The Corruption of Sin
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30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
16 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.
Adam’s sin brought death
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Grace is wonderful
Sin is destructive
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Sin is exceeding sinful
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Sin deceives
Sin enslaves
Sin kills
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Exhort daily
Accountability = How are you doing
What are you watching
What are you giving your mind to
Sin is a terrible enemy
Poem
Sin is a snake to be killed
It is a harassed
It is a thief of the heart and mind
Sin can put to death a marriage
Sin can slay a religiously strong man
Sin can strip a man of dignity
Sin will leave a life of health and energy to a life of
Sin is pleasurable for a short time and leaves a path of destruction
• Sin has ruined men, ruined women, ruined angels. Sin has occasioned every tear of sorrow, every sigh of grief, every pang of agony. Sin has withered everything that is fair, blasted everything that is good, made bitter everything that is sweet, dried up springs of comfort, rolled far and wide tides of sorrow. Sin has digged every grave, built every coffin, woven every shroud, enlarged every cemetery… that the world has ever seen.-Robert G. Lee
Sin is vile
Shameful
Disgusting
Sin embraces and enslaves
Sin is attractive but then grotesque
Malcolm Muggeridge, the famous British philosopher, and journalist who converted to Christianity late in life, once told of working as a journalist in India as a
young man. One evening he walked down to the river for a swim. As he entered
the water, he saw an Indian woman from the nearby village who had come for her
evening bath. Muggeridge immediately felt the allurement of the moment, and he
was besieged by temptation. He had lived with this kind of temptation all his adult
life, but until this moment he had fought it off out of respect for his wife Kitty. But
tonight, he was weak and vulnerable. He hesitated just a moment, then swam furiously across the river toward the woman, literally trying to outdistance his con-
science. But when he was just a few feet away from her, he emerged from the water
and what he saw took his breath away. She wasn't a beautiful young maiden, but
old and hideous, with wrinkled skin, and worst of all, she was a leper. He said later,
"The creature grinned at me, showing a toothless mask,” Muggeridge muttered,
"What a dirty, lecherous woman!" But as he swam away from her, a sudden shock
gripped him: "It wasn't just the woman who was dirty and lecherous," he said.
"'It was my own heart.?"
Jas 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
David’s temptation led to sin
destroyed his family
Sampson - selfwill and lust led to blindness and suicide
Saul - rebellion led to losing a kingdom and death
Solomon was brought to living a life of emptiness because of the sins of Sensuality and Greed
The sin of love for this world killed lot’s wife
The sin of akan
Killed thousands
destroyed his life, his wife’s life and his children’s life
Sin put our Saviour on the cross
His love kept Him there until the full price of sin was paid for
Rom 6:23
The wages of sin is death
Sin brings death
brain
Marriage
father and son
Mother and daughter
fellowship from brothers and sisters in Christ
Sin keeps from:
the word
Worship
prayer
Skipping church
keep you from revival
Sin doesn't respect persons
Sin is not a game
not to be played with
Illustration:
Gary Richmond, a former z00 keeper, explains that raccoons go through a change at about twenty-four months old. After that, they often attack their owners.
Richmond had a friend named Julie who owned a pet raccoon. Since a thirty pound raccoon can equal a one-hundred-pound dog in a fight, he felt compelled to
warn her of the coming change.
"It'll be different for me," she replied with a smile. "Bandit wouldn't hurt me.
He just wouldn't."
Three months later Julie underwent plastic surgery for facial lacerations sustained
when her adult raccoon attacked her for no apparent reason. Bandit was released
into the wild.
Sin, too, often comes dressed in an adorable guise, and as we play with it, it's easy to say, "It will be different for me. The results are predictable.'
leaves emptiness
leaves despair
leaves in doubt
24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Whatever sin you or I think will bring comfort when we are lonely
When we are discouraged
When we are bored
That sin will leave us with death
Sin is a short-lived pleasure that leaves indescribable sadness
We should know the love of God
We should know the grace of God
We should also know the destructive power of sin
Sin causes children to be fatherless
Sin causes children to be motherless
Sin causes Christian servants to quit serving in shame
Sin keeps missionaries off the mission field
Sin divides churches
Greed keeps people from giving so people can be saved
Sin keeps people living in bitterness for decades
Sin gets people to stop coming and worshipping at church and keeps them from getting right with the Lord
Sin keeps people from reconciling
Sin produces more sin and leaves a path of destruction
Sin has the nature of Hell
Sin will take more than you have
How to Defeat Sin
A. Salvation
Recognize your a sinner
Recognize you need a Saviour
Recognize Jesus paid the sin debt
Recognized Jesus resurrected proving He is the way the truth and the life.
Put your faith in Christ alone tonight if you haven’t
Sin is an enemy to your future.
Sin is an enemy to your family.
B. You must understand that the reproach of Jesus is higher of higher value and quality than the riches of this world.
24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
C. Fearing God Gives Victory Over Sin
God’s pleasure in me is of greater worth than my pleasure in sin
We must value God’s opinions more than the world’s opinions
Even more than our desires
27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Moses didn’t fear the king
He feared God more than men
D. We Must Give Our Body and our life Daily to the Lord
I give you me.
I give you my desires.
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
It is logical
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Just as you yielded yourself to sin,
Yield to the Lord
With the same fervency you yielded to sin, yield to righteousness
E. Make No Provision
Our lives are God’s to control
14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
If you have a problem with drink you can’t have alcohol near you
F. Recon yourself dead to sin
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Recon has to do with accounting
Look at the account
I am dead
I am alive in Christ
G. At the point of lust, humble yourself to Christ and receive His grace to live
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Jas 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Jas 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Jas 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
humility = God pouring his grace on you
Every temptation God’s grace is sufficient for you
Grace is the power of God at any point in life to perform God’s will.
God’s grace is always strong enough to say no to sin
I need the power of God
My grace is sufficient for thee
Greater is He that is in you