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CELEBRATE SERVICE FROM PREVIOUS WEEK
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Sin is a complicated topic to tackle from the Old Testament.
When we look at the Old Testament and at ancient cultures it’s easy to see sin as mere rules; rules you keep to appease your god.
Sin is a complicated topic to tackle from the Old Testament.
When we look at the Old Testament and at ancient cultures it’s easy to see sin as mere rules; rules you keep to appease your god.
In the morning of the earth tribal nations worked tirelessly to appease the gods.
The earth groaned under the duress of sin’s consequences—the earth refused to bring forth grain, and the skies refused to bring forth rain, by the sweat of his brow man labored, not to thrive, merely to survive.
The gods must be angry.
Ancient people worked tirelessly to keep the rules to appease their gods.
[PAUSE]
We know that the Bible has a more sophisticated view of sin.
Doesn’t it?
The Bible isn’t so barbaric.
Certainly sin is not merely the breaking of arbitrary rules.
And righteousness isn’t merely the keeping of arbitrary rules to appease God.
And that’s precisely where I personally struggle with rules of all kinds; when they are arbitrary.
Rules are only beneficial when the add value to life.
Rules are only good when they keep people from suffering.
Rules are only righteous when they deter people from evil.
Rules cannot be arbitrary.
Certainly the Bible gives us rules that are more than arbitrary.
Certainly the rules in the Bible have purpose.
When God forbids an action and calls it sin, I must believe that…
… it robs life from myself and others.
If it is sin it adds to my suffering and the suffering of others.
If it is sin it causes my heart to yearn for evil things.
So, we return to a passage that has someone been a theme passage for our series Killing Stuff.
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The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
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The Lord saw that humanity had become thoroughly evil on the earth and that every idea their minds thought up was always completely evil.
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
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When sin was rampant on the earth, bleeding life from the people God had created, characterized by perpetual suffering, and evil waged war against the heart of the creation, God stepped into the battle.
He blotted out humanity from the face of the land.
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Why?
Because God is in the business of killing sin.
God hates sin.
Not out of pride or arrogance.
God doesn’t make arbitrary rules like we do as Father’s sometimes, like where you have to leave the clicker when you’re done watching TV—that’s one of my arbitrary rules.
God’s rules don’t have something to do with His personal comforts.
God’s rules have everything to do with life, providence, and righteousness.
God’s rules give life.
God’s rules relieve suffering.
God’s rules breed righteousness.
[PAUSE]
But sin is not so simple.
It’s not as if you can simply agree and say, ‘Yes, God’s rules seem good to me; I think I will live by them.’
There is a battle waging between human flesh and God’s righteousness.
The iniquities [sins] of the wicked ensnare him,
CELEBRATE SERVICE FROM PREVIOUS WEEK
and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
Killing Sin
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Anthony Delgado / General
Sin is a curious thing, lurking in the shadows, waiting until you look the other way and it springs on you like a trap.
Sin seeks to bind you as with a cord, that you would ever be tied to your sin.
Killing Stuff
Though you pray for deliverance, sin infects your mind.
Though you desire righteousness, lust, anger, and envy consume your hearts desires.
And although you may find you have deliverance for a time, the moment you let your guard down, the enemy lies in wait to drag you again into his trap, to drag you again into the filth of your sin.
God is in the business of killing sin.
And lest we be bound by our sin, we must be ever present in the battle to kill our sin.
CELEBRATE SERVICE FROM PREVIOUS WEEK
So, today, I’d like to look at three characteristics of sin from the Old Testament that will help us to identify our sin and provide along the way some tools for killing sin.
Let us not be a conflicted people who profess the righteousness of Christ and yet remain in the bonds of the enemy.
The first characteristic is that…
Sin is Deceitful
Sin never delivers what it promises.
By offering polluted food upon my altar.
But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’
By saying that the Lord’s table may be despised.
When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil?
And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil?
Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the Lord of hosts.
And now entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us.
With such a gift from your hand, will he show favor to any of you? says the Lord of hosts.
Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain!
I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hand.
For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering.
For my name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.
But you profane it when you say that the Lord’s table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.
But you say, ‘What a weariness this is,’ and you snort at it, says the Lord of hosts.
You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering!
Shall I accept that from your hand? says the Lord.
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The Jews were coming to the alter to offer a gift, a sacrifice to God.
God had commanded that their sacrifices be the best of their flock, a pure unblemished animal.
Doesn’t God deserve our best?
God asked the Israelites for the first fruits of their harvest.
He wanted the cream that rises to the top.
God asked the Israelites for a day of their time to focus on Him.
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