Category: Sin

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What True Conversion Looks Like

Statements

  • You can tell a tree by its fruit.
  • Most logical people want to go to heaven, but some people don’t want God to be there when they arrive…
  • A new relationship with God means you also have a new relationship with sin.
  • If your relationship with sin hasn’t changed, your relationship with God hasn’t changed either.

Questions

  • Where is your fruit?
  • Is it a reality in your life that you have begun to hate sin and love righteousness in growing degrees? Or is it just a mental assent to the truths of the bible? Has God done such a work in your life that the sin you once loved, you now hate and love the righteousness you once ignored?
  • Has God done such a work in your heart through the Holy Spirit, that the God you hated and ignored, you now revere, desire and seek?
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Salvation for Sinners

Scripture

  • Acts 16:31 – “And they said, ‘Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.'”
  • 1 Tim 1:15 – “The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.”
  • Isaiah 45:22 – “Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.”
  • John 3:36 – “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
  • Romans 8:1 – “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”

Statements

  • You must be rescued from impending doom.
  • There is always someone who dies for sin.

Quotes

Steve Lawson said, “Salvation is not a reward for the righteous. It is a gift for the guilty.”

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Breaking God’s Law

Scripture

  • Romans 6:23 – “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
  • Romans 2:6-7 – “He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey u righteousness, there will be wrath and fury.”
  • Galatians 5:17-21 – “For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
  • Numbers 32:23 – “But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.”
  • Galatians 6:7 – “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.”

Statements

  • God’s rules, called Laws (or commandments) have GREAT and TERRIBLE consequences attached to them for when someone breaks them
  • Jesus was the ultimate rule keeper; we are the ultimate rule breakers
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Salvation For All Who Believe

Questions

  • What did God do for guilty sinners? Do you have any idea?
  • Has God done such a work in your life that the sin you once loved, you now hate and love the righteousness you once ignored?

Scripture

  • Romans 1:16-17 – “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
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Sin

Statements

  • Sir/ma’am do you know that you’ve sinned against God?
  • We are sinners living in a sin-cursed world – but a new day is coming!
  • Come to God – this coming implies a leaving of something else – sin and self righteousness and idols; but come the right way – through Jesus Christ alone – and no other way
  • Mankind is separated from God because of sin
  • One sin cast the devil out of heaven. One sin cast Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden. One sin will cast you from the presence of God, too.

Quotes

  • Jonty Rhodes – “Men (and women too) are pulled away to sin through three main areas: ‘Guns, Gold and Girls.'” – playing off of the 1 John 2:16 (see scripture below).

Scripture

  • 1 John 2:16 – “For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.”
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Righteousness

Scripture

  • Romans 3:9-12 – “What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”

Quotes

  • Alien Righteousness
    Martin Luther wrote, “There are two kinds of Christian righteousness, just as man’s sin is of two kinds.  The first is alien righteousness, that is the righteousness of another, instilled from without.  This is the righteousness of Christ by which he justifies though faith, as it is written in 1 Corinthians 1:30:  “whom God made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.”
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Jesus Removes the Power and Consequences of Your Sin

  • Psalm 103:12 – “as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.”
  • Isaiah 43:25 – “I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.”
  • Isaiah 53:6 – “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned-every one-to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
  • Romans 4:7-8 – “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”
  • Romans 8:1 – “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
  • Hebrews 10:4 – “For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.”
  • Hebrews 9:22 – “Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.“
  • Hebrews 10:11-14 – “And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
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Sin Debt Paid

Scripture

  • 1 John 4:10 – “In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
  • 1 John 2:2 – “He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.”
  • John 19:30 – “When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.” (TETELESTAI)
  • Colossians 2:13-15 – “And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.”
  • Romans 6:23 – “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
  • Isaiah 1:18 – “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”
  • Romans 3:23-26 – “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”

Illustrations

  • Credit/debit card paid by someone else
  • Speeding ticket paid by someone else