Be Sure Your Sin Will Find You Out! by David J. Stewart "But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out" (Num. 32:23). Most people have a
misunderstanding as to what
this Scripture really means.
Most people think it means,
“Your sin will someday be
found out” or “You won't get away with sin.” Of course,
these statements are true; but,
that is NOT what this particular
Bible passage is referring
to. We read in Luke 12:2, “For there is nothing covered, that
shall not be revealed; neither
hid, that shall not be known.” Nothing is hid from the
presence of God. Proverb 15:3
proclaims, “The eyes of the LORD are in every place,
beholding the evil and the
good.” Las Vegas is guilty of false advertising! They
guarantee you that the sins
you commit in Vegas will STAY
IN VEGAS. Well, I have news
for you, God is video-taping
everything you do in Vegas! What HAPPENS in
Vegas IS RECORDED in
Heaven!!! God is NOT a pacifist,
teddy-bear God, that looks the
other way when we sin. No
sir, God has promised to hold each and every one of us
accountable for our selves
(Romans 14:12; Ecclesiastes
14:12; Colossians 3:25). Whether saved or unsaved, we
will all have our day in God's
court. The difference is it will
be as a criminal court for the
unsaved, verses civil court for
the saved. In criminal court you go to prison (the Lake of
Fire); but in civil court you
suffer monetary (reward)
losses, reproach and God's
anger. The unsaved will stand
trial at The Great White Throne of Judgment (Revelation
20:11-15), and the saved will
stand trial at The Judgment
Seat of Christ (2nd Corinthians
5:9-11). So what does Numbers 32:23
mean? The Israelites were
about to enter into the
Promised Land. However, the
tribes of Reuben and Gad didn't
want to live in Canaan, and they informed Moses of this
(Numbers 32:2). They had large
herds of cattle, and saw that
there was plenty of land on the
east side of the Jordan River
(Canaan, the Promised Land, was on the West side of the
Jordan River). Moses was
upset, and said that the rest of
the tribes would be
discouraged by their
unwillingness to enter into the Promised Land. Moses also pointed out that
they needed all the manpower
in battle they could get, and
couldn't afford not to have the
tribes of Reuben and Gad fight
in Canaan. So they asked Moses if they could remain on the
East side of Jordan if they
promised to help fight with the
rest of the tribes for the
Promised Land. Moses
reluctantly agreed; but told them that if they didn't keep
their promise... Their sin would
find them out! Notice carefully that Moses
said in Numbers 32:23, “YOUR sin will find YOU out.” It is the sin we commit that will one
day haunt us. This is what the
verse means. Sin always leads
to misery and regret. No
mother who aborts her own
precious baby can honestly say when she is old that she is glad
she murdered her child. Sin
always brings regret,
bitterness, guilt, and
resentment down the
road. Mother's Day is a time of guilt for many would-have-
been parents. Instead they are
mothers of dead babies. I have
spoken with countless people
throughout my life, who have
shared with me their regrets over sins committed when
they were younger. One man confided to me that
he was a drug-addict when he
was younger, before he found
the Lord. He said he
remembered meeting a poor
woman, who had little children, and needed
money. He had never met the
woman before. He
propositioned her for
prostitution. He told me that he
was having sex with her shortly thereafter, on the
couch, right in front of the
woman's small children. He
said that he had been so cold-
hearted that he could have
cared less. He told me how he used to get high on cocaine,
and how each drug "high" was
less spectacular than the
previous. He began to weep as
he told me how he regretted
his life of sin, the people he had hurt, and the wasted years
of his life he couldn't relive. I could share many such stories
with you, and I'm sure you
could likewise with me. The
world is a sinful place.
Certainly, all men and women
are sinners. In fact, the most heinous and worst crimes
being committed today are by
children and young teens. Oh
the consequences of sin! What
price are you willing to pay for
sin my friend? Sin will always take us further than we
planned to go, cost us more
than we intended to pay, and
keep us longer than we
wanted to stay! The Devil is a
liar, thief and murderer—and he's the father of all liars,
thieves and murderers the
Bible says (John 8:44; 10:10).
