Reflections: On Sin (2022)
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Wholly devoted to living Holy
Wholly devoted to living Holy
God wants us to live holy and be holy.
Consider, what does living holy look like in your life?
16 because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
God wants to give us life full
Now, consider what does a full, or abundant life look like for you?
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
So in our series “reflections” we have been taking time to reflect on things to help us be wholly devoted to being holy by the things we reflect on.
8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9 What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
I want to add a couple more scriptures into this this morning
God calls for us to delight (Ps1:2)
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.
God calls for us to meditate on His word (Ps1:2; Jos1:8)
8 “This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.
Delight, make your way prosperous and successful, don’t we all want that? God wants that for us and gives us the way. Though sometimes the way is not an easy thing to look at, discuss or take action on.
People don’t like to hear that they are sinners, and we don’t like to remember we are sinners oftentimes. But to become a Christian you need to realize sin and turn from it. To the Christian we need to understand Gods grace and continue to walk in that knowing as we do our sins are continually cleansed (1Jn1:7)
We have already reflected on consider, contemplated, meditated upon BIBLE, GOD, JESUS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT so now time to address sin.
Sin separates us from God (Isa59:1-2)
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not so short That it cannot save; Nor is His ear so dull That it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.
(Discuss the severity of sin here)
I. Definition of Sin
I. Definition of Sin
When you think of sin, what do you think of?
In the Greek it means to miss the mark
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
How do you think we fall short today (Rom3:23)?
Transgression of the Law (1Jn3:4)
4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
And if you don’t speak King James
4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
This covers sins of -COMMISSION (Mk10:19)
When I say sins of “commission” what do you think of?
Example would be
19 “You know the commandments, ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’ ”
So if you do any of these things they are sins of commission because God tells us directly not to do them. (expand on this)
To fail to do good - Sins of Omission (Jm4:17)
17 Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Now what sins of omission could we do (Mt5:44)?
No, these are not sins to guilt.
How about this one.
44 “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
So if we don’t love our enemies and we do pray for those who persecute us that is a sin of - omission.
Omission (n) - The action of excluding or leaving out something or someone; A failure to do something, especially something that one has a moral or legal obligation to do.
How can you do sins of omission?
Anyone getting uncomfortable with this?
What about sins of conscience (Rom14:22-23)?
22 The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves. 23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.
So, what would be a sin of conscience (Consider Heb13:18)?
- for me smoking would be (expand on this)
One commentator Make Copeland says “To act without faith (without conviction that what you do is right) would be sin of conscience.”
Here is a scripture to consider
18 Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a good conscience, desiring to conduct ourselves honorably in all things.
To do the right thing but without a clear conscience or good conscience it would be a sin.
Sin severity and consequences (expand on this) sin needs to be addressed to lead to salvation and to lead to sanctification!
II. Problem with Sin
II. Problem with Sin
Remember the guilt of sin; sin must be addressed, not ignored.
Remember the guilt of sin (Rom3:23; Jm2:10)
23 everyone has sinned and is far away from God’s saving presence.
and even one sin makes us guilty
10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
Remember the bondage to sin (Jn8:34)
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.
They are brought into the captivity of sin (Rom7:14-24)
14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
21 I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,
23 but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
But wait there is more, then there is the state of sin (Eph2:1)
1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
(Summarize Eph2:1-9 here)
Eph2:1-9 “1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. 3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.”
Sin alienates and separates us too (Eph4:18; Isa59:2; Rom6:23)
18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;
and the results of sin
2 But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In our time now what we do with sin impacts eternity, it is a most serious problem, but God gives us a solution for sin.
III. Solution for Sin
III. Solution for Sin
You have to love when, where there is a problem, there is a solution too.
God is the solution, through Jesus (1Jn4:10)
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
God’s love was displayed when He sent the Christ to be His perfect and acceptable sacrifice.
God’s way was through Jesus blood (Eph1:7)
7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
Free from bondage (Rom8:1-2)
1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
We are given what we need to put to death the deeds of the flesh (Rom8:12-13); how to do it (Eph3:16); the power to do it (Eph3:20)
12 So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— 13 for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
By God’s strength to the inner man
16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,
Strength given to work within us
20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,
The state of sin: Dead to sin (Eph2:1; Rom6:1-6)
Before baptism we were dead to sin - Eph2:1 mentioned earlier
In baptism we are crucified with Christ
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
We are now dead to sin (Rom6:7, 11-13)
7 for he who has died is freed from sin.
11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Dead to sin, raised to a new life (Rom6:4; Col2:12-13)
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4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,
So if you are wondering why so many basic scriptures, because scriptures are important and we need to keep filling ourselves with them. These tonight point to the sin problem and the sin solution, because the result of the sin solution is eternal life.
Results, assurance from dealt with sin (1Jn5:11-13; Jn17:3)
11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
and
3 “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
Eternal life is the hope that we have now (Rom6:22-23).
22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So for every problem, issue when it comes to sin, God has given us the solution, but we are responsible for it. Once we decide to believe in the Son and obey the gospel we are given the Spirit. Accepting the Son brings salvation, and the work of the Spirit brings sanctification.
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