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\u201cAbove All Else : Humanity\u201d – Romans 6:23<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a01. God\u2019s Image<\/h4>\n

Today, we are getting back to a series of sermons on the essentials of our Christian faith \u2013 what we believe and how we live because of what we believe. We have already looked at the three Persons of the Godhead \u2013 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Today we turn our attention from heaven\u2026 back to earth, as we consider own humanity.<\/p>\n

When we looked first at God the Father, the Creator, we acknowledged, with Martin Luther, that God made me, that He preserves, provides for, and protects me. Let\u2019s expand our understanding of God creating human beings by pulling out from Genesis 1 a profound theological concept and phrase. There we read that God created male and female \u201cin His own image.\u201d That first chapter of the Bible does not define what characteristics the \u201cimage of God\u201d includes, but we gain an understanding from the context, and also from other passages of Scripture. We have no idea if \u201cimage of God\u201d refers to a physical resemblance, but we do have a sense that it includes qualities of the intellect, the heart, and the will. The divine image means having a knowledge, righteousness, and holiness similar to that of God. Our first parents, Adam and Eve, were created without sin, they knew God personally, and they were perfectly happy in Him. They were devoted to what is right and God-pleasing, and they had a deep understanding of God\u2019s will. Besides all that, they were created with an eternal soul in their DNA.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a02. God\u2019s Image\u2026 lost<\/h4>\n

But it didn\u2019t take long for that \u201cimage of God\u201d to be lost. When tempted by Satan, in the form of a serpent, to disobey the one restriction in the Garden of Eden, both Eve and Adam rebelled against God\u2019s good and righteous will, and they chose to sin of their own free will. That first act of disobedience brought disastrous consequences. Relationships were broken. Their relationship with God was broken in the mere act of disobedience, which led to fear and shame before God. Their relationship with each other was broken, as evidenced by the blame game\u2026 something that still runs rampant in relationships in our time. Their relationship with nature and the environment was broken \u2013 there would be thorns and thistles, and they would have to work sweaty hard to eat their food. Besides all that, they would now experience death, just as God\u2019s original warning had said. Oh sure, they retained some characteristics that distinguish them \/ us from animals \u2013 intellect, reason, speech, conscience, and the soul. But in that fall into sin, humanity lost its most precious possession \u2013 the divine image, and the ability to know and please God. In Christ, that image is being recreated, but it will only be fully restored for us in heaven.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a03. Sin<\/h4>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0a. The Nature of Sin<\/h4>\n

As we consider humanity, and the lost image of God, it is important to clarify the nature of sin. What is sin? Briefly, sin is the violation of God\u2019s will, the willful rebellion against the majesty of God, the simple disobedience of God\u2019s Law. Every thought, desire, word, and action that is contrary to God\u2019s Law is sin. Bible words depict three different images of what sin is.<\/p>\n

One of those images is trespassing, and here you would imagine a sign on someone\u2019s property that simply says \u201cNo Trespassing.\u201d In other words, \u201cDon\u2019t set foot on my property.\u201d Or you might think of that yellow line on the platform of the train station. Silently it communicates \u201cDon\u2019t cross this line\u2026 for your own good, don\u2019t cross this line!\u201d Our common version of the Lord\u2019s Prayer pleads, \u201cForgive us our trespasses.\u201d It\u2019s not the trespasses of crossing the yellow line or walking onto someone\u2019s property without permission. It refers to the times when we have boldly gone where God doesn\u2019t want us to go.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A second Biblical image of sin is \u201cmissing the mark.\u201d Here you can imagine a target for a bow and arrow, with the bull\u2019s eye being perfect love for both God and our neighbor. Unfortunately, and being honest with ourselves, we do have to admit that not only do we fail to hit the bull\u2019s eye with 100% love, but we often miss the target completely. That\u2019s sin!<\/p>\n

A third Biblical image of sin is the concept of amassing debt. That was illustrated by Jesus\u2019 Matthew 18 parable of a servant who owed his master, the king, a debt of ten thousand talents \u2013 a 1st<\/sup> century measure of money. I have done the calculations of what that would be in modern terms, and it\u2019s something like 200,000 years\u2019 wages!! The parable was told in the context of the subject of forgiveness, so because Jesus described it as a Kingdom of Heaven parable, we truly understand it to talk about the debt of sin that we owe to God, our King.<\/p>\n

I really appreciate the thoroughness of the confession of sins in one of the services from our hymn book, when it says, \u201cWe have sinned against You in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done and by what we have left undone. We have not loved You with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbours as ourselves.\u201d That means sin is both committing wrong things, and omitting good and right things. It refers to offenses against God, and offenses against our neighbor. That\u2019s the nature of human sin. But there\u2019s more\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 b. Original Sin and Actual Sin<\/h4>\n

