Confession of Sin
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Committing Sin
Committing Sin
1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
According to what is God’s desire regarding you and sin?
1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
According to , God makes a provision—a plan B—for when you do sin. What is it?
Definition: Advocate- is someone who comes along side to help or defend you. Propitiation- is a satisfaction. Jesus satisfied God’s wrath/justice on your sins by dying for you.
Definition: Advocate- is someone who comes along side to help or defend you. Propitiation- is a satisfaction. Jesus satisfied God’s wrath/justice on your sins by dying for you.
RELATIONSHIP VS. FELLOWSHIP
Your Relationship with God: Permanent / Solid and unbreakable / Determines your eternal destiny
Your Fellowship with God: Dependent on glad obedience / affects joy / brings discipline or correction / affects your interaction with God in prayer
RELATIONSHIP VS. FELLOWSHIP
Your Fellowship with God: Dependent on glad obedience / affects joy / brings discipline or correction / affects your interaction with God in prayer
Principle: Though your relationship as His child is eternal and unchanging, sin hurts your fellowship with God.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
What does say about a person, Christian or not, who claims to be without sin?
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
What does call someone who is saved (“in Christ”)?
Describe the last part of this verse in your own words.
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
I Cor
In Paul lists specific sins that the Corinthians had been involved in before they were saved- what are they? (Note: the key word is “were.”)
What does the Bible say of them after their salvation?
As a Christian, you will struggle with sin. However, if you continue in the same sin as though you were never saved, the Bible calls into question whether you were ever legitimately saved- see .
4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
5 You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
6 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.
8 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
9 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.
10 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
Consequences of Sin
Consequences of Sin
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done this evil in thy sight: That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest.
The first consequence of sin is that you offend God. What did David say about his sin in Psalm 51:4a?
5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
What does teach about God and sin?
Why is God offended by sin?
4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
A second serious consequence of sin is revealed in . What is it?
What does the word “regard” mean?
18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear me:
Yet another consequence of sin is discipline from God.
Discipline for Sin
Discipline for Sin
Read .
In vv. 5-7 what human relationship parallels our relationship with God?
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
According to v. 6, what emotion motivates God’s discipline?
Explain the above answer. How can that be?
In vv. 7-8 what is true of someone who continues in sin but is never disciplined for it?
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
In vv. 9-11 God does not discipline us for His pleasure, but for our good. Verses 10-11 give two goals for God’s chastening or disciplining of his children. What are they?
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.