Our Secret Sins And What They Cause

2. Our morals and values will reverse into what is good is wrong and what is wrong is good.

3. The nation as a whole begins to get caught up in the sin of political correctness. We can’t say anything against this or that or protest against something because it would make someone mad.

b. As we ignore God’s commands, negative consequences result.

c. It is not enough to know God’s word or even believe it; we must follow it and apply it to life daily activities.

d. We must take God’s commands seriously.

e. We all have weak spots and it is here where we face temptation. We are to avoid those temptation and face them in the strength of the Lord.

i. If we don’t give our temptations over to Christ we will give in to them in our own strength.

ii. We can’t overcome our temptations in our own power. We may resist for a while but eventually our strength will wear our.

iii. We will begin to rationalize that the weakness or sin is okay, it is not as bad as somebody else’s sin.

iv. In our nation today we have rationalized many reasons why our national sins are okay.

1. abortion- mothers right to decide

2. Pre-martial sex- lets live together and see if it will work our. It is hurting no one. It is my body I can do with it what I want.

3. Homosexuality- God made me this way (wrong answer God makes no mistakes. He did not make you that way. He made man and woman and put them together as man and wife. He did not create homosexuality man did. Sin and your own sin nature makes you want to go against God’s natural order. Sin enters and you become so depraved that you will want to go against God’s divine plan)

4. Taking God out of our nation.

f. Sin affects our spiritual growth. When we lose that personal relationship with God then we stop growing until we confess that sin and regain that close personal relationship with Him again. The Word of God is the wisdom we must seek in our life. We are to use it at all times.

i. We may know the right way to live but sin will try to prevent us from living that right way.

ii. Many people know right from wrong but they don’t always do right.

iii. We need to develop not only the wisdom to do right but the will to do it.

g. Sin causes us to run away from God.

i. Not an abrupt but a gradual process.

ii. Over time little sins grow until we fall.

iii. We make excuses for sins and that causes us troubles. We must never let any sin go unchallenged.

iv. Unchallenged sin is like a cancer and it will spread through us to those around us to our nation.

III. How are we to deal with Sin?

a. We are to confess that Sin to God

b. We are to ask for the strength to resist temptation

c. We are to have faith that through Him you can overcome.

Our sins can and do affect our nation. We must confess our sins as an individual and as a nation and Ask God to lead our nation once again.

IV. conclusion

a. Pastor Lee Strobel shares this account:

We were doing a baptism service. We told people before they came up to the platform to be baptized to take a piece of paper, write down a few of the sins they’ve committed, and fold the paper. When they come up to the platform, there was a large wooden cross on the stage. Take that piece of paper, take a pin, and pin it to the cross, because the Bible says our sins are nailed to the cross with Jesus Christ, and fully paid for by his death. Then turn and come to the pastor to be baptized.