Sin Separates - Part 2 of the Sin Series

Teachable Woman Podcast

Sin Series Part -2: Sin Separates

Reverends Michele Owes and Diana P. Cherry

Rev. Michele Owes: [00:00:00] Welcome back. Welcome back to the Teachable Woman Podcast. We are so excited to be back with you today, honored that you are allowing us to share with you whether it's in your car, at home, or at break at work. Just honored to be able to be with you. I am Reverend Michele Owes.

Rev. Michele Owes: I am with the only Reverend Mrs. Diana P. Cherry. Together, we are teachers of good things. Mrs. Cherry welcome our family.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Welcome, welcome family. I want to share something with you quickly before we get into the teaching, and that is we have not had an opportunity to do a podcast for a couple of weeks. I want you to know what happened. We tried unsuccessfully twice. One time, my internet wouldn't work the very next day. Rev. Owes’s internet would not [00:01:00] work. And the very next week, I was on the road traveling from the West Coast to the East Coast. Please know that if we are not doing a podcast, it's not that we aren’t loving you, thinking about you, and praying for you, but things happen, and that's what happened.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: I thought you deserved to know what happened.

Rev. Michele Owes: Oh, thank you so much, Mrs. Cherry. You know.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: You can always send us a contribution, and that'll always help us get back on track quickly.

Rev. Michele Owes: You know, as the younger people say, life is life, right? Things happen in life that we just don't always prepare for or don't know how to prepare for. We schedule dates and times for Mrs. Cherry and me to be together to record, and as long as we're in the position that we're supposed to be in, our assumption is that everything is going to work.

Rev. Michele Owes: When the internet goes down in your area and you can't get [00:02:00] on, which is you know how we record and how we're able to share with you, that's out of our control. Right. So we, we'll spend a couple of hours waiting and chatting and whatever, and you know, then eventually we go on back to life and, you know, we schedule some more time and you know, we try to do it again.

Rev. Michele Owes: But she's right. It's not because we are not trying to record it is sometimes that life is life and it is interfering with our ability to share with you. But we hope that you miss us while we're gone and you're so excited when you do get to hear from us again that you not only. Listen, re-listen, but you also share this podcast with your friends.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Amen.

Rev. Michele Owes: Alright, so we have been talking about sin, the three letter word that has a huge, colossal impact on our lives. The thing that separates us is that Sin means to miss the mark. The mark [00:03:00] is God's high calling in Christ Jesus. And when we know the word of God or we understand the will of God and we choose to do opposite of that, we have sinned and we have missed the mark of the high calling of God.

Rev. Michele Owes: And we want to talk about today about how sin separates. I don't know if we, we really give a lot of thought to the fact that sin can separate. Our whole lives, we, we strive to have this good relationship with God. One that he hears our prayers, one that we commune and we fellowship and we obey, and the joy of the Lord is our strength and where we have issues, we go to him.

Rev. Michele Owes: When we don't have issues, we still go to him where the fellowship is so wonderful. The Bible tells us in Genesis, the third chapter that the voice of [00:04:00] the Lord walked with Adam in the cool of the day, and that's in chapter number three verses eight, nine, and 10. And Adam enjoyed this wonderful fellowship with God, but when Adam obeyed, disobeyed, I should say, he obeyed his wife, but he disobeyed God.

Rev. Michele Owes: Then sin broke that fellowship and the first thing that Adam did was hide from God, and therein was the separation. There was the change in the relationship. I am certain that Adam didn't have any idea that partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil would separate him from God because the enemy was giving him a different story.

Rev. Michele Owes: He was saying he would be like a God if he took from this tree. However, doing so [00:05:00] separated him from God and where he walked with God in the cool of the day, he went from that to hiding from him. And when we sin. We do begin to separate ourselves from the people that we know, from our church families, and from our church in general because we don't want others to know we're doing something wrong.

Rev. Michele Owes: It is part of the enemy's process to slowly separate us and get us alone so that he can continue to minister to us. I don't know if you've ever watched the Animal Kingdom, but it is the one that's not with the Pack that gets picked off the fastest, right? Becomes the prey, and we become pray for the enemy when we allow sin to separate us, not only from God, but from where he's placed us.

