER!!!

Psalms:136:1: O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms:136:2: O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms:136:3: O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms:136:4: To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms:136:5: To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms:136:6: To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms:136:7: To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms:136:8: The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms:136:9: The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms:136:10: To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms:136:11: And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms:136:12: With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms:136:13: To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms:136:14: And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms:136:15: But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms:136:16: To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms:136:17: To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms:136:18: And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms:136:19: Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms:136:20: And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms:136:21: And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms:136:22: Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms:136:23: Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms:136:24: And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms:136:25: Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms:136:26: O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.

God repeats Himself for a good reason ladies... because His mercy endureth for ever. God repeats Himself for a good reason ladies... because His mercy endureth for ever. Even if your spouse goes to prison, you are to regularly visit him or her, and be by their side 'til death do us part!!!

I guarantee you that if you get alone with God and spend time abiding in the Scriptures, and allow the Word of God to abide in you, that you'll begin to feel God's sweet presence in your life. Listen to lots of old-fashioned gospel preaching. God is a merciful God. WE HAVE SINNED! Not you, not me, not he, not her; but WE. If you can grasp the depth of this wonderful truth, then you'll find a new place of mercy and forgiveness toward others who sin.

Do you know what God wants from us? Micah 6:8, “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”

God repeats Himself for a good reason ladies... because His mercy endureth for ever. God repeats Himself for a good reason ladies... because His mercy endureth for ever. Even if your spouse goes to prison, you are to regularly visit him or her, and be by their side 'til death do us part!!!

Proverb 31:27-28, "She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her."