Do Not Think Lightly Of Sin Genesis 4:6-7 Romans 6:11-14 Romans 6:15-18 Romans 6:19-23 Galatians 6:7-10 2 Corinthians 5:21 Hebrews 12:1-4 1 John 1:8-9 12.18.20

 

DO NOT THINK LIGHTLY OF SIN

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⁶ Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? ⁷ If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?  But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.”  Genesis 4:6-7 (NIV)

 

¹¹ In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. ¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. ¹³ Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. ¹⁴ For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.  Romans 6:11-14 (NIV)

 

¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! ¹⁶ Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. ¹⁸ You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.  Romans 6:15-18 (NIV)

 

²⁰ When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. ²¹ What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! ²² But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Romans 6:19-23 (NIV)

 

⁷ Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. ⁸ The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. ⁹ Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. ¹⁰ Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.  Galatians 6:7-10 (NIV)

 

²¹ God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.  2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)

 

¹ Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. ² Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. ⁴ In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.  Hebrews 12:1-4 (NIV)

 

⁸ If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.  1 John 1:8-9 (NIV)

 

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“God put away our sin by placing it on Himself.  Only at the cross will we hear, ‘The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. (2 Samuel 12:13).’  Ever.”   Jon Bloom

“Sin is a living, breathing organism with will and intent seeking to destroy us.  It is referred to in the Bible as crouching at our door.  It is a roaring lion infecting and controlling natural man.  It is alive and well.”   Dr. Omar Hamada

“There is really only one thing that can minimize Christ’s saving work and that is our failing to lay hold of it.  I’m convinced that this is when we begin to make our forward steps as Christians.  When I know through experience that I can lay hold of Christ’s blood by faith to cover my sins this morning, and then to cover my sins this afternoon, even if they’re the same sins—when I know this, the preciousness of Christ’s blood becomes a tremendous reality, I begin to live in the light of His presence and in the light of His work—not just in the past or in the future, but in the present.  I begin to live in the reality of the supernatural world.  A true Christian is that person who knows, by experience, the ever-present wonder of being able to lay hold of the blood of Jesus and then being able to say thank you, knowing that his or her fellowship with God is completely restored.”  Francis Schaeffer

 

“Jesus proved he had paid the penalty for all our sins (if you are a believer in Christ) by virtue of the fact that he came back from the dead. If one of my sins had remained in Jesus, he would still be dead because the wages of sin is death. But once Jesus paid for all my sins, death could no longer hold him and he came back from the dead. That is why Peter said, ‘God raised him up, losing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it ‘(Acts 2:24). Death has no power where there is no sin.” David Nicholas

 

“Sin is the sickness of the soul.  It is deforming, weakening, disturbing, wasting, and killing, but, we bless God, not incurable.  Jesus Christ is the great Physician of souls.  Wise and good people should be like physicians to everyone around them; Christ was so.  Souls that are sick with sin need this Physician, for their disease is dangerous; nature will not help itself.  No mortal can help us; we have such need of Christ that we are eternally ruined without Him.”  Matthew Henry

 

“It is easier to denounce a thousand sins in others than to slay one of our own.”   John Flavel

“No sin is small.”   Jeremy Taylor

“It may be a secret sin on earth, but it is an open scandal in heaven.”   Lewis Sperry Chafer

“Since ‘The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure’, it is wise for us, like King David, to pray:  ‘²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. ²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.’ (Psalms 139:23-24 (NIV)).  And, also like King David as well, allow ourselves to have friends like Nathan who are willing to tells us the difficult things so that we may change and no longer be on the path of destruction.  All sin leads to death of something.  Just saying…”  BHY

“I think we ought always to pray to God to forgive us sins that we do not know anything about. Perhaps the sins which you and I confess are not the tenth of what we really do commit. Our eyes are not sufficiently opened to know of the heinousness of our own sin. It is possible that God in mercy suffers us to be somewhat blind to the abominable accursedness of sin. He gives us enough of it to make us hate it, but not enough to drive us absolutely to despair. Our sin is exceedingly sinful.”  Charles H. Spurgeon

“It is a precious doctrine that the saints are safe, but it is a damnable inference from it, that therefore they may live as they please. It is a glorious truth that God will keep his people, but it is an abominable falsehood that sin will do them no harm. Remember that God gives us liberty, not license, and while he gives us protection, he will not allow us presumption.”   C. H. Spurgeon

 

“Living for Jesus, a life that is true.  Striving to please Him in all that I do.  Yielding allegiance, glad hearted and free.  This is the pathway of blessing for me.  Living for Jesus Who died in my place, bearing on Calvary, my sin and disgrace.  Such love constrains me, to answer His call, follow His leading and give Him my all.”  Thomas O. Chisholm

 

HEART SAVOR

• Sin must not reign in a believer’s body that we obey its evil desires.
• We are to put to death whatever belongs to our earthly nature – sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed which is idolatry.  (Colossians 3:5)
• Be killing sin or it will be killing you.