Rev. Michele Owes: The house of the [00:06:00] Lord. And many times people leave the church that saved them, the church that helped them to develop in their Christian walk, the church that calls them to know God, to love God that saved their families because of sin, and understand that sin does separate those few moments of what we call pleasure can cause immeasurable damage.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: remember, whenever you have the opportunity, when it's knocking at your door to do something that you know would not please God, that separation is the next step along with guilt that causes us just to feel bad that we disappointed God.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm. Amen. You know the only thing that God's word forbids us to do [00:07:00] is sin. We can do anything we wanna do. You know, people might say things like, but you know, being a Christian is hard. No, being a sinner is hard and, and sin. Listen, when Adam sinned, not only severed his relationship, put a breach in his relationship with God, but the word of God says that men, you, me, grandma, my great grandma, my great, great, great.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Every man, woman, boy, girl that's been born.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: of Eden was born in sin. Why? Because of one sin.

Rev. Michele Owes: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: And it's important that we know that when we sin, it's not just an individual thing, it does not just impact us, but it impacts multitudes of people, people that we might not even know about. People [00:08:00] that God might have planned to put them in our pathway for us to witness to them. And we're so far away from where God wants us to be, that he can't trust us to minister to them. So sin is very, very serious and it indeed separates us from God. Because of Adam's sin, the word of God says that all are born now in sin and shaped in iniquity. And you know, the power of that first sin is so powerful

Rev. Michele Owes: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: mankind will stay like that. Unless they choose to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, because he is the only way.

Rev. Michele Owes: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: God. He is, the Bible says he is the propitiation for that sin. He is that which acceptable to God, and he is the only way [00:09:00] to make a bridge back over so that we can be in relationship and fellowship with God.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: So. Think very soberly and carefully before you decide to sin. Because with every sin, something dies.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes, it does.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: are virgins and we decide to sin, it's the death of our virginity. If we are married and we decide to commit adultery, it could very well be the death of our marriages. Sin is serious and sin separates. So be very careful before you think about sinning, and particularly before you decide to sin. Amen.

Rev. Michele Owes: Amen. Despite the fact that Adam sinned, God's love for him still remained. Though Adam [00:10:00] sinned and there was punishment to go around. Mrs. Cherry calls it the beginning of blame or the blame game.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Birth of

Rev. Michele Owes: When God asked Adam, where was he? He wasn't asking him because he didn't know where Adam was.

Rev. Michele Owes: He's asking, where are you in your heart and mind that you did the opposite of what I instructed you to do,

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Amen.

Rev. Michele Owes: then Adam says, it is the woman you gave me. And then the woman said it was the serpent who beguiled her. And I'm sure if the serpent could have said something, he would've blamed something of someone else as well.

Rev. Michele Owes: Right.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah.

Rev. Michele Owes: Adam saying it is the woman you gave me wasn't, was a clear indication that Adam was not ready to accept the responsibility for his own decision.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: Or the responsibility for his wife, neither was she, because she blamed it on the serpent. So it's like, [00:11:00] alright, God is like, what? What am I gonna do here?

Rev. Michele Owes: It's clear. Sin does. Page away, pay away. Adam and Eve had to leave their home, which was the Garden of Eden, but prior to that, God killed the first animal to clothe them.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: So that they could have something to leave the garden with,

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah.

Rev. Michele Owes: he also allowed seed time and harvest to still exist so that they would be able to live off the land.

Rev. Michele Owes: God's love for us allows the sun to shine on the center and the saint. No matter what position we're in, there's some basic things that God will provide, but we, we want more than the basics out of this relationship.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: We invest in a loving relationship with God. I don't know about you, and it may be really selfish, but I want favor.

Rev. Michele Owes: I just basics.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah, I want mercy.

Rev. Michele Owes: I want grace.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: grace.

Rev. Michele Owes: I want whatever.[00:12:00]

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes. Now I usually say that that's the birth of blame

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the servant I, when I'm teaching, I say that's the birth of blame and we've been

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: somebody for

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: that happened to us

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: then.

Rev. Michele Owes: Every sense. Every sense,

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: it is never our fault. If

Rev. Michele Owes: right?

