{"id":39647,"date":"2026-03-18T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39647"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:23:09","slug":"26-0319","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0319\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have a Sin Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39649 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260319_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260319_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260319_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can you live without sin for one day? No. How about one hour? Can you do it? No\u2026nor can I. And if we can\u2019t live without sin, we have a problem. Proverbs 10:16 says, we\u2019re evil and \u201cevil people are paid with punishment.\u201d What can we do?<\/p>\n<p>Well, observe what Jesus does with our filth. He carries it to the Cross. God speaks to Isaiah in chapter 50:6, \u201cI did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.\u201d You see, mingled with his blood and sweat was the essence of our sin. Angels were a prayer away. Couldn\u2019t they have taken the spittle away? They could have, but Jesus never commanded them to. Why? The sinless One took on the face of a sinner, so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39467\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1-unnamed-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=1c377a84be&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3D1c377a84be%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1772583866612000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0df-PrEkRsQJ3BHvDcyXZU\"><em>He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you live without sin for one day? No. How about one hour? Can you do it? No\u2026nor can I. And if we can\u2019t live without sin, we have a problem. Proverbs 10:16 says, we\u2019re evil and \u201cevil people are paid with punishment.\u201d What can we do?<\/p>\n<p>Well, observe what Jesus does with our filth. He carries it to the Cross. God speaks to Isaiah in chapter 50:6, \u201cI did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.\u201d You see, mingled with his blood and sweat was the essence of our sin. Angels were a prayer away. Couldn\u2019t they have taken the spittle away? They could have, but Jesus never commanded them to. Why? The sinless One took on the face of a sinner, so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39650,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39647\/revisions\/39650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}