Pastor Joel Logan preached during Sunday school.  His text was Job 14:16-17.  His sermon was titled, “Sin in a Bag.”

He first noted that sin in this text is called: “my sin, my transgression, and mine iniquity.”  He said that sin that appeals to your flesh is a sin that you need to be very afraid of.  Sin is working in your flesh like the poison of a snake bite works in your flesh long after you have been bit (the poison is worse than the bite).  Sin is active in the flesh (Job 20:11).

Then he asked why God would put sin in a bag instead of something sturdier.

God puts our sins in a bag metaphorically because:

A bag can hold all shapes and sizes – it is not rigid like a box.  It can hold big sins and little sins, it doesn’t matter, they all have to go in the bag and they can all fit.

A bag conceals the things that are in it – thus our sins aren’t to be brought out for public inspection

God can control the bag and the sins that are in it – it is hard for us to hold a bag and fill the bag at the same time – it is easier to let somebody else hold the bag while we fill it – likewise God holds the bag for us so that all the sins get in there

God sews it up (like an old gunny sack) – God seals the bag and when God seals it you cannot get the sins in it back out again (Heb 10:12-14).  If God covers it the first time, brother, it’s covered forever!!

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