Christians must take the dangers of sin and going against God seriously, and understand that no human is perfect. That warning from Reverend Billy Graham.
On the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association website the 97-year-old evangelical leader writes, “Sin is like a deadly disease that touches everything we do and everything we are. Yes, you may be a good and moral person whose life isn’t marred by obvious sins. But what about your inner thoughts and motives? What about your pride? What about the things you should be doing but fail to do — the people you ought to help, the person who needs a kind word, the person you ought to be praying for but don’t?”
Graham asserts that some Christians might be missing two major details about sin, an understanding of the depth of sin and the cost of sin, then citing 1 John 1:8 “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.”
Graham has frequently preached and written about the wages of sin, stating in February that Christians must avoid feeling numb to sin because they are guilty of going against God whether they feel they did so or not.
Along with recognizing sin Graham advised in a column published back in January that Christians should not use the promise of Salvation as an excuse to indulge in sin.
He wrote, Christians should avoid indulging in sin because they never know when their time on this Earth will end, and if they will be given a final chance to repent before God.