NORTHSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA
THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF SIN
ORIGIN
1) The Garden of Eden - Adam and Eve's sin and it's consequence to them
A. Gen 3: 1-8 God's law violated.
B. Penalty - Gen 3:3 (cf. Ezek 18:20)
C. Two deaths came as a result of sin
1. Physical - became mortal - separated from the tree of life
2. Spiritual - separated from God - Isa 59: 1-2
2) Consequences of Adam's sin to us
A. Sin entered world by Adam and death by sin Rom 5:12
1. The first sin. Sin entered by one man. I Cor 15: 21-22
2. Must have been a violation of Gen 3:3
3. In what sense did all sin-bring death upon all? Through Adam as federal head of the race. Rom 5: 12-13 (Is this right?) Heb 7.
B. Physical death came as a result of Adam's sin. Rom 5: 12-13 Man is separated from the tree of
life, became dying men.
C. Man was made superior to woman. Gen 3:16 Why? 1 Tim 2: 12-14
1. Man created first
2. Woman was beguiled
3. Now one must work for a living
4. Ground will not yield as before
5. Woman's conception and pain multiplied
NATURE OF SIN
1) Sin is Lawlessness 1 John 3:4 (anomia - means either going beyond, or omitting, transgressing -
Lawless.)
A. Jas 2:9 - showing partiality is sin and convicts them as transgressors
B. Deut. 9:7 - "you have been rebellious against the Lord..." Without law, self-willed, lawless
C. 1 Tim 2:14 - "the woman being deceived fell into transgression" Violation of law, lawless, anomia
D. 1 Cor 13:6 - "does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth"
E. 1 Cor 9:21 - "without law" anomos
F. Rom 2:12 - "sinned without the law" anomos
G. 1 Tim 1:9 - lawless and disobedient
2) Sin is Transgression (parabasis)
A. Rom 4:15 - wrath (word is parabasis)
B. Rom 5:14 - Adam's offense (transgression)
C. Gal 3: 19 - (law) added because of transgression
D. Heb 2:2 - transgression
E. Heb 9:15 - "transgressions under first covenant"
3) Sin is Unrighteousness 1 John 5:17 (adikia - unrighteousness, perversion, wrong, injustice)
A. Psa 119:172 - "All your commandments are righteousness"
B. Psa 119:138 - "you have commanded your testimonies in righteousness"
C. Psa 119:175
D. Rom 6: 13,14 - not to yield body as instrument of unrighteousness
E. John 7: 18 - a man that seeketh his own glory is unrighteous
F. Rom 1: 18 - unrighteousness of men who supress the truth in unrighteousness ( also vs 1:29)
G. Rom 2:8 - wrath and indignation for those who prative unrighteouness
H. Rom 3:5 - unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God
I. 2 Thess 2: 10,12 - deception of wickedness (unrighteousness)
J. Heb 8:12 - merciful to their iniquities (unrighteousness)
K. 2 Pet 2: 13,15 - the wicked can love the wage of unrighteousness
L. 1 Jno 1:9 - the good news is we can be cleansed from all unrightoeusness
4) Sin is born of Conceived Lust Jas 1: 13-15
A. How a man sins Jas 1: 13-15
1. Lust - desire, or inclination, or bent
2. Enticed - conception
3. Act or sin
4. Death -result
B. Lust- epithumia (lit. a desire for what is forbidden, lust, desire)
1. Mk 4: 19 - desires for other things choke out the word.
2. John 8: 44 - Satan is your father and the lusts of your father ye will do
3. Rom 1: 24 - God gave them over to their lusts
4. Rom 6: 12 - allowing sin to reign will cause you to give in to your lusts
5. Rom 7:7 - had not known sin (lusts) except for except for what the law said
6. Rom 13:14 - "make no provisions for the flesh in regards to its lusts"
7. Gal 5:16 - Walk in the Spirit - and you won't fulfill the desire (lusts) of the flesh
8. Gal 5:24 - walking in Chrsit crucifies the passions and desires (lusts)
9. Eph 2:3 - they formerly lived in the lusts of their minds
10. Eph 4:22 - we are to lay aside deceitful lusts
11. 1 Tim 6:9 - desires (lusts) are harmful and foolish and are ruinous
12. 2 Tim 2:22 - flee youthful lusts
13. 2 Tim 3:6 - weak women led by various impulses (lusts)
14. 2 Tim 4:3 - many will listen to teachers that will tickle ears according to desires (lusts)
15. Titus 2:12 - deny ungodliness and worldly desires
16. Titus 3:3 - they were enslaved to varius lusts and pleasures
17. 1 Pet 1:14 - don't conformed to your former lusts
18. 1 Pet 2:11 - "abstain from fleshly lusts that wage war against the soul"
19. 1 Pet 4:2 - no longer live for the lusts but the will of God
20. 1 Pet 4:3 - Gentiles indulged in lusts
22. 2 Pet 1:4 - corruption is in the world by lusts
23. 2 Pet 2:10 - some indulge the flesh in corrupt desires
24. 2 Pet 2:18 - one can be enticed by fleshly desires (lusts)
25. 2 Pet 3:3 - mockers follow after their own lusts
26. 1 Jno 2:16,17 - the lusts of the flesh and the eyes will pass away
27. 1 Jno 2:17 - lusts will pass away, but those that do the will of God will live forever
28. Jude 16,18 - grumblers and mockers follow after their own lusts
29. Matt 5:27,28 - adultery can be as early as lust in the heart
5. Sin is Unbelief. Heb 3:12 (Apistias)
A. Heb. 3:12,13 - the seriousness of an evil, unbelieving heart
B. Jno. 16:9 - Jesus said "concerning sin because they do not beleive me"
6. What is Not of faith is sin Rom 14:23
A. Whatever a man does he must believe in the righteousness of. (must keep a good conscience,
whatever we do right or wrong-)
B. Before his conversion Paul believed to kill Christians - but, if Paul refused to kill Christians,
believing it right, is sin.
7. Knowing to do Good and doing it Not, to him it is Sin
A. Matt 25: 31-46 - extended treatment of this
B. Gen 4:7 - "and if you do not do well, sin croucheth at the door"
Note: Can a baby be a sinner unless he violates one of these definitions of sin?
CHARACTERISTICS OF SIN
1) Sin is Deceitful
A. Eph 4:22 - lusts of deceit