Whoever sins is guilty of breaking God's law, because sin is a breaking of the law.
(1 John 3:4 GNB).
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Hello and welcome back to thinking about the Bible, thinking about some of the important words in Scripture. Today we're talking about sin, not something we particularly care to talk about most of the time, but today remember we're not going to be focused on really much of the doctrine, the theology, that kind of thing. Our goal in this series is to simply give a definition of sin, in this case sin, and in 1 John 3 4 we have a definition of sin. I'm going to read to you from the Good News Bible, whoever sins is guilty of breaking God's law because sin is a breaking of the law, and that's translated a number of different ways, but it says basically the same thing as the Good News Bible, that sin is breaking the law of God, and you can't get away from that. We also need to talk about the two types of sin that are broad categories that are affecting human beings, and first of all is what we call original sin, that's Adam when he Adam and Eve rebelled against God, decided they wanted to be their own God, for themselves what was right and wrong, and in Adam everyone sinned in the sense that as our federal head, or our covenant head is a better way to put it I think, that Adam pulled all of humanity into a position of sinner because we all inherited that nature of rebellion against God, and without the saving work of Jesus Christ we would remain in that position of being at enmity with God, so there's original sin and that's the corruption, it expresses itself I guess you say as a tendency towards sin. There is no point in time, and I know this is something that's a bit of a controversial subject, but there's no point in time when human beings are without sin, we aren't born innocent and then learn to sin, we are born corrupt, we are born with a sin nature that must be transformed, that's why Paul says we're a new creation in Christ, to get rid of that old nature, so there's that sin, the original sin that we all carry and is actually part of our nature, but the sin that we tend to think about on a daily basis is the guilt of breaking God's law, now most of us aren't murderers, thank heaven for that, thieves, adulterers, etc, so those big laws we would like to think, that's really what defines someone as a sinner, if they're defying God in that way, but the truth is we all sin on a daily basis, Jesus made it very clear that our very thoughts are something that are subject to God's law, subject to God's overview and his will must be done even in our thoughts, so if we're thinking bad thoughts, if we're thinking angry thoughts, we're thinking murderous thoughts, if we're thinking lustful thoughts or envious thoughts or whatever, we are guilty of sin, so sin is once again the breaking of God's law, whoever sins is guilty of breaking God's law, because sin is a breaking of the law, so there you go, that's sin and so today I'd like you to join with me thinking about the ways we can avoid sin, Paul told Timothy to flee youthful lusts, there's times when you need to get away from something that might cause you to sin, but primarily it's, I think the best way to keep from sinning is to steep ourselves in the Word of God and to be in an attitude of prayer on a regular basis, so we'll get into more of that, I'm getting off the subject here, but that's the subject for the day, sin and my hope for you is that you will avoid sin today at all costs, as you do your very best to be pleasing to the Lord God and avoid the breaking of his law.
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