There are two kinds of sin. Actual sin we can easily understand \u2013 it\u2019s the things that we say and do that are wrong. The second kind of sin is original sin. Let me explain that with a couple of illustrations:<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t expect a human father and a human mother to give birth to a\u2026 platypus!! That\u2019s ridiculous!! In the same way, you can\u2019t expect a SINFUL human father and a SINFUL human mother to give birth to a spiritually HOLY and PERFECT child. No! It\u2019s just not in their DNA. Sin is passed down by heredity, from parent to child. There\u2019s no escaping it. A sinful father and a sinful mother just automatically give birth to a sinful child. King David, in Psalm 51, wrote that he was sinful at birth\u2026 in fact, even from the time his mother conceived him. That\u2019s original sin.<\/p>\n

A second way to look at original sin is with this diagram of a tree. \"\"<\/a>The actual sins are the part of the tree that you see \u2013 thoughts, words, deeds, commission, omission, intentional, unintentional. That\u2019s obvious. But the part of a tree we can\u2019t see is the root. It\u2019s the heart of what the tree will become. In the same way, original, inherited sin is not seen, but it\u2019s there as the root cause of why we sin. Even if you consider an infant to be innocent and holy and sinless, original sin is still there waiting to show itself in actual sins. After all, have you ever considered that you don\u2019t need to teach a child how to sin? They seem to know how to sin all on their own!!<\/p>\n

One last thought here\u2026 and that is that sin is universal. Everyone is a sinner, and everyone sins. Listen to this description of people in Noah\u2019s time: \u201cEVERY inclination of the thoughts of human hearts was ONLY evil ALL THE TIME!!\u201d That\u2019s all-encompassing!! So is Paul\u2019s assessment of things in Romans 3. He wrote: \u201cThere is no one righteous, no one who does good, not even one\u2026 all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0c. The Results of Sin<\/h4>\n

Those are all pretty sobering thoughts, but then we have yet to consider the results of sin. We can go back to the Garden of Eden and hear God\u2019s initial restriction and result: \u201cIn the day that you eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall surely die.\u201d Romans 6:23 puts it just as bluntly\u2026 \u201cThe wages of sin is death.\u201d So, if we look back at that tree of sin, we can now notice that on every sin branch there is the fruit of death.<\/p>\n

Since I have already made a veiled reference to Star Trek, I will draw another more obvious analogy. In the second star trek movie, The Wrath of Khan, Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise had apparently been responsible for the death of the wife of a super intellectual Khan. He had been waiting for 15 years to avenge his wife\u2019s death, and in the movie he had finally been able to encounter Kirk again and to exact the fullness of his wrath, which actually resulted in the death of Kirk\u2019s closest friend, Spok.<\/p>\n

While not a movie, and not exactly a plot about revenge for a grievous wrong, the Bible does describe the wrath \u2013 not of Khan, but of God. Sin arouses the wrath of God. We might think that wrath is contrary to the nature of God, who is love, and mercy, and grace. But God is also righteous and just, and when His will has been violated, God\u2019s justice requires that the offender be subject to the wrath of the Lawgiver. That wrath includes both physical and eternal death and separation from God. [But please wait for a moment\u2026 because that\u2019s not the end of the story, just like Spok\u2019s death was not the end of the Star Trek story.]<\/p>\n

Other results of sin impact the brokenness in human relationships and brokenness with respect to our environment. In human relationships you see the results of sin in lies, and greed, and self-centeredness, and harboring grudges, and bullying, and taking advantage of others who are more vulnerable, and broken marriages, and run-away children, and hatred, and murder, and\u2026 well, the list goes on and on. With respect to the environment, the brokenness of sin hasn\u2019t just led to thorns and thistles but to volcanoes and earthquakes and floods and heat domes and tornadoes and pollution and ozone holes and shrinking polar caps and\u2026 well, that list goes on, too. That might not make sense to you, but in the beginning God created everything VERY GOOD, and when Adam and Eve brought sin into the world, nothing was VERY GOOD anymore, and everything was broken. How very sad that is, and we all, by our own sinfulness, contribute to that brokenness.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a04. Three Purposes of the Law<\/h4>\n

One more quick thing about the Law, which is kind of like a cousin of sin. The Bible describes three purposes of the Law. First, the Law helps to control violent outbursts of sin and keeps order in the world. This use of the Law is as a curb or fence\u2026 kind of like the \u201cNo Trespassing\u201d sign, or maybe a \u201cNo U-Turn\u201d sign. It\u2019s there for our good, to protect us from a dangerous driving situation. As a curb, the Law says to us \u201cGo here! Don\u2019t go there!\u201d The first example of that in the Bible was God\u2019s command to Adam, \u201cDon\u2019t eat of that one tree!\u201d<\/p>\n

