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PRE-CHRISTIANITY
Previously, in our SINFUL PASSIONS were aroused by the LAW.
Our sinful passions (strong physical desire to sin) was awaken by the prohibitions of the LAW.
Prior being united with Christ, our sinful desire produced sinful actions producing death.
DESIRE lead to ACTION bringing forth DEATH
Death to the unbeliever is both physical and spiritual.
Death to the believer is only physical.
Death can be the outcome for any disobedient Christian.
POST-CHRISTIANITY
As a Christian you are no longer married to the LAW (no longer bound to it or controlled by it) but have been released from it.
Being released from the LAW, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God.
As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God.
ELEPHANT BEING BOUND - IT’s a MINDSET
Tyndale House Publishers.
(2013).
Holy Bible: New Living Translation ().
Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.
While still young and much smaller they are bound to a rope, a size big enough to hold them.
As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe that they cannot break away.
They believed that rope can still hold them so they never try to break away.
Once they matured to a full size elephant they can easily break away from their bonds but because they believed they could not they are stuck right where they are.
This powerful and gigantic animal has limited its present abilities by the limitation of its past.
The same thing happens to us.
We were born with sin nature therefore have been practicing sin from childhood.
It has been part of our life.
As a Christian you have been set free by Christ through your faith in Him.
You have been set free from the bondage of sin in order not to sin again but to live free from sin.
Use that freedom to say NO to sin.
We may be dead to sin but the Devil is very much alive and active right now.
Just look around, you will see his crafty work.
As believers we are still being visited by the sinful desires to sin and many times we listen to it and eventually obey it.
Paul said we are now bound to a new life in Christ which is producing in us the desire to live a new life of less and less sin.
We avoid sin by listening to the conviction of the Holy Spirit to honor God with good behavior.
To honor God by obeying God.
Due to the predicament presented in , where the the LAW aroused the evil desires, comes the question:
1. IS THE LAW EVIL?
ANSWER: May it never be - NO!!!!
Instead SIN is EVIL!
What is sin?
Answers: An immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law.
What is sin in the context of our text today?
The law has listed down what acts are considered sin.
Upon learning the LAW it acted as a mirror showing us as guilty party.
A desire, a nature making possible sinful acts.
2. HOW EVIL IS THE DEVIL?
SIN is EVIL and EVIL is an OPPORTUNIST.
Romans 7:
What is happening behind the scenes?
When the LAW was given to man to teach them what acts were considered sinful, evil use our awareness of sin to arouse desire to sin.
He use it to tempt us.
The same game plan from Genesis and it was effective with Adam and Eve who up to that point had not sin yet there had no sin nature unlike us today.
God use the LAW to teach man what NOT TO DO, the devil use it to TEMPT MAN TO DO IT.
What God meant for good, the Devil use it to carryout evil.
But God countered, demonstrating His power in some situations in the bible: Example Joseph.
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Also the story of Jesus:
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Mark 15:
What was the DEVIL capitalizing in order for man to sin?
ANSWER: Sin nature in us, inherited from ADAM and EVE.
It was there when you and I were born, it just had to be awaken.
What Paul has been teaching us in is that the reason why we sin today is because we were and are told NOT TO SIN.
The DEVIL used the prohibitions to produce desire to violate the law themselves.
To demonstrate it, let’s take for example Commandment #10 - You shall not covet.
Let say you move in to a new neighborhood and you notice that you are surrounded by new neighbors owning nice cars.
What comes in your mind?
This was possible because we had the nature to sin.
The devil is a demolition is expert.
God, because of His love and Grace is like a life guard.
He sees you drowning so He put’s on human for, came down to earth as an atonement for our sins.
The guide that was to keep us away from sinning was use by the Devil for us to sin.
What God meant for good, the Devil used it for evil leading to death.
3. HOW EVIL IS SIN?
Through the LAW we found out that evil leads us to sin which lead to death.
The law revealed to us that we are condemned.
Romans 7:9-10
Paul considered alive in a sense that there was no conviction or guilt prior to knowing he has a sinner.
Paul’s definition of alive is a guilt-free life.
There was no guilt prior to the Law.
Prior to the LAW coming, sin already existed and sin causes death.
DO NOT ENTER SIGN
Let’s say there exist a broken bridge, making the road leading to it dangerous.
Anybody who took that dangerous route drove to its peril.
When it was discovered that the bridge was broken, a sign was placed DO NOT ENTER for the safety of the public.
The sign represents the LAW.
Prior to the SIGN being put up, there was no LAW to violate but since the placement of the sign, now there was a law to violate and anyone who enters violates the law and is guilty of violating it leading to death.
According to Paul dying is a consequence of him being aware that he is a sinner.
He is a sinner because he violated the law.
Sin is evil because it leads to death - eternal separation from God.
Being aware of sin made him guilty of sin.
His awareness of sin made him realized that he was dead spiritually thus, the statement “I died.”
In verse 11 SIN through deception KILLED HIM.
verse 11 reveals the DECEITFUL NATURE of sin.
It killed him.
The same thing that happened to Adam and Eve.
4. What is the LAW then?
If the LAW is not sin then what is it?
It is holy because it is from a Holy God.
God’s intent for it was holy.
It is holy because it reveals the nature of God’s holiness.
It is holy because is reveals the standard of God’s Holiness.
It was a DO NOT ENTER sign because of death as a result of SIN’s started spreading through the coming generation.
So God put a DO NOT ENTER SIGN not a DONUT.
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