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The Practice of Sin

The Practice of Sin

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Those who are a new creations in Christ, who are born again by the grace of God, will live in repentance and righteousness. Those who only claim to be Christians, but are not actually transformed by God’s grace, will be exposed by their sin. Well, I’ve talked to a lot of you who have become part of Calvary in the last few years. And sometimes I’ll ask, what made you decide that Calvary was the place for you? And almost to a person, the answer has something to do with how carefully and seriously we handle the Bible. And I’m glad we’re known for that. I’m glad this. This church is known for its handling of Scripture. I, for one, think it would be a huge waste of time to come to church or to go to Bible study and not hear the Bible plainly taught. It’s God’s word. It is the tool that the Holy Spirit uses in his hands to form us and to shape us into Christ likeness. I don’t want to be shaped by human opinion. That’s not what I want to be shaped by. You don’t need my top three ways to have a great life this week, right? You don’t need that. What we all need is to look fully and honestly into the mirror of God’s Word. See who we really are. See our need for God’s grace in Christ, and learn to apply the gospel so that we are transformed by it. You need that. I need that. We all need that. That’s what we need. Keep that in mind this morning. Remember that we all agree that that’s what we need. Because today we’re looking at a passage of First John that teaches the weight, the origin, and the soul crushing devastation of sin. John teaches this to a group of Christians who might be tempted to think that sin is not that big a deal. And we live in a time in church history, the United States, 2026, when people who would claim to follow Jesus also treat sin like it’s not that big a deal. They don’t see the acceptance of unrepented sinful patterns and practices in their lives as evidence that they don’t actually know Jesus. They have learned to excuse and tolerate and even embrace their own sin as something that is just part of who they are. They’ve incorporated a certain amount of sinful behavior into their walk with Jesus, never even considering that if you’re engaging in unrepentant sin, you can’t be walking with Jesus. This morning, John is going to sort people spiritually. I believe this passage is going to sort us spiritually as well. Those who are a new creation in Christ, who are born again by the grace of God, will live in repentance and righteousness. Those who only claim to be Christians, but are not actually transformed by God’s grace, will be exposed by their sin. I had a weird prayer this week and a strange prayer for our church. I prayed that a lot of you would be exposed. Not by me, not by my preaching, but by the Word of God that we have all gathered here this morning to hear, because we all agree to take the Bible seriously. We’re in First John chapter three, beginning in verse four this morning. This passage is filled with statements of fact, all of them intended for us to self-diagnose the state of our own soul. And I have framed this passage into four statements about sin. And the first statement is simply that sin is lawlessness. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. Now, the first thing we need to do with this verse, and with the rest of this passage, is make an important distinction between committing a sin and making a practice of sin. You can see that the ESV translators here use the word practice twice: a practice of sinning, practices lawlessness. If you look up in your Bible to chapter two, verse 29, you’ll see that these phrases here parallel a phrase there that says everyone who practices righteousness. Now that word practice is a translation of the word does. Okay. The word is does, this person does righteousness, does sin, does lawlessness. And by adding the word does to sin, it gives it sort of a prolonged or ongoing meaning. He’s talking about a chosen direction, what we might call a lifestyle. He’s not talking about a sin committed by a Christian that is followed by confession and repentance and reconciliation with others, and restored fellowship with God. That would actually be part of the practice of righteousness. John is talking about someone who commits sin habitually without repentance, regardless of whether that person calls himself a Christian or not. That is the practice of sin. And this is a very helpful distinction. As long as we remember that there are many sinful lifestyles. Okay. It’s fine to think that way, but we got to remember how many there are. We tend to use the phrase sinful lifestyle only to describe things like LGBT matters or sex outside of marriage or criminals, or things like that. But let me tell you, church, being an angry and controlling person is just as sinful a lifestyle as any of that. Seething bitterness toward another person is a sinful ...
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