What Sin Really Does - Love Worth Finding - September 4
September 4, 2025 – What Sin Really Does
Sermon: 1655 Turning Tears into Telescopes, Part 2
Pray Over This
“But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.”
Ponder This
Many of us don’t realize how deceitfully wicked our hearts are. Our hearts are deceitful above all things and desperately wicked (Jeremiah 17:9). Sin damages and destroys what is beautiful. What God has meant for good is completely manipulated into evil by the enemy. Sin damages and hurts at the deepest parts of our souls. Do you know what sin does? Sin takes beautiful things, and it perverts them. The devil has no raw materials. He takes the good things of God, and he perverts them.
Have you come to that place where you have embraced the gravity of your sin? I don't mean just broken over your sin, I mean broken from your sin. I don't mean just what your sin has done to you, but what your sin has done to God. I don't mean only regret or remorse, I mean repentance. Pause and reflect not just on the sin you have done, but on how those things are perversions of what God means to be beautiful.
- What habitual sin are you prone toward? Why? How is it a perversion of something God made beautiful?
- How does your sin impact God? How does it impact others?
Practice This
Ask a trusted Christian friend to help you think through how sin is a perversion of something God made beautiful, and ask that friend to pray with and for you.
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