What Is Sin? — Robert B. Thompson

Lord, as we come unto you, it is with praise and thanksgiving, Lord. How many wonderful things you do, and how your love is abroad on those who love you and fear you and do your will. Jesus, it's so wonderful, your faithfulness, Lord, your faithfulness to us.

And we appreciate it, Lord. We appreciate all the good things you do. We pray for each family represented here, Lord, that you'll keep them from evil. Lord, no matter what goes on in the world, that you will keep us, keep us, keep our family, our loved ones in your presence, Lord, that we may be under the shadow of God at all times, at all times.

Now, Lord, we pray this morning for the little ones that are being taught, Lord, your presence will be with them. And with us, Lord, as we continue in your word, to know what it is God is saying this day, and to say it faithfully, Lord, we want to serve you, we want to do your will without any foolishness.

We ask it in Jesus' name. And everyone said, Amen. Now, if we could turn to 1 John, we're going to read chapter 3, verses 1 through 6. Let's read together, B. Where's Brian? 1 John 3, 1 through 6, there we go.

The Hope of Becoming Like Christ

Alright. How great is the love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known, but we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. Everyone who sins breaks the law, in fact, sin is lawlessness, but you know that He appeared so that He might take away our sins, and in Him is no sin.

No one who lives in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen Him or known Him. Now I think you can see right off the bat that the current concept of salvation and grace does not correspond with what we are reading here, and what I want to talk about this morning is what sin is, and I say, well that's obvious, well it is not obvious, and I have said, and it seems true that the only people in the world who do not know what sin is, are the Christians, because our doctrine has been so confusing, that, well try it on your friends, and say, your Christian friends say, what is sin, and see what they say, and they will say, well, there is only one commandment, that's we love one another, that's cool, that's not powerful enough because we can't do it, so there is no help in that, and I don't know what else, oh, we are saved by grace and not by works, you will probably hear, but I doubt if you will hear a clear, analytical, cogent description of what sin is, do you suppose, I think so, but it tells us here what it is, what did it say it is?

We just read it, breaking the law, what law, the law, the law, the law, what law, see, I told you, sublime ignorance reigns, alright, we don't know what sin is, well, if God helps us, maybe we can poke around at this a little bit, alright, so we find that several astonishing things, 1 John 3 is a remarkable chapter, but it tells us here, everyone who sins breaks the law, in fact, sin is lawlessness, now, breaks what law, well, John was a Jew, so he was talking about the Ten Commandments, so sin is the breaking of the Ten Commandments, now that bears a lot of thought, because, well, what is that, you know, we go back under the law, what, what, what, what, what, but nonetheless, sin is the breaking of the Ten Commandments, now, the Ten Commandments in its original form, as it was inscribed in granite and brought down from the hill by Moses, is what you might call a first cut, but it has, it contains in itself all the realms of sin, and Brian, these realms, these ten realms appear at the end of that diskette, if you can happen to nail that, I throw some hard stuff at him, alright, at the end of that diskette that I gave you there, those are the ten realms that are covered by the Ten Commandments, now, the Ten Commandments has these in a kind of an abbreviated form, in a bridge form, they're largely negative, and but they're all that people could handle at that time, but they, but they're a sample out of a universe of a very, very broad things, and so I boil them down to that, the first commandment has to do with the love and worship of God, and you can see how that's amplified in the New Testament, you see, but that's all they could handle at that time, in fact, the law, well, let's look at these others, idolatry, well, that's talked about in the New Testament, reverence for God's name, that's talked about, and I'll give you the scriptures in a minute, I just want you to get an overview, service to God, that's really at the heart of the fourth commandment, which is, what, what's the fourth of the Ten Commandments?

