PLAYING GAMES WITH SIN...
Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
TEXT:
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus
Christ our Lord.
Numbers 32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure
your sin will find you out.
GOD HATES SIN, BUT HE LOVES SINNERS...
I. LET US LOOK AT TWO DIFFERENT STRADEGIES FOR TWO THINGS... WORK VS PLAY
A. WHERE IS GOD'S PURPOSE FOR ME?
1. WORK: APPLICATION OF MENTAL OR PHYSICAL EFFORT FOR A PURPOSE,
not idle, to be employed or engaged, gradually or with difficulty, to solve; to advance...
labor, toil
2. PLAY: recreation; occupy or amuse self pleasantly or idly; light hearted, a performance,
to compete, take a role or position; amusement, behave irresponsibly; sport
B. ARE WE SEARCHING FOR:
1. TOYS: play thing, something for amusement; FLIRT...
2. TOOLS: thing used to accomplish a goal,
WHY COULD PLAYING WITH SIN BE DANGEROUS?
II. IS THE SPIRIT MAN DEALING WITH WORK OR PLAY?
WILL THE SPIRIT MAN SEEK TOYS OR TOOLS?
A. Sin is man slapping God in the face--- saying I AM INDEPENDENT OF GOD.
I can do life MY OWN WAY...
B. LOOK AT WHAT IS IN THE CENTER:
1. pr-I-de
2. Luc-I-fer
3. S-I-n
C. You can not find LITTLE SIN in the Bible, all sin will destroy the individual and the society.
D. One little leak can sink a boat, sin will eventually destroy the person.
E. There are TWO TYPES OF SIN:
1. OMMISSION
2. COMMISSION
As a believe mature his type of sin should avoid commission.
F. SIN is often PROPORTIONAL to how CLOSE you are to God.
Weak Christians are tempted...
Stronger Christians are PERSECUTED...
Which are you?
G. Sin is energy and focus in the WRONG CHANNEL.
H. Man has the tendency to EXCUSE or PALLIATE sin.
I. Sin has WAGES...
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus
Christ our Lord.
III. SIN HAS AT LEAST 5 CHARARACTERISTICS:
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and
the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world
1. Sin is always rebellion and declaring INDEPENDENDANCE from God and His word.
2. SIN IS NOT OF FAITH --- SIN IS ALWAYS SELFISH, SELF-WILLED,
DEMANDS: WHAT IS IN THIS FOR ME...
3. Sin is never submissive and concerned with the LORDSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST.
4. Sin is never giving, sin is always TAKING, give me more.
God adds and multiplies; Satan subtracts and divides.
5. Sin always becomes an issue of PRIDE, braggart, it's all about me...
Never being humble
IV. SIN IS ALWAYS LONELY AND SEEKS FOR MORE AND MORE.
SIN WANTS A SAFE PLACE... THERE ARE NO SAFE PLACES IN GOD...
SIN SAYS: I CAN QUIT AND WALK AWAY ANY TIME I WANT TO...
SIN BECOMES A HOOK IN THE NOSE... SIN BLINDS...
A. Samson was searching for more. Samson was searching for love...
But Samson was searching in all the wrong places...
B. Look where Samson searched: IN THE SPIIRIT? IN THE FLESH...
C. SAMSON, STRONG BOY THOUGHT LIFE WAS A GAME, ALL ABOUT HIM, LET'S PLAY
A FEW MORE NIGHTS...
Judges 16:3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight,...
V. SIN IS A LYE, YOU WILL BELIEVE YOUR OWN LYING? SIN IS ALWAYS SELF- DECEPTIVE...
HEY, I AM STILL STRONG...
Judges 16:3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the
city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders,
and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
2 Thes. 2:11-12 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
[12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
VI. SIN IS LIKE LAY'S POTATOES: YOU CAN NOT EAT JUST ONE...
ONE SIN LEADS TO ANOTHER SIN! SIN IS ADDICTIVE...
A. Samson went down...
B. SAMSON WAS IN THE WRONG PLACE...
Judges 14: 1 And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters
of the Philistines.
2. And he came up, and told his father and mother, and said I have seen a woman in Timnath of the
daughters of the Philistines, NOW THEREFORE GET HER FOR ME!
C. THE SIN ATTITUDE LOCKS IN AND WILL NOT LISTEN...
Judges 16:4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose
name was Delilah.
