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Are You Winning The Battle Against Sin?

• Sin
• Error
• Iniquity
• Unrighteousness
• Wickedness
• Trespass
• Transgression

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A Powerful Enemy

• Ephesians 612Put on the whole armor of God,
  that you may be able to stand against the wiles
  of the devil.  For we do not wrestle against
  flesh and blood, but against principalities,
  against powers, against the rulers of the
  darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of
  wickedness in the heavenly places. 

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A Powerful Enemy

• 1 Peter 58Be sober, be vigilant because your
  adversary the devil walks about like a roaring
  lion, seeking whom he may devour.

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A Powerful Enemy

• Genesis 217 God said itbut from the tree of
  the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat,
  for in the day that you eat from it you shall
  surely die.
• Genesis 324 God meant itSo He drove the man
  out and at the east of the Garden of Eden He
  stationed the cherubim, and the flaming sword
  which turned every direction, to guard the way to
  the tree of life.

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A Powerful Enemy

• Isaiah 592But your iniquities have separated
  you from your God and your sins have hidden His
  face from you, so that He will not hear.
• Ephesians 21And you were dead in trespasses
  and sins.

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A Powerful Enemy

• Romans 623For the wages of sin is death, but
  the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
  our Lord.
• 1 Corinthians 1556-57The sting of death is
  sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But
  thanks be to God, who gives us the victory
  through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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God Paid A Terrible Price

• 2 Corinthians 521For He made Him who knew no
  sin to be sin for us, that we might become the
  righteousness of God in Him.
• 1 Corinthians 153 For I delivered to you first
  of all that which I also received that Christ
  died for our sins according to the Scriptures.

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God Paid A Terrible Price

• Romans 61-2What shall we say then? Shall we
  continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly
  not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer
  in it?
• See Romans 612-18

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God Demands Honesty

• 1 John 16-10
• (6) If we say that we have fellowship with Him,
  and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice
  the truth. 
• (8) If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
  ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 
• (10) If we say that we have not sinned, we make
  Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

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God Demands Honesty

• 1 John 21-4
• (1) My little children, these things I write to
  you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins,
  we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ
  the righteous. (2) And He Himself is the
  propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only
  but also for the whole world. (3) Now by this we
  know that we know Him, if we keep His
  commandments. (4) He who says, I know Him, and
  does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and
  the truth is not in him. (see 1 John 34-8)

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What Is Sin?

• A Violation of the Conscience
• Romans 1423 But he who doubts is condemned if
  he eats, because he does not eat from faith for
  whatever is not from faith is sin.
• This passage teaches that we must not violate our
  conscience. If we believe something is not lawful
  or is not pleasing to God, to do it anyway is sin.

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What Is Sin?

• A Violation of the Conscience
• Defined the inner sense of what is right or
  wrong in ones conduct or motives, impelling one
  toward right action to follow the dictates of
  conscience.
• (Dictionary.com)

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What Is Sin?

• A Violation of the Conscience
• Romans 212-16 The conscience accuses us if our
  actions are not in conformity with our own
  understanding of what is right and wrong. It does
  not make the laws, it merely sits in judgment on
  whether the laws have been obeyed.

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What Is Sin?

• A Violation of the Conscience
• Not an infallible guide
• John 162 the time is coming that whoever
  kills you will think that he offers God service.
• Acts 231 Men and brethren, I have lived in
  all good conscience before God until this day.
  (see also Acts 269)

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What Is Sin?

• A Violation of the Conscience
• Not an infallible guide
• Just because we act in good conscience does not
  mean that we are without sin.

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What Is Sin?

• A Violation of the Conscience
• Must be educated by Gods Word
• e.g., organization, worship work of the church
  (Col. 317 Matt. 159)
• e.g., modest apparel, lascivious acts, moral
  choices, entertainment(1 Tim. 29-10 Eph.
  53-11)

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What Is Sin?

• A Violation of the Conscience
• Can be hardened defiled
• Eph. 418-19 being darkened in their
  understanding, excluded from the life of God
  because of the ignorance that is in them, because
  of the hardness of their heart and they, having
  become callous, have given themselves over to
  sensuality for the practice of every kind of
  impurity with greediness.

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What Is Sin?

• A Violation of the Conscience
• Can be hardened defiled
• 1 Tim. 41-2 Now the Spirit expressly says
  that in latter times some will depart from the
  faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and
  doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy,
  having their own conscience seared with a hot
  iron

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What Is Sin?