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: of, if they had not of, if

Rev. Michele Owes: Right.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: could have shoulda, would've birth a blame. And

Rev. Michele Owes: There you go.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: comes from.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes. But think about the fact that Adam did one thing. He did one thing. The trajectory of his decision has affected generations forevermore. He did one thing.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: Think about when we sin in our family. Adam's sin affected people he could never know. Generations and generations. He could never [00:13:00] know.

Rev. Michele Owes: And we've learned at From the Heart Church Ministries that we have the right to make a choice, but we don't get to choose the consequence of our choice. Adam didn't choose this consequence. He just chose to taste fruit.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah.

Rev. Michele Owes: just because he did one thing,

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: thing.

Rev. Michele Owes: but that one thing affected billions of people, right?

Rev. Michele Owes: And then Jesus became the full and sufficient sacrifice. A perfect genetic blend of all nations to take on the sins of the world, to be the propitiation for our sins. I can't say to try and undo, but to give us a way out of this trajectory that one man calls doing one thing.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: So when we think about sin, and if an opportunity presents itself.[00:14:00]

Rev. Michele Owes: Just think about the fact that you can do one thing, but you don't know where it's going.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Amen.

Rev. Michele Owes: You don't know what the impact is gonna be. You don't know who is going to affect you don't know the long-term detriment that it can call. You cannot choose that.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm

Rev. Michele Owes: You can't choose it. It's real, but you cannot choose it.

Rev. Michele Owes: We don't have that kind of foresight. The the penalty for sin is already built in. God already knows what it is, but we don't, and we just thinking it's just this one. Find somebody, this one. Cute. Somebody. I'm just taking this one thing that's not mine. I'm just gonna tell this. This one little white, black, brown and blue lie.

Rev. Michele Owes: I'm just gonna cheat here. I'm just, we, we just. We just do this one thing, and the enemy is a master of waiting to reveal all [00:15:00] that you've done wrong. Once you have reached a level of notoriety that once he reveals it, it destroys you,

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: so the only, the best thing to do is not do it right?

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Right, right. That's right. We minimize it. Satan maximizes it. You know, we think of it as just, just this one time, just a

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: you know,

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes,

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: a tiny little sin,

Rev. Michele Owes: yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: blows up. It's like a pregnancy. It is one tiny little seed that we take in, but in nine months it is a full blown human being

Rev. Michele Owes: And here.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Without a doubt. Without a doubt. So, you know, we should never take disobeying God lightly. it's just so rewarding to be in right standing with God. And I think one of the greatest things of being and right standing with God is [00:16:00] peace. You know, we can live our lives in peace. We don't have to be argumentative.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: We don't have to, always try to justify this, that, or the other. living in righteousness. I'm living in peace, and I'm sorry if you don't have it, but I've got it and I have enough to share if you want it, because like sin abounds,

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes,

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: can much more abound. That's why the scripture says. Shall sin abound that we have grace? No. No.

Rev. Michele Owes: yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: We have the grace not to sin. We don't have the grace to sin and get forgiveness, although that's what will happen if we do. But we have a grace is a bounding so that we don't have to do what we used to do. We don't have to act like we used to act. We have the efficacious power of grace. Operating in us to [00:17:00] keep us, to strengthen us to, that we don't have to sin against God. Sin is serious.

Rev. Michele Owes: It is very serious.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: serious. If

Rev. Michele Owes: It.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: could cause every person since the garden of Eaton to be born in sin and shaped in iniquity,

Rev. Michele Owes: Mm.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: that is powerful. Just.

Rev. Michele Owes: what is the impact of our sin on our families, on our loved ones, on our communities? It, it is something that we cannot know. It is something that we cannot know, but, but we don't, we don't just wanna leave you at sin. You have to know that God is faithful. He is just to forgive us and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness, but we cannot know what would've happened if we had not sinned because we did.

Rev. Michele Owes: It's just like when we obey God and then we get to see [00:18:00] the fruit of our obedience and the reward of our obedience, we would not know that fruit or reward unless we obeyed. We cannot know what we didn't, what we've undone based on our sin, but God is faithful and he is just, if you found yourself in a position where you know you have not honored God in some way, and you desire the forgiveness of God,

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: just ask him.

