All In with Jordan Easley

Jordan Easley - God Defined It - Sin

May 4, 2025 | S25:E19

Jordan Easley seeks to help people understand and apply God’s word to their lives.

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All In with Jordan Easley | Jordan Easley - God Defined It - Sin | May 4, 2025

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Female announcer: this episode of "all in" with pastor jordan
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Easley has been made possible by the generous support of viewers
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Like you.
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Announcer: welcome to "all in" with pastor jordan easley.
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Today's message is about to begin, and we invite you to
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Prepare your heart and mind to hear an inspiring message from
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God's word.
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We hope and pray for god to speak to you today as you seek
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To live your life all in for jesus christ.
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And now from first baptist church in cleveland, tennessee,
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Here's pastor jordan easley.
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Pastor jordan easley: you know, i've been in ministry since my
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Kids were born and just about every saturday one of them will
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Ask me, "dad, what are you preaching tomorrow?"
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And since they were a kid, my response has been the same every
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Single week.
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Doesn't matter what the series is, what the text is, every week
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I'll say, "i'm preaching on jesus and sin."
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Every week, "dad, what are you preaching on?"
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"i'm talking about jesus, and i'm talking about sin" every
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Single week.
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Hey, today we're finishing up the "god defined it" series, and
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You want to guess on what i'm preaching on?
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Jesus and sin, y'all. okay, open your bible.
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We're going to be in romans chapter 3, you know, in verse 23
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It says, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
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Of god."
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May i ask you a question? who is this talking about?
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It's talking about all of us, right?
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I believe that the bible makes it abundantly clear that all of
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Us have sinned, all of us have fallen short of the glory
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Of god.
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I've never met a person who claims to be perfect or claims
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To be without sin, but the longer we live the more this
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World tries to convince us that certain things in our culture
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Are no longer sin even though the bible clearly defines these
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Things as being sin.
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For instance, we hear all the time that we shouldn't make a
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Big deal about people having sex before marriage or doing sexual
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Things outside the relationship of marriage because today that's
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Just a part of the dating process.
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People say, you know, getting drunk isn't that big of a deal
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Because everybody drinks or when our world talks about things
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Like gossip or gluttony, when we think about lusting or coveting
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Or telling a little white lie from time to time.
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We like to downplay what we believe to be little sins even
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In our christian culture and we make it seem like these little
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Things aren't that big of a deal even to god.
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Hey, as we get kicked off today, let me just throw this
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Out there.
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You ready?
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Every sin is a big sin to god.
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This is foundational, but we've got to get this.
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Every sin is a big sin to god; and that includes the things you
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Call big sins, that includes the things you consider to be
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Small sins.
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Every sin is a big deal to god, and we see that to be true going
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All the way back to the very beginning.
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Today we're going to unpack the subject of sin and hopefully by
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The end of this message we'll all understand not necessarily
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The world's perspective, but we'll all understand god's
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Perspective when it comes to this important topic in
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Our life.
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In fact, if you're taking notes today, i'm going to go ahead and
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Give you a very simple outline that we're going to follow, and
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I hope you're writing these things down because if not
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You're not going to remember anything you hear.
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But our outline today just to give you the answers to the test
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Are simply this.
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We're going to look at the root of sin, the response of sin, the
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Fruit of sin, and the truth about sin.
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That's our pathway today.
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That's what we're going to look at, and we're going to begin our
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Topic today on the root of sin.
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Let me ask you.
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Where did sin begin?
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Most people believe sin originated in the garden of eden
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In genesis chapter 3 when adam and eve disobeyed god's command.
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But when you do a deep dive in discovering the true root of
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Sin, you're going to notice that sin actually originated
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In heaven.
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You see, before sin entered humanity, it began with satan,
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Otherwise known as lucifer.
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Lucifer was a beautiful, powerful angel who became
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Prideful and chose to rebel against god.
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You can read about that in isaiah chapter 14 or ezekiel
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Chapter 28.
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But those passages show how satan desired to exalt himself
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Above god and then responded in rebellion against god, and as a
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Result sin was born and satan was kicked out of heaven.
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Well, next you see satan where?
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In the form of a serpent.
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He's hanging out in a place called the garden of eden, and
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He's tempting a man and a woman named adam and eve telling them,
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"you should turn your back on god."
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He tempted eve to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of
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The knowledge of good and evil.
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By the way, that was the one tree that god told them that you
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Should avoid at all costs.
