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1. The Sin of Silence

1 John 1:9-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... people say, "I did wrong and I begged God to forgive me." You never have to beg God to forgive you. If you truly confess your sins, He will totally and joyfully forgive you. By the way, the word faithful means "every time." If a man is faithful to his wife 364 ... important. Confession puts us in a position to get our soul right with God. But it puts God in a position to get our sin removed from our soul. You see confession does for the soul what preparing land does for the field. Before the farmer sows seed ...

2. We All Sin So What?

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... of the tree.” Then God asked Eve what she had done. She explained, “The serpent beguiled me.” Each one passed the buck to another. No one had a sign on his desk, “The buck stops here!” And we are still doing it. We continue to find excuses for our sins. In the presence of witnesses a man recently shot his girl friend. At the trial he admitted that he shot her, but asked to be exonerated because he had taken cocaine. But, was he not at fault for taking drugs in the first place? We like to blame our ...

3. What the Heck Is Sin?

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... All I need to know is that a person is a man. Nothing could be worse than that. The Bible takes the fact of sin very seriously. It says that our hearts, left to themselves, are capable of harboring all sorts of evil and wickedness. It is interesting to ... -so is not Gods measure. Jesus Christ is Gods measure. We do not need the story of Adam and Eve to convince us of our sinfulness: all we need is to lay our lives alongside Christ. In Shakespeares Othello Iago says of Cassio: He has a daily beauty in his life ...

4. Why You Should Be Afraid of Sin

Numbers 32:23

Sermon

James Merritt

... . You can even throw it so that one end strikes the ground, and it will ricochet into the air at terrific speed, spinning end-over-end until once again it becomes horizontal and completes a circle of about 50 yards. Now as I read about that, it hit me that sin is Satan's boomerang. You can throw it long, far, high, and hard. It might even go out of sight, but it will always come back to you. Veteran gamblers have an old saying, "There's no such thing as a sure thing." But if the Bible is the word ...

5. Is Your Sin My Business?

Ezekiel 33:1-20

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... having a disaster. God is asking us to do the same in the spiritual realm. How can we do it? We may feel uneasy and unworthy, for we reason, Who am I to warn others when I myself am a sinner? Didn’t Jesus say, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone"? Nevertheless, God asks us to warn sinners of their possible fate. We will not do it in any self-righteous or holier-than-thou attitude. In humility and kindness, with great tact, we will speak the truth in love to show sinners we are not condemning ...

6. The Reality Of Sin

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Robert Allen

... the Bible. It was written at least 500 years before the birth of Jesus and it is a story which attempts to explain how sin and evil came into the world. According to the story, everything was good in the beginning. Adam and Eve had everything they desired ... who needed her, but for a drug-induced high which would black out the reality of the world. I don’t suppose there are many sins in our world which are more pervasive than the use of drugs. The illegal use of drugs accounts for a majority of the crime in ...

7. Deadly Sins - A Matter Of Sutton's Law

Romans 7:14-25

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... describe the contradiction that plagues all of us -- that I am not, you are not, what we think we are. In the Bible it is called sin. Sin means we are not and we do not act as we should. In the Middle Ages some men and women wanted to love God with all ... , say it, "I was wrong," and then feel the burden being lifted and the surge of new life pouring in. The second way to deal with sins is to repent from them. To repent means to make a U-turn, to turn away from those things that are not good and true. In ...

8. Whatever Became of Sin?

Romans 6:23

Sermon

Lowell D. Streiker

... his or her own feeble excuses ” "everybody else does it; it really doesn't make any difference; I'm only one person; rules are made to be broken; there are always exceptions, the other guy will understand that I was too busy," so on and so forth. Sin is not only an individual failing, it is a social menace. We often speak about the twentieth century as an age of anxiety. Anxiety is a direct result of never knowing whom to believe, whose word is bond, whose product is dependable, which politician will keep ...

9. Where Do Sins Go?

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... different from the gods of Mount Olympus! The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is not an indifferent Spectator untouched by the world’s pain; He is an active Participant in the world’s suffering, bearing on his own heart the consequences of our sins. "The Cross is a translation into history of an eternal fact," wrote the late Leslie Weatherhead. In one of his books, Dr. Weatherhead recalled a night when his ship sailed past the island of Stromboli, off the coast of Sicily. He saw the bright fires ...

10. Jesus Destroys the Power of Sin

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... , "What is troubling you so much?" The man began to cry, but then controlling himself, he responded, "Don't you remember me? Years ago I posed for you as the model for the Lord Jesus." The man had turned his back on Christ and given his life over to sin and in the process the world brought him to his low state of degradation. Those things he once loved he now hated and the things he despised were now special to him. Where once there was love, now misery reigned. Where once there was hope, now despair. Where ...

11. Whatever Became of Sin?

Romans 5:12-21

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Robert G. Tuttle

... I discipline myself or just let the grace of Christ automatically discipline me?" Wait a minute! You can get off the track so easily. It has to be both; you now discipline yourself by the insight and the strength given to you by grace. Let’s get back to it, sin is that which separated me from God; something that keeps God out of my life. It is something that I love more than God - whether I am aware of it or not. It is the prodigal loving the far country more than he loved his father. I shall not forget ...

12. Your Sins Are Remembered No More! You Are Free!

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... do it? Of course we forgive the wrongs done to us. That is the Christian way. But do you really forget the indiscretion? Do you not keep your eye on the one you forgave, just in case, even if you sincerely forgave them? On this side of the Fall into sin, only a “rube” acts like the indiscretion done to you did not happen. Even when you forgive yourself for a bad decision or a bad habit, you do not forget it. Your memories are scarred by it. That is precisely why you and I, why our society, is in such ...

