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(Hamartiology : Doctrine Of Sin)
SECTION 1: DEFINITION OF SIN
1. Definition From Dictionary
* Sin means transgression evil, a violation of an acceptance moral, religous or social codes
2. Definition From Bible
a. Sin Is An Act: The Breaking Of A Law Or Commandment Is Sin
1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
b. Sin Is A State
Roman 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
* The fallen state of man without righteousness
c. Sin Is A Nature
Roman 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
* The nature of fallen man at enmity with God
1. Sin Originated With Satan
Isaiah 14:12-14 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
a. Sin Exists When One Lusts For Something That One Shouldn't
James 1:14-15 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
2. Sin Entered The World Through Adam
Roman 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
3. The Fact Of The Fall Of Man (Step By Step To Sin)
a. It Starts Out With A Temptation And Questioning And Doubting God's Standards & Rules
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
b. They Will Subtracting And Add To God's Words
Genesis 3:2-3 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
c. They Will Make God A Liar
Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
d. They Will Have Thoughts About Being How Proud It Will Make Them
Genesis 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
e. They Will Lust Of Something That They Shouldn't Then Does The Action Of Sin
Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
SECTION 3: MANISFESTATION OF SIN (HOW SIN IS SHOWN IN THE BIBLE)
1. Trangression (Over Stepping Of The Law)
Psalms 51:1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2. Iniquity (Its An Act Inheritly Wrong Or Forbidden As Breaking Of Commandment)
Psalms 51:9-10 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
3. Error (Departure From Right)
2 Samuel 6:6-7 And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.
7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
* A lot of people do something wrong with good intentions
4. Missing The Mark (Failure To Meet The Divine Standards)
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
5. Trespass (Intrusion Of Self Will In God's Authority)
1 Chronicles 21:1-3 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
* Doing what we want to do rather than what God want us to do
* David wants to number the people of Israel. He has pride wanting to know the strenght of his armies. But God does not want that. This is known as trespass, intrusion of self will in God's authority
6. Lawlessness (Spiritual Anarchy)
1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
7. Death (Failure In Duty, Things We Leave Undone)
Matthew 18:27 Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
8. Unbelieve (Insults To The Divine Varisity Of God)
Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
1. Exodus 20:3-17
Exodus 20:3-17 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
* 9 Different Sins
* Idolatry (Exodus 20:3-6), Cursing (Exodus 20:7), Sabbath Breaking (Exodus 20:8-11), Disobedience To Parents (Exodus 20:12), Murder (Exodus 20:13), Adultery (Exodus 20:14), Stealing (Exodus 20:15), Lying (Exodus 20:16), Coveteousness (Exodus 20:17)
2. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
* fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate (guys acting like females), drunkards, revilers, extortioners
3. Romans 1:29-31
Romans 1:29-31 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable,
* 19 different sins
* unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful
4. 1 Timothy 1:9-11
1 Timothy 1:9-11 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
* lawless, disobedient, unholiness, profanity, whoremongers, kidnapping, false doctrine
5. Colosions 3:5-8
Colosions 3:5-8 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
* inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication
6. Galatians 5:19-21
Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
* lasciviousness, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, strife, seditions, heresies, revellings
7. Mark 7:20-23
Mark 7:20-23 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
* evil thoughts, an evil eye, foolishness
SECTION 5: SIN CANNOT BE HIDDEN
1. It Is Certain That Your Sin Will Be Found Out
Numbers 32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
2. It Is Certain The Sinner Will Be Found Out
Proverbs 28:13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
SECTION 6: DEATH FROM SIN
1. Physical Death
Genesis 3:17, 19 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Psalms 104:29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
2. Spiritual Death
Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
3. Eternal Death, 2nd Death
Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
SECTION 7: REMEDY FOR SIN (WHATS THE SOLUTION FOR SIN)
1. The Solution For Our Sin Is The Blood Of Jesus
Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
* How To Get That Blood Of Jesus To Wash Our Sin?
2. Confess Our Sins To God And Ask For His Blood To Wash Away Our Sins
1 John 1:7, 9 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Proverbs 28:13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.