Your sin is worse than mine.
I was listening in on something this morning, and someone said, “some people are so far gone that they can’t be recovered. There are some sins that you can’t get forgiveness for.” And he kept repeating it, over and over. And the more he said it, the more I thought to myself, “my God. This is really the mental state some Christians walk around with? After seeing Jesus do ALL the things he did?”
First of all, Jesus has never shown evidence to discriminate based on sin/sinner. Let me remind you: Jesus hung out with thieves(Luke 23:43), tax collectors (Mark 2:15), murderers (Paul the apostle), rule breakers (Peter), paralyzed people (Mark 2:3-5), and people with leprosy (Matt 8:3), with women bleeding for 12 years (Matt 9:20-22), with adulterers (John 8:3-11), probably with gay people too! I say this because the Bible doesn’t record EVERYTHING he did. It only records what the authors could comprehend.
Second of all, Jesus said your sin starts in your mind (Proverbs 22:1). There’s nothing we can think of, dream of, do, say, that he hasn’t already heard of! Do you think the people from the bible weren’t affected by worries about social standing, and caring about others’ opinions, depression and thoughts of suicide? Immune to being confused about sexuality, purpose, and direction? Spoiler alert: they wasn’t. So if this stuff was happening from way way back in the day, and he wrote the Ten Commandments for those going THROUGH IT, what makes anyone think that the same sin he forgave back in the day, won’t be the same sin he forgives today? What makes anyone think that showing love to the literal humans who killed him (Luke 23:34), won’t transfer to someone who has feelings for the same sex, has taken someone’s life or is eyes-ing his friend’s girl? Miss me with that narrow thinking, sir!
Finally, here’s what really pissed me off. Besides it not being biblically sound or representative of what Jesus actually practiced in life, it is how it impacts people you come in contact with. Suppose, you walk through life already thinking that some sins are worse than others, and you find out someone has sinned, as a believer who has been commissioned to bring his light to the darkness. In that case, you are failing at your job! Hand in your two weeks! How would we possibly expect to get people to even be interested in hearing about God and his faithfulness if we walk in judging? How do we expect to reach people who are sinners (which the entire earth, including believers) if we’re unwilling to hang out with them? To listen to them? To be around them and see why they do what they do, their understanding of the world and what they think they can control? Assuming there’s a sin limit, a sin threshold, if you will, immediately creates a block when you come into contact with people. And as believers and princes and princesses, the least we can do is show His love to those who haven’t experienced him yet. That can’t start with us having hater blockers on.
So, no, sir. There is no sin that’s worse than another. There’s nowhere someone can go that’s irredeemable. There is NOTHING SOMEONE CAN DO, SAY OR THINK THAT JESUS AINT ALREADY CAME IN CONTACT WITH OR FORGAVE. Not only does he want you to come to him, but he’ll also wipe that right off your record as soon as you humble yourself before him (Hebrews 8:11).