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What is sin?
First occurrence in NT: Mt.5:29 LawlessnessLawlessness , 1 Jn.3:4
OmissionOmission – Ja.4:17
“everyone who practices righteousness” (2:29)
“everyone who…practices lawlessness” (3:4)
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I. Why Do Most Think Sin Is Harmless?
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1. Ps.73, the wicked: 1. Ps.73, the wicked:
Prosperous,3
Pain free,4
Peaceful,5
Pampered,7
Reaction,2
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2. Eccl.8:11, the delay:2. Eccl.8:11, the delay:
“They see not the smoke of the pit, therefore they dread not the fire”
Ro.2:4-5
Purpose of
longsuffering:Repentance
Perversion of
longsuffering:Rebellion
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3. Hb.11:25, the pleasure:3. Hb.11:25, the pleasure:
Epicurean motto: “Eat, drink, be merry, for tomorrow we die”
“It can’t be wrong when it feels so right”
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I. Why Do Most Think Sin Is Harmless?
II. The High Price Of Low Living
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Chickens come home to roost
Is.3:11, just deserts Ec.8:12-13, not forgotten Ro.6:23, wages, usually soldier’s pay
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Three aspects of wages of sin:
1. Sin’s pay is death; a deceiver (Gn.3)
2. Since wages is not a single payment, but continuous, death is not simply the final penalty but the active shadow which this death projects on life
3. Wages is a legal term in contrast to gift. Man has rights only in relation to sin; these rights become his judgment– TDNT V, 592
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I. Why Do Most Think Sin Is Harmless?
II. The High Price Of Low Living
III. Sin’s Price Tags
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1. Peace of Mind
Gn.3 Sin brought immediate change:
separation, fear Is.48:22
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2. Disease
Ex.15:26; Ep.6:1-3
Lungs
Brain
Liver
STDs
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3. Exposure 2 Sm.11-12 Jer.6:15:
Adulterer Computer
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4. Death
Pro.7:…21-27 As an ox goes to the slaughter Till an arrow struck his liver As a bird hastens to the snare, He
did not know it would take his life The way to hell (sheol) Descending to the chambers of death
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5. Freedom
Pro.23:29-35. Jn.8:32…34
Alcohol
Drugs
Internet
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6. The end – eternal punishment
Ps.73:16-17, their end Lk.16 (2 Pt.2:12) . . . Rv.20:10
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Peace of Mind
Disease
Exposure
Death
Freedom
The end (eter. pun.)
Present wrath of God
(Ro.1:18)
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Wrath of God
Strong indignation directed at wrong-doing, w. focus on retribution
God does not lose His temper or throw a tantrum
As a calm judge, He sentences the criminal by the demands of His law
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“Wrath…is being revealed” (1:18)
Past:Flood
SodomPlagues
Present:Civil
authorities (13:1-7)
Future:Day of
Judgment(2:1-16)
Present:Abandonssinners totheir fate
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When God does nothing…
Instead of sending fire and brimstone, He appears to do nothing
Therefore (24) = 21-23, abandons them (gave them up, 24,26,28)
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A debased mind (28)
Reprobate, worthless, corrupt Word play:
They did not approvetrue God
God gavethem up to adisapproved
mind
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Amos 8:11-12
Learning the hard way: their most precious possession
Punishment fits the crime (cf. 7:12)
Saul1 Sm.28
ProdigalLk.15
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Misguided lovers, 2 Th.2:10-12 ““Once we assuage our conscience Once we assuage our conscience
by calling something a ‘necessary by calling something a ‘necessary evil,’ it begins to look more and evil,’ it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less more necessary and less and less evil”evil” – Sidney J. Harris – Sidney J. Harris
Ahab
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Mt.7:13-14
We cannot come to a fork and “take it”; to refuse the right way is to choose the wrong