Rev. Michele Owes: The scripture says that he is faithful and he is just. To forgive us and to cleanse us. Of all unrighteousness

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: do know that sin has a lure, it has a pool, and that pool can be strong. If you are in a position where you feel like you're going to sin, but you have not sinned, the Bible tells us that with [00:19:00] every temptation, God gives us a way of escape.

Rev. Michele Owes: Find your way of escape. Don't go to the same place. Don't be with the same people. Don't do the same things that you know would lure you to sin. Just make a change. You have the power to do so with the Holy Ghost on the inside of you, unction in you to do something different than what you're doing.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: that.

Rev. Michele Owes: You don't want to know the shame of sin. You don't want to know the brokenness of the relationship of sin. You don't want to know the heartache that you experience when you feel as though, or you understand that you have not obeyed God.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: Just we don't even wanna have, we don't even wanna have to suffer that right.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: That's right.

Rev. Michele Owes: Because there's some suffering to be had if we don't. So just different decision. Look for your way of escape. Know that sin is a three letter word [00:20:00] with huge colossal consequences

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.

Rev. Michele Owes: we cannot know, but we don't want to experience. I would say if we look at the United States government right now, and this is not a political show.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: is all about the result of sin.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: harnessed, unbridled, outright, boldly wrong,

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: and no, no sense of, no sense of regret, no sense of shame about the wrongness,

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah.

Rev. Michele Owes: and, and that's the result of seeing you. You don't wanna be there.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.

Rev. Michele Owes: You don't wanna be turned over to a retrograde mind.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm. But

Rev. Michele Owes: So.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: now I was just gonna say man, send and throughout the entire. Time that man's been on the earth back in the Old Testament. He always knew that he had to do something to cover for that [00:21:00] sin, but there was nothing he could do. And so God had to send a perfect sacrifice so that we could. Be saved from sin so that we could be reunited to him. Man had sinned against God and it took another man to pay that sin debt. So the word of God says the earth had been contaminated by sin, and we needed a way to get back to God. And so I wanna just talk a minute about the greatest act of love. God decided to wrap himself. The likeness of

Rev. Michele Owes: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: and to come to earth in the form of Jesus Christ, his only begotten son, so that he could redeem God's creation. made plans. God made plans to buy us back, two Corinthians 5 21 says He have made him to be sin for us. Jesus knew no sin, [00:22:00] but God made him to be sin so that we might be made the righteousness of God in Jesus. we were the sinners

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: the thing that had separated us from him and made his only son to be that horrible, nasty thing. God demonstrated or commended his love for us that while we were yet sinners. Jesus died for us. the word of God says, if by one man, that's Adam's offense, death reigned by one much more. which receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign by one. We now live, move, and have our being and reign through Jesus Christ because by one man, Adam's disobedience. Many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one. We shall be made righteous. Isn't that glorious? [00:23:00] God took that which was meant for evil and keep us separated, wrapped himself in sinful flesh, sent Jesus Christ to be our propitiation, and so now we have power to be free. We don't have to sin anymore. God loved us so much that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believed in him. Should not perish, but have everlasting life. God's love story is that he sent Jesus to die on the cross. He died a shameful, painful public

Rev. Michele Owes: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Can't we live openly willfully and openly for him? My God. Mm.

Rev. Michele Owes: Amen. Now you know what, Mr. Terry, if by one man's sin, we all became sinners and by one man's obedience, we all became saved through Christ Jesus. What will our [00:24:00] obedience do?

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah. Isn't it amazing

Rev. Michele Owes: effects? What will our obedience do?

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah. Or just look at the obedience of your husband and my husband. Look at the far-reaching effect of that, my God.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes. Amen.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: encourage all of you, what will your obedience do? What

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: your life if you live for

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: He died

Rev. Michele Owes: Amen.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Let us live for him.

Rev. Michele Owes: Amen. That will beautifully wrap up today's podcast. Just think about how good the outcome can be of our obedience. All right. We want to encourage you also to join us July 17th through 20th in Houston, Texas for the transformative Power of Prayer. Women's Retreat by the Teachable Woman Podcast.

Rev. Michele Owes: Make your [00:25:00] arrangements and listen to our commercial. We've given you all kinds of ways to raise funds, including bringing seven and registering. We look forward to seeing you there. We love you, and we'll talk to you on our next podcast.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Love you much. God bless you. Don't sin.