The room you know, Shabbat, the Sabbath day, but the root of that, the root of that has to do with service to God, now it was not just working, but that's all that could be expressed at that time, all of these are repeated in the New Testament, respect and obedience to authority, you know, the fifth commandment, but, honor thy father and thy mother, peaceful conduct, thou shalt not murder, honesty, thou shalt not steal, relationships, thou shalt not commit adultery, see, all these are carried forward, because this law is the eternal moral law of God and it never changes, because it is God's character, it is His unchanging character, now a change has occurred, we realize that, but the change is not in what the law is, the change is in what, how we respond to it and what the provision God has made, that's the difference, but the law of God never changes, it's never right to commit adultery, it's never right, but of course there's a much broader scope to this idea of adultery, it includes, bring yourself into union that's not ordained of God, and I think it could include a lot of things, bring yourself into any union with anything, person or circumstance that is not ordained of God, it's what God means here, that has to do with holiness and purity, very broad in its implications, honesty, thou shalt not steal, truthfulness concerning others, it's interesting that there's none of the ten commandments that says thou shalt not lie, it's none of the ten commandments, what it says is thou shalt not bear false witness, which is lying about a person, which of course includes gossip and slander, whenever we speak evil or give off that someone is not what they should be, even criticism is included under that, gossip and slander, slander, that term is used a great deal in the new international version, and it says those who do such things are worthy of death, we didn't think about that, because there's a lot of gossip and slander in the Christian churches, and that's against the ninth commandment, and finally, contentment, and what is the tenth commandment, do you know?

The Ten Commandments as a Moral Framework

Thou shalt not covet, and you have to think of these things, think of the generating idea under it, what is it getting about, thou shalt not covet, what does it mean, it means to be content, anything that God gives you, you have to deal the hand that God gives you, and it's perfectly alright to aspire to things in Christ, that's not covetousness, but to desire something that is not yours, and it's not been given to you to deal, it's not something that is in the purview of what God has for your life, it's sin, it's sin, what is sin?

Sin is, any time in personality or behavior, you run afoul of any of these ten, the love and worship of God, that he's not supreme, that you have created something with your hands to worship, which includes all forms of achievement, or anything that you idolize, of course the big God in America is money, people amass money, they don't realize it, but they are sinning in terms of the second commandment, you shall not create unto yourself any graven image, well in those days it was idols, but Paul says covetousness is idolatry, it's carried forth, and you remember the rich young ruler, the reason that, see what Christ nailed him with was the second commandment, he was worshiping his money, and when Jesus hit that thing, out he went, so when someone asks you what sin is, tell them that it is a transgression of the ten commandments, and then of course we run into a can of worms and we'll get into that in a minute, but I think you see that, if anyone asks you what sin is, say it's a violation of the ten commandments, and if they say yeah but we're not under the law anymore, just say according to Hebrews chapter 8 it says the new covenant, the writing of the law, the Torah in our heart, how is it then that we're not under it, well the bible says we're dead to it, so we have here a dilemma, and I want to talk about that today, you might say well why don't you talk about something simple, keep it simple, it's simple, follow Jesus is simple, have you ever tried it?

And let me tell you the movement from the ten commandments to the grace and truth which are in Jesus Christ is so shall I say complex that it hasn't been understood for 2 ,000 years, but it's not simple, and even Peter alluded to that didn't he, he said the things that Paul writes you can't understand, so I would love to keep it simple and say the bible, that's the book for me, and send everyone home happy, but it so happens that there are aspects of the new covenant that are complicated, and that's what we're about this morning, so cheer up, gird up the loin of your mind, it's unavoidable, so we're looking at this aren't we, so now go back to the beginning of that diskette if you would Brian, and let's take a look at the dilemma, back at the very beginning, alright, first of all we see everyone who sins breaks the law, in fact this is what sin is, it is lawlessness, and of course the only law that John would be talking about, and he talked a great deal about it in the second and third chapter, is the ten commandments, you want to remember that the first Christian church was composed of 5 ,000 orthodox Jews who were all keeping the law, and that's why when Paul went down there, he took a bow, had his head shaved, and went through the, there's a way in which you can make a bow unto God, and James said to him, you see brother, they're all keeping the law, don't get down there, they'll stone you if you come out with anything separate from the law, he's talking about the Christians, the first Christian church, so to move from the law of Moses, to the grace and truth that are in Jesus Christ, is very complicated, and there are tremendous pitfalls, such as we have today, where there's no law but the law of love, great, which nobody can do, are you having any problem with the law of love this morning?

Yeah, kind of difficult isn't it? No, that's too broad a brush, when the bible says confess your sins to God, if we confess our sins, you can't confess that you don't love everybody, it's too broad a brush, you have to say I stole something, or I acted spitefully, or I lied or something, and you say, well why is it lying in the Ten Commandments, why is it only, only bearing false witness, do you know?

