Troy a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I would like to share with you some of the things that I have been studying about. This thing came to me that I should have a better
understanding of sin in order to combat some issue`s that have come up, and we all know how theses things have a tendacey to sneak up on us, such as when people ask you question that are really hard to answer. So I decided it would be best just to get to the root of it, and
as usual it came down to sin, so I dove into it head first. And it is interesting how something that started with the thought to help
someone else understand, has brought me into a better understand of God`s word.
The Uglyness Of Sin
Genesis 3:1-7;
"Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field in which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, 'Indeed, has God
said you shall not eat from any tree of the garden?' And the woman said to the serpent, 'From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may
eat. But from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden God has said you shall not eat from it, or touch it lest you die.'
Now the serpent said to the woman, 'You surely shall not die.'" You know, what's death? There's...no such thing existed. "'For God knows
that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened and you'll be like God, knowing good and evil.' When the woman saw that the tree
was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate.
And she gave also to her husband with her and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sowed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings."
1) You cannot understand the solution to the problem unless you understand the problem. You can't understand the cure unless you
understand the diagnosis. You will never be able to understand God's remedy for this world if you don't understand the malady under which
this world lives and functions.
A) Sin is any personal lack of conformity to the moral character of God, or the law of God.
B) Then sin is a disposition of the heart, it is a bent. It thinks evil, it speaks evil, it acts evil and it omits good. Let me give you
those four because those are the four ways in which you sin. You sin by thinking evil, speaking evil, acting evil or omitting good. You sin
when you do, when you say, when you think or when you don't do, say or think what God commands you to.
C) Genesis 3 explains the human dilemma,all the problems in the universe, physical problems, spiritual problems, moral problems, social
problems, economic problems, political problems, all the problems in the universe have their origin in the events of this historic account.
D) If you do not understand the origin of sin and its impact based on Genesis chapter 3, then your understanding of the world is wrong.
Everything then is misunderstood. Everything is misevaluated. Everything is misread. Everything is misdiagnosed and hopelessly incurable.
E) We look in the human world and every human relationship is a struggle. Human life is a struggle. As soon as life is conceived in the
womb, it begins to live and die at the same time. It begins to grow and decay at the same time. And in the spiritual and moral world,
everyone finds it easier to do wrong...have you noticed? It's much easier to do wrong. In fact, it's really impossible to do righteous
things. Even when you do right humanly, you generally do it to feel better about yourself which is an ill-conceived motive. It's much
easier to do evil than good. It's much easier to float down on the moral sewage than it is to buck the tide, stay above it. Hatred and
crime and war, perversion, wickedness, those things just come with life.
F) When Adam and Eve, tempted by the serpent in the garden disobeyed God, everything went from being very good to being very bad.
G) In Romans chapter 5 and verse 12, listen to what the Bible says, "Therefore just as through one man...that's Adam...sin entered into the world and death through sin and so death spread to all men because all sinned." There is the New Testament commentary on the event. Through one man, Adam, sin entered into the world and death through sin...the ultimate measure of decay. And so death spread to all men because all sinned. When Adam sinned, we were all there. We were in his loins. We were his progeny. We have all come from Adam and Eve so we inherit what theologians call original sin. When Adam sinned, we all went down because we've all come from Adam.
H) At the end of chapter 2 you'll notice that the man and his wife were naked and not ashamed. There wasn't anything to be ashamed about
because there was no sin. There were no evil thoughts. Nothing to be ashamed about. But you come to the end of the record that was just
read to and you can see in verse 7 the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings. All of a sudden there was shame. And with shame certian things begin to manifest themself such as Sin causes you to hate God and loathe God,and when a sinner sees his sin, he sees it as defiling. He sees it for what it is. Ezekiel 20 verse 43 says, "And there you will remember your ways and all your deeds which you have defiled yourselves and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all the evil things you've done."
I) Adam and Eve felt shame and shame is a function of guilt and guilt is a function of sin.
2) What is sin?
