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Please open your Bibles to :1-3
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There are burdens that are good, then there are burdens that are bad.
There are some burdens that are necessary in life, and others that need to be released.
10 years ago, we took a group of high schoolers to a place called Rock N Water.
It was 5 days of backpacking out in the middle of nowhere.
Many of you helped out by letting us use backpacks and sleeping bags.
We took the long drive up there, the main site was about an hour east of Sacramento.
The night before the big hike, our guides had us repack our hiking bags.
We had to pull everything out and we received new packing instructions.
1 pair of socks.
1 pair of underwear.
No pillow.
Basically, only the bare essentials.
Now that we had more space in our packs, we could fill our bags with more essential items, like food.
Some of us hiked with watermelons, others with cantaloupe, and others with cans of tuna.
There were burdens that were good, that were necessary.
Then there were burdens that were bad.
The food burdens were good.
It doesn’t sound like fun carrying a watermelon 5 miles, till you are out 5 miles and you realize it tastes delicious.
There were other burdens you would think were necessary, until you looked back and saw they how unnecessary they were.
We wore sandals most of the time, so socks were unnecessary.
We were in swimsuits and getting wet all week, so even underwear wasn’t necessary.
On Sunday night when we got there, there were tears in the students eyes when we were decluttering their hiking bags.
Because we thought we needed those socks and underwear, but in reality they were unnecessary burdens.
The same goes for the Christian life.
There are burdens that we keep.
Then there are burdens that we need release.
The first burden that we see in our text is the Burden of Sin.
Like the socks and underwear during Rock N Water, we don’t we have to have this burden.
Paul says “if anyone is caught in any transgression”,
The language of this is that sin springs upon us like a trap.
Think about how a trap works, think of a mouse trap.
The kind that is composed of a single piece wood with a spring and a metal arm.
You bait the trap.
You put some cheese or peanut butter on it to lure the mouse.
It smells the cheese.
It approaches the cheese.
And just as it reaches for the cheese, the spring is flipped, and the arm comes crushing down on the mouse.
For a mouse trap to work, the trap has to catch the mouse before the mouse gets the cheese.
If the mouse gets the cheese before the trap springs, then the trap doesn’t work.
And that’s the language of the word caught, it means to take first.
Sin makes big promises.
It makes promises of contentment and happiness.
But instead of giving the things that it promises, it catches it’s victim before it can give those things.
And next thing you know the person is caught.
The feelings that come with sin are feelings of being trapped, and the situation being inescapable.
Sin soon confines and traps the person.
That’s the language of , a person is caught in a transgression.
The sin is a trap.
And it is holding the person captive.
Think of the language that a person uses when defending himself over his sin, it’s always as if the person didn’t have a choice in the matter.
The liar says, “I had to lie.”
You didn’t have to lie.
But when you are caught in it, you think you have no other options.
The thief says, “I had to steal.”
The homosexual says, “I was born this way.”
The proud says, “I’m the best there is, no one else can do what I do.”
The blasphemer says, “God is wrong.”
Sin promises much, but in the end the spring is set, and it makes its victims its slave.
The implications of sin is that it is deadly.
Notice that verse 1 says, “if anyone is caught in any transgression.”
It doesn’t use the word sin.
And yes, it’s describing sin.
But Paul is talking about something even greater than sin.
He uses the word transgression, which has an even stronger emphasis.
It’s not just a mistake.
It’s not just a goof.
The other day I saw a road kill on the side of the road, it was a raccoon.
I came home and told Amanda about the roadkill, but instead of saying raccoon, I said that I saw a dead kangaroo on the side of the road.
I meant raccoon, but I said kangaroo.
Yes, these are the deep conversations Amanda and I have.
She said, “You saw a kangaroo?”
I said yes, “A kangaroo.”
She again clarified, “kangaroo?”
Again,”yes I saw a kangaroo.”
And then it clicked, I meant raccoon, but I kept saying kangaroo.
That’s a goof, that’s a mistake.
The consequences of that mistake were Amanda had to clarify what I meant; I wasn’t being clear.
But Paul isn’t saying someone is caught in a goof, he says transgression.
The word literally means to walk around corpses.
Sin catches you and leaves you in a position of death.
It leaves you in a position of stinking rotting death.
When you are caught in transgression, it’s like a nightmare filled with zombies.
We are talking about a sin against God.
There are no little mistakes before God.
The consequences of our transgression is that we are held captive in death.
The wages of sin is death.
Sin is one of those burdens we don’t want to have.
You don’t need it on the journey.
Especially if we think about what Christ has done for us.
He has paid for our sins.
One of my favorite books is Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan.
It’s one of those books I usually read through once a year.
There comes a point where the main character, Christian, approaches a cross, and the burden that he was carrying, his sin, fell right off his back.
And that’s what Christ has done, He has removed the burden of sin from us.
He has released us from the trap of sin.
So now understand the folly of going back into sin.
It’s to pick up the burden that has already been paid for, and essentially put it back on.
Sin is described as a trap.
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