"Sin has a thousand faces," says Cornelius Plantinga. "Sinners sometime draw pleasure from mere rebellion," says J. Bridges. "The prophets knew how many ways human life can go wrong"
"Sin has a thousand faces," says Cornelius Plantinga. "Sinners sometime draw pleasure from mere rebellion," says J. Bridges. "The prophets knew how many ways human life can go wrong"
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"Sin has a thousand faces," says Cornelius Plantinga. "Sinners sometime draw pleasure from mere rebellion," says J. Bridges. "The prophets knew how many ways human life can go wrong"
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Living
Here
&
Now
as
God’s
Missionary
People”
New
City
Church:
Northridge
~
Fall
2009
Session
#5:
Understanding
My
Story
in
Light
of
God’s
Story
Part
4—The
Fall
&
the
Bad
News
of
Christianity
“As
the
great
writing
prophets
of
the
Bible
knew,
sin
has
a
thousand
faces.
The
prophets
knew
how
many
ways
human
life
can
go
wrong
because
they
knew
how
many
ways
human
life
can
go
right.”
~
Cornelius
Plantinga,
Not
the
Way
Its
Supposed
to
Be
I.
Review:
Sin
as
‘vandalism
of
shalom’
• Plantinga,
“…shalom
is
God’s
design
for
creation
and
redemption;
sin
is
blamable
human
vandalism
of
these
great
realities
and
therefore
an
affront
to
their
architect
and
builder.”
II. Focusing
in
on
the
Heart
of
the
Problem
A. Sin
as
an
affront
towards
God.
• “All
sin
has
first
and
finally
a
Godward
force.”
• Psalm
51:4,
“Against
you,
you
only
have
I
sinned
and
done
what
is
evil
in
your
sight.”
B.
Sin
is
rebellion
against
God.
• 1
John
3:4,
“Sin
is
lawlessness.”
• J.
Bridges,
“Sin,
in
the
final
analysis,
is
rebellion
against
the
sovereign
Creator,
Ruler,
and
Judge
of
the
universe.
It
resists
the
rightful
prerogative
of
a
sovereign
ruler
to
command
obedience
from
His
subjects.
It
says
to
an
absolutely
holy
and
righteous
God
that
His
moral
laws,
which
are
a
reflection
of
His
own
nature,
are
not
worthy
of
wholehearted
obedience.”
• Plantinga,
“Sinners
sometime
draw
pleasure
from
mere
rebellion.”
C.
Sin
is
a
distortion
of
reality.
• Rom.
1:18ff,
“…who
suppress
the
truth….”
• A.
Huxley,
“I
had
motives
for
not
wanting
the
world
to
have
meaning;
consequently
assumed
it
had
none,
and
was
able
without
any
difficulty
to
find
satisfying
reasons
for
this
assumption….The
liberation
we
desired
was
simultaneously
liberation
from
a
certain
political
and
economic
system
and
liberation
from
a
certain
system
of
morality.
We
objected
to
the
morality
because
it
interfered
with
our
sexual
freedom."
D.
Sin
is
self
deception.
• 1
John
1:8,
“If
we
say
we
have
no
sin,
we
deceive
ourselves,
and
the
truth
is
not
in
us.”
• E.g.,
David
&
Bathsheba
• L.
Smedes,
“First
we
deceive
ourselves,
and
then
we
convince
ourselves
that
we
are
not
deceiving
ourselves.”
• Plantinga,
“Self-‐deception
is
a
shadowy
phenomenon
by
which
we
pull
the
wool
over
some
part
of
our
own
psyche.
We
put
a
move
on
ourselves…We
become
our
own
dupes,
playing
the
role
of
both
perpetrator
and
victim.
We
know
the
truth—and
yet
we
do
not
know
ti,
because
we
persuade
ourselves
of
its
opposite.
• Plantinga,
“Self-‐deception
about
our
sin
is
a
narcotic,
a
tranquilizing
and
disorienting
suppression
of
our
spiritual
nervous
system.”
E.
Sin
is
selfishness
• Matthew
22:36ff,
“What
is
the
greatest
commandment?”
• D.
Miller,
“The
most
difficult
lie
I
have
ever
had
to
contend
with
is
this:
Life
is
a
story
about
me.”
F.
Sin
is
personal
disintegration.
• Psalm
32:3-‐4
• Isaiah
6:5,
“Woe
to
me.
I
am
ruined.”
• L.
Smedes,
“What
we
are
is
a
set
of
walking
contradictions.”
• Cf.
Romans
7:15-‐20,
“I
do
not
understand
my
own
actions.”
G.
Sin
is
corruption
• Jer.
17.9,
“The
heart
is
deceitful
above
all
things,
and
desperately
sick….”
• Isaiah
64:6,
“…all
our
righteous
deeds
are
like
a
polluted
garment…”
• Woody
Allen,
“The
heart
wants
what
it
wants.”
H.
Sin
is
insanity.
• Ecclesiastes
9:3,
“…the
hearts
of
the
children
of
man
are
full
of
evil,
and
madness
is
in
their
hearts
while
they
live….”
• “Crime
&
Punishment”/
“Anna
Karenina”,
ad
infinitum…
I.
Sin
is
death.
• Genesis
3,
“…for
in
the
day
that
you
eat
of
it
you
shall
surely
die.”
• Romans
6:23,
“For
the
wages
of
sin
is
death…”
• Plantinga,
“Everything
sin
touches
begins
to
die.”
J.
Sin
is
separation
from
God.
• Isaiah
59:2,
“…but
your
iniquities
have
made
a
separation
between
you
and
your
God,
and
your
sins
have
hidden
his
face
from
you
so
that
he
does
not
hear.”
K.
Sin
is
universal.
• Rom.
3:10ff,
“None
is
righteous,
no,
not
one,
no
one
understands;
no
one
seeks
after
God.
All
have
turned
aside;
together
they
have
become
worthless;
no
one
does
good,
not
even
one.”
• Psalm
143:2,
“No
man
living
is
righteous
before
you.”
• 1
Kings
8:46,
“There
is
no
man
who
does
not
sin.”
III.
The
Good
News:
“Christianity
is,
in
fact,
a
rescue
religion”
(J.
Stott)
• Mark
2:17,
“I
come
not
to
call
the
righteous,
but
sinners.”
• Luke
19:10,
“For
the
Son
of
Man
came
to
seek
and
to
save
the
lost.”
• 1
Timothy
1:15,
“This
saying
is
trustworthy
and
deserving
of
full
acceptance,
that
Christ
Jesus
came
into
the
world
to
save
sinners,
of
whom
I
am
the
foremost.”
Key
Point:
We
must
understand
that
the
bad
news—the
diagnosis—always
precedes
the
Good
News—the
remedy.
“Sin
has
a
thousand
faces”
but
the
solution
is
the
same:
Jesus
stands
ready
to
forgive
us,
to
change
our
desires,
and
to
use
us
as
heralds
of
His
Gospel
and
agents
of
change
in
His
kingdom.
Are
we
shooting
straight
with
ourselves
as
it
relates
to
our
own
personal
sin?
Does
it
keep
us
humble?
Does
it
drive
us
to
experience
the
joy
of
the
Gospel
ourselves?