Nobody Is Perfect

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Nobody Is Perfect
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I. Minimize My Guilt

• A. My Sin Not So Big
• - Eve I Just Eat Some Fruit
• - Zaccheus I Just Take A Little Off The Top
• 1. Minimize Sin, Minimize Penalty Is. 534-5
• 2. Okay To Tread Lightly ? Heb. 1029
• B. Im No Worse Than Most Others
• 1. God Agrees Rom. 39, 23 (26) 1 Jn. 34 (5)
• 2. Satisfied To Be Like Most Others? Mt.
  713-14

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I. Minimize My Guilt

• C. We Cannot Minimize Sin
• 1. Fear The Consequences
• It Brings Spiritual Death Rom. 623
• Saved With Fear and Trembling Phil. 212
• Cautious, Not Carefree 1 Thess. 521-22
• Alert For Attack 1 Pet. 58
• 2. Awake Rom. 1311

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II. Assume We Are Always In Sin

• A. Known Sins Acts 2216 822 Js. 519-20
• B. Unknown Sins
• 1. Mans Ways Around Personal Sin
• a. Once Saved Always Saved Heb. 1029 Js.520
• b. Blood Covers All Sins Acts 2216
• 1 Jn. 17,9
• c. Continual Cleansing 1 Jn. 19
• d. Gods Grace Titus 211-12

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II. Assume We Are Always In Sin

• A. Known Sins
• B. Unknown Sins
• 1. Mans Ways Around Personal Sin
• 2. Ignorance Not Excused
• a. Willfully Ignorant 2Pet. 35 Rom. 118-21
• b. Secret Sin Ps. 1912 Job 624
• i. Davids Attitude? Ps . 11997, 7
• ii. Gods Law in OT Lev. 413-14 Num.
  1522-29

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Leviticus 413-14

• 13 And if the whole congregation of Israel sin
  through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the
  eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat
  against any of the commandments of the LORD
  concerning things which should not be done, and
  are guilty
• 14 When the sin, which they have sinned against
  it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a
  young bullock for the sin, and bring him before
  the tabernacle of the congregation.

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II. Assume We Are Always In Sin

• A. Known Sins
• B. Unknown Sins
• 1. Mans Ways Around Personal Sin
• 2. Ignorance Not Excused
• a. Willfully Ignorant 2 Pet. 35 Rom. 118-21
• b. Secret Sin Ps. 1912 Job 624
• i. Davids Attitude? Ps. 11997, 7
• ii. Gods Law in OT Lev. 413-14 Num. 1522-29

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Secret Sin Psalm 1912

• Want of knowledge of the truth, and too little
  tenderness of conscience hide it from us.
  Andrew A. Bonar, in "Commentary on Leviticus,"
• ...unless a man be very careful to search, he
  shall think no sin is there where it is. Hence it
  is that the Scripture doth so often command that
  duty of searching and trying, of examining and
  communing with our hearts. Andrew Bonar, ibid

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Secret Sin Psalm 1912

• If then the godly would find out their hidden
  lusts, know the sins they not yet know, they must
  more impartially judge themselves they must take
  time to survey and examine themselves they must
  not in an overly and slight manner, but really
  and industriously look up and down as they would
  search for thieves and they must again and again
  look into this dark corner, and that dark corner
  of their hearts, as the woman sought for the lost
  groat.
• Anthony Burgess in Treasury of David on Ps. 1912
  - PwrBbleCD

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Nobodys Perfect

• Words of Reason and Truth? Acts 2625
• Not Perfect But
• . . . blameless and harmless, children of God
  without fault in the midst of a crooked and
  perverse generation, among whom you shine as
  lights in the world Phil. 215
• Be Washed Acts 2216 Rev. 15

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II. Assume We Are Always In Sin

• A. Known Sins
• B. Unknown Sins
• C. Sincerity the Sin of Others
• 1. What Can I Know? 1 Cor. 211a
• 1 Thess. 25

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What Can I Know?