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But what did she do?
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Well, she ate of the tree, and so did adam.
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And when they chose to disobey god, the sin that originated
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With satan in heaven was born into the hearts of humans here
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On the earth.
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Maybe you're wondering, "what does adam and eve's sin have to
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Do with me?
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I mean, why are we being punished for something that they
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Did so long ago?"
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And that's a great question. a lot of people wonder that.
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Romans 5 kind of gives us a pretty good answer.
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It says, "just as sin entered the world through one man, and
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Death through sin, in this way death spread to all people,
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Because all sinned."
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So what does that verse tell you and i?
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It says that sin is all of our problem.
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Sin is our root problem. it is our foundational problem.
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I read a story this week about a man who owned a beautiful,
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Pristine white house.
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Everything was perfect, and this guy was extremely proud of how
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Perfect and spotless his home really was 'cause it
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Was flawless.
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Everywhere you'd look, it was perfection.
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But then one day he was walking around his home and he noticed
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That there was a little crack in one of the corners and because
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His house was so perfect it really bothered him.
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So he immediately went to his basement, he grabbed a--some
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Paint and a brush and he covered up that crack so that his home
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Would look perfect again.
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And you know what? it did.
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After he covered the crack, it was perfect once again.
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It was spotless.
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It was flawless at least for a little while.
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Couple of weeks later the crack reappeared, but this time the
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Crack was even bigger and it was more noticeable and the man was
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Upset because he wanted it to be perfect.
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So he picked up the phone, he called a contractor, and he
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Said, "i need you to come tell me what my problem is."
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The contractor showed up, evaluated everything, and the
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Contractor looked at him at the conclusion of their meeting and
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Said this: "sir, your problem is not the crack in the wall, your
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Problem is the foundation under your feet."
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He said, "until you fix the foundation, that crack will
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Continue coming back."
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Hey, i think most of us have the ability to look at our own lives
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And to identify the cracks and the flaws that shouldn't
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Be there.
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We all have what i want to call a cosmetic crack in our
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Life, right?
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And we inherently know the difference between right and
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Wrong and when we cross that line there's something inside of
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Us that says, "man, i really shouldn't have said that.
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I really shouldn't have done that.
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Like i knew the second i did that, that that was out
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Of bounds.
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I crossed the line.
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I did something or said something that i shouldn't say."
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And when that happens, our tendency, a lot of times it's
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Just to do our best to cover up those cosmetic cracks.
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We do our best to modify our behavior or change our life or
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Do some things different in order to be a better person, but
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What i want us to see is until we fix or address the
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Foundational problem of our sin we are never going to truly
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Experience freedom from our sin.
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Our foundational problem, all of us, y'all, is sin.
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Every single one of us, our foundational problem is sin.
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What did we just read in romans 3?
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"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of god."
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Think about this.
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What started as one single human decision from adam and eve
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Became the world's single greatest problem.
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You get that?
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You see, their sinful decision led to sin becoming a part of
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Human nature, and today every human being that is born is born
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Into sin.
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In fact, the psalmist said that in psalm 51.
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In psalm 51:5, the psalmist said, "indeed, i was guilty,"
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When, "when i was born.
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I was sinful," when, "when my mother conceived me."
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That's going way back, y'all.
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Since your mom conceived you, the bible says you've
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Been sinful.
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That was true in his life, and that's been true in the life of
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Every single human being in the history of time.
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It's the root of sin.
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It affects all of us.
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But now let's look at the response of sin.
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See, when god created adam and eve, he created human beings as
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Being perfect.
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We were created to be sin-free.
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They, like us, were created in the image of god, and humans
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Were formed with a heart like god.
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But when the snake entered the garden, humanity experienced
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Something powerful for the very first time.
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You know what that was?
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Temptation.
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For the first time we see temptation.
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That's what genesis chapter 3 is all about.
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Verse 1 says, "the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild
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Animals that the lord god has made."
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In fact, it talks about this snake talking to eve and lying
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About god's instructions.
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He convinced her that there would be no consequences if she
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Just turned her back on god and did what he wanted her to do.
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He whispered in her ear and he questioned god's authority and
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He worked hard to convince her that, "there is something out
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There, something possible for you that is even greater than
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God himself."
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And how did she respond?
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She took the bait.
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Her response to that temptation began the ripple effect of sin
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That we continue to experience even today.
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Are you tempted today?
