H2O Church
Creed, part 7
This is sermon number seven in this series, examining what Christians believe. This talk is intended to be a study of the doctrine of sin, a cheerful study of how screwed up we all are.
Locations & Times
H2O Church
100 S Eola Dr, Orlando, FL 32801, USA
Sunday 8:00 AM
Part 1: What happened in the Garden
1. God created the world we long for, a world without sin; the Hebrew word, Shalom.
2. God created the condition we long for, “naked and unashamed.”
3. God gave us free will, to live in dependence or independence from Him.
4. Sin brought about what all humans experience: shame and suspicion.
2. God created the condition we long for, “naked and unashamed.”
3. God gave us free will, to live in dependence or independence from Him.
4. Sin brought about what all humans experience: shame and suspicion.
Original Sin does not mean that we have a strike against us, an F on the report card of our soul, merely to be washed away at infant baptism. Original sin—Adam’s—resulted in a fallen nature of all humanity. This requires not only forgiveness but rebirth.
Part 2: the nature of sin
1. Sin is complex; described as a darkness, wrongdoing, madness, trespass, debt, crossing a boundary, missing the mark, a beast waiting to pounce on us, an internal tyrant, ruling over us.
2. Sin is essentially the de-godding of God.
3. Sin is both alluring and deceiving.
4. Sin is tranquilizing and self-deceiving.
5. Sin produces hardness and defiance.
6. Sin is infectious and progressive.
7. Sin is polluting and wearying.
Total depravity does not mean that we’re as bad as we could possibly be, but that sin has infected and effected every part of our being; our mind, our will, our emotions, our conscience, our spirit.
Interesting Quotes from Famous People
Lecrae; I was created by God but I ain't wanna be like Him,
I wanna be Him; the Jack Sparrow of my Caribbean
“Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” Mark Twain
“The sinfulness of people, the depravity of humanity is the most controversial and most debated concept in all of philosophy, and the most empirically verifiable.” Malcolm Muggerige
“The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and dark lords, but from ourselves.” George Martin
“Man is a wolf; who has the courage to dispute it in the face of all the evidence of his own life and in history?” Freud
Albert Einstein said- “It is easier to change the nature of plutonium, than it is to change the nature of the evil spirit of man.”
“The scariest monsters are the ones that live within our souls.” anon
Part 2: the nature of sin
1. Sin is complex; described as a darkness, wrongdoing, madness, trespass, debt, crossing a boundary, missing the mark, a beast waiting to pounce on us, an internal tyrant, ruling over us.
2. Sin is essentially the de-godding of God.
3. Sin is both alluring and deceiving.
4. Sin is tranquilizing and self-deceiving.
5. Sin produces hardness and defiance.
6. Sin is infectious and progressive.
7. Sin is polluting and wearying.
Total depravity does not mean that we’re as bad as we could possibly be, but that sin has infected and effected every part of our being; our mind, our will, our emotions, our conscience, our spirit.
Interesting Quotes from Famous People
Lecrae; I was created by God but I ain't wanna be like Him,
I wanna be Him; the Jack Sparrow of my Caribbean
“Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” Mark Twain
“The sinfulness of people, the depravity of humanity is the most controversial and most debated concept in all of philosophy, and the most empirically verifiable.” Malcolm Muggerige
“The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and dark lords, but from ourselves.” George Martin
“Man is a wolf; who has the courage to dispute it in the face of all the evidence of his own life and in history?” Freud
Albert Einstein said- “It is easier to change the nature of plutonium, than it is to change the nature of the evil spirit of man.”
“The scariest monsters are the ones that live within our souls.” anon