https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HeCannotSin.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\tby Jeffrey W. Hamilton<\/p>\n\t
Text: I John 3:1-10<\/p>\n
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I. It is amazing the lengths people reach to avoid responsibility for sin<\/p>\n A. Often the same groups who teach that people cannot help but sin because they are\nborn sinful also teach that once saved they cannot sin.\n B. It is a difficult deception to hold on to because it is clear to all that people who are\nsupposed to be saved still commit sin.\n
C. There are two ways to avoid the obvious:<\/p>\n
1. Claim that the person wasn’t really saved in the first place. <\/p>\n
a. Which gives rise to the question, how do you know your saved?<\/p>\n b. No matter how confidently a person asserts that he feels saved, the\nsame can be said for some people they claim never really was\nsaved.\n
2. Claim that sin doesn’t impact the person’s soul.<\/p>\n a. Sam Morris, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Stamford, Texas:\n“We take the position that a Christian’s sins do not damn his soul!\nThe way a Christian lives, what he says, his character, his conduct,\nor his attitude toward other people have nothing to do with the\nsalvation of his soul. … All the prayers a man may pray, all the\nBibles he may read, all the churches he may belong to, all the\nservices he may attend, all the sermons he may practice, all the\ndebts he may pay, all the ordinances he may observe, all the laws\nhe may keep, all the benevolent acts he may perform will not make\nhis soul one whit safer; and all the sins he may commit from\nidolatry to murder will not make his soul in any more danger …\nThe way a man lives has nothing whatever to do with the salvation\nof his soul.”\n b. This the claim is that salvation somehow disconnects a person\nfrom his actions.\n
II. A popular justification for this is I John 3:9<\/p>\n A. “Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he\ncannot sin, because he has been born of God.” (NKJV)\n 1. The translation is accurate, but misleading in English because “cannot sin”\ncan be taken as “unable to sin”\n 2. A.T. Robertson’s New Testament Word Pictures: “And he cannot sin (kai\nou dunatai hamartanein<\/i>). This is a wrong translation, for this English\nnaturally means “and he cannot commit sin” as if it were kai ou dunatai\nhamartein <\/i>or hamartêsai <\/i>(second aorist or first aorist active infinitive).\nThe present active infinitive hamartanein <\/i>can only mean “and he cannot\ngo on sinning,” as is true of hamartanei <\/i>in verse 1Jo 3:8 and hamartanôn\n<\/i>in verse 1Jo 3:6. For the aorist subjunctive to commit a sin see hamartête\n<\/i>and hamartêi <\/i>in 1Jo 2:1. A great deal of false theology has grown out of a\nmisunderstanding of the tense of hamartanein <\/i>here. \n
B. A Christian quits living in sin – Romans 6:1-2, 10-13<\/p>\n
C. John doesn’t contradict himself – I John 1:8-2:1<\/p>\n
1. We have sinned<\/p>\n
2. We do sin<\/p>\n
3. We will sin<\/p>\n
D. But because of God’s seed, Christians won’t stay in sin<\/p>\n
1. The seed is the word of God – I Peter 1:22-23<\/p>\n
2. As David taught – Psalm 119:11<\/p>\n
III. Using I Corinthians 5:5 to say the body is destroyed but the soul is saved.<\/p>\n A. The claim that adultery, lying, stealing, murder, profanity, hatred, bitterness, etc.\nare all sins done in the body, which is destroy, but will not effect the soul.\n
B. But what is done in the body does effect the spirit – I Corinthians 9:27<\/p>\n 1. Notice “I” (the inward man) keeps the body (the outward man) in control\nso that “I” (the inward man) will not be cast away.\n
2. We are not to let sin control our bodies – Romans 6:12-13<\/p>\n C. Sin often uses the body as a tool for sin, but where does sin originate? – Matthew\n15:19-20\n
1. They come from within, from the spirit of a man.<\/p>\n 2. Murder doesn’t come from the body. The sin comes from the heart. The\nbody carries out the sin.\n D. The word “deliver” translates the Greek word, paradidomi<\/i>, which literally means\na betrayal or a surrender. \n 1. It means that the church is acknowledging their failure to keep this brother\nout of sin. \n 2. It is a public statement that they lost a brother to Satan, so they are letting\nhim go in hopes that the misery, which will result, will teach the person\nnot to willfully disobey God – Matthew 18:17; II Thessalonians 3:14\n
3. This same word is used when a person is cast into prison – Matthew 4:12<\/p>\n a. That is how Christians view it. They are free from sin – Romans\n6:7\n b. But when a Christian returns to sin he is also returning to bondage\nor imprisonment – Romans 6:16 \n c. Thus Satan is looked upon as a jailer and the person who refuses to\nstay out of Satan’s realm is released to fall back under Satan’s\ncontrol. \n d. But it is done in hope that the person will realize what they lost and\nreturn; that he will destroy his fleshly desires so he might be saved\n– Romans 8:13\n E. Paul isn’t talking about a person being saved despite his continued sins. He is\ndemanding that the church take action so that a person will leave sin and thereby\nmay<\/i> be saved.\n
IV. If a child of God cannot be lost, regardless of what he does, then why all the warnings?<\/p>\n
A. Take heed lest you fall – I Corinthians 10:12<\/p>\n
B. If you do what is right, you won’t fall – II Peter 1:10<\/p>\n
C. The danger of acting like the Israelites – Hebrews 3:12<\/p>\n
D. Don’t come short – Hebrews 4:1<\/p>\n
V. Doing sin will keep you out of heaven – I Corinthians 6:9-10<\/p>\n
A. Be like the Corinthians – I Corinthians 6:11<\/p>\n
B. The opportunity awaits you at this time.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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