SIN

Biblical Overview of Sin

Old Testament• Sin as a Violation of Absolute and Universal

Laws• Personal sins against a personal God

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

Psalm 51:4

Old Testament• Sin as a Violation of Absolute and Universal

Laws• Personal sins against a personal God• Sin corrupts the whole

Psalm 128: 1 Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways!

2 You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house;

your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessedwho fears the Lord.

5 The Lord bless you from Zion!May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life!6 May you see your children's children!Peace be upon Israel!

Old Testament• Sin as a Violation of Absolute and Universal

Laws• Personal sins against a personal God• Sin corrupts the whole

New Testament1. Sin in relationship to the Law– Legalism– License to Sin– Freedom for Obedience• Romans 8:3-4

For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Romans 8:3-4

New Testament Continued2. The “Flesh” is Full of Sin– Romans 7– Galatians 5:19– Romans 8:6-8– Romans 7:14

New Testament Continued3. Sin is Unbelief

And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.)

9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2 Thessalonians 2:6-12

New Testament Continued

4. The Horror of Sin

The Nature of Sin• The Essence of Sin–Urge for Independence from God–3 Urges for Independence

1. Hedonist Urge2. Covetous Urge3. Prideful Urge

Total DepravityDefinition:

Mind: Ephesians 4:17-18Emotions/Affections: Ephesians 2:3Will: Romans 1:32

Total InabilityDefinition:

Texts:• Romans 8:6-8• Isaiah 64:61 • Corinthians 2:14• Hebrews 11:6• John 6:44

Acts of Personal Sin1. Commission and Ommission2. Outward Action and Inward Attitude3. Conscious Rebellion vs. Ignorance4. Greater and Lesser

Social Manifestations of Sin1. Good Structures Used for Evil2. Formation of Evil Structures to do Evil

Original SinDefinition:

The Making of the Fall1. Humanity Created Good2. Adam’s Sin3. Individual Human Moral Responsibility4. Universality of Sin and Death

Theories of Original Sin1. Federal (Representative) Theory2. Realist Theory

God’s Victory Over Sin• God’s Defeat of Sin in His People– Col. 1:21-23– 1 Peter 2:24-25

• God’s Cosmic Victory Over Sin– Phil. 2:9-11– Eph. 1:9-10– Micah 4:1-5