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All of us are.
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But you know what it says in james 1?
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Says, "no one undergoing a trial should say,
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'i'm being tempted by god,'
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Since god is not tempted by evil, and he himself doesn't
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Tempt anyone.
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But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by
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His own evil desire.
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Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when
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Sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death."
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Temptation will always lead us to a decision, always, and those
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Decisions according to scripture are going to lead you either to
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Life or they're going to lead you to death.
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But we don't think about that when we're being tempted, do we?
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Most of us aren't thinking, "oh, this is a
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Life-or-death situation."
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Because most of the time it doesn't seem like it is.
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When we're being tempted, what are we thinking?
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We're thinking, "hey, what do i want to do?
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What seems right in the moment? what sounds fun?
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That looks awesome."
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And we're just kind of moving, but let me ask you this.
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What frame of mind are you in most of the time when you're
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Making those decisions?
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We read this verse a couple of weeks ago in colossians 3 that
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Said, "set your mind on things above, not on earthly things."
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But far too often our minds are focused on temporary things
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Instead of eternal things and for those reasons we oftentimes
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Let the power of temptation pull us across the line
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For sinfulness.
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Hey, what determines the line for sinfulness, by the way?
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I mean, have you ever wondered that?
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Because like we've already seen, the world has a different answer
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To that question than your bible does.
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Who determines if something is a sin or not?
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Answer, god does, y'all.
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Y'all should have known the answer to that one.
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God determines if something is a sin or not.
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Let me just say at the end of this series: you should know the
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World does not determine if something is a sin or not, the
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World doesn't determine what's right and what's wrong.
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God does.
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Now, here's what we need to understand.
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God didn't design sin, but god is the one who defines sin.
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And how does he define it?
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How does god determine if something is a sin or not?
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I'm going to give you two things, but number one is the
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Most important.
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God's measuring stick for sin is his word, his word.
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In isaiah 40, verse 8 it says, "the grass withers, the flowers
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Fade, but the word of our god remains," say this with
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Me, "forever."
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Hey, our god says something about his word.
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He also says something about himself.
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And that next verse, i want you to see this, the lord says that
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He himself--"i, the lord, have not changed."
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Do you know what that means?
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It means our god is unchangeable, big point, and the
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Word of god is unchangeable.
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God is unchangeable, his word is unchangeable, which ultimately
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Means god's measuring stick for sin does not change even when
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Culture disagrees.
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Hey, in the bible, god gives us several what i want to call
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Black and white sins, where he makes himself abundantly clear.
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It's when you read the bible and it says--and god says, "this is
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Wrong," or, "that is wrong.
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And if you do these things you're stepping into sin, but
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You're also stepping in rebellion away from me."
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The ten commandments would be a great example of a black and
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White sin.
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He said, "you shall not steal.
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You shall not commit adultery.
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You shall not take my name in vain or worship false gods or
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Bear false witness against your neighbor.
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You should not--you shall not covet your neighbor's
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Stuff," right?
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We all know the ten commandments.
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The lord made himself abundantly clear when he said those things.
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He said these are black and white directives from god to us;
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Which means if i take something that doesn't belong to me today,
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If i leave church and go murder someone today, if i fail to keep
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The sabbath holy today, i don't have to wonder is this sin or is
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This not sin.
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No, i know it's sin.
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There's no conversation to have because god's word makes it
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Abundantly clear when those things are sin or not.
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It's when you say, "hey, jesus, take out my old heart,
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Give me a new one."
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And when our hearts are transformed by christ,
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That's what changes everything, including your desire to sin.
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Listen, you're always going to have temptation in your life,
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But how you look at the line of sin will tell you the truth
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About your heart.
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You see, i believe there's three groups of people in every single
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Church when it comes to how do you look at the line for sin.
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There's the person that avoids the line at all costs and those
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Are people that say, "hey, i have no desire to sin and i'm
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Running away from sin because my heart's been changed by god and
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God's heart doesn't need to pursue things that are unholy."
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But then you also have another group of people and those are
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Ones who say, "i'm going to get as close to the line
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As possible."
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That's my kid when he was little, right?
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I mean, whatever the line is, he's going to just go right up
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Next to that line.
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He's not going to cross it.
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He's definitely not going to be hanging out over here.
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He's going to get as close to the line as possible.
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But a lot of us even as adults we do that with sinful things
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And we get close to that line and we're trying to teeter
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Between the world and the lord.