It's because all of these are a form of lying, every one of these commandments has to do with lying, the devil is the father of lies, and the Ten Commandments are a judgment of God against Satan, and Satan knows it, it's the first time that God showed his hand, other than saying to Abraham, walk before me and be thou perfect, and I saw Noah writes, but other than this kind of thing, this is the first time God showed his hand, and he was showing it to the angels that had rebelled against him, and he's saying look, boys, this is where it is at, and everything that Satan does is against the Ten Commandments, it's a lie, and so you don't see thou shalt not lie, thou shalt not bear false witness, that's the only form of lying that God felt important enough to single out for attention, are you okay with that?

Any problem with that? Okay. Now John naturally, when he uses the term law, he was reacting against early antinomianism and Gnosticism, and he talks a lot about it in the second chapter, if you don't keep his commandments you're a liar and the truth is not in you, and so on, he was reacting against the fact that in the first century, the Christians had picked up Paul's teaching to mean we don't have to live righteously, they picked that right up in the first century, and has endured to this day, and so scholars say John is reacting against antinomianism, and so it seems, antinomianism means we're saved by grace apart from worst.

The Christian’s Death to the Law

Now look at the second one, this is where we get into the dilemma, first of all we've said we have to keep the law, then it says we don't, and this is why, for example by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage, so then if she marries another man while her husband is still alive she is called an adulteress, but if her husband dies she is released from that law and is not an adulteress even though she marries another man.

So my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. So when we take our place with Jesus Christ on the cross and reckon ourselves dead, the law has no jurisdiction over us, we've got a dilemma, first of all we can't break it, secondly it has no jurisdiction over us, providing now we are living a crucified life, dead reckoning, we reckon ourselves dead, but other than that it still has jurisdiction over us, only as we die then, and the similarity is to human marriage, okay so far.

Well everyone is either numb or understanding, what then was the purpose of the law? Now this is very important, this is very important, are you there? What then was the purpose of the law? Why didn't God give it?

It was added because of transgressions until something happened, until the seed to whom the promise, the promise made to Abraham referred had come, so all that occurred with Israel under the old covenant was a holy action, and it could not receive the promise made to Abraham because the seed, Jesus Christ had not come.

Excuse me, I started this when I was here before, and England's green and pleasant land did not help because it's wet all the time, so I left stuffed up and I returned stuffed up. Wonderful to be here again.

The Law’s Purpose: Revealing Sin

It was added because of transgressions, the law was added because of transgressions, in other words to put sin on ice, until the seed to whom the promise referred had come. Now this tells us something very important, two things that are very important, it tells us first of all that God knew that Israel under the old covenant could not keep it.

God knew that. He didn't contemplate that they could. It's like Paul said, you can't do it, all it does is make us aware of sin, you can't cut it, the natural man cannot cut it. Can't do it. But God gave it to kind of put sin under control so the Jews would have a goal and a means by which they would know when they sinned and could bring their animal for sacrifice.

If it weren't for the law, how could they bring their animal for sacrifice? They wouldn't know when they sinned. So that's why it was added. Excuse me, I'm coughing right into this thing, I must sound great on the tape.

He knew they couldn't keep it, but he wanted them conscious of sin because they were holy people and he gave them animal sacrifices to keep their fellowship with God, but you can see it was not contemplated that it could be kept.

And so God made a provision for forgiveness. Because the seed hadn't come. Christ hadn't come. The promise of Abraham could not come and devolve upon them, it could not devolve upon them because the seed had not come.

So the law served as a holding action, realizing it could not be kept. You can't keep these things, even in their primitive form of the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20. You can't do it, it's our whole nature.

Paul says, the law says, I shall not covet. So what did that happen when the law said thou shalt not covet? What did it do to Paul? You remember Romans 7? It brought covetousness to life. It didn't deliver him.

It didn't show him what he could do to quit sinning. It brought it to life. It brought the covetousness to life. That's a big help. He needed that like a home head. He didn't need to be reminded that he was covetous.