There are many liars, thieves
and murderers in the world
today whose father is Satan. I Am The Biggest Sinner I
Know (And So Are You If
You're Right With God) If you truly grow in the grace
of God as a Christian and abide
in the Scriptures, you will come
to the place eventually where
you'll think that you're the
biggest sinner in town. The reason why is because as you
draw nearer to our holy God,
you will begin to see yourself
more and more as a dirty
sinner. Hebrews 12:29, “For our God is a consuming fire.” God's holiness exposes the
awfulness of our sins. It is
quite normal to feel
nervousness for no apparent
reason as you draw near to
God's presence, for He is a holy God. Here are some of the mightiest
holy men of old in the Bible
expressing the awfulness of
their sinfulness... Isaiah said, “Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone;
because I am a man of
unclean lips, and I dwell in the
midst of a people of unclean
lips: for mine eyes have seen
the King, the LORD of hosts” (Isaiah 6:5). The Apostle Peter, “When Simon Peter saw it, he fell
down at Jesus' knees, saying,
Depart from me; for I am a
sinful man, O Lord” (Luke 5: The Apostle Paul, “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of
all acceptation, that Christ
Jesus came into the world to
save sinners; of whom I am
chief” (1st Timothy 1:15). James 2:10 teaches that to
break even one of God's
Commandments is equivalent
to breaking ALL of them in
God's sight. In other words,
even one sin is enough to send a person to Hell for all eternity.
That's why we need a Savior.
His precious name is Jesus—
Who died, was buried and rose
again—to pay for our many
sins. This is the Gospel (i.e., the death, burial and resurrection
of Christ, 1st Corinthians
15:1-4). If you receive what
Christ did as payment for your
sins, then you'll be saved and
spend eternity with the Lord in happiness and plenty. Forgiveness For All Is Available
Through The Blood Of Jesus
Christ, The Lamb Of God Here are some of my favorite
Scriptures in the whole Bible,
which I love and cherish... Romans 8:32-24, “He that
spared not his own Son, but
delivered him up for us all,
how shall he not with him
also freely give us all things
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God
that justifieth. Who is he that
condemneth? It is Christ that
died, yea rather, that is risen
again, who is even at the
right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” He told me that he often
wonders if he has any
unknown children, because he
had been a whoremonger for
so long. He said that he often
wonders if he has HIV, and is afraid to be tested. He said he
felt guilt because he had taken
advantage of the poor, when
God had given him a good
job. His life was so
tragic! Years later, he became a Christian and knew that the
blood of Jesus had cleansed all
his sins away; but he still felt
guilt over the people he had
hurt. His sins found him out. Ephesians 2:13, “But now in
Christ Jesus ye who
sometimes were far off are
made nigh by the blood of
Christ.” Amen! We are reconciled and
brought near to God BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST!!! What Price Are You Willing To
Pay For Sin? Thankfully Jesus paid a debt
that He did not owe, because
we owed a debt of sin that we
could not pay. But my friend, if
you do not receive Christ's
payment of the Gospel for your sins, then you must go to Hell
for all eternity to pay for your
own sins. The price is
everlasting fire and
damnation, separated from
God and all the joys and splendors of Heaven. Oh the consequences of
sin! There are children all
across the world who don't
even know who their real
fathers are, because the
mother doesn't even know. Most people have never
experienced young children,
having the same mother,
fighting with each other over
who's daddy is the best. It is
tragic! Satan always shows young people the neon lights,
the glamour, the fame, the
money, the fun, the good
times... but the Devil wouldn't
dare show you the TRUTH! The
Devil won't take you into local emergency rooms all across the
world, where people are dying
because of sin. Satan shows
people the gambling casinos,
the beautiful woman, the
booze, the money, and the thrills. What Satan doesn't show you
is the little room in back of
each gambling casino where
your house, assets, and life are
squandered away. The Devil is
behind the neon lights of Las Vegas and New Orleans. The
Devil shows us the beer-
drinking man with a beautiful
woman at his side. What the
Devil won't show you is the
battered wife, who's drunkard husband beats her. Oh the lie
of sin. Be sure your sin will find
you out!!! Sin will ALWAYS cost
you more than you bargained,
take you farther than you
intended, and ruin your life faster than you could have
ever imagined. The Word of God says that
YOUR sin will find YOU
out. There will come that time
when the chickens come home
to roost. What does that
mean... “When the chickens come home to roost?”
Remember Peter? Peter vowed
that he would never deny
Christ. Jesus told Peter that
before the cock (adult male
chicken) crowed 3-times that Peter would in fact deny Him
(Matthew 26:34). Peter said,
No way! Peter did deny Jesus,
and even cursed Christ's holy
name. Peter hadn't given it a
second thought until he heard those chicken's crowing the
next morning. King David in
the Old Testament killed a
man, to hide an adulterous
affair with the man's wife,
that led to an unwanted pregnancy. David didn't think twice about
the great evil he had done,
until Nathan the prophet
confronted him several months
later. The chickens came home
to roost, and David's sins found him out. Oh the misery, defeat,
and guilt David
experienced. The “Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
for whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also
reap” (Galatians 6:7). There is a popular saying, “What goes
around, comes around.” I don’t
care who you are, or where
you are, how you are, or when
you are, your sins will find you
out. The sins you commit will come back to haunt you one
day. In the way that you sin,
that is the way it is going to
come home to you
sometime. That is the meaning
of this statement, “Be sure your sin will find you out.” Job 15:16, “How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?”