What is Right and What is Wrong – Hebrews 5:12-14 – audio

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Text: Hebrews 5:12-14

Introduction

A. What is “spiritual maturity?” Able to have our “senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”

B. We are to be able to prove or to determine the good, perfect and acceptable will of God – Romans 12:2

C. How?

Body

I. QUESTIONS AND BIBLICAL ANSWERS.

A. Is it condemned in the Bible? – Galatians 5:19-21; 2 John 9

B. Will it harm me spiritually? – Romans 8:1-17; Galatians 5:16-26

C. Will it harm me physically? – 1 Corinthians 6:15-20; Romans 12:1; 2 Corinthians 7:1

D. Will it hurt others, causing them to go astray? – Romans 14:1-15:3; 1 Corinthians 8

E. Will it take too much of my time and money? – Luke 12:16-21; Ephesians 5:15-16

F. Will it hurt my influence for Christ and the church? – Matthew 5:14-16; 1 Timothy 4:12

G. Will it hurt my conscience? – Romans 14:21-23

H. If Christ was here, would He disapprove? – 1 Peter 2:21; 1 Corinthians 11:1

II. TWO THOUGHTS!

A. Sin is not hereditary.

1. Sin is of such a nature in its very meaning that it cannot be inherited.

2. Sin is something committed – 1 John 3:4; John 8:34

3. We neither inherit the act or the guilt of our parent’s sins.

4. We suffer the consequences of their sins – Exodus 20:4-5

5. We do not suffer the guilt of their sins – Ezekiel 18:20; Matthew 18:1-4

B. Sin is no laughing matter.

1. Sin is rebellion, lawlessness, perversity, and failure.

2. It is a disease that needs curing.

3. It is a taskmaster that needs forsaking.

4. It is an insanity that needs healing.

5. It is a filth that needs cleansing.

6. It is a debt that needs paying.

7. It is a stain that needs removing.

8. It is a darkness that needs light.

Conclusion

A. An understanding of “what is sin” constitutes a strong argument against sinning.

B. Obey the Gospel of Christ – quit the sinning business – John 8:32