Sin

 

 

• I. What does sin do to our relatinship with God?

 

Eph. 2:1-3                   ₁As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, ₂in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in all those who are disobedient.  ₃All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts.  Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.

 

Isa. 59:1-2                  ₁Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.  ₂But your iniquities have separated you from your God; you sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

 

IJn. 1:5                       ₅This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you:  God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

 

Eph. 2:11-13               ₁₁Therefore, remember that formerly you were Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (that done in the body by the hands of men)– ₁₂remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise without hope and without God in the world.  ₁₃But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

 

• II. How does God feel about sin?

 

Eph. 2:3                      ₃All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts.  Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.

 

Gen. 6:5-6                   ₅The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.  ₆So the Lord said , “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth–men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air–for I am grieved that I have made them.”

 

• III. How does sin affect us?

 

Eph. 4:17-19               ₁₇So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.  ₁₈They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.  ₁₉Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.

 

Heb. 3:12-13               ₁₂See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.  ₁₃But encourage one another daily, as long as it is call Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s decietfulness.

 

Rom. 7:14ff                ₁₄We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.  ₁₅I do not understand what I do.  For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.  ₁₆And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.  ₁₇As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.

 

• IV. What is sin?

 

Gal. 5:19-21                ₁₉The acts of the sinful nature are obvious:  sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; ₂₀idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish anbition, dissensions, factions ₂₁and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.  I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

 

Mk. 7:20-23               ₂₀He went on:  “What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’  ₂₁For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, ₂₂greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.  ₂₃All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’

 

IITi. 3:1-5                   ₁But mark this:  There will be terrible times in the last days.  ₂People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ₃without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, ₄treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God– ₅having a form of godliness but denying its power.  Have nothing to do with them.

 

Eph. 5:3-7                   ₃But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.  ₄Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.  ₅For of this you can be sure:  No immoral, impure or greedy person–such a man is an idolater–has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.  ₆Let no one deceive you with empth words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.  ₇Therefore do not be partners with them.

 

• V. God’s plan for sin:

 

Gal. 3:22                     ₂₂But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.

 

Lk. 4:18                      ₁₈The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach goo dews to the poor.  He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, ₁₉to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

 

Jn. 8:34-36                  ₃₄Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.  ₃₅Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.  ₃₆So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.