Sin: To Whom Much is Given
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Introduction
Introduction
Her statement was only half-true.
In these ways all sins are the same:
1. Any sin keeps us from heaven if we don’t trust Jesus.
2. All sins (except one) can be forgiven when we repent.(1)
But this doesn’t mean God sees all sins equally in all respects.
God judges sins differently(2) according to:
1. Motive (Numbers 15:22-31; Luke 12:47-48).
2. Knowledge and opportunity (Luke 12:48; John 19:11).
3. Position and influence (James 3:1; Mark 12:38-40).
4. Type of sin (Exodus 21:12; 22:1; 1 Corinthians 6:18; Matthew 18:6-7; Matthew 12:31; 23:23).
Because believing God sees all sins the same is a distortion of God's holy character. If we view rape, gossip, irresponsibility and homosexuality alike, we are not defining sin the way God defines it.
Point 1: Position and Influence
Point 1: Position and Influence
Then He said to them in His teaching, “Beware of the scribes, who desire to go around in long robes, love greetings in the marketplaces,
the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts,
who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”
Now Jesus sat opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money into the treasury. And many who were rich put in much.
My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.
Point 2: Knowledge and Opportunity
Point 2: Knowledge and Opportunity
“Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning;
and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately.
Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them.
And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
Point 3
Point 3
Point 4
Point 4
Conclusion
Conclusion