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We're trying to experience the best of both worlds and the
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Lord's saying, "hey, i want you to pursue holiness, and i want
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You to flee sin."
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But we're hanging out on that line, trying to be in both
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Worlds at the same time.
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You got another group of people, and those are those who--we
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Crossed the line and we never looked back, and i'll say those
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Are the folks in the room who are living in rebellion and
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You've chosen to--the devil's way over god's way and you
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Haven't died to your old nature.
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You're still living in that old nature.
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You don't have a new heart.
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You still have that same old heart pursuing the same
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Old things.
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But the bible says when god changes our heart, he changes
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The way we approach the line for sin.
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We see this play out when it comes to sexual sin all
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The time.
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The bible is very black and white with sexual sin.
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1 corinthians 6, "flee sexual immorality."
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1 thessalonians 4, "keep away from sexual immorality," right?
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It's like black and white sin, this is what you should do.
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But how do we respond when it comes to sexual sin?
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Three groups.
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We flee from the line because of our conviction, we flirt with
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The line because we've got some confusion, or we cross the line
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In all-out rebellion.
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When god gives us a new heart, that heart transformation should
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Bring a whole new perspective.
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When we love the son of god, when we're being convicted by
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The spirit of god, we ought to begin looking at our sin the
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Same way god looks at our sin.
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Let me tell you: when you start looking at the sin in your life
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The same way god looks at the sin in your life, you'll start
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Fleeing from that sin the same way he tells you to flee
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From it.
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The root of our sin.
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The response to our sin.
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Real quickly i want to give you the fruit of our sin, the fruit
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Of our sin.
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The bible says if you don't kill the root of sin you will
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Eventually experience the fruit of sin.
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What did we just read in james 1?
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"but each person is tempted when he is drawn away
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And enticed by his own evil desire.
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Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when
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Sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death."
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What is the fruit of sin?
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Can i give you four things the bible says?
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Number one, spiritual death.
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Romans 6:23 says, "for the wages of sin is death."
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That word wages, it refers to something that we earn
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Or deserve.
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It's like minimum wage, right?
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So what do you earn because of your sin?
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The bible says you earn spiritual death.
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In other words, if you don't kill your sin, your sin will
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Kill you, and this will end.
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This story will end in spiritual death, which is also something
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Called separation from god.
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Isaiah 59:2 says, "but your iniquities are separating you
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From god, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that
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He does not listen."
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Have you ever thought about that?
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Like, unaddressed, unconfessed sin in my life has the ability
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To build a wall between me and god.
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We're now--even when i cry out to god, he will not listen
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Because that wall of sin is blocking me.
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Have you ever realized that?
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Unaddressed, unconfessed sin in your life blocks the ear of god,
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Where you no longer have access the way that god built you to
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Have access.
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Not only do we have separation from god, there's also bondage
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To sin.
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This is a major fruit.
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John 8:34, "jesus said, 'truly i tell you, everyone who commits
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Sin is a slave of sin.'"
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That means when we have sin in our life and it's unaddressed,
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Unconfessed, we have not repented, we have not turned to
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Jesus, it's like putting a ball and chain around your leg.
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And when you have a ball and chain and you are a slave to
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Your sin, it is impossible for you to run the race god called
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You to run.
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You cannot be maximized in this race called life if you are a
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Slave to the sin in your life, and he said you will experience
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Bondage because of your sin, which prevents freedom in
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Your life.
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Let me give you a fourth one.
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You ready?
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One of the fruits is this: judgment and
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Eternal consequences.
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In matthew chapter 25 it says, "and they will go away into
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Eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
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We have an option here.
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There is a fork in the road, and he says how you address the sin
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In your life will determine which path you take for
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All eternity.
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That's the fruit of sin.
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Last but not least, i want to show you the truth about sin.
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Sin is universal.
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I'm going to give you five things right here, and this
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Applies to every one of us.
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Sin is universal.
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We just read that in romans 3.
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"for all of sinned and fall short of the glory of god."
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Every single one of us are guilty as charged.
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Romans 3, verse 10 says, "there is no one righteous, not
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Even one."
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Sin is universal, but it's also personal.
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This isn't just a, "lump us all together.
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We are all sinners and so that's just the boat that we're in."
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No, it's a personal thing between us and the lord.
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Psalm 51:4 says, "against you, you alone, i have sinned and
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Done this in your evil sight."
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You know what that tells me?
