The Exceeding Sinfulness

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The Exceeding Sinfulness

• Of Sin

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The Exceeding Sinfulness of Sin

• The Greek word most often translated sin
  literally means to miss the mark.
• Thus, when we sin, we miss the mark God has set
  for us.

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Romans 321-24

• But now the righteousness of God apart from the
  law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and
  the Prophets, even the righteousness of God,
  through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all
  who believe. For there is no difference for all
  have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
  being justified freely by His grace through the
  redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

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Romans 325-26

• whom God set forth as a propitiation by His
  blood, through faith, to demonstrate His
  righteousness, because in His forbearance God had
  passed over the sins that were previously
  committed, to demonstrate at the present time His
  righteousness, that He might be just and the
  justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

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The Exceeding Sinfulness of Sin

• The Greek word most often translated sin
  literally means to miss the mark.
• Thus, when we sin, we miss the mark God has set
  for us.
• But there are other things we need to know about
  sin in order that we may understand the exceeding
  sinfulness of sin.

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Romans 79-13

• I was alive once without the law, but when the
  commandment came, sin revived and I died. And the
  commandment, which was to bring life, I found to
  bring death. For sin, taking occasion by the
  commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.
  Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment
  holy and just and good. Has then what is good
  become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that
  it might appear sin, was producing death in me
  through what is good, so that sin through the
  commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

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Synonyms for Sin

• Transgression Primarily a going aside, then, an
  overstepping, is used metaphorically to denote
  transgression (always a breach of law)
• Iniquity sets forth the essential character
  of sin as the rejection of the law, or will, of
  God and the substitution of the will of self
• Unrighteousness The comprehensive term for
  wrong, or wrong-doing

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Two Categories of Sin

• Sins of commissiondoing what God forbids or does
  not authorize

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1 John 34

• Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the
  law for sin is the transgression of the law.
  (KJV)
• Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and
  sin is lawlessness. (NKJV)

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Two Categories of Sin

• Sins of commissiondoing what God forbids or does
  not authorize
• Sins of omissionfailing to do what is good

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James 417

• Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does
  not do it, to him it is sin. (NKJV)
• So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails
  to do it, for him it is sin. (ESV)

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Biblical Figures for Sin

• A heavy burden which the Lord will gladly
  replace with a lighter one

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Psalm 384

• For my iniquities have gone over my head Like a
  heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

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Isaiah 2420

• The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard,
  And shall totter like a hut Its transgression
  shall be heavy upon it, And it will fall, and not
  rise again.

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Matthew 1128-30

• "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy
  laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke
  upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and
  lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your
  souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is
  light."

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Biblical Figures for Sin

• A heavy burden which the Lord will gladly
  replace with a lighter one
• Foolishness

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Numbers 121,2

• Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because
  of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married for
  he had married an Ethiopian woman.
• So they said, "Has the LORD indeed spoken only
  through Moses? Has He not spoken through us
  also?" And the LORD heard it.

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Numbers 123,4

• (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all
  men who were on the face of the earth.)
• Suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and
  Miriam, "Come out, you three, to the tabernacle
  of meeting!" So the three came out.

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Numbers 125,6

• Then the LORD came down in the pillar of cloud
  and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and
  called Aaron and Miriam. And they both went
  forward.
• Then He said, "Hear now My words
• "If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD,
  make Myself known to him in a vision I speak to
  him in a dream.

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Numbers 127-9

• Not so with My servant Moses He is faithful in
  all My house. I speak with him face to face, Even
  plainly, and not in dark sayings And he sees the
  form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid To
  speak against My servant Moses?"
• So the anger of the LORD was aroused against
  them, and He departed.

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Numbers 1210,11

• And when the cloud departed from above the
  tabernacle, suddenly Miriam became leprous, as
  white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam,
  and there she was, a leper.
• So Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord! Please do
  not lay this sin on us, in which we have done
  foolishly and in which we have sinned."

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1 Samuel 137,8

• And some of the Hebrews crossed over the Jordan
  to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he
  was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed
  him trembling. Then he waited seven days,
  according to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel
  did not come to Gilgal and the people were
  scattered from him.

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1 Samuel 139,10

• So Saul said, "Bring a burnt offering and peace
  offerings here to me." And he offered the burnt
  And offering. Now it happened, as soon as he had
  finished presenting the burnt offering, that
  Samuel came and Saul went out to meet him, that
  he might greet him.

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1 Samuel 1311-12

• And Samuel said, "What have you done?" And Saul
  said, "When I saw that the people were scattered
  from me, and that you did not come within the
  days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered
  together at Michmash, then I said, 'The
  Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal,
  and I have not made supplication to the LORD.'
  Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt
  offering."

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1 Samuel 1313

• And Samuel said to Saul, "You have done
  foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of
  the Lord your God, which He commanded you. For
  now the Lord would have established your kingdom
  over Israel forever."

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2 Samuel 2410

• And David's heart condemned him after he had
  numbered the people. So David said to the Lord,
  "I have sinned greatly in what I have done but
  now, I pray, O Lord, take away the iniquity of
  Your servant, for I have done very foolishly."

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Psalm 385

• My wounds are foul and festering Because of my
  foolishness.