Alesaggio
10-18-2004, 09:39 PM
Romans 3:23 is the setting for this study.
SIN … always an interesting topic … one that we all know a lot about … from personal experience.
When we talk about sin, there are 2 things that we find:
• Man makes so little of it.
• God makes so much of it.
God says that the “wages of sin is death” … eternal death in the Lake of Fire. God says that “the souls that sinneth shall die”. God says that sin is a very serious matter.
Some say that sin is just a weakness of the flesh … the absence of society’s morals. Some say that sin is the nature of the beast revealing the evolution of man … that it shows that man hasn’t completely evolved yet. Some say that sin is a disease, a sickness of the mind … mental, not spiritual.
WHAT KINDS OF SIN DO WE COMMIT?
SINS OF COMMISSION – These are through DIRECT DISOBEDIENCE to God.
*.- Romans 3:23 – “sin” = “hamartia” = ‘missing the mark’.… we “come short of the glory of God”.
*.- Romans 5:19 – “disobedience” = “parakoe” = ‘to fail to hear’.
Genesis 2:16-17 – “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: [17] But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
How do we know what God is saying? So we wouldn’t FORGET what He says, He wrote it down for us. It’s called the BIBLE. In it, you will find God’s “bull’s eye”. We need to LISTEN to Him when He speaks to us.
*.- 1 Timothy 2:14 – “transgression” = “parabasis” = ‘to go to the wrong side of the law’.
1 John 3:4 – “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.”
God also draws a line in the sand. It’s 1 line … always straight … never changes … the same for everybody. That’s called JUSTICE. God sets the standard. When we sin, we deliberately go to the other side of His law. We sin when we set our OWN STANDARD, and ignore God’s standard. Judges 17:6 – “In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
“transgression” is very similar to “trespass”. Ephes. 2:1 – “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;” What does a “No Trespass” sign mean? It means that you had better not step over the line. It means, don’t go where you’re not supposed to.
SIN, is trespassing OFF God’s values & perfect will … AND … onto your own values and will. Each time we sin, disobey, transgress, or trespass, we commit SIN … a sin of COMMISSION.
There’s ANOTHER type of sin …SINS OF OMISSION – We can sin without ever doing the WRONG thing … BECAUSE … we don’t do the RIGHT thing.
The closer we live in obedience to the Lord, the less we commit sins of COMMISSION. MAYBE … you don’t cheat, lie, steal, gossip, kill. HOWEVER … you’ll still see sins of OMISSION.
James 4:17 – Sin is sin … whether you DO something WRONG … OR … DON’T do something RIGHT. The standard is God’s PERFECTION. Sin comes when you DO the WRONG … AND … DON’T DO the RIGHT. You don’t have to DO WRONG to sin.
Hebrews 9:7 – “errors” = “agnoema” = “sin of ignorance”. They should have known better, but didn’t. Leviticus 5:17 – “And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.”
There is an old saying, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse”. This is what Paul said about himself BEFORE he was saved - 1 Tim. 1:13 – “Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.” Paul was IGNORANT of the truth of Jesus as the Messiah … YET … he sinned in what he did.
Eve was IGNORANT … she was beguiled by the serpent. 2 Cor. 11:3 – “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” Adam DELIBERATELY disobeyed … his sin wasn’t because of IGNORANCE.
There is still another kind of sin …SINS OF DISPOSITION – These are sins of ATTITUDE.
We can sin in our HEART and MIND … YET … never commit an overt act of sin.
Matthew 5:21-22, 27-28. LUST is a sin, even if it doesn’t bring forth the ACT of adultery. HATRED is a sin, even if it doesn’t bring forth the ACT of revenge or murder.
The sin of the IMAGINATION is just as much a sin, in the eyes of God, as the ACT of sin. NOW … don’t think “Since THINKING about it is just as much a sin as DOING it, I might as well DO it!” While BOTH are sins, there are greater CONSEQUENCES when the ACT is committed. Just ask your wife or husband … or the cop!
Sin BEGINS in our mind … in our THOUGHT LIFE … in our IMAGINATIONS. James 1:14-16
O be careful little mind, what you think! The seed of sin is planted in our minds through “lust”.
