{"id":1130,"date":"2011-12-03T11:49:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T17:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:09","slug":"what-is-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"What is Sin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Romans 6:16-23, 7:13<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sin is a crooked, preverse, distorted, rotteness of the soul. Sin drives the brain mad, makes the heart desperately wicked, blinds the eyes, defeans the ears and sets the tonge on fire of Hell.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: The Reality of Sin:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Sin isn&#8217;t a fancy of the mind nor a thing we can ignore.<!--more--><br \/>\n2. Satan is real and not a myth.<br \/>\n3. Sin is real to Adam and Eve.<br \/>\n4. Men good and bad know that God&#8217;s wrath is upon sin.<br \/>\na. Adam &amp; Eve tasted the penalty.<br \/>\nb. Israel as a Nation found that it was real.<br \/>\nc. Ahab and his wicked wife paid the price.<br \/>\nd. David gathered many a heartache from his crop of sin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: The Results of Sin: One word, death.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The whole body &amp; soul is effected.<br \/>\n2. The soul that sins shall die. The wages of sin is death.<br \/>\n3. Members of the body effected:<br \/>\na. The Heart as the seat of effection.<br \/>\nb. The Mouth speaks from the abundance of the heart.<br \/>\nc. The Eyes become filed with adultery, envy, &amp; spride, but blind to the goodness of God. &#8220;Pluck it out!&#8221;<strong> Matthew 18:9.<\/strong><br \/>\nd. &#8220;Hands become instruments of sin and bring one to the pits of Hell.&#8221;<strong> Matthew 18:8.<\/strong><br \/>\ne. &#8220;The Feet are effected by sin and run to shed inncent blood and walk one into eternal Hell.&#8221;<strong> Matthew 18:8.<\/strong><br \/>\nf. Sin seperates eternally from God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: The Cure for Sin:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Man has tried many ways to rid himself of sin.<br \/>\na. Adam &amp; Eve tried fig leaves.<br \/>\nb. Idols have always fooled man.<br \/>\nc. Israel tried a golden calf.<br \/>\nd. Heatern offered everything from children to chickens.<br \/>\ne. Always there is the feeling that the Gods aren&#8217;t appeased, (The baggy pants of Africa).<br \/>\n2. Jesus Christ came to make possible a way out.<br \/>\na. His life was lived to show us the way.<br \/>\nb. His death on Calvary opened the Cleansing Fountain.<br \/>\nc. His resurrection shows his power to complete the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romans 6:16-23, 7:13 Sin is a crooked, preverse, distorted, rotteness of the soul. Sin drives the brain mad, makes the heart desperately wicked, blinds the eyes, defeans the ears and sets the tonge on fire of Hell. I: The Reality of Sin: 1. Sin isn&#8217;t a fancy of the mind nor a thing we can [&hellip;]<\/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-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130"}],"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=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}