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Intro: Indirect teaching. Why these kind of warnings necessary? Sin and its effects.
I. SIN HAS UPSETTING EFFECT UPON NORMAL BALANCE OF MAN.
A. Three parts to man - body, soul & spirit.
1. Spirit highest, soul next, then body.
2. Highest gift to man is mind.
a. Think and reason.
b. Logic.
c. Mind - affections - will.
3. Sin - reversed order and balance.
a. Instructions: heart comes first, then mind, then will.
4. Man no longer governed by mind, but by heart.
a. Example, John 3:19, men loved darkness.
5. People who say that Christianity not reasonable attempt to intellectually justify the godlessness of their heart.
a. "The fool hath said in his heart."
b. The heart covets worldly things and rules the mind.
II. SIN BLINDS MAN TO CERTAIN VlTAL ASPECTS (II Cor. 4:3&4).
A. Blinds us to things perfectly obvious.
1. Worldly treasures, fact is.
a. None of them last.
1. Personal appearance.
2. How often face this fact?
a. Money - can't take it with you.
b. Jealous and envious of one another.
B. Change and decay all around. We see but we don't perceive.
1. Value of man and God.
2. Try to please man, God ignored.
3. Our worldly life put before God, this is blindness.
C. Blind to impossibility of mixing opposites.
1. No mixing of light and darkness.
2. No serving God and mammon.
III. SIN MAKES MAN A SLAVE OF THINGS THAT WERE MEANT TO SERVE HIM.
A. Earthly, worldly things become our god.
1. We love them and serve them.
2. Cigarettes.
IV. SIN ENTIRELY RUINS MEN.
A. Sin - Eden.
B. How?
1. Spends life laying up certain things on earth.
a. Moth and rust have corrupted.
b. Thieves have stolen.
2. Luke 16:19-31.
C. Finds he has been wrong all his life.
1. Light has become dark.
D. Outside God's love.
1. He has been serving main.
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