The problem of sin

1) Today we want to look at the subject of sin.
2) Last Sunday morning we spoke about the “new birth.”
3) We need the new birth because sin destroys a person’s relationship with God.
a) Gen. 2:16-17.
4) It would have been one thing if God had said that eating of this tree would have caused sickness.
5) God said “Eat of this true” (expose yourself to sin) and you will “die.”
6) We learn about sin, one of the most important facts in the Bible, within the first 60 verses of the 1st book.
7) Adam and Eve died in two different ways.
8) They ate of the forbidden fruit and suffered physical death; they also suffered spiritual death.
9) In Rom. 6:23 Paul said, “the wages of sin is death.”
10) Once we become guilty of sin, our relationship with God is broken.
a) Gen. 6:5 – READ
b) The book of Genesis teaches that sin spreads and it spreads fast.
c) Sin not only spreads, it often intensifies.
11) Paul said in Rom. 1:21 there were some people who “knew God” but they didn’t follow Him.
12) Rather than choose righteousness, many wanted to live in sin.
13) Let’s start with Rom. 1:25 and read through verse 32 – READ
a) Verse 29 speaks of people being “filled” with sin.
14) On the face of it some sin may appear to be fun.
15) Heb. 11:25 says some sin can be “pleasurable for a sin.”
16) In Prov. 23:29-39 the wise man spoke of those who “tarried at the wine.”
17) He said these people have woe, sorrow, contentions, babbling, and wounds without cause.
18) Sin creates many serious problems for people.
a) Gal. 6:7 offers us this important principle: we reap what we sow.
b) If we choose to live a life of sin, we will die spiritually.
19) When it comes to temptation, we do not need to go very far.
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21) Jas. 1:14 says there are things that “entice us” and we can give into those things and sin.
22) Some sin is committed with our full knowledge.
a) There are other sins committed in ignorance.
b) Lev. 4:2 speaks of “unwitting sins.”
23) Acts 17:30 says there was even a “time of ignorance.”
24) Some sins we commit knowingly and some sins we commit unknowingly.
25) There are also some sins of indifference.
26) What if there were a sin calculator? This device would add a number every time we sin.
a) If such a device existed, it would start out with all zeros.
b) Ezek. 18:20 says we do not inherit sin from Adam or anyone else.
c) At birth at for some years after that our sin calculator would have nothing but zeros.
d) One day, just like Adam and eve, the numbers would no longer be all zeros.
27) In Jn. 8 Jesus said if we die in our sin we cannot go where He is (Jn. 8:21).
28) This statement is either true or it is false.
29) Learn how to be forgiven of your sins today at my “how to be saved” link.