Secret Sins Revealed Through the Holiness of the Ten Commandments

Many of us have secret sins. Examples of secret sins include adultery, lying, lusting, and stealing. From a Christian perspective, these sins are revealed to us through the knowledge of God's commands that are embodied in the Ten Commandments. If we were not aware of God's commandments, we would not even know we were in sin, and thus there would be no secret to keep. It is the knowledge of God as a higher authority that makes us realize that we are in sin. Knowledge of our sin is the first step toward our eternal salvation through Jesus Christ.

When we feel guilty about a secret sin that we have, our reaction should not be to suppress the knowledge of our sin and to think that God's commandments are the source of our troubles. God's commandments are holy and are not bad. The problem is that God's commandments reveal to us our sin, and this is a very painful experience (Romans 7:7, “What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet”). The answer to our knowledge of sin is to ask God for forgiveness, and to accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.

ROMANS 7 BIBLE SCRIPTURE Romans 7:7, "What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."