View Video Blog Right Click Link: I John 3:4
Everyone who makes a
practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
THE STUDY:
This verse is translated so many
different ways:
NASB: “Everyone
who practices sin also practices lawlessness”
NKJV: “Whoever
commits sin also commits lawlessness”
NRSV: “Everyone
who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness”
TEV: “Whoever
sins is guilty of breaking God’s law”
Two senses
may be present in this verse. First,
sin is a breaking of the law. People create a performance record of violations; they break the law in an ongoing
way.
Second,
people may have a spirit hostile to
the laws of God—sin is a lawless spirit. Sin may be understood especially as a lawless attitude toward God. Thus, sin
is a condition from which believers must
be set free. Paul writes similarly of sin as an inner compulsion that combats
his better, spiritual judgment (see Rom 7:23).
Foundationally, John appears to
believe that people sin because they are first sinners. They have an anti-God
attitude that manifests itself in opposition to the purposes of God. Thus, the
most fundamental need for everyone is to find correction for the core character
problem, an answer that will turn the heart’s affections strongly godward. Such
a solution would make it as natural to do the right, the holy, as formerly it
was “natural” to do the wrong, the sinful.[1]
WHAT WE CAN WALK
AWAY WITH ….
- We walk away this morning understanding that we are naturally “bent toward sin!” This all can be changed by the one who dwells inside of us: Jesus! We cannot change our nature but the Holy Spirit that dwells inside of us can. This is what Paul meant when he talked about dying to the old self! Death and life are eternal but they each have different results: one is the result of (death), the other is the surrender of (life).
CONCLUSION:
What is sin?
Man calls it an accident; God calls it an abomination.
Man calls it a blunder; God calls it
blindness.
Man calls it a defect; God calls it a disease.
Man calls it a chance; God calls it a choice.
Man calls it an error; God calls it an enmity.
Man calls it a fascination; God calls it a
fatality.
Man calls it an infirmity; God calls it an
iniquity.
Man calls it a luxury; God calls it a leprosy.
Man calls it a liberty; God calls it
lawlessness.
Man calls it a trifle; God calls it a tragedy.
Man calls it a mistake; God calls it a
madness.
Man calls it a weakness; God calls it
willfulness. [2]
Today, let the
Spirit that lives inside you point you toward a life that is filled with His
glory and not a life of sin that will lead to death!
Blessings my friends
Pastor Rod
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