Causing Another to Sin (Matthew 18:1-9)

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Causing Another to Sin(Matthew 181-9)

• I. How Can You Cause Someone to Sin?
• A. Sin is a personal choice (James 113-15).
• 1. Others are not to blame for our choice to sin
  (Ezekiel 1820).
• B. We can influence others to sin
  (Nehemiah 1323-26).

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Cause to Sinskandalizo skandalÛzv
Offenseskandalizo sk?ndalon
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Causing Another to Sin(Matthew 181-9)

• II. Meaning of Skandalizo Skandalon.
• A. Originally the stick used in a trap. Gr. OT
• 1. Lay a snare for me (Psalm 3812).
• 2. Stumbling block before blind (Lev. 1914).
• B. In NT temptation to sin, hindrance from doing
  right, causing to fall. 4 times Mt. 18.

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Causing Another to Sin(Matthew 181-9)

• III. Woe to the world because of offenses
  (7a).
• A. God is not pleased with things that cause to
  sin (Matthew 1340-42).
• B. Gods wrath is revealed against those who
  suppress truth (Romans 118).

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Causing Another to Sin(Matthew 181-9)

• IV. Offenses must come (7b).
• A. We cant escape temptation and sources of
  temptation (1 Corinthians 59-10).
• 1. We will have tribulation (John 1633).
• B. We are to flee from temptation (1 Cor 618
  1014 Col. 35 2 Tim. 222).

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Causing Another to Sin(Matthew 181-9)

• V. Woe to that man by whom the offense comes
  (7c).
• A. We must not be the occasion for stumbling to
  another person!
• B. How can we do this?
• 1. Open temptation (Revelation 214).
• 2. Hindrance from doing right (Matt. 1621-23).

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Causing Another to Sin(Matthew 181-9)

• VI. To what degree should we go to avoid this?
• A. Cut off hand, foot, or eye (Matt. 188-9
  529-30).
• B. We must give up what causes sin.
• 1. Liberties (1 Cor. 1025-29 Rom. 1419-21).
• 2. Anything (Rom. 1412-13) except the gospel
  (Rom. 933).