JESUS TOOK AWAY THE THINGS ASSOCIATED WITH SIN
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Jesus Took Away Sin
a) Jesus once told a parable about a slave who owed his king millions of dollars. He told his lord that he would pay back every cent, yet it was clear that he could not. The king felt compassion for the slave and was willing to cancel the entire debt (Matthew 18:23-27).
2. Jesus Took Away The Things Associated With Sin
a) When Jesus died on the cross, he took away not only our sins, but also the things that are associated with sin, namely the law and death. Paul explains to us how the law gives sin an opportunity, and then sin brings about death (Romans 7:4-13).
Romans 7:4-13
4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; 10 and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; 11 for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13 Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
b) Notice Paul links the three things, law, sin, and death.
The End ...
1. Jesus Took Away Sina) Jesus once told a parable about a slave who owed his king millions of dollars. He told his lord that he would pay back every cent, yet it was clear that he could not. The king felt compassion for the slave and was willing to cancel the entire debt (Matthew 18:23-27).
2. Jesus Took Away The Things Associated With Sin
a) When Jesus died on the cross, he took away not only our sins, but also the things that are associated with sin, namely the law and death. Paul explains to us how the law gives sin an opportunity, and then sin brings about death (Romans 7:4-13).
Romans 7:4-13
4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; 10 and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; 11 for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13 Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
b) Notice Paul links the three things, law, sin, and death.
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