The Remedy For Sin

Illus: But if you really want to look at some “Bloopers”, the best place to look for them is in the church bulletin or on church signs. These are all true messages put on church bulletins and church signs.

• Don't let worry kill you--let the church help.

• Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our church.

• Weight Watchers will meet a 7 p.m. at the First

Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.

• The rosebud on the altar this morning is to announce the birth of David Alan Belzer, the sin of Rev. and Mrs. Julius Belzer.

• This afternoon there will be a meeting in the South and North ends of the church. Children will be baptized at both ends.

• This being Easter Sunday, we will ask Mrs. Lewis to come forward and lay an egg on the altar.

• The ladies of the church have cast off clothing of every kind. They can be seen in the church basement Saturday.

• Thursday night--Potluck supper. Prayer and medication to follow.

• Eight new choir robes are currently needed, due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.

• The senior choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning to join the choir.

• At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.

• The Rev. Adams spoke briefly, much to the delight of his audience.

• The eighth graders will be presenting Shakespeare's “Hamlet" in the church basement on Friday at 7 p.m. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.

• Pastor is on vacation. Massages can be given to church secretary.

• Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.

We often HEAR THINGS or SEE THINGS, and immediately we recognize that something is wrong with what we have seen or heard.

For example, those who know the scriptures can hear certain preachers preach, and if they preach something from the Bible out of context, they immediately recognize that SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH WHAT THEY JUST HEARD!

For example, in our text for this sermon, some preachers have preached on this passage of scripture and taken this passage out of context and taught something the scripture does not teach.

I am not suggesting that all these preachers who take this verse out of context are doing it because they do not love the Lord. There are some preachers who have had no formal training, and the things they preach are the things they have heard others preach. And unfortunately, if others have interpreted this passage incorrectly, they just ignorantly do the same thing.

Illus: When it comes to ignorance, these preachers make us think of three fellows that went deer hunting.

• The first one says he's going to get a buck. He goes out, and indeed comes back with a buck. The other two hunters ask how he did it. He says, "I see tracks. I follow tracks. I get buck."

• The second hunter says that he's going to get a doe, and he does. They ask him how he did it, and he says, "I see tracks. I follow tracks. I get doe."

• So the third hunter says, "I'm just gonna shoot at anything I see."

So he goes out and comes back half a day later all beaten, bruised, bloody, and totally trashed. The other two hunters ask him what happened and he says, "I see tracks. I follow tracks. I get hit by train!"

There are many good ministers in the pulpit who are ignorantly following the tracks that someone else laid out for them to follow. This passage deals with the SPIRITUAL MAN, and they ignorantly apply it to the PHYSICAL MAN.

So that we do not make the same mistake, let’s look at this passage more closely, we read, “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and WITH HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:4-6)

Notice, these verses of scripture say, “All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

Illus: I like what Alexander Maclaren said about this passage, he said. "You thought that He was afflicted because He was bad and you were spared because you were good. No, He was afflicted because you were bad, and you were spared because He was afflicted."