Detecting and Destroying the Roots of Our Sins

Detecting and Destroying the Roots of Our Sins

Every sin, every wrong choice, whether in attitude or action, is an issue of the heart. Proverbs 4:23 says, “Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.”

Every sin is also based upon what we believe, and while we are all accountable unto God for our own sins, the patterns of our behavior, whether good or bad, were taught to us by the generations before us. Those patterns are called “root sins.” Root sins are the deeply learned beliefs and habits that underlie the sins we repeat. Every sin we commit is a repeated version of the original human sin, when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden tree’s fruit.

The secret to getting free from those “root sins” begins with a self-examination of what satanic promises we have believed. Then we must renounce the lies we have believed, repent to God for persistently believing them, and begin to exercise faith in God’s promises by obeying him — “[bearing] fruit in keeping with repentance” (Matthew 3:8).