A) 1 John 3:4, says, "Sin is the transgression of the law." In other words, it's ignoring God's law, it's violating God's law. That is
sin. Any violation of God's law is sin. Sin and lawlessness in that Greek construction of 1 John 3:4 are identical. It's living as if there
was no law of God, calling your own shots. It's further defined in Romans 14:23, "Whatsoever is not of faith is sin." Anything that you do that isn't done as a direct act of faith in God is sin. In Romans 14:23, to know to do right and not do it is sin. In 1 John 5:17, "All
unrighteousness is sin."
B) What is the nature of sin; It is a pollutant,It is ugliness across the face of beauty,In 1 Kings 8:38 sin in man's heart is compared to
ugly, oozing sores from a deadly plague. In Zechariah 3:3, Joshua, the high priest's sin ,Sin scars the image of God and man. Sin stains
the soul. It degrades man's nobility.
C) When you really look at yourself you see the defiling of sin and you loathe yourself. Sin pollutes, sin defiles, sin corrupts. Paul
calls it in 2 Corinthians 7:1 the filthiness of the flesh and spirit. Thomas Goodwin, the Puritan, wrote, "Sin is called poison, sinners
serpents. Sin is called vomit, sinners dogs. Sin is called the stench of grave, sinners rotten sepulchers. Sin is called mire, sinners
pigs." It is defiling, degrading, it stamps the devil's image on the human soul.
3) Rebellion. It is not only defiling, it is rebellion. It establishes not only a defilement and a filth and a pollution and a corruption,
but it establishes a life of rebellion. It is by its own nature, as Leviticus 26:27 says, "Walking contrary to God." It is just walking in
constant opposition, in constant rebellion. A sinner tramples on God's law, tramples on God's character, willfully crosses God's will, affronts God, spites God, mocks God. And the Hebrew word for "sin," one of the Hebrew words, pasha, signifies rebellion. Is it at its core rebellion. That's what it was for Lucifer. That's what it was for Eve. That's what it was for Adam. That's what it is for all of us. Perhaps a good definition, Jeremiah 44:17, "But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goes forth out of our own mouth." That's it. God, we will do exactly what we want to do. Sin is God's would-be murderer. Sin would not only unthrone God but ungod God and replace Him with us. If the sinner had his way, God would cease to be God and the sinner is the only god in his world. So sin is defiling and sin is open, incessant rebellion
4) Let me give you one more point, Sin is ingratitude, everything we have, everything we are is from God. We live and move and have our
being in God. Acts 17:28 says, "He makes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, sends rain on the just and the unjust." He's given us
everything. And Romans 1, Paul says, "That the wrath of God is revealed from heaven because when they knew God they didn't glorify Him as God, neither were thankful," verse 21. Sin is just ungrateful.
All the food the sinner ever eats, God gave him. All the air the sinner ever breathes, God gave him. All the joys the sinner ever
experiences, God provided. All the love he ever experienced in the human world, everything, all of his senses are from God. All of the
pleasures of life to meet those senses are from God. Every beauty of life is from God. It is God who has given wisdom to us. He's given
wisdom to the mind of every human being to think and feel and work and play and rest that life might be full and useful. And it's God who
made us love and made us laugh and made us cry. It's God who gave us special skills and abilities to excel in some areas and to know some
measure of self-respect and value. It's God who gave us the capacity to care for each other and have relationships. It's God who
providentially preserves us from getting every disease and dying every death. God literally surrounds the sinners with mercy. They abuse
them.
It's like Absalom, you know, he...as soon as David, his father, had kissed him and embraced him, he went out and plotted treason against His father. So the sinner eagerly takes the kiss of God that God provides in the created world and embraces God's graces and God's mercy and then betrays Him by being the friend of God's enemy, Satan. Sin is serious ingratitude. It's damning ingratitude. And the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against that ingratitude.
Sin is defiling. It is rebellion. It is ingratitude.
Let me leave you with this thought. This is but the tip of this picture. Sin`s face is very ugly and vast, it really stretches to the ends
of our imagination and then the evil one and his nature have a way of extending that to points I believe none of us want to go. I pray that
this will help you to understand and open your heart to the truth of God`s word. For by the work of God`s Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ
by the power of the Almighty God is there been given mercy at the cross for man to be saved from this foe, which we call and know as Sin.
