WHAT IS SECRET SIN?
"In the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel" Romans 2:16.

When we talk about secret sin here, it concerns Christians, who have associated themselves with Jesus Christ, who have confessed and repented of their sins. It is not about sinners and unbelievers.

Secret sin occurs in the life of a person who has experienced salvation of Jesus Christ, who has confessed and repented from sins, but along the way keeps one or few sins secret. Many Christians have not faced the reality that they are having secret sins in their luggage as they journey to eternity.

Dangers of Secret Sin:
Secret sin hinders many Christians from moving forward in their spiritual growth, many are not growing in the Lord because of hidden secret sins in their lives.

Secret sin blocks Christians from experiencing the power and anointing of God. A life where there is secret sin will not lack the presence, power and anointing of God.

Secret sin hinder God’s blessing in a Christian life, family and ministry. There are many problems, difficulties you are facing in life that may be as a result of secret sin. Many are engaging in marathon fasting and prayer, running from one man of God to a woman of God, from olive oil to coconut oil anointing and yet nothing positive happen in your life. It may be the secret sin you packed inside your load that is causing the problem.

Do you that secret sin can cause a serious and permanent delay in a Christian’s life? Delay in having progress, delay in having pregnancy, delay in possessing your possession just because of that particular secret sin in your life?

Secret sin can be by an individual Christian or involve two or more Christians. Secret sin can be in a Christian family, group or church.

There are two types of secret sin: Past and present, or now and then:

PAST BUT PRESENT
....in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ. Romans 2:16.

This type of secret sin is a sin you committed before you gave your life to Jesus, or before you rededicated your life to Jesus, though you have repented and confessed it to God, and you have stopped it, but you are keeping it secret from men. Secret sin is a sin you keep secret, even if it is in the past, even if it has stopped, but as long you keep it secret from men, it is a secret sin - though it is in the past but it is presently haunting you and standing against you. As long you keep a past sin secret, what you are actually doing is that you are making it fresh and present in a cooler.
Until you open up every secret sin of the past to the necessary people, until you confess to the necessary people and put the sin and Satan to an open shame, you are still under the bondage of that past sin. After you are saved, you rededicated your life to Jesus, then you will still have to open up to some people that are concerned. Things you did before you came to Jesus need to be exposed and revealed to some people in your life.

Listen to what Apostle Paul said, "But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God." 2 Corinthians 4:2.

From this Bible verse, Paul did three things which every child of God must do:
1, He renounced the hidden things - those sinful and sinful things of the past were repented of and rejected by Paul. He did not go back to them again.

2, He manifested that truth by making it clear to men, "but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience." This is by confessing to the necessary people about the sinful and shameful things we did in the past, though we have renounced them, but we must make them clear to the right people. Many Christians are being deceived by Satan that, since they have confessed to God, no need to confess to their parents, marital partners, spouses, or boss; they say, "I have confessed and stopped it, so I have a pure conscience before God, and that is all." Beloved, having a pure conscience before God is good, but not enough, you need to have a pure conscience before men too. Paul said, "But by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience".

This is what is called restitution, making your way right with men, having a clear conscience before men.

Some Christians say since they have confessed to God and they are no more doing it, it doesn’t matter. And I will ask you, if it doesn’t matter, why do you then keep it secret. People don’t keep what does not matter as secret, right. Your bank would tell you, keep your BVN, your pin code as secret, why? Because it matters. Nobody will tell you to keep your shoe’s size as secret, because it doesn’t matter. So when you are keeping something of your past as secret to the person you want to marry, to your spouse, or to necessary people that may be concerned, then it means it so matters to you that you keep it secret.

Until you make clear the past before God and men, your past sins are still presently fresh.

3, He manifested that truth in the sight of God, "but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God." He totally repented and never gone back to such sins again, even when no man would see him, even when men would say it does not matter or it is not bad. Paul says he is now commending himself to every man's conscience in the sight of God, IN THE SIGHT OF GOD, meaning before God that sees all things. He knew God saw everything, and he lived in truth before God according to God's standard, not church's standard.

PRESENT AND PERVERTED
Another secret sin is a sin you commit after you are saved in Christ and you are hiding it, the sin you are secretly committing which you do not want people to see; but even men do not see, God sees. Anything you do secretly which you do not want people to see or hear, that you know it will not honor you if people know, that it will not give glory to the name of the Lord, that is secret sin. It may be a habit like masturbation, fornication, or other sexual immorality; it may be other sins which you are committing and keeping secretly. It may also be a lifestyle which you keep secret from people, like drinking, smoking, lying, anger, jealousy, malice, etc.

If you keep any secret sin of any form, such sin will be following you till the Day of Judgment, it will hinder you from making the rapture, and from entering heaven. But if you open up now before God and men, then that sin will go ahead of you to judgment, it will be condemned by God's mercy and you will be justified.

Hear what the Bible says:
"Some men’s sins are clearly evident, preceding them to judgment, but those of some men follow later." 1 Timothy 5:24

But as long you keep it secret because of the fear of what people will say or how they will respond, the sin continues to quietly follow you to put you to eternal shame on the judgment day.
So what is your decision? Do you want to open up and put your sins to open shame or you want to cover up and allow your sin to put you to open and eternal shame? No matter how small the sin may be, it will surely find you out on the judgment day.

But the Lord is asking you to put Satan to shame, to put the sin to shame. Amen

FreshGreen:
WHAT IS SECRET SIN?
"In the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel" Romans 2:16.

When we talk about secret sin here, it concerns Christians, who have associated themselves with Jesus Christ, who have confessed and repented of their sins. It is not about sinners and unbelievers.

Secret sin occurs in the life of a person who has experienced salvation of Jesus Christ, who has confessed and repented from sins, but along the way keeps one or few sins secret. Many Christians have not faced the reality that they are having secret sins in their luggage as they journey to eternity.

There is no need for this albeit meaningless epistle here since you don't even seem to understand what what writer meant by the secrets of men.

In Jeremiah 17 vs 5 - 13, God explains that He alone is able to see and test the very intentions of the hearts of men, their secrets and decide what each man should have - judgement.

In Jesus Christ, Sin is no longer simply associated with our deeds but our intentions, our secrets can constitute sin and that is what the writer in Roman is referring to. For instance, no longer is adultery the case where a married person beds another that he is not married to. Instead, the sin is committed at the point where a one secretly lusts in his heart after another.