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Tonight's lesson is going to be “Does sin have a hold on my life?

The scriptures we are going cover are as follows

Joshua 7

Acts 5:1-11

Revelation 2:1-5

Revelation 3:14-22

Romans 8:17

1 Corinthians 3:12

This is a good question to ask ourselves.

Does sin have a hold of your life?

And if so how do you break it hold.

You have heard the word Repent.

What does it mean?

Does that have anything to do with breaking the hold sin has on my life?

Can my sin effect other Believers Spiritual life?

And our there consequences for a continued sinful lifestyle?

As we go through the scriptures tonight I want you to focus on 4 of the 5 questions I just mentioned.

keep asking yourselves these questions

1.

Does sin have a hold of my life.

2. If so, how can I break that hold?

3. What does repenting mean and does that have anything to do with breaking the hold of sin?

4. Can my sin effect others around me? Especially other Believers in Christ?

Well before we can take in God's word lets go to him in prayer and that will allow everyone to Confess their sins before the Lord if necessary.

(1 John 1:9)

A. For the Sinning Believer

1. Loss of fellowship.

Sin brings an interruption of fellowship in the area of the sin (1 John 1:3, 6–7).

2. Loss of joy.

Sin causes a loss of joy (John 15:11; Gal.

5:22).

3. Darkened walk.

Sin causes the believer to walk in darkness (1 John 1:6; 2:10).

4. Weak prayer.

Sin brings a lack of confidence in prayer (1 John 3:19–22).

C. For the Persistently Sinning Believer

If a believer persists in some sin, then other consequences may follow.

1. Punishment.

Discipline of some form may come (Heb.

12:5–11).

Sickness may be one form of punishment (1 Cor.

11:30).

2. Excommunication.

Excommunication from the local church may be necessary (Matt.

18:17; 1 Cor.

5).

3. Physical death.

In some cases physical death may be a punishment for persistent sin (1 Cor.

11:30; 1 John 5:16).

Our merciful heavenly Father is often very patient with our sinning, not bringing severe penalties on us.

But we must never forget that sin does take its toll in many ways, internal and external, even if no obvious punishment comes.

And at the Judgment Seat of Christ, all our deeds will be examined by our Lord (2 Cor.

5:10).

Ryrie, C. C. (1999).

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Chicago, Ill.: Moody Press.

So we will study two cases of Believers who engaged in sinful activity

In both these cases the main characters were Lusting over the details of life.

And both as a result died physically.

Now there are some unknowns with these two stories.

We are given a picture of their last sins, however only God knows what their walk with the Lord was like.

There comes a point with the unsaved where the heart becomes hardened to the word.

Due to them “Suppressing the Truth in unrighteousness.”

Well equally true the Believer can also harden his heart due to rejection of the word of God, lack of Confession of his sins.

At that point, with the believer, God will issue in the Sin unto death.

With regards to the believer, the hardening of his heart could occur and he live over a long period of time or be taken out at that instance.

We aren't God so we don't know.

We just know that there is a Sin unto the death verdict that God will hand down to the Believer who is negative to The word of God and not carrying out his Spiritual life.

Remember Phil 2:12 “Work out your own Deliverance.”

(Salvation from the power of sin in your life Sanctification phase 2)

Lets introduce Joshua 7. by reading Joshua 1.

1 Now it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of Jehovah, that Jehovah spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying, 2?Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.

3?Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it, as I spake unto Moses.

4?From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.

5?There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee; I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

6?Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

7?Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee:

American Standard Version.

1995 (Jos 1:1).

Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

So in Joshua 7 God had already taken his people out of the wilderness.

(after being there for 40 years with Moses) And they were ready to inherit the land (Gen.

13:17; Exod.

23:30–31; Deut.

11:24).

) Gen 15:18 describes the Land promised to Israel as part of the Abrahamic covenant.

In Joshua 6 Israel just brought down the walls of Jericho and Joshua wanted to continue conquering the Canaanites.

Joshua 7

7:1.

The chapter opens with the ominous word But.

The gladness of victory was soon replaced by the gloom of defeat.

And all this was because of the disobedience of one man.

Jericho was placed under God’s ??rem (”ban for destruction“; 6:18-19), meaning that everything living was to be put to death and valuable objects were to be dedicated to the Lord’s treasury.

No Israelite soldier was to help himself to the booty—but that temptation was too strong for one man.

Walvoord, J. F., Zuck, R. B., & Dallas Theological Seminary.

(1983-c1985).