The Lord rebuked certain false prophets and summed up the lies they were telling in Ezekiel 13:22: “Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life.”

These lying prophets were obviously telling the wicked that they were righteous as they continued in wickedness; and telling the righteous that they were no better off before God than the wicked.  

Now, false teachers and false evangelists and other deceivers will strengthen the hands of the wicked and discourage the righteous with sayings like “we’re all sinners” and “we all sin.”  

By the context in which they often say these things, they don’t mean that we have all sinned and that we are all fallen people who must be dependent on the grace of God in Christ for salvation from the guilt and power of sin (as we ought to be).  They really mean by such sayings that one can continue committed to the practice of sin and be a partaker of the grace of God in Jesus Christ.  They thus strengthen the hands of the wicked to continue in sin and discourage the righteous for having an obedient attitude to Christ’s Lordship.

The Bible actually defines a sinner as one with a rebellious, disobedient attitude towards God’s authority (see John 9:31, Psalm 1, Psalm 26:8-11, Psalm 66:18, etc).

Saying that “we’re all sinners and we all sin” nullifies the Word of God’s judgments about the distinction in God’s eyes between the righteous and the wicked.

It makes Abel seem no different than Cain.

It makes Noah and those with him on the ark seem no different than the rest of the world which God destroyed by the flood.

It makes the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah seem no worse than other people- when God deemed their sins to warrant their swift, terrifying destruction.

It makes the faithful prophets like Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel to seem no different than their unrighteous enemies who sought to slay them for their righteous testimony.

It justifies Herod for slaying John the Baptist for John’s rebuke of Herod’s personal sins and calling all people to flee from the wrath to come and to bring forth fruit in keeping with repentance.

It justifies those involved in the crucifixion of Jesus, as if they could not have done any better than they did; and as if they didn’t need to repent afterwards of their wicked attitude and love of darkness which led to that.

It also justifies the lies of every hypocrite who claims to know Jesus Christ yet walks in darkness and refuses to die to sin and self in order to follow Him and keep His Word (see 1 John 2:1-6).

It also contends with the Apostle’s own instruction about the clear distinction between the children of God and the children of the devil (see 1 John 3:7-12 for an example of this).

When people say things like “we’re all sinners and “we all sin” in the manner that they usually do, a manner which encourages people to remain sinners and not rather to flee from their sins to obtain refuge under Jesus Christ’s righteous, saving reign- you can be assured of the dark origin of such sayings.

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