{"id":43,"date":"2025-04-13T20:36:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.arkchurch.ca\/?p=43"},"modified":"2025-05-09T23:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:21:13","slug":"lesson-1-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arkchurch.ca\/zh\/lesson-1-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"\u7b2c\u4e00\u8ab2\uff1a\u7f6a\u60e1 (Sin)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why The Ark?&nbsp; This is the first word pop up in mind.&nbsp; Why The Ark?&nbsp; Was it necessary?&nbsp; What was the reason?&nbsp; Or what was the purpose?&nbsp; Obviously, the Bible is self-explanatory.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"border-radius:0px;border-top-width:6px;border-right-style:none;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:6px;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:0px;background-color:#abb7c240;text-transform:uppercase\"><blockquote><p>The Lord saw how great man\u2019s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.<\/p><cite>Genesis 6:5<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Why The Ark?&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because of human&nbsp;SIN.&nbsp; To be honest, sin is our old friend or&nbsp;per sec&nbsp;close friend, be with us all the way.&nbsp; We befriend with sin since we born or even before we born and when we were still in the mother\u2019s womb.&nbsp;&nbsp;King David says this,&nbsp;\u201cIndeed, I was born guilty.&nbsp; I was a sinner when my mother conceived me. (Psalm 51:5)\u201d&nbsp; The verse corrects most of our thoughts that \u201cI sin so I am a sinner.\u201d&nbsp; No.&nbsp; The Bible says the other way, \u201cI am a sinner so I sin.\u201d&nbsp; The root of committing sin is I am a sinner in nature.&nbsp; The sinful nature rooted deep inside bears fruit of sinful behaviour outside.&nbsp; Sinful root bears sinful fruit, that\u2019s simple to understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then what sin was in Noah\u2019s time?&nbsp; The Bible points out two charges to man.&nbsp; First, people didn\u2019t fear God.&nbsp; They lived without God, as if God didn\u2019t exist.&nbsp; They didn\u2019t think God can do anything to them.&nbsp; Second is people didn\u2019t obey rules.&nbsp; They lived without any rule, as if rules didn\u2019t exist.&nbsp; They did what they wanted to do.&nbsp; The Bible says when sons of God saw that the daughter of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.&nbsp; What was the Noah\u2019s time?&nbsp; You do yours and I do mine without any rules nor consequences.&nbsp; People sinned against God; and people sinned against man.&nbsp; The Bible says,&nbsp;\u201cThe Lord saw how great man\u2019s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;The adjectives get our attention:&nbsp;great&nbsp;wickedness,&nbsp;every inclination&nbsp;of the thoughts is only evil [that is, even without a bit good, mercy or generous etc.] and&nbsp;all the time.&nbsp; The world was so evil and wicked to the point of no return.&nbsp; It was beyond cure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s God\u2019s feeling then?&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cGod was grieved\u2026.and His heart was filled with pain.\u201d (Gen 6:6).&nbsp; How God responded this?&nbsp; He made a painful decision.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cI will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth,,, and animals.\u201d (Gen 6:7).&nbsp; It was a warning.&nbsp; Sin is not without consequences.&nbsp; Sin brings judgement.&nbsp; Is it fair?&nbsp; Even though people have not received corresponding punishment under human law.&nbsp; Sin brings God\u2019s judgement.&nbsp; No one can escape from it.&nbsp; The whole world in Noah\u2019s time was going to ripe what they\u2019d sown.&nbsp; The earth was getting doom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was this the total end of the world?&nbsp; No.&nbsp; God has mercy in His judgement.&nbsp; Thanks be to God in&nbsp;v.8&nbsp;began with a little word&nbsp;\u201cBut.\u201d&nbsp; It was a focal point turning from no hope to see a glimpse of light.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cBut Noah found favour in the eyes of The Lord.\u201d&nbsp; God has mercy even in His severe judgement.&nbsp; This word&nbsp;\u201cBut\u201d&nbsp;grants us hope.&nbsp; Even our life is messy, we now reap what we\u2019ve sowed in the past or we are innocent victims of other people\u2019s sin, or whatever.&nbsp; Before God\u2019s judgement come, The Ark pointed out sin.&nbsp; The Ark yelled to the world with a strong message: Repent, sin no more.&nbsp; On the other hand, The Ark offered a way out of God\u2019s saving grace.&nbsp; Friends, open our eyes to see the world, to search our hearts and to meditate what\u2019s going on in your life.&nbsp; Be wise, learn lesson from it.&nbsp; We are indeed in Noah\u2019s time.&nbsp; I pray to God grant us His eyes and wisdom to see our life and what the real need of today\u2019s world.&nbsp; Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why The Ark?&nbsp; This is the first word pop up in mind.&nbsp; Why The Ark?&nbsp; Was it necessary?&nbsp; What was the reason?&nbsp; Or what was the purpose?&nbsp; Obviously, the Bible is self-explanatory.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Lord saw how great man\u2019s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arkchurch.ca\/zh\/lesson-1-sin\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-ark-speaks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arkchurch.ca\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arkchurch.ca\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arkchurch.ca\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arkchurch.ca\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arkchurch.ca\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.arkchurch.ca\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.arkchurch.ca\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arkchurch.ca\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arkchurch.ca\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arkchurch.ca\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}