0782. 764. Sin and Sins

764. Sin and Sins

1. Sin is the root. “Sin in me” (Rom_7:20). Sins are the fruit. “Our sins” (1Jn_3:5).

2. Sin is the cause. “Sin wrought in me” (Rom_7:17-18). Sins are the effect. “Your sins” (Col_2:13).

3. Sin tells what we are. “Sinners” (Rom_5:19).

Sins proclaim what we have done. “Sins” (1Ti_5:24).

4. Sin is condemned. “Condemned sin” (Rom_8:3). Sins are forgiven. “Forgiveness of sins” (Act_26:18).

5. Deliverance from sin as a master in Christ—Rom_6:10. Sins remitted. “Remission of sins” (Mat_26:28).

6. Sin in the believer, latent. “If we say we have no sin” (1Jn_1:8). Sins, the habit of life, forsaken. “Not commit sin” (1Jn_3:9).

7. Sin is not the believer’s master. “Sin shall not have dominion over you” (Rom_6:14). Believers are “dead to sins” (1Pe_2:24).

By: DR. F. E. MARSH