Confession of Faith, Article 1 We all believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths that there is a single Notice here exactly what Jesus said and what He didn't say. And He does so right after calling her out for her sin and deception. Do you see what this means? Theology - knowing what God is and what He has done and is doing - is for common, ordinary, sinful folks The Christ has come - the one which this sinful woman knew would be able to explain everything to us

8  And let us not be immoral ( porneuō ), as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single All of these involve God's covenant people, who were consumed in sin and forced to pay a significant Bottom line: sin is dangerous; it will hurt you, God and your neighbor.   Notice, though, that the warning here is for you to be careful, not to be afraid. Notice also how it is that God preserves you through temptation.

We all die in Adam, the first human, in that we are united with him in sin and death. With that first disobedience in the Garden by Adam and Eve, sin entered the world. We, as Adam’s descendants, inherit this original sin. However, despite being united with Adam in sin and death, God offers grace. The resurrection of Jesus affects everything and will not be fully complete until Christ “has put everything

A maskil.  1  Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. 2  Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit. 3  When your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. 5  Then I acknowledged my sin , or even worse that somehow our sins are made acceptable. Jesus could do this because, as David writes here, He covered our sin.

. 12 But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand And he endured all this for the forgiveness of our sins. Christ has "offered for all time one sacrifice for sins." Dig Deeper As believers, we wrestle and struggle against sin throughout our lives.  Sometimes we fail, we sin, and we can become discouraged. 

Jeremiah 6:9–15 (NIV) CONTEXT: Jeremiah is declaring the Word of the LORD, calling out the complacent sinfulness Indeed, what could God owe to those who have nothing of their own to give but sin and falsehood?  Obviously Jeremiah lived in a context far different from our own in nearly every way, yet the sins the God's people had been wounded - that's what sin does - but instead of calling them to the true tonic The word of the LORD never has been nor ever will be popular in this sinful world.

Moses has been leading Israel almost since their very inception as a people. Most critically, Moses served as the man in the middle, mediating between the holy God and His sinful Notice all of the first person promises He makes to Joshua: I will give you every place you set your You've been freed from slavery to sin and protected from judgment under the blood of the Lamb; You're As you go through your day, meditate on scripture: read it, pray it, sing it, think about it, and discuss

When they saw it, they all began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a sinner Belgic Confession Article 24: The Sanctification of Sinners We believe that this true faith, produced him and makes him a “new man,” causing him to live the “new life” and freeing him from the slavery of sin Notice that Zacchaeus doesn't say a word to the gathered crowd. He speaks only to the Lord. And that same faith opened his eyes to see that he needed to repent of his sins, and that in his case

First, so that the longer we live the more we may come to know our sinfulness and the more eagerly look to Christ for forgiveness of sins and righteousness. Not very many people have; certainly Adam & Eve saw God before their sin required they be put out from A person wanders around in the dry and parched land where there is no water, stuck in sin and misery, Notice in v6-7 how thinking of God carried David through the insomnia, and enabled him to sing while

  out of the entire human race,  which had fallen by its own fault from its original innocence into sin And so God decreed  to give to Christ those chosen for salvation,  and to call and draw them effectively Expressed in the simplest terms, Jesus saved you by atoning (paying) for your sins in His death on the But there's one word that sticks out more than any other in this short passage since Jesus used it eight