6. What is wrong with my heart?

How do I know that Adam's sin has anything to do with me?
How do I know if I have sin? What symptoms are there?

Yes, like a genetic (inherited) disease, there are sure, certain signs that would directly indicate you have the condition called sin.

Do you have parents / grandparents / great grandparents who look like they are sick (suffering from a disease is a sign), anyone who have become invalids (becoming frail, weaker, unable to walk is a sign), or anyone who has died of of 'natural causes' (this is a sure sign: death is what happens to a soul that has sin). Anyone who will mislead or lie? anyone who has killed or hated or lusted, anyone who was unfaithful to their partner, anyone who did not love God with their whole life? These are sure signs of sin has made it all the way from Adam to your relatives, a sure sign that being their descendant it is now in you!


Sin is a noun. It is a nature or thing. It is part of your nature, you were born with it. It is like a tigers stripes, lepard's spots. No running, or relgious treadmill will remove the stain of sin in your inner parts.

Sins (verb) are what a sinner (noun) does. Its like water freezes, birds fly, sinners sin. So many preachers just say STOP SINNING...here follow these rules and you'll be fine...but the tiger still has his stripes and poor hapless believer is sent on a merry go round of prayer, fasting, bible reading, programs and the second they stop either feel guilt or are made to feel guilt. The treadmill of religion cannot prevent a sinner from sinning. How do we get off??

You are said to be a captive of sin, and all people are inextricably going to have fruit, called sin, in their lives as they demonstrate most, if not all of their sin traits. Many live in societies where certain traits must never be seen or heard, it would bring shame, dishonour to the family if some of these traits became public knowledge. The problem is being a captive / slave of sin and no society has the right rules to deal with the heart of people, sin nature (the noun).

Getting Deeper:

Various movies have played with the idea of a man being able to hear the thoughts of women around him and how that could be used to the man's advantage.

The bible says God does this ALL the time. Imagine the noise, chatter, thought processes going on, the planning, the desires being sought, the selfish ambition, the hatred, the lust, lies needed to get what you want.

Imagine hurt of GOD hearing people think of so many hurtful lustful trivial things, seldom or never hearing a person praise HIM for who HE is, not tainted with what HE can give!

But the 'problem with God' is that He goes deeper than that. He can read the motive of your heart, not just the thoughts that spring from a heart that have good or bad motives. God can see a person with a 'Good Heart' think wrong things (and disappoints HIM) and people with the 'Devil's Heart' think good things (He is not fooled by this). God is concerned with your heart.

Your heart is also called your motive, your drive, your spirit. When God sees your heart, he's seeing what drives you, your thoughts, which inturn drives your speech, which inturn drives your behaviour! Ah! behaviour that's what we think we need to correct! but NO! God goes 5 layers deeper than that! We are so superficial. ...it must be something to do with sin! When God looks at your inner most part (heart) He either sees His Son there or the Devil, if you are a pretty girl HE sees the Devil dressed in drag, if you are a bloke, HE sees the devil with old jeans or just wearing a beard. It is from the Heart your thoughts and words spring and why the 'change of heart' also called repentance, is EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING.

When your heart changes from that controlled by sin, it becomes a Child of God. There is NO BIGGER TRANSFORMATION than this change in a human life. Going from rags to riches is just a shadow of what happens when some's heart changes to a child of God.

The problem with our hearts is, without a mighty revelation of truth, they are cold, empty, seeking fulfillment, lost, confused always wondering. When we hear the Gospel of Jesus we are faced with a choice: 1) to stay the same or 2) to find out more. But information is not all we need, its a HEART TRANSFORMATION. Happy thoughts, New Years resolutions, self motivation, a small behavioural change is not IT. This is where LAW comes in, but not for approving you, but to do something more important and it is the only thing that can do it: CONVICT & SENTENCE AND KILL 'you'. Law can do that? Read on. It is the poison that religion keeps people sipping or drinking copiously as if its going to be their best remedy. Law is deadly and should only be administered by those who know what they are doing. Don't trust just anyone looking religious to handle it right. The devil loves religion too and imitates everything God does but with a LETHAL twist to make it wrong. If you aren't able to see it then read on.