What is Sin?
Why do we DO it?

what is sin?

the shutting off of one heart to another.

what is sin's purpose?

To obtain an external false comfort.

They are false in that they do not bring deep and lasting satisfaction but rather, if the person follows after them without having first secured God’s comforts, the false comforts will demand more and more, to try and fill the inner void of God's missing comfort, resulting in SLAVERY of the individual to the false idol.

why do we sin?

Our lack of trust in God to supply the need He so freely wants to meet.
Our trust in Exterior Comforts that were never meant to
REPLACE or COME BEFORE God and His comforts but rather to ADD to His comforts.

what is the fruit of sin?

shut off hearts, harm to others

what is the solution to sin?

turn from the Exterior Comforts,
give your heart completely back to God,
invite Him in to take complete control,
follow His will,
wait for His comforts to come – He is willing!

Follow God Not Rules

Another major definition of sin is breaking some law or rule.
God’s rules are summed up in Love.
Trying to follow rules results in being like a rule.
Trying to follow God results in us being more like Love.
You become what you follow!

where is the power to overcome sin?

Dependant Faith not Self Reliance

We cannot do it on our own for our hearts are already corrupt.

We need the Internal River of God’s Purity within our hearts.

We need the Internal Power Source of God within our hearts.

We need the Internal Guidance System of God within our hearts.

Invite Him in!

Seek & Rely on Him!