So you see, it was impotent. The first covenant was impotent, but it was God's covenant, and there were many, many Jews that God regarded as righteous. In fact, the book of Psalms talks continually about the difference between the wicked and the righteous.

And when we say there was no one righteous under the old covenant, we are not talking Bible. If you read the Psalm, even this first Psalm talks about the difference between the wicked and the righteous.

There were many, many righteous people, but not with that righteousness that can come through Jesus Christ. A righteousness that came by doing their best to keep the law, trying to do it. In the New Testament, James says, why do you tempt God to put a yoke on the Gentiles that we ourselves were not able to bear?

So they perceived it as a yoke and they perceived it as a burden, but as it says about the mother and father of John the Baptist, they walked in all the ordinances of the law blameless. And Paul speaks of himself as having been blameless under the law.

So it was kind of a blamelessness, but it didn't run deep enough. That's why then Psalms turns around and says there's no righteous, no, not one. So you have that dilemma in the book of Psalms. On the one hand, it talks continually about the righteous and how God blesses them.

Then it turns around and says there's no righteous, no, not one. So what do you do with that? Well, you have to recognize that there's levels of righteousness. And all that God asked for them was to do their best, bring their sacrifice, and God called them righteous.

In fact, God called Noah righteous in the Ten Commandments. But God found Daniel righteous and Job righteous and spoke of their righteousness. And so we know that there are levels of righteousness, but the Adamic nature can only go so far.

And then, man, whoa. I mean, pretty soon you got rid of all your herd because you offered them up for sin offering. I mean, look. All right, so the purpose of the law was added because of transgressions.

Now, the difference, and this is something, well, then the next one, therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law. Rather, through the law, we become what? What? Conscious of sin.

And the King James says through the law the knowledge of sin. I think it uses knowledge, which I think is a little better translation. There's a little more punch to it. So the purpose of the law, it doesn't transform us, but it makes us conscious of sin.

It tells us what sin is. And that's what 1 John said, didn't it? Sin is the breaking of the law. So Paul says the purpose of the law is to make us conscious of sin. We have no other yardstick. And that's why by saying and teaching constantly that we're not under law but under grace, we throw out the only yardstick there is.

And that's why Christians don't know what sin is. Hallelujah. Isn't that wonderful? How many think that's wonderful? Nobody. So we better continue, hadn't we? Yes. All right. Now, no one will be declared righteous in sight, but when you get into the book of Hebrews, it says something very striking.

It says the first covenant that it was not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin. So what does that tell us about the new covenant? The difference between the covenants is not that we no longer are bound by the law of God.

It is that there's power in the new covenant to take away sin. The law remains, in a much more comprehensive form, as we'll try to point out here, the law remains. The difference is that we come to Christ and he forgives us, and then he immediately goes to work to make us a new creation.

And that new creation does not sin by nature. It does not sin by nature. That's our goal. That's the day star, which is a converted nature that keeps all these ten realms of God's character perfectly.

Christ Formed in the Believer

The Adamic nature has been given commandments in the New Testament which must be kept by the Adamic nature. We'll get into some of those. But that's not the new covenant. The new covenant occurs as we in our faithfulness are keeping God's word by prayer, by the Holy Spirit.

Christ is being formed in us. And that that is being formed in us has no sin. That's what 1 John says in the third chapter. That which is born of God cannot sin because it's been born of God. That's our goal.

Our goal is to have Christ formed in us so that we do God's will joyously. I delight to do thy will, O God. But we don't jump from accepting Christ into having a full-blown converted nature. It does not happen as we very well know, do we not?

Somebody smile! We don't jump from accepting Christ to having a full-blown converted nature. Right or wrong? Right. Right. Okay. But we don't say, therefore it doesn't matter. We have learned through Diane and other sources that we confess the thing, we renounce it, we go after it until we overcome what it is we're doing wrong.

That's a kind of a holding pattern until Christ is formed in us. The thing is if we don't keep the commandments of Christ as apostles, Christ will never be formed in us. You can't jump from accepting Christ to having Christ brought to the full in you.

And that's why Paul told the Galatians who were having trouble with the law that he was prevailing in birth again until Christ was formed in them. So do you see the pattern? We accept Christ and we're forgiven.

