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Introduction:
Anyone good at untangling things?
I am great at tangling things: necklaces, wool (I love knitting), when I was younger hair tangles.
This time of year we see lots of spider webs as decorations.
I remember as a kid going for walks and ended up walking through a spider web.
Anyone feel the pain of that?
Anyone but me have that experience?
you start swiping wildly through the air, because you just walked through a sticky invisible mess.
It feels disgusting!!!!
Then you remember not only did you walk through a web but it was made by a spider!
That means that spider could be crawling somewhere on you!
The troubling thought now overtakes and you almost jump out of your skin.
Then you desperatly look around embarrased because someone could have been watching you loose your mind for no reason.
Because remember they can’t see the spiderweb and don’t know what you are reacting to.
Prayer: Lord, Open our eyes, open our ears and hearts to what God has for us!
This verse talks about throwing off the weight that hinders and the sin that entangles!
We have spent a lot of time talk about the weight that weighs us down and wears us out.
Now let’s talk about the sin that easily entangles us!
Look at your life:
What is the struggle that keeps tripping you up?
Retribution
Gossip
Control
Envy
Pride
Control
Worth
Unforgiveness
Pleasure
Behind the snags and entanglement is something appealing and that attraction calls out, deep down to who we are.
The deeper one goes into the center of the web the farther one gets from being free.
We need to do as scripture teaches us.
Throw off the sin that easily entagles us.
This is not going to be easy - throwing off the sin that entangles us.
But the writer of Hebrews states it could be a lot worse.
Another problem - the more tangled up in sin you become, the less you seem to notice or care.
Sin hardens the heart
Sin makes you feel ok with the damage you may be doing to yourself.
It also makes you forget what you are doing to yourself and others.
Complacency sets in!
Effect of sin
Sin overtime turns us into proud and can make us roll our eyes at the need for forgivenss.
It makes one comfortable with sinning and thinks it is the new normal.
Psalm 32 David speaks about the effect that sin had on him.
David was tangled up with sin due to the affair with Bathsheba.
When he reused to deal with it and then it wore him down.
When you get caught in a web you go through all your energy and it wears you out.
It causes you to run out of steam and then begin to tell yourself there are worse things than being stuck in this web.
You start to get comfortable there.
Sin is known for many side effects but there are two prominent:
Guilt
Shame
Guilt reminds us of what we have done
Shame tries to convince us what we ave done and makes us believe that is who we are.
Guilt is an anchor to the past.
You cannot go forward when you are anchored to the past.
It causes you to blow the engine and run out of gas.
Guilt keeps you from moving but shame tells you this is your destiny.
Makes you think and believe you are meant to be stuck there.
These two things create a link between your failure and then your identity.
Self condemnation is powerful, and it points to giving up.
Shame always comes to the surface.
Guilt and shame are difficult to overcome.
Its like you have a record and everywhere you look you have that reminder you have a record.
You apply for a job then have to check the box that states felon.
You carry shame like an invisible chain.
Sin separates us from God.
In order to move on, in order to be free we have to deal with sin.
Dealing with Sin
Sin separates us from God, then blames God for the separation.
It builds a wall that cuts us off, then blames God for that wall.
Here are some ways we tend to deal with sin:
avoid God and those we have hurt
pretend it is all good and just push on
blame someone else
cannot take the blame and admit we messed up
The book of Hebrews teaches us that there was a religious system God set up to deal with sin.
It involved sacrifice.
But that system was misunderstood and abused.
This scripture teachs why that system fell short and points our something interesting.
Not only did the system fail but people were having a hard time letting go of the old habits of religion but they were getting the whole thing backwards.
Sacrifices were never intended to make people clean in a any genuine way.
These gifts were reminders of the sin that was so inevitable in everyone’s life.
People began to think the sacrifices really made things right again: sin removed, case closed right?
The readers of Hebrews needed to understand how sin really worked if they were going to avoid being entangled in it.
Jesus did what the law could not!
He gave Himself as an offering on our behalf to make things right with God.
One sacrifice for all time to break the cycle.
Come boldly into the presence of Christ.
Let Him scrub away the guilt.
Let the shame be rinsed once and for all.
No more cycles.
Jesus can take on every bit of it.
Jesus has shown us and for all what it means to be clean, perfect and righteous in a way we can never be.
Everyone one of us earned judgement and punishment.
We were fallen.
We cannot live a sinless moment.
None of our failures have to be counted.
All of them can be forgiven and the punishment we should receive and can be assigned, all at once to what Jesus endured on the cross for our shame.
Take a look at the word righteousness.
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