Offbeat Ideas About Sin

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Offbeat IdeasAbout Sin

• 1 John 1510

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Key Idea

• The knowledge of who God really is exposes three
  false ideas about sin

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Who God Is

• God is light
• His glory
• His revelation, His truth
• His moral purity

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Who God Is

• There is no darkness at all
• Therefore fellowship with God has to involve a
  life, a walk that reflects His holiness and
  moral purity

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Sin Doesnt Matter

• False claim
• We can live a life filled with darkness and
  still be in fellowship with God
• God has news for you!
• You are a liar
• You are not doing the truth

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Sin Doesnt Matter

• True living
• The pattern of our life is walking in the light
  in fellowship with God
• We experience two important truths
• We have fellowship with one another
• His blood cleanses us from every kind of sin

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There Is No Sin Nature

• False claim
• We have no sin nature man is basically good
• And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
  in which you formerly walked according to the
  course of this world, according to the prince of
  the power of the air, of the spirit that is now
  working in the sons of disobedience. Among them
  we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our
  flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of
  the mind, and were by nature children of wrath,
  even as the rest. Ephesians 213

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There Is No Sin Nature

• Two consequences of this denial
• Self deception
• Out of touch with reality

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There Is No Sin Nature

• True living
• We understand the manifestation of our sin
  nature and confess our sins
• When we agree with God as to these outbreaks of
  the sin nature
• He forgives our sins
• He cleanses us from every kind of unrighteousness

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There Are No Sinners

• False claim
• We have not really committed any acts of sin
• God makes the consequences clear
• You make God a liar
• Gods truth is not in you

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Question

• More than what you might know about sin, what
  does your life say about your attitude toward
  sin?