THE REMISSION OF SIN
Text: Romans 6:23
Introduction:
1. Go back With me back as far as you can into human history, Back beyond the founding of America Beyond the rise and fall of the Roman Empire God is love and mercy created a world of imagination I was going to beautiful California history and Chris soon Send the great curse of mankind and sin is there the great curse of mankind.
2. The most terrible fact of this universe is the fact of sin, which is life’s most dreadful curse.
3. Sin in no whirlwind causing a slight disturbance. It is a hot sirocco blasting all that would stand before it.
4. Sin is the source of all evil, terror and horror that preys upon the citizens of mother earth.
5. Is sin really so bad? Consider:
Discussion:
I. Consider the cruel consequence of sin - death.
Romans 3:23 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Ezekiel 18:20 20 The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
A. A loving creator warned our first parents sin would bring death.
Genesis 2:17 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
B. The Devil in the form of the Serpent told Eve that she would not die if she ate of the forbidden fruit.
C. She trusted Satan and her own personal opinions more than she trusted God.
D. Instead of saying, “Get behind me Satan, I trust in the word of God,” she listened, she looked, she lusted, she ate and she died.
E. So did Adam.
Genesis 3:4 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.
Romans 5:12 12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
F. When one sins against God and others, something within him dies.
II. Sin is the most corrupting, destructive force in the universe.
A. God is the source of ever good and perfect gift.
James 1:17 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
B. Yet, when sin is added to any God-given virtue, gift or achievement it spells grief, misery and suffering and ultimately, death.
1. A gun plus sin will produce violence and murder.
2. Success plus sin will produce arrogance and pride.
3. Money plus sin will produce greed, blackmail and bribery.
4. Love plus sin turns to lust.
5. A bottle of alcohol, a vile of drugs, a magazine in a friend’s house, an internet connection, an automobile parked on the street corner or a gun hidden away: all of these are merely inanimate objects but allow sin to enter the picture and any one of them will spell disaster!
6. Song “Sin is to Blame.”
III. Gospel is Good News that we are not without hope when it comes to dealing with sin.
A. God has not left us powerless.
Isaiah 1:18 18 “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Isaiah 53:6 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Psalm 103:12 12 as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
Micah 7:19 19 He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Isaiah 38:17 17 . . . in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Isaiah 43:25 25 “I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
Jeremiah 31:34 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Psalm 32:1 1 Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
B. God offers to completely pardon our sins.
Isaiah 55:7 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
C. All of these Old Testament promises were made in view of the fact that Christ would bruise the Serpent’s head or give the Devil a death blow from which he would never recover.
D. As Christ instituted the Lord’s Supper the Bible says,
Matthew 26:27-28 27 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, 28 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Hebrews 9:22 22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
E. His soul cleansing blood was real. Ask the execution squad.
John 19:34-35 34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. 35 He who saw it has borne witness— his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth— that you also may believe.
IV. We must set about our task with vigor. It is to proclaim to a lost and dying world that sin is to blame but the gospel of Christ is the solution.
Luke 24:47 47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
A. To the world, we have been heavy on the need to repent and have failed to emphasize the joy of salvation.
B. Any good salesman knows that you can’t make a sale unless people see the need and the benefits.
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D. What was it that motivated David to repent of his sins. My sin is ever before me . . .
Psalm 51:1-4 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! 3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4 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.
E. Our brethren know better than anyone else on the face of the earth what an alien sinner has to do to have his sins forgiven and become a Christian.
F. Give plan.
G. But when it comes to what a Christian does to stay saved, we have completely missed the point. Turned good news into bad news.
H. Our goal. Perfect seek first.
Matthew 6:33 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
I. No one can do that in this life.
1 John 1:7-10 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
1 John 2:1 1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
1 John 3:18-21 18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; 20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
1 John 5:11-15 11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
J. Statement, _When I look at the people in the church today, I just don_t think very many will make it._
K. This statement is fake!!! Show me that doctrine in the Bible!! Look at Corinth, Rome, Ephesus etc.
Philippians 1:5-6 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. 6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Romans 15:14-15 14 I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another. 15 But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God
Hebrews 6:9 9 Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation.
Sermon History:
09 27 1998 AM Waterford, MI
David E. Parks
