You Do Not Have to Sin

I. God Means It When He Tells You Not to Do Something

A. God Told Adam and Eve to Not Eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

B. God Said That They Would Die (They Would Die Physically and Second Death, Going to Hell), If They Eat It

C. They Were Not to Even Touch It

D. Eve Believed What the Serpent Told Her Instead of God

E. Adam Listen to His Wife and Eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

Gen 2:17 “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.”

F. Eve Believed and Listen to the Serpent

Gen 3:3-5 “3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”

II. God’s Word Says That the Wages of Sins is Death, Spiritual Death, Living in Hell for Sinning

A. God Meant It When He Had Paul Written the Wages of Sin is Death

Rom 6:23 “23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

B. When Lust Has Conceived, It Brings Forth Sin

C. And When Sin is Finished, It Brings Forth Death

James 1:15 “15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”

III. God Will Not Bring Temptation Without Away of Escape

A. All Temptations Are Common to Man

I Cor 10:13 “13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

B. God Does Not Tempt You

James 1:13 “13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:”

IV. You Do Not Have to Sin

A. You Make a Choice to Sin

B. Submit to God’s Commandments

C. Resist the Devil and He Will Flee From You

James 4:7 “7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

D. Should We Sin So Grace Will Abound?

Rom 6:1-2 “1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”

E. We Should Sin, Because We Are Not Under the Law

Rom 6:15-16 “15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 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?”

F. Some People Think That If You Got Saved, If You Continue to Sin, You Will Go to Heaven Anyway

Rom 6:6-7 “6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.”