Seven ways in which it is possible to get off the track on the basis of chain sinning

1. The mental attitude sin of jealousy or bitterness motivates revenge tactics. In other words, you can start from two different mental attitude sins. Both of these lead to a series of activities whereby jealousy must be expressed or bitterness must be expressed. Bitterness and jealousy always have an object and when you express either of them toward an object you intensify the sinning, you produce other kinds of sins — vengeance, various types of social sins. In effect, all of these are trying to build your happiness on someone else’s unhappiness.

2. The function of guilt complex by which every new suffering in life is associated with a past sin or failure. People are often impressed by their past sins or their failures. They are impressed to the point that even though these sins and failures have been forgiven and God has blotted out the sins or the failures. And any time there is any pressure, any suffering, any disaster, it is related back to a past sin or failure. In that way you set up chain sinning retroactively. Such reaction is called guilt complex.

3. Public confession of sin. This is sort of an offshoot of a guilt complex. Public confession of sin is not victorious living, it is insanity. This is also called sharing and the so-called sharing adds sin to sin.

4. The superimposition of human volition over the divine prerogatives of judgement and condemnation. In other words, judging other believers. Judgement belongs to the Lord. Our lives as members of the royal family must be evaluated by the Lord Himself, therefore we do not have the right to judge other believers.

5. “Operation patsy” in which the believer avoids the responsibility for his own sins and failures and always finds someone else on which to blame them. This is failure to face up to the responsibilities of your own free will. The principle is that we must all learn to take responsibility for our own decisions, good and bad, for our own failures, and above all for our own sins. Remember that volition was involved in every sin that was ever committed in the course of the human race.

6. The manufacture of controversy by failure to isolate your differences with other believers, relatives, or friends.

7. The function of hypocrisy in pseudo love, implacability developing into vindictiveness. This, again, causes others to be hurt and chain sinning results.