Famous People's Sin

Famous People

When we see people like Terrell Owens misbehaving in public and in private, why are we surprised?  These are just people who are able to grab the spot light because they perform their work in the public eye.  It’s not just football either; basketball, baseball, and hockey all have their self-important players.  And it’s not just sports.  Famous people somehow think that because they are famous, that their voice should sound louder than anyone else’s voice.  Oprah can launch a book and author from obscurity to fame and fortune with a simple mention on her television show.  Dr. Phil is famous for no other reason than that he got a start from Oprah.  Some people are famous for being famous.  Others have actually done something to earn their fame.  But when they behave badly, it is for the same reasons that anyone else behaves badly: they are sinners.

Somehow we have gotten further and further away from the concept of sin.  In 1974 Dr. Karl Menninger wrote a book called “What Ever Became of Sin?”  Since the publication of his book, the discussion of sin has done nothing but gone downhill, so has social responsibility, personal responsibility, and even religious responsibility.  We simply do not feel we are responsible for our sins.  We may make a few mistakes in our lives, not too many though, but we certainly have not sinned.  And anything that goes wrong must be someone else’s responsibility, someone I can sue for what goes wrong, especially if you are a professional with insurance of some kind.

We need to remember what Jesus said in John 14:27, “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.”

The way to peace is not finances, property, or even family.  The way to personal peace is repentance.  

Luke 18:13
    "But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!'

Hebrews 8:12
        "For I will be merciful to their iniquities,
        And I will remember their sins no more."