OUTLINE:
Sin is Likened to:
– Carcass scum in a boiling pot (Ez 24:10-12)
– The blood and pollution of a newborn child (Ez 16:4, 6)
– Putrefying sores (Is 1:5-6)
– A menstrual rag (Is 3:22; Lam 1:17)
– A dead and rotting body (Ro 7:24)
Sin is Likened to:
– The offensive stench/poisonous fumes of an open grave (Ro 3:13)
– The lusts of the devil (Jn 8:44)
– An ulcer, or gangrene (2Ti 2:17)
– The dung of filthy creatures (Php 3:8)
– The vomit of a dog/wallowing of a pig in the mire (2Pe 2:22)
Ps 139:23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way.
Regarding Ps 139:23-24
How beautiful… and righteous! It’s the right way to think, and do, God’s gift of life!
Ro 6:11
Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
If you have genuine love for someone, you want to stop hurting them right away.
Knowing something “hurts” the Lord, why do you do it???
Your freedom/sanctification lies in your honest answer to that question.
Ps 139:23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way.
Sin, at the core, wants us to question God.
God’s will is for us to abide in a constant state of gratitude. 1Th 5:16-18
Do you even understand what “blessing” means? Do you understand that a true blessing from God is anything that sanctifies you???
Had Adam and Eve continued to spend all their time being grateful to God, they’d STILL be alive and enjoying perfect, content, peaceful fellowship with God.
Don’t Take The Bait!
We ask that serpentine question, “This is all great, but what DON’T I have???”
It’s in that very moment that we abandon righteousness for evil. THAT is the moment we are being trained in this series to identify BEFORE we allow it to wreak havoc in our souls!!!
Pastor Collins
“Do not be deceived into thinking that you don’t need to ponder this long and hard…trust me, you do.”
Sin Isn’t Ambivalent
It’s not passive, though it’d like you to believe it is. It is quite active, energized, and encouraged. Its fruit is borne of a seed described at the Fall. (Gen 3:15; Is 57:20-21; Mt 13:37-39; 1Jn 5:18-19)
Is 57:20-21
But the wicked are like the tossing sea,
For it cannot be quiet,
And its waters toss up refuse and mud.
“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
Mt 6:21
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Gal 5:16
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.