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I would like to share with you some of the things that I have been studying about. This thing came to me that I should have a better
understanding of sin in order to combat some issue`s that have come up, and we all know how theses things have a tendacey to sneak up on us, such as when people ask you question that are really hard to answer. So I decided it would be best just to get to the root of it, and
as usual it came down to sin, so I dove into it head first. And it is interesting how something that started with the thought to help
someone else understand, has brought me into a better understand of God`s word.
The Uglyness Of Sin
Genesis 3:1-7;
"Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field in which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, 'Indeed, has God
said you shall not eat from any tree of the garden?' And the woman said to the serpent, 'From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may
eat. But from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden God has said you shall not eat from it, or touch it lest you die.'
Now the serpent said to the woman, 'You surely shall not die.'" You know, what's death? There's...no such thing existed. "'For God knows
that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened and you'll be like God, knowing good and evil.' When the woman saw that the tree
was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate.
And she gave also to her husband with her and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sowed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings."
1) You cannot understand the solution to the problem unless you understand the problem. You can't understand the cure unless you
understand the diagnosis. You will never be able to understand God's remedy for this world if you don't understand the malady under which
this world lives and functions.
A) Sin is any personal lack of conformity to the moral character of God, or the law of God.
B) Then sin is a disposition of the heart, it is a bent. It thinks evil, it speaks evil, it acts evil and it omits good. Let me give you
those four because those are the four ways in which you sin. You sin by thinking evil, speaking evil, acting evil or omitting good. You sin
when you do, when you say, when you think or when you don't do, say or think what God commands you to.
C) Genesis 3 explains the human dilemma,all the problems in the universe, physical problems, spiritual problems, moral problems, social
problems, economic problems, political problems, all the problems in the universe have their origin in the events of this historic account.
D) If you do not understand the origin of sin and its impact based on Genesis chapter 3, then your understanding of the world is wrong.
Everything then is misunderstood. Everything is misevaluated. Everything is misread. Everything is misdiagnosed and hopelessly incurable.
E) We look in the human world and every human relationship is a struggle. Human life is a struggle. As soon as life is conceived in the
womb, it begins to live and die at the same time. It begins to grow and decay at the same time. And in the spiritual and moral world,
everyone finds it easier to do wrong...have you noticed? It's much easier to do wrong. In fact, it's really impossible to do righteous
things. Even when you do right humanly, you generally do it to feel better about yourself which is an ill-conceived motive. It's much
easier to do evil than good. It's much easier to float down on the moral sewage than it is to buck the tide, stay above it. Hatred and
crime and war, perversion, wickedness, those things just come with life.
F) When Adam and Eve, tempted by the serpent in the garden disobeyed God, everything went from being very good to being very bad.
G) In Romans chapter 5 and verse 12, listen to what the Bible says, "Therefore just as through one man...that's Adam...sin entered into the world and death through sin and so death spread to all men because all sinned." There is the New Testament commentary on the event. Through one man, Adam, sin entered into the world and death through sin...the ultimate measure of decay. And so death spread to all men because all sinned. When Adam sinned, we were all there. We were in his loins. We were his progeny. We have all come from Adam and Eve so we inherit what theologians call original sin. When Adam sinned, we all went down because we've all come from Adam.
H) At the end of chapter 2 you'll notice that the man and his wife were naked and not ashamed. There wasn't anything to be ashamed about
because there was no sin. There were no evil thoughts. Nothing to be ashamed about. But you come to the end of the record that was just
read to and you can see in verse 7 the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings. All of a sudden there was shame. And with shame certian things begin to manifest themself such as Sin causes you to hate God and loathe God,and when a sinner sees his sin, he sees it as defiling. He sees it for what it is. Ezekiel 20 verse 43 says, "And there you will remember your ways and all your deeds which you have defiled yourselves and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all the evil things you've done."
I) Adam and Eve felt shame and shame is a function of guilt and guilt is a function of sin.
2) What is sin?