Okay? Immediately we're given the Holy Spirit so that we can have the power to walk in the Spirit to gain the daily victory. Is that right? Is it a daily victory? How many are under such pressure that you can only live it five minutes at a time?

You ever been there? You ever been there? You know, usually we can manage it a day at a time. Boy, things can heat up until you're holding on five minutes at a time. If you haven't been there, cheer up.

You will sooner or later. But these times are necessary because they teach us of the faithfulness of God. We can't understand what's going on. I mean, it's the cloud of unknowing and we beat on it. And you say, where is God?

It happens. It happens. But we don't quit. And God shows us our nature at such times. And then we don't quit. But we go to God and we pray and as we pray and as we walk in the Lord, Christ is formed in us.

And the end result will be a new creation, a new moral creation in the image of Jesus Christ that does righteously by nature. That's our goal. That's our land of promise. But we have to go through this wilderness of testing to humble us and to teach us that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

We have to come to know God and we come to know Him in the wilderness. But we're pressing towards something greater than constantly confessing our sins and constantly praying to God. It's like Peter said in the first chapter, we take heed to the word until the day dawn and the day star arises in our heart.

And that doesn't happen when you're first saved. You have to keep serving God and obeying Him and Christ is born in you an inch at a time. Make sense? Alright, so what is the resolution to the dilemma?

Reconciling Grace, Law, and Righteousness

On the one hand we're told that if we sin we're breaking the law. And in other passages we're told, particularly by Paul, because Jude and John and Peter never discuss grace. They don't discuss grace at all.

They discuss righteousness. Paul is the one that came up with the grace thing. And it caused confusion, like we have this dilemma. Paul says, but you're dead to the law. John says, but you have to keep the law.

Which one is speaking from God? Will you tell me that? Who's speaking from God? Paul or John? But we don't understand it. So the problem is that we don't understand it. So it's a very great temptation in Christian theology to take the verses that you want and to ignore the other.

But you see that's not saying amen to God. You have to say amen to everything that God says and then He'll show you where it resolves. You don't say that James is not in the Orthodox canon of scripture.

You don't throw out James. You don't throw out these things. You take them all because the Holy Spirit has governed them. And so now let's think a minute about where the resolution comes. Are we under the Ten Commandments?

Are we under the law of God, the Mosaic law? The answer is no. No, we are not. The answer is no, we are not. That because it has jurisdiction over us, we are not going to die only as long as we are alive in the flesh.

But when we have died with Christ on the cross, then we can be married to Jesus without being guilty of adultery because we have died. And that's the basis and the only basis on which we escape the jurisdiction of the law of Moses.

Is that clear to everyone? Alright, now you say, but John in Inspiration says, and let's look at this because this thing in John is potent, going back to 1 John 3 verse 4. Everyone who sins breaks the law.

In fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away. Take away, not forgive. Take away. Not take away the guilt. Take away the sin. Remove it. Which the law could never do.

And in him is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. And what is sin? Breaking the law. But it has no jurisdiction over us. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. Much for the current idea that is so widely spread in Christian thinking that as long as we are in the world, we have to sin.

Guess who came up with that one? Well, I'll give you a hint. His name begins with an S. That is not what the New Testament teaches. It has injured our faith. Oh, no one is perfect. Oh, cool. That is not what the New Testament teaches.

That is not what the Bible teaches. But when we go to heaven, we'll be perfect. That is not what the Bible teaches. It is not what the Bible teaches. What does it teach? It teaches that Jesus Christ has the power to make us a new creation.

And in him he can take away sin. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. Say amen. Oh, hallelujah. That is what the Bible says. It doesn't say as long as we are in the world we have to sin.

It says if we sin, we haven't seen him. We don't know him. Oh, joy. Dear children, do not anyone lead you astray. Well, the whole church is led astray in the 20th century. The whole cotton-picking thing is off the track, for the most part.

He who does what is right is righteous. So we are not talking about imputed righteousness. We are not talking about that. We are talking about actual righteousness. He who does what is right does what is right.

But by what standard? That is the important thing. By what standard is rightness judged? Class? The Ten Commandments in their full sense. Just as he is righteous. Well, how righteous can you get? Just as he is righteous.

