Sins Family Tree

"You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do.  He was a murderer from the begining, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.  When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
John 8:44 NKJV

Hopefully by now most christians are aware of their ultimate spiritual enemy.  That being the devil, satan.  From the begining of time, and probably before that, satan had his place as the enemy of gods creation.  In fact, as our Lord created the heavens and the earth, satan had already been banished from Gods presence.  Of course, he eventually found his way into the Garden of Eden to tempt the crowning achievement of Gods creation into falling into sin.  The rest, as they say, is history.  Most people view sin as the bad desires of our flesh, and they would be correct to say that, to a point.   I would venture to point out that what we see as sin can also be identified by name.  That name is satan himself.  Yes, our spiritual enemy also bears the identity of sin itself.

He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrafice of himself.
Hebrews 9:26 NKJV

And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.  Whoever abides in Him does not sin.  Whoever sins has neither seen him nor known him.  Little children, let no one deceive you.  He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.  He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the begining.  For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3: 5-8 NKJV

In Hebrews 9:26 we are told once again of the sacrafice of our Lord Jesus for the very  purpose of "Putting away sin" through his sacrafice on the cross.  This is a basic truth of christianity.  We believe that by Jesus' death, our sins were made no more, Jesus himself put them away once and for all!  It is at this point that I point out what could be seen as the DNA of sin itself, the origin of that which Christ died to wipe out forever.  In this historical version of connect the dots, we see in Hebrews 9:26 that Jesus died to "Put away sin."  Still, sin itself has no identity, but wait.  In 1 John 3:5-8 we're told that satan himself has sinned from the very begining.  This passage goes so far as to link satan and sin together as one.  Ok, here's the kicker, we already know that Jesus died to wipe out our sins.  Now, if we accept that satan and sin were linked together from the very begining, then it is Jesus who gave his life to away with sin and, ultimately, satan himself.  1 John 3:8 we see that Jesus was manifested to destroy the "works of the devil."  What are the works of the devil?  SIN!
Scripture tells us that satan has sinned from the very begining.  It is no wonder, then, that it was through this father of sin that sin entered Gods creation.   Rather than being forever bound to sin, however, we rejoice in our risen Lord who gave himself to abolish sin once and for all.

~Scott~