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Sin Is Waiting
Contributed by Mark Beaird on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: In our text, sin is likened to, or compared to an enemy that is lying in wait ready to attack us. The implication is that if we are to escape the attack we must be on guard and always alert. The truth is that sin and enemy Satan are always there ready t
Some would actually want us to believe that God is the reason that they are living in sin. They say, “Well god made me this way,” or “God should have stopped me if he didn’t want me to do it.” Needless to say, God is not the problem.
III. SIN WANTS TO MAKE YOU A SLAVE.
A. When sin takes hold, it drives a person to do it’s work.
Our text warns us that “sin desires to have (us) you,” therefore the only
way to prevail over it is to “master it.”
Sin cannot be reasoned with, it must be mastered.
For eight years Sally had been the Romero family pet. When they got her,
she was only one foot long. But Sally grew until eventually she reached
eleven and-a half feet and weighed eighty pounds. Then on July 20, 1993
Sally, a Burmese python, turned on 15-year-old Derek, strangling the teenager
until he died of suffocation. Associated Press Online (7/22/93) quoted the
police as saying that the snake was "quite aggressive, hissing, and reacting"
when they arrived to investigate.
Sins that seem little and harmless will grow. Tolerate or ignore sin, and it
will eventually lead to death (Jas. 1:15).
-- Bruce E. Truman, Mt. Olivet, Kentucky. Leadership, Vol. 15, no. 4.
B. Small sins give birth to worst sins and worst consequences.
Example: King David, who sinned by lusting after a woman, was driven to
murder by sin.
John Dryden said, "Better shun the bait than to struggle in the snare."
CONCLUSION
In his message, The Cry of Mystery, Bruce Thielemann said, I’ve not seen
this myself, but in the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul, they have a very precious
goblet. In the center of the inside of that goblet is carved, in gold, a serpent. It has
ruby eyes and diamond fangs; its mouth is open and ready to strike. When the
goblet is filled with wine, the ruby-red liquid covers the snake. You cannot see it,
but as you drink the wine, suddenly the presence of the serpent with all of its
menacing appearance is revealed.
Now Jesus, when he came to live life with us, drank the cup of life to the
full. But here in Calvary he is at the depths of that cup. And suddenly the serpent,
which had been lingering in all of it, through all of it, was revealed in all of its
menacing nature. The intensity of evil--and Jesus saw it.
-- Bruce W. Thielemann, "The Cry of Mystery," Preaching Today, Tape No. 66.
The warnings of God’s Word concerning the deceptiveness and dangers of
sin are as real as God’s promises of forgiveness and love. The problem is that we
too often forget to heed the warnings. But today can be different.
