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Let me know if you think the following things are ON THE RISE in our society:
humility
love of neighbor
objective moral reasoning
patience
Are these things on the rise....not a chance
So WHAT IS on the rise?
pride
self-indulgence
partiality
relativism
covetousness
malice
envy
slandery
brutality
THESE THINGS are on the rise…we see this - and we KNOW this...
and that’s a scary thing…why?
We live in a world where - what’s on the rise - is ALL that God hates!
And it seems day-by-day, MORE AND MORE - God is removing His restraining grace...
allowing this world to spiral more and more into destruction.
*Sunrise / Sunset (the sun is ALWAYS shining 100%)
And as we press on in this world…as time goes by - we see MORE and MORE of what we truly are!
ALL the hatred...
pride
malice
couvetousness
ALL of it - ALWAYS there…100%
but we now starting to see more of it - come to the surface!
And what we’re seeing in this world - is SIN!
*I always see people post on facebook - the various EVILS of this world (kidnappings, abuses of government, whatever it is)...
…but those people who post those things are ALWAYS looking for BANDAIDs...
They’re not really interested in addressing the real issue....WHICH IS...
SIN
ALL of the crap that we see out in the world today - all of it - is a SYMPTOM of a greater issue.
Yes, this country....this world has some crazy issues...
THE GREATEST issue we will EVER face - is SIN
And it’s something that Christ is going to deal with today in our text.
So let’s see what He has to say...
A theme that runs throughout this exchange here between Jesus and the Pharisees...
is the concept of - Being IN SIN
Jesus - and the Bible for that matter - have much to say about this idea...
And it will be our focus today...
Let’s circle back to what Jesus said about it...
So from here - let’s look at what it means to be - IN YOUR SINS...
SLIDE: IN SIN: Death Leads to Destruction
In Sin
Let’s look at the STORY line of SIN throughout scripture...
And we actually have to start before Genesis chapter 3
So here we have the FALL of Lucifer...
Lucifer - wanting to RULE over God - to be like God
And this DESIRE - the epitomy of IDOLATRY
It’s the same SIN that Lucifer tries to entice Eve in the garden with...
Of course we know what happens - Eve disobeys God and eats of the fruit...
NOW - let’s look at what happened as a result...
OK - SIN came into the world through one man - ADAM...
And attached to that SIN was the punishment that God placed on it...
Remember - God said - If you eat of the fruit of Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil…you shall - SURELY DIE!
DEATH - death came into the world with that SIN...
And DEATH spread to all men because ALL sinned!
This is what’s called - INHERITED SIN...
The inherent inclination to sin ENTERED the human race…and human beings became SINNERS by nature!
MEANING -
We are sinners not because we sin; rather, we sin because we are sinners
**If we were to look at pictures of all of your parents when they were young, most of us would see that and think it was YOU in the picture… (Nick)
We inherit physical attributes from our parents...
In that same light - we all inherit sinful natures from Adam
And the Bible has much to say about what it means to be - IN SIN…or IN ADAM
Remember the list we walked through last week about what it meant to FOLLOW Jesus?
Here it is...
To FOLLOW - is to:
follow as a soldier follows his commander (in allegiance)
follow as slave follows his master (in submission)
follow as an ignorant person follows a wise counselor (in dependence upon)
follow as a student follows the teacher's line of reasoning and argument
follow as a son follows his father (in love)
Interesting enough - these same attributes apply to someone - IN SIN...
As a soldier follows his commander (LOYAL all the way)
Do you see how LOYAL man’s heart is to SIN?
To be IN SIN - is to follow as a slave follows his master (in submission)
To be IN SIN - is to follow as an ignorant person follows a “wise” counselor
To be IN SIN - is to follow as a student follows the teacher's line of reasoning and argument
Ignorance breeds ignorance!
And when the ignorant believe themselves to be WISE - they argue from a viewpoint of ignorance!
AND - to be IN SIN - is to follow as a son follows his father (in love)
to be IN SIN - is to follow the devil as a son…loving what he desires...
And so we see that ALL of these attributes of a FOLLOWER of Jesus - can be used to describe an UNBELIEVER as well!
BEING in sin - is to be on the path to DESTRUCTION...
And as we’ve seen - we INHERIT this path...
We INHERIT this future for ourselves...
Here are some of the terms the Bible uses to describe someone who is - IN SIN...
wretched
pitiable
poor
blind
naked
cold
lukewarm
lost
dead
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