• A Violation of the Conscience
• Can be hardened defiled
• Titus 115-16 To the pure all things are pure,
  but to those who are defiled and unbelieving
  nothing is pure but even their mind and
  conscience are defiled. They profess to know God,
  but in works they deny Him, being abominable,
  disobedient, and disqualified for every good
  work.

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What Is Sin?

• A Violation of the Conscience
• Can be hardened defiled
• Jeremiah 812 Were they ashamed when they had
  committed abomination? No! They were not at all
  ashamed, nor did they know how to blush.
  Therefore they shall fall among those who fall
  in the time of their punishment they shall be
  cast down, says the Lord.

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We Should Welcome Help

• Surrounded by humanistic thinking
• There is no absolute truth
• No one has the right to say Im wrong
• Leave me alone, its my life
• When brethren warn us Do we think Thats just
  your opinion Youre judging me Youre not
  loving (Romans 1514 1 Thess. 514)

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Will You Obey The Gospel?
Hear The Gospel (Rom. 1017) Believe in Jesus
as the Son of God (John 824) Repent of Your
Sins (Acts 1730-31) Confess Jesus as Lord (Rom
109-10) Be Baptized for Forgiveness of Sins
(Acts 238) Live Faithfully Until You Die (Rev.
210)
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What Is Sin?

• Knowing To Do Good, And Not Doing It
• James 417 Therefore, to him who knows to do
  good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

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Admonish One Another

• Not casual communication or normal teaching.
  Implies specific exhortation, correction or
  warning.
• Acts 2031
• Romans 1514
• 1 Corinthians 1011
• Ephesians 64
• Colossians 128 316
• 1 Thessalonians 512,14
• 2 Thessalonians 315
• Titus 310

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Admonish One Another

• Admonition often involves the application of
  Gods inspired principles to a circumstance.
• It includes wisdom, which is Gods instruction
  applied.
• We are to help each other obtain wisdom so that
  we may avoid sin!

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Admonish One Another

• God commands us to share and receive wisdom
  (applications).
• Teaching in the NT
• Titus 23-5
• 1 Corinthians 1011
• 1 Timothy 413
• 2 Timothy 42

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Admonish One Another

• How to Give Receive Admonition
• Acts 2031With Deep Concern and Love
• Rom. 1514With Goodness, Filled with Knowledge
• Gal. 61-3With Humility and Gentleness

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Admonish One Another

• Areas of Wisdom in Which Admonition Might Be
  Given
• Spiritual Priorities
• Raising Children
• Moral Issues
• Handling the Scriptures Accurately

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7 Greek Words

• 1 - sin (hamartia, 174 times) a missing of the
  mark to wander from the law of God, violate
  Gods law James 417 1 John 34
• Romans 623 - For the wages of sin is death, but
  the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
  our Lord.

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7 Greek Words

• 2 - error (plané, 10 times) a wander-ing, a
  forsaking of the right path James 520 1 John
  46 2 Peter 218 Jude 11
• 2 Peter 317b - beware lest you also fall from
  your own steadfastness, being led away with the
  error of the wicked

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7 Greek Words

• 3 - iniquity (anomia, 17 times) lawless-ness or
  wickedness, crookedness Matt. 1341 Titus 214
  1 John 34
• Matthew 723 - And then I will declare to them,
  I never knew you depart from Me, you who
  practice lawlessness!

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7 Greek Words

• 4 - unrighteousness (adikia, 25 times)
  unrighteousness of heart and life a deed
  violating law and justice Luke 168 186
  James 36
• 1 John 517 All unrighteousness is sin, and
  there is sin not leading to death.

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7 Greek Words

• 5 - evil (ponereia, 7 times) depravity, evil,
  wickedness Matthew 2218 Mark 722 Luke 1139
  Romans 129
• Ephesians 612 - For we do not wrestle against
  flesh and blood, but against principal-ities,
  against powers, against the rulers of the
  darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of
  wickedness in the heavenly places.

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7 Greek Words

• 6 - trespass (paraptoma, 23 times) a lapse or
  deviation from uprightness, a misdeed Matthew
  1835 Mark 1125,26 Galatians 61 James 516
  Colossians 213 Ephesians 17 21,5
• Matthew 614 For if you forgive men their
  trespasses, your heavenly Father will also
  forgive you.

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7 Greek Words

• 7 - transgression (parabasis, 7 times) a
  disregarding, a violation the breach of a
  definite law Romans 415 513,14,20 77,13
• Galatians 319 - What purpose then does the law
  serve? It was added because of transgressions,.