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Man’s Ruin (What’s the Difference between Sin and Sins?)How do you study such a broad subject? Concordance = x749 sin, sins, sinning, sinned. [x220 NT]Use the concordance to analyse the subject and narrow the focus. Where are most references?NT = Romans (x57); Hebrews (x27). OT = Leviticus (x110); Numbers (x57).Proportionately = 1 John (13% of verses mention sin); Romans (10%). [Christ, 35% in Phil.]Ask simple questions. What is sin? When did sin begin? Why do we commit sins? How does sin affect mankind? Categorise the references.Use reference helps. Vine (Expository Dictionary). PS (Treasury: Man as a Sinner, EW Rogers). David Gooding (Key Bible Concepts). Systematic Theology (Emery Bancroft, Elemental Theology).The Cause of Sin What was the first sin? How did it all begin?Originated with Lucifer. Eze. 28.15 (figure of King of Tyre); Isa. 14.13-14 (figure of King of Babylon). Pride – possibly due to lower created being (Adam) given dominion over the earth.Sin did not originate with God. God did not create man a sinner (Ecc. 7.29). Sin is an ‘alien invader’ which has proved the ruin of all mankind and creation.Began on earth and infected humanity in Gen. 3. The plan of campaign was first to cast a doubt upon God’s word: then to distort it, then to deny it and finally to get the man and his wife to disobey it. The Devil seeks to do the same today.The Character of Sin What is it? Huge variety of words. Romans 5 uses a variety of words to describe the terrible nature of sin (in relation to Adam). hamartia (5.12) – general term for sin, meaning 'to miss the mark’ of God’s glory, Rom. 3.23.parabasis (5.14) – transgression, the breaking of a recognised limit or boundary.parakoe (5.19) – failing to hear when God speaks, or hearing carelessly and inattentively. John (1 John 3.4): Sin is lawlessness (anomia). Self-will. No regard for God or His word.James (Jam. 4.17): Sins of omission as well as commission.Paul (Rom. 14.23): To act against my Christian conviction is sin (even without any command). The Comparison of Sin and SinsRom. 5.12. Sin (singular) = evil principle, poison that infected the world. Indwelling. What I am.Sins (plural) = individual, personal sins. What I have done. Root and fruit.Adam, as representative head of the human race, affected his entire posterity when he sinned. All were made sinners (5.19). [Jelly mould]We are therefore sinners by nature and birth (Psa. 51.5). This is what I am (human). Sin corrupts and defiles every part of us (mind, will, emotions). Sin is incurably bad, always tending towards evil, not God. Children are naturally disobedient!Sins. Individual acts (what I do) which spring from indwelling sin (what I am).We do what we do because we are what we are.Gal. 5.19-21: The flesh (natural desires of the fallen man influenced by sin) produces: sexual immorality; drug and alcohol abuse; hostility towards others; gossip and arguments; self-ambition or worship (idolatry); divisive; jealousy; begrudging the success of others.Mankind is rotten to the core. Salvation must reach the root of the matter. Not just symptoms!The Consequences of SinSin (principle) brings death. Why do we die? Because we sin? No. We die because Adam sinned.Bold infidelity; turn pale and die.4523740147955Epitaph on a tombstone over four children, in St. Andrews Church Yard, Scotland.020000Epitaph on a tombstone over four children, in St. Andrews Church Yard, Scotland.Beneath this stone four sleeping infants lie;Say, are they lost or saved?If death’s by sin they sinned for they are here,If Heaven’s by works in Heaven they can’t appear,Reason, ah, how depraved!Turn to the Bible’s sacred page, the knot’s untied.They died, for Adam sinned;They live, for Jesus died.Leckie: Blood of Christ allows God to act when an exercise of faith is not possible.Sins bring guilt (Rom. 3.19), separation (Isa. 59.2) and judgment (Rev. 20.11-15).To die physically without God’s salvation is to remain in this state for eternity (second death).Scripture does not teach annihilation. See ‘He that believeth not…’ (McCauley).The Christian and SinIf (not when) a Christian sins – our standing before God does not change. We remain children.But, the enjoyment of our relationship is affected (communion).Father may discipline us (Heb. 12). Spirit is grieved (Eph. 4). Son rebukes by the word (Rev. 3.19).Our spiritual well-being is affected (1 Pet. 2.11). We become unfit for the Master’s use (2 Tim. 2).There is a loss of spiritual joy and fruitfulness (John 15). Sowing and reaping (Gal. 5), e.g. Jacob.But, we have the instruction of the Word of God (Psa. 119.9, 11) the indwelling of the Spirit of God (Rom. 8.13) and the intercession of the Son of God (Luke 22.32; Heb. 7.25). We have an Advocate (1 John 2.1). He is towards the Father and alongside us (paraclete).His work is to bring sins to the conscience, convict and cause confession unto communion. ................
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