{"id":1101,"date":"2011-12-03T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T17:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:09","slug":"the-nature-consequences-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"The Nature &#038; Consequences of Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jeremiah 2:9-119<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: The Nature of Sin:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Sin is unnatural.<br \/>\na. The Hebrew nation was planted like a noble vine, but had become like a wild vine.<br \/>\nb. The farmer couldn&#8217;t recognise the wine.<br \/>\nc. When man lives a life of sin he isn&#8217;t behaving as God created him.<!--more--><br \/>\nd. &#8220;Sin separates from God and brings eternal death to the soul.&#8221;<strong> Romans 3:23.<\/strong><br \/>\nSin is a disease of the soul that only God can cure.<br \/>\n2. Sin is unreasonable.<br \/>\na. A life of sin contradicts sensible thought.<br \/>\nb. In no other phase of life do we go so much against reason as in our spiritual lives.<br \/>\nc. The Christian way of life does make sense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: Why do men choose a life of sin?<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Sinful lust has a strong appeal.<br \/>\n2. Men rebel against restraint, (the Prodical).<br \/>\n3. The life of self-denial is too much.<br \/>\n4. The Power of Money &#8211; &#8220;A money mad people care little for the rights of God or man.&#8221;<br \/>\nHow can we change the curse of men?<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: The Consequences of Sin.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The soul that sins shall die.<br \/>\n2. Sin brings sorrow, (Israel paid the price).<br \/>\n3. Sin brings judgment, &#8220;I saw a great white throne, and him who sat upon it.&#8221; <strong>Revelation 20:11.<\/strong><br \/>\n4. Sin leaves one to his own resources.<br \/>\n5. Sin blinds one to the best ways of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremiah 2:9-119 I: The Nature of Sin: 1. Sin is unnatural. a. The Hebrew nation was planted like a noble vine, but had become like a wild vine. b. The farmer couldn&#8217;t recognise the wine. c. When man lives a life of sin he isn&#8217;t behaving as God created him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}