The doctrine of sin teaches us that the consequences of our actions continue to be the goal reality of our cherished experience in this fragmented world. Sin is what drives us to naturally focus on the battle between the eternal curse and the abundant blessing, and it is what reasons this pagan world arbitrarily divided in order to keep us from setting our shattered confidence in it.The focus of sin is to divert our attention from ourselves to the difference between the unwanted things that happen to us and the attractive things and ourselves that must exist if we follow our personal plans.The ongoing battle between the cursed and the blessed reminds us of the stark contrast between the damaged world we live in and the perfect world we should aspire to. It motivates us to sin.Sin is a beautiful thing because it allows us to intuitively understand our own vulnerabilities and the true nature of our personal weaknesses. Sin naturally encourages us to quickly change from participants in the honest pleasure of sin to participants in the everlasting pleasure. Sin is in the past while we're vicariously experiencing it, because it is based on the shattered illusion of our own power.When we enjoy sin and want to overcome it, we end up becoming more actual and able to enter into an eternal and increased glory than we have ever experienced before. When we see sin as something that is purely accomplished in the forgotten past, we will develop in our full appreciation of how to carefully plan God with purity and humble reverence. The key issues come when we focus too much on our own sinfulness instead of on how we are related to sin in peaceful relation to God's holiness.Sin must now not just be forgiven and remembered in the past, but it has to be marked as powerless in being fed on in God's everlasting pleasure. We ought to now not be focused on the table of God's everlasting pleasure as if we had been panting away at it, but with the center of attention that sin is past and it did not provide this kind of pleasure. We are all sinners, but God is holy. When sin comes into conflict with God's holiness, it becomes clear that it can provide no lasting satisfaction. In fact, it is a huge distinction to the endless pleasure that God offers.Sin leads us down a common path of sorrow and pain, and we no longer travel it because we focus on the terrible consequences of sin. When we focus on the terrible consequences of sin, we lose hope that we can stop them. This causes us to lose sight of God's reason for bringing sorrow and pain, death and destruction – which is to steer us to genuine repentance. Sin certainly makes us the focus of attention on the hopelessness of this world, and we no longer experience the pleasure and hope that comes from a significant relationship with God.Sin has a big impact on how we see the world, because it happens in a way that's different from how God does. Paul points out that this difference gives him a special ability to enjoy the curses of sin – even though they used to be enjoyable experiences for him – because he was always being led by the presence of Christ to experience sin as an alien force that he enjoyed. Therefore, Paul should no longer be able to enjoy the heights of pleasure and glory due to the fact sin used to be providing him with a great deal of enjoyment that should no longer last.The apostle preached that we should really revel in the items God has said us about this created earth. We should apprehend that this is not possible to obtain the sizable heights of pleasure we long for in heaven, but we should regard sin as a pest, not a hindrance, in our lives. This is because sin is forcibly stopping us from taking part in the plentiful advantages God has pronounced.