The Problem Everybody Has but Nobdy Talks About

WHAT IS SIN

Missing the Mark

Falling Short

Transgression of Gods Law

Rejecting God’s intended path for you and setting your own course

Problem? What Problem?

Some deny there is no such thing as sin

It was created to control the masses

Man does not get to define reality

John 14:6 ESV

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Some would argue that sin is diminishing

Houses have locks

Businesses have alarms

Towns have police

Cities have courts and overcrowded prisons

39 sec assault

40.9 sec car stolen

1.7 min robbery

3.9 minutes rape

30.5 min murder

Sin is Non-discriminatory

Economic background

Education

Culture

Environment

Romans 3:23 ESV

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Isaiah 53:6 ESV

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.

Galatians 5:19–21 ESV

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.

NO MAN IS GOOD ENOUGH TO STAND BEFORE GOD

Feelings are not a reliable test of truth

Luke 18:10–13 ESV

“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

Proverbs 16:2 ESV

All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

I’ll Never Admit I Have a Problem

Stubborn Pride keeps many from confessing sin

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV

if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

2 Peter 3:15 ESV

And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,

It’s Not My Fault

Old as Adam an Eve

God made me this way

Remember Amnon and Tamar

2 Samuel 13:14–15 ESV

But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her. Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Get up! Go!”

2 Thessalonians 2:10–12 ESV

and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Romans 12:9 ESV

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.