VII. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHO YOU ARE THE ENEMY HAS A PRICE ON YOUR HEAD...
HE IS OUT TO STEAL --- KILL--- DESTROY YOU... HE WILL LAUGH AT YOUR FALL...
A. Samson was looking to cure his loneliness and find love...
LUST IS NEVER LOVE, LUST'S MOTIVE IS DESTRUCTION...
Judges 16:5 And the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said unto her: ENTICE him, and see
wherein his great strength lieth; and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind
him to afflict him: and every one of us will give thee eleven hundred pieces of silver.
VIII. THE MORE YOU LIE THE BETTER YOU GET AT LYING, UNTIL YOU BELIEVE YOURSELF...
God gives over to a reprobate mind, HAVE IT YOUR WAY... SAMSON...
2 Thes. 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
[12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Judges 16:6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and
wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
[7] And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then
shall I be weak, and be as another man.
Judges 16:10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now
tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.
IX. SATAN WILL NAG, GRIPE, AND MANIPULATE... SATAN WILL NEVER GIVE UP ON YOU...
SIN WILL DO MORE THAN KNOCK AT THE DOOR, SIN WILL KNOCK THE DOOR DOWN...
Judges 16:15 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me?
thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
[16] And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his
soul was vexed unto death;
X. SAMSON USED TO RUN AWAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, NOW HE IS SO BRAVE
HE WILL SPEND THE WHOLE NIGHT... SIN WILL MAKE A TERRIBLE MESS OUT OF YOUR
FAMILY AND LIFE, AND SATAN WILL STEAL YOUR POTENTIAL...
NO, YOU WILL NEVER BE BETTER BECAUSE YOU PLAYED WITH SIN...
Judges 16:17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her. There hath not come a razor upon
mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my
strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
XI. SIN WILL ALWAYS CATCH YOU WHEN YOU ARE NOT EXPECTING IT.
WATCH MAN WHAT OF THE NIGHT...
A. SLEEP IS A TYPE IN THE BIBLE...
B. DAVID GETS SAUL'S SWORD AND WATER WHILE HE SLEEPS...
Judges 16:19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused
him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went
from him.
C. NOW WHAT? MY STRENGTH IS GONE...
XII. SIN DESTROYS BY A SPIRIT OF GRADUALNESS... I WILL SHAKE MYSELF...
AS BEFORE? GOD LEFT SO SLOW SAMSON DID NOT KNOW...
A. PLAYING WITH SIN, BOY... YOU WILL NEVER BE AS BEFORE...
Judges 16:20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep,
and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself.
And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.
B. MANY IN THE CHURCH ARE SHAKING THEMSELF... BUT SIN HAS LEFT THE SCAR,
XIII. THE BOTTOM LINES IS SIN'S PPRICE TAG IS SO GREAT, SIN BLINDS THE MAN OF GOD TO
THE POINT HE IS LIVING SO LOW, THAT HE IS LIVING AN ANIMAL'S LIFE....
Judges 16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza,
and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
XIV. SAMSON FOREVER DESTROYED HIS TESTIMONY AND PUT GOD DOWN...
the epitaph of sin is; THOU FOOL!
Judges 16:23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto
Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
[24] And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our
hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
A. SIN IS NOT HURTFUL BECAUSE IT IS FORBIDDEN...
SIN IS FORBIDDEN BECAUSE IT IS AWAYS DESTRUCTIVE AND HARMFUL.
Never forget sin breaks God's heart.
B. The worse sin is the SIN WITHIN, the sin that one thinks is hidden and no one sees!
C. SIN ALWAYS MAKES IT'S OWN HELL. Why flirt with danger?
D. SIN WILL ALWAYS TAKE YOU FARTHER THAN YOU PLANNED ON GOING.
SIN WILL ALWAYS KEEP YOU LONGER THAN YOU PLANNED ON STAYING.
SIN WILL ALWAYS COST YOU MORE THAN YOU PLANNED ON PAYING.
XV. THE ANSWER IS MUCH MORE THAN RESISTING THE DEVIL...
YOU MUST SUBMIT YOURSELF TO GOD.
James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
[8] Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify
your hearts, ye double minded.
CONCLUSION: Sin is more than an outward act, sin is a STATE OF MIND.
Sin is much like a dandelion you can fight it your whole life and it tends to spring up again and again.
Sin starts as a seed of thought and roots from there.
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
Pass it on...
