The Messiah Deals with Our Sin, Part 2 (TMF:2987)
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
by Daniel Litton Listen to the Feature
They were looking at the grandiosity, at the king side of things, the fact that a Messiah was coming to establish a physical, earthly kingdom. They wanted to be in on that worldly kingdom. The sin part, the sin part was probably secondary in their minds. It’s much like a teacher today in the Christian realm who presents the positive side, or positive things first. Sin is downplayed, and really not even considered all that important. Each one of us are guilty of this at one point or another. However, we must start with the sin problem, and not forget that at a heavy cost we have been cleansed from our sins. Let us not be like those in the later church of Ephesus, where Jesus expresses, “But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first” (Revelation 2:4, 5, ESV). As John said, ““Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”