Sin Is A Heart Issue 7/8/18

Sin, it is a heart issue!

July 8, 2018

 

“You know the next commandment pretty well, too: ‘Don’t go to bed with another’s spouse.’  But don’t think you’ve preserved your virtue simply by staying out of bed.  Your heart can be corrupted by lust even quicker than your body.  Those leering looks that you think nobody notices -- they also corrupt. Let’s not pretend that this is easier than it really is.  If you want to live a morally pure life, here’s what you have to do:  You have to blind your right eye the moment that you catch it in a lustful leer. You have to chose to live one-eyed or else be dumped on a moral trash pile.  And you have to chop off your right had the moment you notice it raised threateningly.  Better a bloody stump than your entire being discarded for good in the dump.”  (Matthew 5:27-30, The Message)

 

His words have more to do with the h______ than with the a__________.

We want to reduce it all to ‘what we do’ or more correctly, ‘what we don’t do’.. and if we don’t do what we have determined to be w_______... then we are ok.

 

The whole point here is that none of us, ... and that means not one of us... is without s____....  And the Wages of sin is still the same... Death!

 

• .... I don’t believe that He was seriously intending that we should m_____________ ourselves because of the fact that we looked at a woman and found that there resided within us, a corrupting element of l_______!

On the contrary, I think that what He is doing here is pointing out the entirely foolish idea that somehow a person could so d____________ oneself that they could get to the point that they and their b___________ would be acceptable to God.

 

The Problem is that we have lost sight of the r_________ of sin.... we don’t understand that the real problem in our relationships is and always will be, put very  simply, SIN!

 

“There is none righteous, no, not one!”...

 

The point of the passage in vs 29-30 is clearly that we need to recognize sin for what it is.... it is something that ought to make us w__________ to do whatever it takes to get away from it.   

 

• Sin is the w______ thing that can happen to a person...
• it would, indeed be b_______ to go through life blind, and crippled then to allow Sin to reign in our lives... And if that would resolve the sin question I would certainly be promoting it...
• but any reasonable person knows that sin would find a way to take us _______.

 

Romans 6:23 states that “the wages of sin is death BUT the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord

 

John 3:16 points out that “God so loved the World that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life!