Handling My Humanity Part 2 20 Reasons Not

Handling My Humanity Part 2 20 Reasons Not To Sin

Romans 7: 15 I don’t understand myself at all, for I really want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do the very thing I hate.

Romans 7: 16 -17 I know perfectly well that what I am doing is wrong, and my bad conscience shows that I agree that [God’s] law is good. But I can’t help myself, because it is sin inside me that makes me do these evil things.

Romans 7: 18 I know I am rotten through and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned. No matter which way I turn, I can’t make myself do right. I want to, but I can’t.

Romans 7: 19 -20 When I want to do good, I don’t. And when I try not to do wrong, I do it anyway. But if I am doing what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing it; the sin within me is doing it.

Romans 7: 21 It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.

Romans 7: 22 -23 I love God’s law with all my heart. But there is another law at work within me that is at war with my mind. This law wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.

Romans 7: 24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin?

WHY DO WE SIN?

THERE IS ONLY ONE

WE DO NOT SEE SIN AS GOD SEES

To what may a sinner be compared? To one who beholds open handcuffs and places his hands into them.

Reason 1

Sin Does Not Satisfy

Reason 2

Sin Leads To More Sin

Reason 3

Sin Leads To Worse Sins

Reason 4

Sin Enslaves

Reason 5

Sin Degrades And Humiliates

Reason 6

Sin Steals Joy

Reason 7

Sin Steals Our Confidence Before God

Reason 8

The Wages Of Sin Is Death

Reason 9

God Will Punish Sinners

Reason 10

Sin Hurts The Lord

Reason 11

Sin Hurts The Sinner

Reason 12

Sin Hurts The Sinner’s Family And Friends

Reason 13

Sin Brings Reproach

Reason 14

Sin Makes Light Of The Blood Of Jesus

Reason 15

Sin Puts The Sinner On The Devil’s Side

Reason 16

Sin Sets The Sinner Against God

Reason 17

Sin Saps The Anointing

Reason 18

Sin Steals Time

Reason 19

Sin Has Eternal Consequences

Reason 20

Your Sin Will Always Find You Out

Reason 21

Your Sin Could Cost Your Salvation

Sin will keep you longer than you intended to stay, take you further than you intended to go, and cost you more than you intended to spend.

Matthew 5: 29 So if your eye—even if it is your good eye—causes you to lust, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

Matthew 5: 30 And if your hand—even if it is your stronger hand—causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.