What if I stopped sinning now and sin again?
No matter how hard we try, we could never stop sining because we are hopelessly in bondage to sin. The Bible tells us even our hearts are deceitful and des- perately wicked (Jeremiah 17:9). In other words, we are sinful to the core. Furthermore, even a single sin would be enough to destroy us forever: "Whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all" (James 2:10). But even if we never sinned from now on, we would still be guilty of our past sins. And as the Bible says, “The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). But the good news is that God has provided a way to free us from the guilt of sin!
