Many of us who are trying to get rid of sin are like housewives who destroy the spiders\u2019 webs without destroying the spiders.1280<\/p>\n
What would you think of a doctor who, on discovering you had a tumor buried deep in your body, responded, \u201cTake two aspirin and you\u2019ll be just fine\u201d?<\/p>\n
How about a fireman who responded to a three-alarm fire by saying, \u201cIt\u2019ll probably burn itself out soon enough,\u201d or a policeman who, on arriving at the scene of a robbery, merely shook his head and said, \u201cBoys will be boys\u201d!<\/p>\n
In each case the response is inappropriate to the situation. Is your response to sin also inappropriate?1281<\/p>\n
French aristocrat Baron Richard d\u2019Arcy kept a strange pet in his home: a two-year-old lion. One night in 1977, the baron tried to make his pet enter the bathroom, where it usually spent the night, but it refused to go and leaped on its master. In a matter of minutes, the lion had clawed the baron to death.<\/p>\n
Christians should deal with sin definitely and drastically. We must not permit any \u201cpet\u201d sins, since that means we are playing with evil. Only by severe dealing with a sin can we be sure that we will not become the victim of it.1282<\/p>\n
For a saint to desire sin is as ridiculous as a rodeo where cowboys ride calves to rope horses. Not only is the experience unnatural, it is also extremely unproductive.1283<\/p>\n
One of every 400,000 babies is born each year with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease, or SCID, a disease that leaves the child with no body-chemistry defenses to fight infection from the germs that constantly attack one\u2019s body. For such children, life is often short and always filled with danger.<\/p>\n
In a similar manner, the Christian who is not protected by the armor of God is defenseless against the attacks of the flesh, the world, and Satan. Sin, like an infection, can eat its way into his life because he has no defense against it.1284<\/p>\n
A certain man used to come home dead drunk each night. He was always so inebriated that he would fall into bed fully clothed, pass out, and then snore loudly all night long. His wife was losing so much sleep because of his snoring that she went to a doctor and said, \u201cDoctor, I can\u2019t stand it any longer. If you will tell me how to keep him from snoring, I will pay you anything!\u201d The doctor told her that whenever her husband passed out and started snoring, she was to take a ribbon and tie it around his nose, and his snoring would stop.<\/p>\n
That night, her husband came in as usual, fell across the bed fully dressed, passed out, and started snoring. The wife got up, pulled a blue ribbon from her dresser, and tied it around his nose. Sure enough, the snoring stopped. The next morning, the wife woke up refreshed from a solid night\u2019s sleep. She asked her husband as he was awakening, \u201cWhere were you last night?\u201d The husband, still fully clothed, looked in the mirror and seeing the blue ribbon around his nose, replied, \u201cI don\u2019t know, but wherever I was, I won first prize!\u201d<\/p>\n
This was the attitude of the early church that Paul referred to in 1 Corinthians 5:1\u20132. Immorality was in their midst, yet they were puffed up with pride. They had become so arrogant, thinking themselves first in spirituality, that they had become oblivious to their condition.1285<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many of us who are trying to get rid of sin are like housewives who destroy the spiders\u2019 webs without destroying the spiders.1280 What would you think of a doctor who, on discovering you had a tumor buried deep in your body, responded, \u201cTake two aspirin and you\u2019ll be just fine\u201d? How about a fireman … Continue reading “SIN, RESPONSE TO”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}