It's a violation of his divine law.
It's missing the mark and incurring guilt before the throne of the Almighty Judge of heaven and earth.
And all of that is true, but if we're being technical, that defines what is sinful.
It's a living, active, corrupting force inside you that hijacks your thoughts, your feelings, your words, and your deeds.
He says, "If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door.
Its desire is for you, and you must rule over it." Hear that language.
It's like a tiger outside your door.
It has desire.
It wants you.
And God doesn't say, you know, "Just try to avoid it." He says, "You must rule over it." That's combative language.
That's military language.
It's a command for us to fight it.
Paul says that something similar in Romans 7, "Sin, seizing an opportunity through the command that produced in me all kinds of covetousness." He says, "It is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me." He looks at himself and he says, "I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive." Hear that.
This is an enemy inside our own gates.
So when we look at the world and we see all the mess, right? Economic instability, international conflict, political dysfunction.
First, we need to understand that none of this is new and none of it starts kind of just out there.
It's a violation of his divine law.
It's missing the mark and incurring guilt before the throne of the Almighty Judge of heaven and earth.
And all of that is true, but if we're being technical, that defines what is sinful.
It's a living, active, corrupting force inside you that hijacks your thoughts, your feelings, your words, and your deeds.
He says, "If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door.
Its desire is for you, and you must rule over it." Hear that language.
It's like a tiger outside your door.
It has desire.
It wants you.
And God doesn't say, you know, "Just try to avoid it." He says, "You must rule over it." That's combative language.
That's military language.
It's a command for us to fight it.
Paul says that something similar in Romans 7, "Sin, seizing an opportunity through the command that produced in me all kinds of covetousness." He says, "It is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me." He looks at himself and he says, "I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive." Hear that.
This is an enemy inside our own gates.
So when we look at the world and we see all the mess, right? Economic instability, international conflict, political dysfunction.
First, we need to understand that none of this is new and none of it starts kind of just out there.
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