• 1 Cor. 211a
• For what man knows the things of a man except the
  spirit of the man which is in him? . . .
• 1 Thess. 25
• For neither at any time did we use flattering
  words, as you know, nor a cloak for
  covetousness--God is witness.

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II. Assume We Are Always In Sin

• A. Known Sins
• B. Unknown Sins
• C. Sincerity the Sin of Others
• 1. What Can I Know? 1 Cor. 211a
• 1 Thess. 25 Mt. 716-20
• 2. Sincerity Good Enough? Js. 114-15
  1 Kg. 137-22

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1 Kg. 13

• 9 "For so it was commanded me by the word of the
  LORD, saying, 'You shall not eat bread, nor drink
  water, nor return by the same way you came.'"
• 11 Now an old prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his
  sons came and told him all the works that the man
  of God had done that day in Bethel they also
  told their father the words which he had spoken
  to the king.
• 15 Then he said to him, "Come home with me and
  eat bread."

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1 Kg. 13

• 18 He said to him, "I too am a prophet as you
  are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the
  LORD, saying, 'Bring him back with you to your
  house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'"
  (He was lying to him.)
• 19 So he went back with him, and ate bread in his
  house, and drank water.
• 20 Now it happened, as they sat at the table,
  that the word of the LORD came to the prophet who
  had brought him back

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1 Kg. 13

• 21 and he cried out to the man of God who came
  from Judah, saying, "Thus says the LORD 'Because
  you have disobeyed the word of the LORD, and have
  not kept the commandment which the LORD your God
  commanded you,
• 22 'but you came back, ate bread, and drank
  water in the place of which the LORD said to you,
  "Eat no bread and drink no water," your corpse
  shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.'"

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II. Assume We Are Always In Sin

• A. Known Sins
• B. Unknown Sins
• C. Sincerity the Sin of Others
• 1. What Can I Know?
• 2. Sincerity Good Enough?
• - Why Prophet Die? 1 Kg. 713ff
• - Why Not Join Baal Worship? 1 Kg. 1828
• - Why Teach of the Unknown God Way?
  Acts1722-23

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II. Assume We Are Always In Sin

• A. Known Sins
• B. Unknown Sins
• C. Sincerity the Sin of Others
• 1. What Can I Know? 1 Cor. 211a 1 Thess. 25
  Mt. 716-20
• 2. Sincerity Good Enough? Js. 114-15
• 1 Kg. 137-22
• 3. If Refuse To Turn? 2 Jn. 9-11 Rom. 1617
• 1 Tim. 416 Gal. 61

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II. Assume We Are Always In Sin

• A. Known Sins
• B. Unknown Sins
• C. Sincerity the Sin of Others
• D. Be Diligent 2 Tim. 215 Heb. 514
• Faithful To Attend For Worship Col. 316 Acts
  242
• Faithful In Personal Study Growth 2
  Pet. 316-18
• Remember
• Hos. 46 My People Destroyed. . .
• Heb. 116 . . .Diligently Seek Him
• 1 Tim. 24 Knowledge of the Truth

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III. Avoid Hard Questions

• Jesus Questions Mt. 2127 Jn. 418-19
  Mt. 1922
• Does God Approve of Instrumental Music In
  Worship?
• Is Water Baptism Essential For Salvation?
• Does God Approve of All Churches? Which?
• With Whom Must We Refuse Fellowship?

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III. Avoid Hard Questions

• A. Apollos Acts 1825-28
• 1. Challenged v25-26
• 2. Response v27-28
• B. Me?
• 1. Challenged 2. Response

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When Sin Forgiven? Mk1616Acts2216
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NT Church Use Instr? Acts 1524
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Anger/Temper? Eph. 426
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Smoke, Poor Example? 1 Tim. 412
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Nobodys Perfect

• Words of Reason and Truth? Acts 2625
• Not Perfect But
• . . . blameless and harmless, children of God
  without fault in the midst of a crooked and
  perverse generation, among whom you shine as
  lights in the world Phil. 215
• Be Washed Acts 2216 Rev. 15 1Jn. 17,9