But now you want to remember I am not talking about your Adamic nature, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, developing perfection by an extraordinary effort. I am not talking about that. I am talking about doing all that the New Testament commands us to do, which we can do one step at a time.

God doesn't come to you and say, you sin because you don't love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and your neighbor is yourself. He doesn't do that. I mean, whoa. Might as well quit. He comes and says, you were sassy to authority and you shouldn't have done it.

That's all. One little dribbling thing that you can manage. And so what do you do? Give up? No. You go to God and say, Lord, by your grace I'll never do that again. And guess what God does? What do you think God does when you say that?

Did you ever sass your mother? Boy, everybody looks solemn. Did you ever sassy to your mother? Probably so, because you're human. Alright, so then the Lord brings it to your attention. You honor your father and your mother.

Daily Repentance and Practical Obedience

This is the first commandment with promise. So, what do you do? You go to the Lord. And you say, and maybe to your mother too, but whenever you're trying to work out stuff like that, you have to have God's wisdom.

You don't always try to handle things. Sometimes the Lord will say, go to your mother. Other times he'll say, just work it out with me. You have to get God's wisdom on that. You can't go around mending all your fences.

Sometimes you make the matter worse. But you've got to straighten with God first, and then if you're supposed to go and make it right for somebody else, you'll have grace to do it, and you won't blow the whole thing and ruin their day and everything else.

Okay? Alright. So, you tell the Lord. So what does the Lord do? You say, I did it, Lord, and it's wrong. I realize it is lawlessness. It's wrong. So, what do I do? Help me, Lord. I will renounce it and denounce it by your strength.

And so, what does God do? 1 John 1 9. He's faithful and righteous to forgive and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. You do just one little step at a time. Well, that you can manage. You say, yes, but I'm so full of sin, it's useless to talk about getting victory over all of it.

Well, that's nonsense. You're not an endless cavern of sin. We've been snookered, people. We've been snookered big time. Sin is a finite collection of behaviors. That's all it is. It ain't no more. Say, but I could never be perfect.

No, you could never be perfect by your own standard. That's for sure. But by God's standards, you can be perfect. I didn't say perfected. I said perfect. Because you're perfect a day at a time. And God wants you perfect today.

That doesn't mean you'll be perfected today. But it means you'll have done all that God requires of you today. That's all. It's as simple as that. It's no big deal. You mean I can be perfect today on March 16th, May 16th of 1999, little old me?

Yes. Unless you'd want to sin. Do you want to sin? Probably not. Well then, as far as God's concerned, you're perfect. But I still yell at the kids. Well, work it out with the Lord. He'll help you. Sometimes kids need to be yelled at.

But I still bite my fingernails. Oh, God isn't into that that much. But I'm not the life of the party. In fact, I tend to be somewhat austere and standoffish. Well, maybe that's the way Elijah was, and God never reprimanded him about that.

Because that's not a violation of the Ten Commandments. See, that's your idea of what it means to be perfect. God isn't asking you to be perfect by your own standard. All he says is, do the simple thing I require of you each day.

That's all. And if you keep on doing it, eventually you'll run out of ammunition. There's nothing more to work on. What? Yeah, there's nothing more to work on. You made it. I didn't believe it was possible.

Well, it says Jesus is the author and the finisher of our salvation. So what does that mean? Yeah, it means as a beginning and an end. So you see, isn't that hard? And he's doing that to us right in the middle of the devils of hell.

But where else does he set a table? No, you're not going to be made perfect in heaven. If you're going to come to know the Lord, it has to be here. I've got a lot of scripture for that, but I don't have anything for the other.

Oh, well. The worst is yet to come. Don't let anyone lead you astray. Well, we do. We allow people to lead us astray. Us, it's a fact. If someone gets up and yells Jesus and gets everybody all excited and then they preach God knows what and we're led astray and it's our own fault.

It says don't let anyone lead you astray. Don't allow them to do that. Bring them back to the Word. Just as he is righteous. That's it. God said that. I didn't. He who does what is sinful is of the devil.

Now that's something to think about. That's enough to make you bat your eyes like a toad in a hailstorm. He who does what is sinful is of the devil. You know, that resonated. I could feel it up here. Let's play with that a little bit.