THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN
Heb 3:7-13
The word sin sounds as sinister as it is. What Leprosy, or Cancer is to the body, SIN is to the soul.
It is SIN that robs the baby of tender affection, SIN that turns marriage into misery, SIN that causes War and riots. SIN that nailed Jesus Christ to the cross.
People no longer fear sin. It is sensationalized and trivialized, promoted as proper and paraded in public. There seems to be no shame today by those who participate in sin. Jeremiah 6:15 says the people forgot how to blush.
We, like they, have become complacent and comfortable in carnality.
Since Satan is the father of lies (John 8:44), one would think that he is the most deceitful on all the earth.
However the Bible says...."The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9
What is more deceitful than Satan? According to scripture, your heart is!!!
Sin comes from within!
Our sin separates us from God: "But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear" (Is. 59:2).
We are so easily doped, we think sin is not that serious.
We even attempt to re-define it by our dictates.
What is sin?
1 John 3:4 "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. "
James 4:17, "Therefore, to him who knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him it is sin."
Rom 14:23 " whatever is not of faith is sin."
SIN is........
I. DECEITFUL IN ITS PROMISES
Sin is a LIAR!!! Sin never has, never will, and by the way never can kept the promises it makes!
Sin FACINATES then ASSAINATES!!! Sin flatters,, And it scatters. Sin mutilates, And it alienates. Sin dulls, And it annuls. Sin seizes, And it squeezes. Sin chases, And it disgraces.
A. ITS PROMISES ARE MANY
The Devil know what Lure to use- the same bait wont catch different fish.
You dont catch a Catfish with what you use to hook a Tuna. Same is so for souls.
B. ITS PROMISES ARE DEADLY
" But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death." (Jas. 1:14-15).
Galatians 6:7-8 "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting."
See how sin has caused such suffering and sorrow!!
Go to the hospital the mental wards the divorce courts and behind bars- ask them! Ask them!
"Hardness" is translated from skleruno, from which name for the disease multiple sclerosis is derived.
II. DECEITFUL IN ITS PRESENTATION
A. IT PRESENTS ITSELF AS SAFE
SIN IS NEVER SAFE. It is always dangerous, destructive, damning and always brings with it disastrous consequences.
It brings DEFEAT, DISGRAE and DESTRUCTION! !!
* You can call Garlic Chanel no 5 but it still stinks! *
III. DECEITFUL IN ITS PRESCRIPTION
Sin offers the cure to itself! I'm not gonna let the Devil tell me how to be delivered by Him!!!
A. Sin Says REMAIN
If you can stop anytime you want, then stop before you get started!!!
B. Sin Says REPLACE
C. Sin Says REFORM
Education is the answer! Environment is the key! Look what sin has done to each!!!
Back on December 20, 1995, an American Airlines jet crashed into a mountainside in Colombia, killing 159 passengers. Months later, airline officials determined that the cause of the crash was an error by the flight captain. As the flight approached the airport from the north, the control tower radioed to the flight captain that he was to fly a straight path over the ?Rozo? navigational radio beacon near the airport. The captain punched the letter ?R? into the on-board computer, which he assumed was the autopilot to fly the plane toward the beacon. Unfortunately, there was another radio beacon with a code name that began with the letter ?R,? the ?Romeo? beacon, 132 miles to the left. The autopilot sent the plane on to the wrong beacon ? with disastrous results.
Accuracy and details are essential not only in navigation but also in religion. Punching in the letter ?R? for any old religion will not do. That will only send you to destruction. The ?R? that we need is not ?religion;? it is ?relationship, ? a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
D. Sin Say REFUSE
TODAY if you will ?hear His voice!!?
CONCLUSION:
There IS a BALM in GILEAD!!!