A) 1 John 3:4, says, "Sin is the transgression of the law." In other words, it's ignoring God's law, it's violating God's law. That is
sin. Any violation of God's law is sin. Sin and lawlessness in that Greek construction of 1 John 3:4 are identical. It's living as if there
was no law of God, calling your own shots. It's further defined in Romans 14:23, "Whatsoever is not of faith is sin." Anything that you do that isn't done as a direct act of faith in God is sin. In Romans 14:23, to know to do right and not do it is sin. In 1 John 5:17, "All
unrighteousness is sin."
B) What is the nature of sin; It is a pollutant,It is ugliness across the face of beauty,In 1 Kings 8:38 sin in man's heart is compared to
ugly, oozing sores from a deadly plague. In Zechariah 3:3, Joshua, the high priest's sin ,Sin scars the image of God and man. Sin stains
the soul. It degrades man's nobility.
C) When you really look at yourself you see the defiling of sin and you loathe yourself. Sin pollutes, sin defiles, sin corrupts. Paul
calls it in 2 Corinthians 7:1 the filthiness of the flesh and spirit. Thomas Goodwin, the Puritan, wrote, "Sin is called poison, sinners
serpents. Sin is called vomit, sinners dogs. Sin is called the stench of grave, sinners rotten sepulchers. Sin is called mire, sinners
pigs." It is defiling, degrading, it stamps the devil's image on the human soul.
3) Rebellion. It is not only defiling, it is rebellion. It establishes not only a defilement and a filth and a pollution and a corruption,
but it establishes a life of rebellion. It is by its own nature, as Leviticus 26:27 says, "Walking contrary to God." It is just walking in
constant opposition, in constant rebellion. A sinner tramples on God's law, tramples on God's character, willfully crosses God's will, affronts God, spites God, mocks God. And the Hebrew word for "sin," one of the Hebrew words, pasha, signifies rebellion. Is it at its core rebellion. That's what it was for Lucifer. That's what it was for Eve. That's what it was for Adam. That's what it is for all of us. Perhaps a good definition, Jeremiah 44:17, "But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goes forth out of our own mouth." That's it. God, we will do exactly what we want to do. Sin is God's would-be murderer. Sin would not only unthrone God but ungod God and replace Him with us. If the sinner had his way, God would cease to be God and the sinner is the only god in his world. So sin is defiling and sin is open, incessant rebellion
4) Let me give you one more point, Sin is ingratitude, everything we have, everything we are is from God. We live and move and have our
being in God. Acts 17:28 says, "He makes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, sends rain on the just and the unjust." He's given us
everything. And Romans 1, Paul says, "That the wrath of God is revealed from heaven because when they knew God they didn't glorify Him as God, neither were thankful," verse 21. Sin is just ungrateful.
All the food the sinner ever eats, God gave him. All the air the sinner ever breathes, God gave him. All the joys the sinner ever
experiences, God provided. All the love he ever experienced in the human world, everything, all of his senses are from God. All of the
pleasures of life to meet those senses are from God. Every beauty of life is from God. It is God who has given wisdom to us. He's given
wisdom to the mind of every human being to think and feel and work and play and rest that life might be full and useful. And it's God who
made us love and made us laugh and made us cry. It's God who gave us special skills and abilities to excel in some areas and to know some
measure of self-respect and value. It's God who gave us the capacity to care for each other and have relationships. It's God who
providentially preserves us from getting every disease and dying every death. God literally surrounds the sinners with mercy. They abuse
them.
It's like Absalom, you know, he...as soon as David, his father, had kissed him and embraced him, he went out and plotted treason against His father. So the sinner eagerly takes the kiss of God that God provides in the created world and embraces God's graces and God's mercy and then betrays Him by being the friend of God's enemy, Satan. Sin is serious ingratitude. It's damning ingratitude. And the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against that ingratitude.
Sin is defiling. It is rebellion. It is ingratitude.
Let me leave you with this thought. This is but the tip of this picture. Sin`s face is very ugly and vast, it really stretches to the ends
of our imagination and then the evil one and his nature have a way of extending that to points I believe none of us want to go. I pray that
this will help you to understand and open your heart to the truth of God`s word. For by the work of God`s Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ
by the power of the Almighty God is there been given mercy at the cross for man to be saved from this foe, which we call and know as Sin.
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