Title: What About Sin? (13)
Series: Weakness Is Your Greatest Strength
Author: Eddie Snipes
Text: Romans 5:20-21
It is almost inevitable that when the gospel of grace is taught the way the Bible truly presents it, people raise objections because of a fear that it will be taken as a license to sin. I have been in church my entire life, and I have never seen sin depart from the congregation because the church turned to the old law as their method for dealing with sin. Sin abounds just as much in legalistic churches as it does in grace believing churches. I would even argue that sin abounds more in legalism, but it's masked behind religious pride. Scripture even backs this argument.
The Bible says that when the law entered, sin abounded more.1 In legalism, people are forced to hide their sins or leave the church, but the sin hasn't been resolved. If anything, spiritual pride, which is also a sin, is more rampant. If you look at the ministry of Jesus, He was very hard on the religious elite, and very compassionate on the sinner. There is a reason for this. Spiritual pride always produces self-blindness to personal sin.
Even though the entire Jewish culture was built around the Old Testament law, not one person was able to keep it.2 Since it was impossible to keep the law, the religious establishment customized the law into something they could keep. Then they condemned those who didn't keep their revised version of the law.
Jesus called the religious elite, adulterous, blind, children of the devil, broods of vipers, and many other identifiers that shocked the religious community. Many times Jesus pointed to the Ten Commandments and said, "You think you are keeping these, but I say to you..." then Jesus would point to the sinful thoughts and secret sins that put the religious people of His day onto the same level as the sinners they were criticizing. Jesus always brought the focus back to the law - not the customiz ...
Series: Weakness Is Your Greatest Strength
Author: Eddie Snipes
Text: Romans 5:20-21
It is almost inevitable that when the gospel of grace is taught the way the Bible truly presents it, people raise objections because of a fear that it will be taken as a license to sin. I have been in church my entire life, and I have never seen sin depart from the congregation because the church turned to the old law as their method for dealing with sin. Sin abounds just as much in legalistic churches as it does in grace believing churches. I would even argue that sin abounds more in legalism, but it's masked behind religious pride. Scripture even backs this argument.
The Bible says that when the law entered, sin abounded more.1 In legalism, people are forced to hide their sins or leave the church, but the sin hasn't been resolved. If anything, spiritual pride, which is also a sin, is more rampant. If you look at the ministry of Jesus, He was very hard on the religious elite, and very compassionate on the sinner. There is a reason for this. Spiritual pride always produces self-blindness to personal sin.
Even though the entire Jewish culture was built around the Old Testament law, not one person was able to keep it.2 Since it was impossible to keep the law, the religious establishment customized the law into something they could keep. Then they condemned those who didn't keep their revised version of the law.
Jesus called the religious elite, adulterous, blind, children of the devil, broods of vipers, and many other identifiers that shocked the religious community. Many times Jesus pointed to the Ten Commandments and said, "You think you are keeping these, but I say to you..." then Jesus would point to the sinful thoughts and secret sins that put the religious people of His day onto the same level as the sinners they were criticizing. Jesus always brought the focus back to the law - not the customiz ...
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