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Are You Handling Sin or
Is Sin Handling You?
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
“It is good to speak of God today.”
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Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What is sin?
Some might say,“Breaking the Ten Commandments.”
Another good definition is: Willful disobedience to God
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What is sin?
John:
1 John 5:17KJV 17All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What is sin?
Paul:
Romans 14:23NKJV 23But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.
Romans 14:23NLT 23But if you have doubts about whether or not you should eat something, you are sinning if you go ahead and do it. For you are not following your convictions. If you do anything you believe is not right, you are sinning.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What is sin?
James:
James 4:17KJV 17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What is sin?
1 John 3:4KJV 4Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
1 John 3:4NKJV 4Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
1 John 3:4ESV 4Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What is sin?
Sin is doing unrighteousness
Sin is doing things that we have doubts about
Sin is failing to do good that God desires for us
Practicing sin is practicing lawlessness
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
We are not to sin
Romans 6:12KJV 12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
We are not to sin
1 Corinthians 15:34KJV 34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
We are not to sin
1 John 2:1KJV 1My 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:
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
We are not to sin
Isaiah 55:7KJV 7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
We are not to sin
Hebrews 12:1KJV 1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What are consequences of sin in our lives?
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What are consequences of sin in our lives?
Separation from God
Psalms 66:18KJV 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What are consequences of sin in our lives?
Separation from God
Isaiah 59:2KJV 2But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What are consequences of sin in our lives?
Separation from God
Romans 6:23KJV 23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What are consequences of sin in our lives?
Separation from God
Hebrews 6:8KJV 8But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What are consequences of sin in our lives?
Separation from God
Romans 6:23NKJV 23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What are consequences of sin in our lives?
Separation from things/those we hold dear
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What are consequences of sin in our lives?
Separation from things/those we hold dear
Consequences of sin can physically separate us
Deuteronomy 32:32KJV 32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What are consequences of sin in our lives?
Separation from things/those we hold dear
Sinful practices are tumultuous
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
Sinful practices are tumultuous
Galatians 5:19-21KJV 19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance [contentions], emulations [jealousies], wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What are consequences of sin in our lives?
Separation from things/those we hold dear
Sinful practices are ultimately empty
Jeremiah 12:13NKJV 13 They have sown wheat but reaped thorns; They have put themselves to pain but do not profit. But be ashamed of your harvest Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What can be done about sin in our lives?
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What can be done about sin in our lives?
Cease, stop, and walk away from (ALL) sin! (Repentance)
Acknowledge sin
Romans 3:23KJV 23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What can be done about sin in our lives?
Cease, stop, and walk away from (ALL) sin! (Repentance)
Acknowledge sin
Reject sin
Romans 6:12KJV 12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What can be done about sin in our lives?
Cease, stop, and walk away from (ALL) sin! (Repentance)
Acknowledge sin
Reject sin
Leave sin
1 Peter 2:11KJV 11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What can be done about sin in our lives?
Call upon the Lord
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What can be done about sin in our lives?
Call upon the Lord
He has shown us His love
Romans 5:8NKJV 8But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What can be done about sin in our lives?
Call upon the Lord
He has shown us His love
We need to confess we have sinned and He is our Savior
Romans 10:9-10NKJV 9that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
What can be done about sin in our lives?
Call upon the Lord
He has shown us His love
We need to confess we have sinned and He is our Savior
Continue in His way and follow Him
Matthew 9:9KJV 9And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
Will you continue to allow sin handle your life?
Are You Handling Sin or Is Sin Handling You?
Will you continue to allow sin handle your life?
Jesus can help!