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SIN … always an interesting topic … one that we all know a lot about … from personal experience.
When we talk about sin, there are 2 things that we find:
• Man makes so little of it.
• God makes so much of it.
God says that the “wages of sin is death” … eternal death in the Lake of Fire. God says that “the souls that sinneth shall die”. God says that sin is a very serious matter.
Some say that sin is just a weakness of the flesh … the absence of society’s morals. Some say that sin is the nature of the beast revealing the evolution of man … that it shows that man hasn’t completely evolved yet. Some say that sin is a disease, a sickness of the mind … mental, not spiritual.
WHAT KINDS OF SIN DO WE COMMIT?
SINS OF COMMISSION – These are through DIRECT DISOBEDIENCE to God.
*.- Romans 3:23 – “sin” = “hamartia” = ‘missing the mark’.… we “come short of the glory of God”.
*.- Romans 5:19 – “disobedience” = “parakoe” = ‘to fail to hear’.
Genesis 2:16-17 – “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: [17] But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
How do we know what God is saying? So we wouldn’t FORGET what He says, He wrote it down for us. It’s called the BIBLE. In it, you will find God’s “bull’s eye”. We need to LISTEN to Him when He speaks to us.
*.- 1 Timothy 2:14 – “transgression” = “parabasis” = ‘to go to the wrong side of the law’.
1 John 3:4 – “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.”
God also draws a line in the sand. It’s 1 line … always straight … never changes … the same for everybody. That’s called JUSTICE. God sets the standard. When we sin, we deliberately go to the other side of His law. We sin when we set our OWN STANDARD, and ignore God’s standard. Judges 17:6 – “In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
“transgression” is very similar to “trespass”. Ephes. 2:1 – “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;” What does a “No Trespass” sign mean? It means that you had better not step over the line. It means, don’t go where you’re not supposed to.
SIN, is trespassing OFF God’s values & perfect will … AND … onto your own values and will. Each time we sin, disobey, transgress, or trespass, we commit SIN … a sin of COMMISSION.
There’s ANOTHER type of sin …SINS OF OMISSION – We can sin without ever doing the WRONG thing … BECAUSE … we don’t do the RIGHT thing.
The closer we live in obedience to the Lord, the less we commit sins of COMMISSION. MAYBE … you don’t cheat, lie, steal, gossip, kill. HOWEVER … you’ll still see sins of OMISSION.
James 4:17 – Sin is sin … whether you DO something WRONG … OR … DON’T do something RIGHT. The standard is God’s PERFECTION. Sin comes when you DO the WRONG … AND … DON’T DO the RIGHT. You don’t have to DO WRONG to sin.
Hebrews 9:7 – “errors” = “agnoema” = “sin of ignorance”. They should have known better, but didn’t. Leviticus 5:17 – “And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.”
There is an old saying, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse”. This is what Paul said about himself BEFORE he was saved - 1 Tim. 1:13 – “Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.” Paul was IGNORANT of the truth of Jesus as the Messiah … YET … he sinned in what he did.
Eve was IGNORANT … she was beguiled by the serpent. 2 Cor. 11:3 – “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” Adam DELIBERATELY disobeyed … his sin wasn’t because of IGNORANCE.
There is still another kind of sin …SINS OF DISPOSITION – These are sins of ATTITUDE.
We can sin in our HEART and MIND … YET … never commit an overt act of sin.
Matthew 5:21-22, 27-28. LUST is a sin, even if it doesn’t bring forth the ACT of adultery. HATRED is a sin, even if it doesn’t bring forth the ACT of revenge or murder.
The sin of the IMAGINATION is just as much a sin, in the eyes of God, as the ACT of sin. NOW … don’t think “Since THINKING about it is just as much a sin as DOING it, I might as well DO it!” While BOTH are sins, there are greater CONSEQUENCES when the ACT is committed. Just ask your wife or husband … or the cop!
Sin BEGINS in our mind … in our THOUGHT LIFE … in our IMAGINATIONS. James 1:14-16
O be careful little mind, what you think! The seed of sin is planted in our minds through “lust”.
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