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Broken Down House
THE SINFULNESS OF SIN
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Review
• How Bad Is the Problem of Sin? (Ephesians 2:1-3)
• Spiritually dead, morally corrupt, and justly condemned
• Broken Down Library (Ephesians 4:17)
• Futility of our Minds
• Broken Down Electrical System (Psalm 42:5)
• Emotions
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4 Biblical Truths about Emotions
• Emotions Communicate Value
• Emotions Help us Relate to Others
• Emotions Motivate us to Appropriate Action
• Emotions Elevate us by Turning us to God
Review
Sin Distorts our Emotions
• Suck it Up – tough guy, stoic, stiff upper lip
• Spit it Up – emotionalism, controlled by feelings
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Biblical Response to Emotions – Psalm 42:5
• EXAMINE your emotions
• EVALUATE your emotions
• REHEARSE BIBLICAL TRUTH
• SHARE your emotions with God and others
Kitchen
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Broken Down Desires
There is something wrong with our “want-er”
Ephesians 2:3
…among whom we all once lived in the passions of our
flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind,
and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of
mankind.
Desires of the body
The comforts and pleasures of …
• sex
• food
• drink
• rest
• exercise
• health
Desires of the mind
• desire for power
• craving human approval
• demanding success
• wish for pre-eminence
• longings for wealth
•goal of self-righteousness
Clarification
Scripture is not denying that unbelievers can do good in
human society in some senses.
But it is denying that they
can do any spiritual good or be good in terms of a
relationship with God.
(Wayne Grudem, emphasis in original)
Romans 3:11
…No one seeks for God
Romans 8:7-8
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it
does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.
Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing
evil.
Broken Down Kitchen
Photo: Anthony Eastman
Augustine
Sinners are “not able not to sin.”
Martin Luther – The Bondage of the Will
“A man without the Spirit of God does not do evil against his
will, under pressure, as though he were taken by the scruff
of the neck and dragged into it…but he does it
spontaneously and voluntarily.
And this willingness of
volition is something which he cannot in his own strength
eliminate, restrain or alter.
He goes on willing and desiring
to do evil; and if external pressure forces him to act
otherwise, nevertheless his will within remains averse to so
doing and chafes under such constraint and opposition.”
Biblical “cannots”
Matthew 7:18
John 6:44, 65
John 15:4-5
1 Corinthians 2:14
James 3:8
John 3:3, 5
John 14:17
Romans 8:7-8
1 Corinthians 12:3
Revelation 14:3
Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with
which he loved us, even when we were dead in our
trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace
you have been saved
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