BORN SINNERS 3: WHO PAYS FOR YOUR SINS?
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Born Sinners
a) Is it true that we are all born as sinners? Why do we have to pay for the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden? Are we sinners at birth? What does the Bible say?
b) Let us not deceive ourselves. If we were in the Garden, we would also have done what Adam and Eve had done. We can not judge them for “There is no one righteous, not even one” (Romans 3:10). In fact, “no one living is righteous before you(God)” (Psalms 143:2) and “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us” (1 John 1:8) and in reality, “there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God” (Romans 3:11).
c) The bad news is that no one deserves eternal life in Christ yet God does not leave us alone in our sins. Here is why the gospel of Jesus Christ is called the “Good News.” It’s because “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21) and “since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God” (Romans 5:1-2).
d) That’s why the Good News is so good. It’s because the bad news of our wickedness is true that the Good News is so very good. Our God is good. He died to make a way for us and had the wrath that rightly deserved to be placed on us placed on Christ (Romans 5:9).
e) If you will only believe that “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). If you have not repented of your sins, confessed them to God, and put your trust in Christ, you will pay for your own sins in eternity. Someone will have to pay for your sins. Will it be you or will it be Christ? We pray it is the latter.
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1. Born Sinnersa) Is it true that we are all born as sinners? Why do we have to pay for the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden? Are we sinners at birth? What does the Bible say?
2. Who Pays For Your Sins?
a) The Bible declares that there is no human born of women, save Jesus Christ, that is born without a sinful nature. Ephesians 2:3 says “All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.”
a) The Bible declares that there is no human born of women, save Jesus Christ, that is born without a sinful nature. Ephesians 2:3 says “All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.”
b) Let us not deceive ourselves. If we were in the Garden, we would also have done what Adam and Eve had done. We can not judge them for “There is no one righteous, not even one” (Romans 3:10). In fact, “no one living is righteous before you(God)” (Psalms 143:2) and “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us” (1 John 1:8) and in reality, “there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God” (Romans 3:11).
c) The bad news is that no one deserves eternal life in Christ yet God does not leave us alone in our sins. Here is why the gospel of Jesus Christ is called the “Good News.” It’s because “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21) and “since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God” (Romans 5:1-2).
d) That’s why the Good News is so good. It’s because the bad news of our wickedness is true that the Good News is so very good. Our God is good. He died to make a way for us and had the wrath that rightly deserved to be placed on us placed on Christ (Romans 5:9).
e) If you will only believe that “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). If you have not repented of your sins, confessed them to God, and put your trust in Christ, you will pay for your own sins in eternity. Someone will have to pay for your sins. Will it be you or will it be Christ? We pray it is the latter.
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