“Don’t ever fuck up like you did today!” Katsuki scowled at him then turned to his locker. Izuku suppressed a sigh, “Yeah, Kachan?” He kept on getting dressed by pulling his long sleeve T-shirt over his head and then put his shoes on. He opened up his locker and frowned as his phone just went off saying he missed a call he wrapped the towel around his neck and pulled on his fresh boxers then his jeans. Jesus will wash you clean, if you let Him.Izuku walked out of the shower room and into the locker room of his agency as he ran a towel through his damp curls. Getting your priorities straight and using your time to worship God in all you do, be it washing dishes, typing at a computer, or teaching children, this will lead you away from sin. Isaiah 1:18 says, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” So, getting with God first, or, another way of saying it, subordinating your fleshly desires, keeps you from sin. If sin is spiritual plaque, then the Blood of Jesus is like spiritual Listerine. There is only one solution, and it ain’t oxy-clean. No amount of elbow grease will remove this stain. And let me tell you this, there is no way to clean it by yourself. Eventually, it is a noticeable thing, something you can no longer ignore. It starts off small, almost unnoticeable, but it builds and grows. Sin is anything which further divides us from our Loving God. Their sin is one of divisiveness, one of self-love and not communal love, one which fractures relationship. They sever their relationship with God by going behind His back, by breaking His rules, and by trying to cover it. Its when they break God’s trust that they sin. As long as Adam and Eve are in proper relationship, everything is good. In Genesis 2:18, we see God declaring that it is not good for man to be alone, so he creates woman, to allow for relationship. So if God is love, and Perfect Relationship, being created in His image, we humans are created as loving, relational creatures. So, a proper inference here is that God is relationship. God is a perfect relationship of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three are One.

Though both the Hebrew scriptures and Jesus state that “God is One”, none-the-less, we are faced here with a plurality. The second point, I submit, is a reference to the Trinitarian concept of God. And the second greatest is just like this, love your neighbor as yourself.” So God is love. Jesus commanded us “to love one another.” Jesus taught us that the greatest commandment is “love the Lord your God with all you heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength. Jesus didn’t command us to be humble, nor did he command us to be obedient. 1st John 1:8 does that very plainly – God is love. The first point means we need to define who God is. The two points we have to ponder are 1) what does it mean to be in God’s image, and, 2) what does this text say about God. The verse says, “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image…’”. To truly understand what sin is, we have to look at a few other points first In Genesis 1:26 we find two very important points. It is that which becomes so compelling to us, that we subordinate God to it. She said, “Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things, in short, whatever increases the authority of your body over mind, that for you is sin.' Sin is what distracts us from God. They once asked her, “What is sin?” Her reply was very insightful. Susanna was the mother of Charles and John Wesley. I’ve told you before about Susanna Wesley’s definition of sin, but I believe it bears repeating here. “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” This begs the question, what is sin? He made them look at themselves through God’s eyes, and showed them that they were lacking. Second, and more powerfully, He forced them from external judgment to internal inspection. He made them look to be fools, or children who didn’t know anything about God or His authority. First, He had once again sidestepped a very cunning trap. How could they lose? One thing leads to another, and here both choices were “poisoned”.

But, and this is the beauty of it, if he DID say, “Stone her,” He was violating Roman law, and subject to Roman discipline. Still, if Jesus didn’t say, “Stone her,” they could show people that He was “soft” on God’s Law. Hebrew law said that she should be stoned, though divorce was the more common solution of the day. They had a woman who had been caught in an adulterous act. Once again the Pharisees thought they had the perfect situation.

One thing led to another