Sermon Tone Analysis

Sin is rejecting or ignoring God in the world he created, rebelling against him by living without reference to him, not being or doing what he requires in his law—​​​resulting in our death and the disintegration of all creation.

3:4 Sin is a grave matter because God has revealed his moral character in his holy law, and sin is lawlessness.

It is a personal offense against God.

1 John 3:

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Most people today think that because they have some good works or were baptized or went to church, they are good enough to get into heaven.

But at the final judgment God will raise all of these unbelievers who rejected Jesus Christ’s offer of salvation.

And He will say, “Okay, you want to be judged by your works?

Let’s get out the books, and we will look at your works.”

Despite our constant demand to get “What we deserve” God chooses to rescue us instead.

Sin is a fundamental flaw; it is not wrong doing, it is wrong being, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

All other religions of the world, deal with sins (Plural).

Only Christianity deals with sin (Singular).

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The first thing Jesus Christ faced in men was the heredity of sin, and it is because we have ignored this in our presentation of the Gospel that the message of the Gospel has lost its sting and its blasting power.

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1 John 8:

Walk off a cliff.

One very important way of understanding sin is that sin is rebellion against God’s law.

It’s not doing what he requires of us, not living as he has called us to live, and, therefore, never fully being who God created us to be.

It is missing the mark.

3:4 Lawlessness (Gk.

anomia) is activity bereft of God’s guidance and in violation of his law.

sin is lawlessness.

Even Christians sin (1:9; 2:1), so it may seem like a trivial matter.

But to disregard sin’s grave implications is disastrous.

Sacrificial System

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Did they know that for centuries of the sacrificial system they’d been rehearsing the slaughter of the Messiah?

The sacrificial system was instituted under the established truth that to dwell in God’s holy presence requires perfection.

Sin is filthy; therefore, sinners are filthy.

God will not allow us to belittle his name by assuming our dirty hands are clean enough for the purity of right standing before him.

Chandler, Matt.