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No one's responsible for my sin except for me.
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I can't blame anybody else for my greatest problem today
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Because it's a personal problem.
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But not only is it a personal problem, the bible says it is
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Also a spiritual problem.
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It's a spiritual problem because sin is the one thing that
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Separates me from god.
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Here's the thing that we've got to know about
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Spiritual problems.
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Are you ready?
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We don't have the ability to fix spiritual problems with
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Practical solutions.
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Only a spiritual being has the ability to create spiritual
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Solutions, which means without jesus there is nothing that we
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Can do to fix our world's greatest problem.
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It's a personal problem.
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It's also a spiritual problem.
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But the fourth one, sin is punishable.
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It's universal, it's personal, it's spiritual, but
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It's punishable.
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I think about how the lord responded to the people in
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Leviticus 26.
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He said, "but if after these things you will not obey me, i
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Will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins."
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In psalm 145, "the lord guards all those who love him," it
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Says, "but he destroys all the wicked."
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In ezekiel 18:20 it says, "the person who sin is the one--the
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Person who sins is the one who will die."
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That verse goes on to say, "the wickedness of the wicked person
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Will be on him."
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Sin is punishable, but you want to hear the good news?
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Sin is redeemable.
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It's redeemable.
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John 3:17 says, "for god did not send his son into the world to
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Condemn the world.
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He came to save the world through jesus."
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In 1 peter we read another verse that says, "he himself bore our
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Sins in his body on the tree; so that, having died to sin, we
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Might live for righteousness.
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By his wounds you have been healed."
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In 1 john 1:9 it says if we confess our sins, he is faithful
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And he is just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from
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All unrighteousness.
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Listen, the word of god is very clear: we were all born with a
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Heart problem, but god's word reminds us that's why jesus had
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To come.
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Jesus didn't come to refurbish your heart.
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He came to replace your heart.
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He didn't come to teach you how to be a better person or a
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Better version of yourself.
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He came to kill you.
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He came to cut out your heart and to replace it with
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Something new.
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And let me ask you a question.
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Has--have you experienced a spiritual heart transplant in
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Your own life?
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Can you go to the day and the time where your old heart was
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Cut out and jesus replaced it with a new heart?
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I didn't ask has there been a time where jesus convicted you
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Of sin and, you know, you went through a process of becoming a
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Better person.
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No, i'm saying ha--can you take me to the time and the place
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Where the old you died and jesus gave you a brand new life?
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Because that according to scripture is salvation.
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That is a picture of transformation.
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It's a picture of what god requires of us as we are
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Becoming the person he created us to be.
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Today, if you've never given your heart to jesus, i would
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Love to introduce you to the god who changed my life.
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In fact, in just a moment, we're going to leave through
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These doors.
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But if god is leading you to a spiritual decision where you
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Finally experience this heart transformation, we'd love to
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Talk to you today right after this service.
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Lord, today thank you for loving us.
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Thank you for including us in your church and giving us the
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Opportunity to hear your word.
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God, i pray that we would not let this land on deaf ears.
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We would respond to your word and that we would respond in a
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Way that's pleasing to your heart.
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In jesus's name we pray, amen.
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♪♪♪
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Pastor jordan: as christians, prayer is a powerful tool that
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Prayer is essential for finding strength in difficult
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Television to reach hearts with god's word and your prayers mean
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The world to me as i prepare to share a message from the bible
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Every single week.
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While we appreciate any financial support for our
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Ministry, your prayers are truly invaluable.
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Thank you for tuning in today.
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Please know that i am praying for you and all of our "all in"
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Friends, and i sincerely hope that this prayer guide will
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Elevate your prayer life.
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Pastor jordan: hey, we never want to end our broadcast
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Without giving you the opportunity to know jesus as
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Your personal lord and savior.
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If you'd like to make the decision to trust jesus and want
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To know more about what it looks like to follow jesus, get in
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Touch with me right now.
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Follow the instructions at the bottom of the screen so that we
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Can pray for you and also put information in your hands
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Right away.
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Today we celebrate your decision and look forward to being a part
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Of your personal journey of going all in with jesus christ.
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Announcer: this episode of "all in" with pastor jordan easley
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Has been made possible by the generous support of viewers
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Like you.
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We hope today's message encourages you as you strive to
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Live your life fully committed to jesus christ.
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Jordan Easley - God Defined It - Sin

May 4, 2025 | S25:E19

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