13. We Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins

1 John 1:5-2:2

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... in the light as He, Himself, is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. Keith Miller said: For years I tried to clean up my life without confession. I was like a man who kept fumigating his house ... so this Easter your debt has been forgiven. Rejoice! You are free!" It may have been the best Easter Brad ever had. The cost of our sin is more than we can pay, the gift of our God is more than we can imagine. When it comes to forgiveness, our self-esteem ...

14. The Ultimate Solution For Sin

Mark 9:38-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... of how indulging our own weaknesses can hurt and emotionally maim those for whom we are responsible. The problem is that we think that sin is a private matter. "It's my life," we say. "I will lead it as I choose." Life is rarely that simple. Everything we ... giving to the Lord. I am so glad you gave." (5) This is who we are as followers of Jesus Christ. We are people who avoid sin. Not because we are party-poopers or spoil sports. But there are people who love us, people who rely on us, people who look up to ...

15. Is Suffering Punishment for Sin?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... I read the apostle’s words, I get the impression that, for him, God’s “wrath” is not simply God getting angry at the world; it is more like God’s moral ordering of the universe. God does not have to punish us for our sins, because sin is itself the punishment for sin. God’s “wrath” is the inexorable working out of God’s moral laws in the universe. If you jump off the roof of a building, you do not break the law of gravity, you simply illustrate it. Likewise, you cannot really break God’s ...

16. The Unforgivable Sin

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Last Sunday I preached about casting out demons. I started to use a story then that has so much to do with ministry of Jesus in our life, t decided to hold it until today because it has so much to do, also, with this whole business of sinning again t the Holy Spirit. It comes from a disturbing news story that was carried last summer by the Associated Press (Summer 1986). It read as follows: Parishoners of an historic Episcopal church are still in shock over the resignation of their priest, who took off his ...

17. The Sin of Being Less

Colossians 3:1-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... out of that bondage alone. But they can still do something. They can still reach out to somebody else. This church has a NewLifeCenter with counselors to take the hand of those who reach out for professional pastoral counseling. There is such a thing as the sin of arrogance. But there is also the sin of despair, saying, "I can't do it," or "I'm not important. I just don't amount to very much. I'll never change. It is no use." "If you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above." If you have ...

18. How Much Sin Is Too Much?

Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... he brought to the disciples, but not the entire amount. Ananias must have asked, "What will it hurt if I hold back a little? I am giving a generous amount." Of course, Ananias and Sapphira did not live long enough to ask the question again, "How much can I sin and still go to heaven?" (Acts 5:1-11). It is not a situation confined to scripture. We ask similar questions. How much can I talk about somebody before it is gossip? How much time can I spend away from the church and still feel connected to its life ...

19. Pardon for Sin

Romans 5:12-21

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... clear, we receive his merits not merely when we believe that he once walked this earth, not simply when we acknowledge that he lives and reigns also at the present moment, not only when we place our names on a church roster, but when, in sincere repentance of all our sins, we welcome Christ upon the throne of our lives and allow him to take the controls. When this happens, we can say with St. Paul, I live, and yet no longer is it I who live, but Christ who lives within me. And the life that I now live in ...

20. Resurrection: From Sin to a Second Chance

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... our shattered lives, often rearranging them, and hands this new life back to us. So we say with David, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life." That is the good news for the sinner, but is there any good news for those who are sinned against? Any good news for Uriah or for the baby that died? If the story ended here there would be none. The story doesn’t end here. It doesn’t end with the birth of new lambs in springtime nor the birth of David and Bathsheba’s son. It goes ...

21. GIVE ME YOUR SINS: The First Word

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... is Christ the Lord." As we ponder the meaning of the cross, we can see why we are tempted to keep the baby in the manger and not allow Him to climb out onto the cross. It is a painful thing to watch our Savior die on a cross for sins He never committed! The Book of Revelation takes us even further back in history than the birth of Jesus, "to declare that Jesus Christ was the Lamb slain before the creation of the world for our salvation." Can you even begin to imagine the incredible sense of time that God ...

22. Sin

Romans 7:15--8:13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... asks Paul. Paul knew: We can't deliver ourselves through fantasies of how good and deserving we are. Such attempts are futile because they lead us into even deeper delusion about our real state. We must be delivered through someone else's acceptance of us, just as we are, sin and all. I'm not OK. You're not OK. God says, "That's OK." We experience moments of deliverance in a good marriage, or a deep friendship. You know you're married, you know someone is a good friend when you no longer need to wear a mask ...

23. The Sin of Judging

Matthew 13:36-43, Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... it be at the close of the age. The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evil-doers, and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the ... our Lord. Now Jesus did not condone what she had done, but he knew that these men were not blameless either. "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her," (John 8:7) he said, and no stone was ever cast. The Lord helped ...

24. Don't Sweat the Sin Debt

John 19:30

Sermon

James Merritt

... national debt in the history of the world, will ever be paid off.[1] In the garden of Eden another debt clock began to run the sin debt clock. The human race is a world of sinners in debt to a holy God. We have broken God's law, and we are spiritually ... never finished. But praise God, we have a High Priest of whom the Bible says in Heb. 10:12, "After He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God." Jesus not only fulfilled the word of God, He finished the work of God. That is ...

25. He Breaks the Power of Cancelled Sin

John 8:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... to talk about that today as we continue our sermon series on Dynamic Discipleship. I want to use an image from Charles Wesley hymn, 0, For A Thousand Tongues To Sing. The image is in the first line of the fourth verse “He breaks the power of cancelled sin.” We will pursue that image in a moment, but let me say a parenthetical word here. It is not without meaning that on this Choir Dedication Sunday the core message of the sermon would be the line of a hymn. John Wesley was the preacher of the Wesleyan ...

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