The second use of the Law is as a mirror. It tells us what sin is and shows us our sin. But let me save that one for a minute, and get to the third use of the Law\u2026 as a guide. In this case, the Law teaches us Christians what we should and shouldn\u2019t do in order to lead a God-pleasing life. It\u2019s found in advice like: \u201cSpeak the truth in love,\u201d and \u201cLove your neighbor,\u201d and \u201cBe kind and compassionate,\u201d and \u201cForgive whatever grievances you may have against one another.\u201d Those are ways that God is saying, \u201cThis is how I want you to live in relationship with others.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now back to the use of the Law as a mirror. You know how sometimes when you look in the mirror you see some lettuce or some other piece of food in your front teeth? The mirror helps you to realize that your facial appearance is flawed. It shows you your appearance \u201csin.\u201d God uses the Law in the Bible to show you the lettuce not in your teeth, but in your heart, in your moral \/ spiritual appearance. It shows your sin. If people didn\u2019t realize that stealing and adultery and murder were displeasing to God, there would be a WHOLE LOT MORE evil in our world. But the Bible tells us. Especially the Ten Commandments tell us.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re actually going to pause here and take a few moments to use the Ten Commandments as our confession of sins today, followed by the song, \u201cLord, Have Mercy.\u201d Please stand\u2026<\/p>\n

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The Ten Commandments<\/p>\n

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  1. We confess that we have not feared, loved and trusted in God above all things.<\/li>\n
  2. We confess that we have not called upon God\u2019s name in every trouble, nor have we appropriately prayed, praised and given thanks to Him.<\/li>\n
  3. We confess that we have not held God\u2019s Word sacred, and gladly heard and learned it.<\/li>\n
  4. We confess that we have not honoured, served, obeyed, loved and cherished our parents.<\/li>\n
  5. We confess that we have not helped and supported our neighbor in every physical need.<\/li>\n
  6. We confess that we have not lived a sexually pure and decent life, loving and honouring our spouse as God intends.<\/li>\n
  7. We confess that we have not helped our neighbour improve and protect his possessions and income.<\/li>\n
  8. We confess that we have not defended our neighbor, nor have we spoke well of him, nor explained everything in the kindest way.<\/li>\n
  9. & 10. We confess that we have not encouraged our neighbor in the keeping of both house and spouse.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    \u00a0 \u00a05. Three Purposes of the Law<\/h4>\n

    We\u2019ve heard a LOT about sin today, and I\u2019m sorry if that has discouraged and disheartened you. It\u2019s real and true and we need to hear it. But just like the death of Spok in the Star Trek movie was not the end of the story \u2013 if you saw the next movie, you\u2019ll remember\u2026 his casket got jettisoned off the Enterprise onto a planet called Genesis, which created plant life AND which also just happened to resurrect Spok\u2026 yes, RESURRECT!! \u2013 just like that story, sin and death are not the end of our story. In fact, what we heard earlier from Romans 6:23 is not the end of the verse, not the end of the story. \u201cThe wages of sin is death\u201d \u2013 yes, \u201cbut the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord!\u201d<\/p>\n

    God sent His Son Jesus to live a very human life, with one dazzling difference \u2013 Jesus was without sin. He didn\u2019t have to experience the wrath of God because of sin! But He did!! For you!!! And me!!! Sin created a humanly unbridgeable chasm between God and us.\"\"<\/a> Jesus\u2019 sacrifice of Himself bridges the chasm between God and us that sin has created. He has begun that process of recreating the image of God within us that was lost in Eden, and with His cross He makes a path from one side of that chasm back toward a meaningful and blessed relationship with God our Father. Jesus is the remedy for sin, the remedy for YOUR sin. With His cross, and with His resurrection He boldly declares what no man has been able to declare before: \u201cYou are forgiven! You are God\u2019s child! You are saved! You can spend eternity with God just as He had purposed from the very beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    \u00a0 \u00a06. How we live in relationship<\/h4>\n

    And that leaves us with just one more thing\u2026 How, then do we live as human beings in relationship with one another. This is where the third use of the Law comes in\u2026 as a guide to leading a God-pleasing, Christ-like life. As a forgiven and saved child of God we can joyfully live out some of those things I mentioned before: \u201cSpeak the truth in love;\u201d \u201cLove your neighbor;\u201d \u201cBe kind and compassionate;\u201d \u201cForgive whatever grievances you may have against one another.\u201d Add to that some other Biblical relationship gems: \u201cDo unto others what you would have them do to you;\u201d and \u201cShare with God\u2019s people who are in need;\u201d and \u201cHonour one another above yourselves.\u201d Add to that the Fruit of the Spirit\u2026 you can see them on the banners today: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Those are ways that God is saying, \u201cThis is what it means to truly be human. This is how I want you to live in relationship with others. And I\u2019ve given you my Spirit to guide and bless and fill you with that genuine desire. I\u2019ve given you my Spirit so that you can always call me \u2018Abba, Father.\u201d Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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