Key Verse
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."- Romans 3:23
Key Passages
Lesson Objective
“[Man] fell through
disobedience, incurring thereby both physical and spiritual death. All men are
born with a sinful nature, are separated from the life of God, and can be
saved only through the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The portion
of the unrepentant and unbelieving is existence forever in conscious
torment; and that of the believer, in everlasting joy and bliss” –
C&MA Statement of Faith
Resources
Fall: God Judges (Video, Audio) (Mark Driscoll)
The Doctrine of Sin (Bible.org)
Man: His Sin & Fall (The Gospel Coalition, video)
What is Sin? The essence and root of all sinning (John Piper, Desiring God)The Doctrine of Sin (Bible.org)
Man: His Sin & Fall (The Gospel Coalition, video)
Bible Minute: What is sin? (Video)
The Faces of Sin (Tim Keller) (Sermon Series)
Guilt, Shame and PowerWorldviews and the Gospel (Power to Change)
Total Depravity verse list (Travis Carden)
The Faces of Sin (Tim Keller) (Sermon Series)
Guilt, Shame and PowerWorldviews and the Gospel (Power to Change)
Total Depravity verse list (Travis Carden)
What's wrong with the World?
According to different World Views, what is wrong with the
World?
Who am I?
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Where am I?
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What’s the Problem?
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What’s the Solution?
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Atheism
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Random collision of atoms
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Unfeeling, godless world
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Annihilation
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Survival of the fittest
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Buddhism
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Nothing
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The World is an illusion
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The desires of this world
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Release of desire
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Spiritism
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A weak spiritual being
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A world full of powerful spiritual beings
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Other spiritual beings are more powerful
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Appease these beings
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Christianity
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Child of God
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World created good by God, but Fallen
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Sin
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Christ
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What is Sin?
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Hebrew words for sin
Word
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Definition
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Example
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Hattat
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Missing the mark, erring
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Exodus 32:30
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Rasha
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Wickedness, something morally wrong
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Exodus 2:13
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Pesa/pasha
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Active rebellion, revolt
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Proverbs 28:13
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Sagah
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Going astray
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Leviticus 4:13
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Awon
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Iniquity – implies pervesion, crookedness, twistedness.
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1 Kings 17:18
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Greek words for sin
Word
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Definition
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Example
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Hamartia
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Missing the mark, erring
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Matthew 1:21
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Adikia
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Unrighteousness, injustice
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1 Corinthians 6:8
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Parabasis
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Breach of the law
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Romans 4:15
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Anomia
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Lawlessness
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1 John 3:4
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Asebeia
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Godlessness
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Titus 2:12
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Ptaio
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Moral stumble
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James 2:10
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How did it come about?
Read Genesis 3. In your own words, summarise what happened
to bring sin into the world.
Rebellion against God;
decision not to follow His Will
Compare and contrast God’s Truth versus the corruption of
His Truth
What God said
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You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat
from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you
will surely die
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What Satan said
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“Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?...
You will not surely die.”
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What Eve said
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“We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You
must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you
must not touch it, or you will die.’”
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Point to take out of this: It is very easy to misuse God’s
Word! Misuse of God’s Word can easily lead to being trapped by the Devil!
What are the Consequences?
To Women (vs 16)
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Pain with
Children
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Pain with
Husbands: The relationship is no longer complementarian as it originally should
have been (Eve as Adam’s “Helper”); Now she will be ruled over (dominated by)
her husband. This language also suggests that her desire is to dominate, and that desire will be frustrated by her
husband. No longer will they work together cooperatively, but now it will
become a “battle of the sexes”
To Men (vs 17-19)
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Work,
which was originally created to be good, now becomes difficult, painful and a struggle.
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Return to
dust = death
To all mankind:
Ephesians 2:1-2 –
Death, especially spiritual death
Romans 5:12-14 – Death
came to all through Adam
Romans 3:23 – For all
have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
Psalm 51:5 – sinful
from birth
John 8:34 – Slavery to
sin
How does God feel about sin?
Psalm 5:4-6 - For You
are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil cannot dwell with You. The
boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all evildoers. You destroy
those who tell lies; the Lord abhors a man of bloodshed and treachery.
Genesis 6:5-6 - When
the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every
scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time, the Lord
regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Jeremiah 2 -
How does God deal with sin?
Genesis 3:14-24 – Judgement
Genesis 3:21-24 – Merciful Compassion
Genesis 3:15 (See also Romans 5:15-17) – Proto-evangelion:
The First Gospel
We will talk a lot more about
this later!
How do we deal with sin?
How are we supposed to deal with sin in yourself? (1 John
1:9)
Honest and total REPENTENCE (What is Repentance? Turning
your back to your sin, and walking towards Christ)
How should we deal with sin in others?
In non-Christians? (1 Cor 5:9-12)
Do not judge non-Christians, because that’s God’s domain
In Christians? (1 Cor 5:1-5)
But judge the Christian strictly, in love.
The important point to bring out is that the common notion
that Christians are absolutely not
supposed to “judge” is actually wrong! God DOES call Christians to call other
Christians to account, according to the standard of His Truth. However, we
cannot judge non-Christians by a standard that they do not hold to; that is
God’s realm of authority.
Useful Quotes on what Sin is
Cornelius Platinga (“Not the way it’s supposed to be” pg5)
The Bible presents sin
by way of major concepts, principally lawlessness and faithlessness, expressed
in an array of images: sin is the missing of a target, a wandering from the
path, a straying from the fold. Sin is a hard heart and a stiff neck. Sin is
blindness and deafness. It is both the overstepping of a line and the failure
to reach it – both transgression and shortcoming. Sin is a beast crouching at
the door. In sin, people attack or evade or neglect their divine calling. These
and other images suggest deviance: even when it is familiar, sin is never
normal. Sin is disruption of created harmony and then resistance to divine
restoration of that harmony. Above all, sin disrupts and resists the vital
human relation to God.
DA Carson (“Culture and Christ Revisted” pg46)
The heart of all this
evil is idolatry itself. It is the de-godding of God. It is the creature
swinging his puny fist in the face of his Maker and saying, in effect, “If you
do not see things my way, I’ll make my own gods! I’ll be my own god!” Small wonder that the sin most
frequently said to arouse God’s wrath is not murder, say, or pillage, or any
other “horizontal” barbarism, but idolatry – that which dethrones God. That is
also why, in every sin, it is God who is the most offended party, as David
himself well understood: “Against you, only, have I sinned and done what is
evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you
judge” (Psalm 51:4)
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