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THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH.

Sin has serious consequences! 

In a letter to the Christian church in Rome, Paul told them, “For the wages of sin is death…” He figuratively uses the word “wages” to imply that this is something you are getting because you deserve it – you have, as it were, worked for it (Romans 6:20–21). 

"Paul opens the salary bag of a sinner, and all he finds in there is death. Our first parents were warned about this in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:16–17). They did not listen and the payment they got, which has become ours also by inheritance, was death (Romans 5:12). Yet, we do not only inherit this, but we also get paid when we “work” as we yield to temptation (James 1:15). This death, we must emphasize, is not just physical death but also eternal death – the second death (Revelation 21:8). That is what you ask for when you live a life of sin!” -Conrad Mbewe, pastor of Kabwata Baptist Church in Lusaka, Zambia.