When Sin Enters Our World X Sarah Jakes Roberts
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We don’t just fall into sin.
I wonder when god created man and woman, and he gave the woman the charge of being fruitful and multiplying, if she recognized that in order to fulfill the mandate on her life, that she would literally have to face off with hail to get it done.
Reality is that when sin enters our world, it’s not so easy as just denying it because before we even engage in the action of sin, there is a exception that takes place in our mind.
You see the enemy isn’t just after what you do. The enemy is after what you think.
Because if the enemy can get your mind, he can change your actions.
And we see his plan laid out in Genesis 3 in which he wants to distort our image of god.
Did god really say? You didn’t just sin. You didn’t just mess up.
You may have known better, but before you actually engaged with the action there had to have been a deception in your mind.
Of other people’s minds.
That means before we even had an encounter with god that we were born in a framework that made things okay that really weren’t okay.
And it wasn’t until we had an encounter with God that we began to realize that I am gonna have to be transformed by the renewing of my mind because I was born into sin.
I was born thinking that it was okay to act this way.
I was born thinking that retaliation was my only option.
I was born thinking that it was okay to be angry and so often in church.
We make sin the big ones.
As long as we’re not shacking and as long as you don’t do this and that, then you’re living without sin.
But if we were honest in this room, there were some of us who would be willing to admit that every single day I need saving.
I need saving from the way that I think I need saving from the way that I talk. I need saving from this wretched mind of mine because I am wired to think against that, which is good for me.
Sin is not just what you did before you got saved, sin is what you’re doing right now, trying to get your mind right.
Some of us had to come to church today, because I need to be in the presence of other people who are chasing after a renewed mind.
I need to be in the midst of people who are trying to set their mind on things above because sometimes I set my mind on what happened in my past and sometimes I set my mind on how worried I am in the future.
Sometimes I set my mind on trying to control a situation and setting just letting go and letting god sending his not just who you slept with and what you drank, sending us how you think about how god is showing up in your life.
And the me says, if I can get your mind, then I can get your hands, and I can get your feet.
And all of a sudden, you will be going against the very thing. God called you to do.
Eve doesn’t just eat from the fruit.
The serpent deceived me. That word deceived in the Hebrew means led astray.
I was let astray before I did it.
No one came and got me. I was let astray.
Change my mind and change my path. I was led astray before I got here.
And god is so good that even though in Genesis too, he says that if you eat from this fruit, you will surely die.
You would have thought that the moment she ate from the fruit that she would have collapsed and fell on the ground.
But god is so god that he cannot lie about what he said.
And so something has to die in order for his word to remain true, and that when he covered them with the tunics of an animal.
I feel like this is also a glimpse into grace.
A glimpse into mercy where you don’t actually get what you deserve covered.
Not because you did everything the right way, not because you were obedient, you’ve been covered.
There were some people in this room before you were even in relationship with god.
You look back over your life and you see that god was covering you. I wasn’t going to church.
I wasn’t praying. I wasn’t trying to be righteous.
I should be dead and out of my mind, I should be in somebody’s grave.
I should be locked up in jail.
There’s no reason why I should have this house There’s no reason why I should have these children, but I was covered in the midst of it all.
I was covered some kind of way you covered me Even when I didn’t know I was covered, you think your life was bad anyway.
You shouldn’t have seen what it would have been had god lifted that covering off of you.
I know they betrayed you. I know they walked away from you.
I know the family system was broken, but if you think that’s something, you ought to see the plan the enemy actually had for your life.
You ought to see how he wanted to kill you and destroy you.
You ought to see how the cancer cells backed up off of you.
You are to see how the X-ray machine showed what god said and not what was actually in your body.
I’ve been covering you since you were a child. I’ve been covering you. Every step you took, I covered you.
Don’t let the fact that you saw the weapon make you think that the weapon actually prospered just because you saw it It doesn’t mean that it prospered because if you didn’t know where it was really targeting.
Covered every step of the way.
We see god covering the man and the woman in the text, but they’re not reconciled.
Because sometimes you can be covered, but not yet reconciled.
What does it mean to be reconciled with god?
It means that the division that sin created is standing in the way of you being made in the image of god.
Sometimes we’re covered, but where misformed in our covering, which I could.
Sin came and it changed your form.
Anybody who would be willing to be honest in this room could admit that.
When I started sending, it’s not just that I did an action.
It changed the way that I thought change my form no longer do I believe that I am the righteousness of god no longer do I believe that I’m fearfully and wonderfully made.
Now all of a sudden, things I I’d never do, I’m more open to because I’m not even the same person anymore because sin changed my form.
And guys says, I don’t wanna just cover you I gotta make sure that I get you back reconciled with me so that you can get out of the shape that the sin left you in I don’t know who needs to hear this, but I want you to know you don’t have to stay in the same shape that that sin lets you in.
You don’t have to stay in the same shape that that betrayal lets you in.
That’s why we preach against bitterness, and that’s why we preach forgiveness, not because it’s easy, but because unforgiveness changes your form.
Shane changes your form. I don’t know who you are, but I came to wigs war against that shame because that shame is changing your form.
Guys got a mission in the earth that you can only accomplish if you get back in the form that you were in before sin ever said your name.
I wonder when god created man and woman, and he gave the woman the charge of being fruitful and multiplying, if she recognized that in order to fulfill the mandate on her life, that she would literally have to face off with hail to get it done.
Reality is that when sin enters our world, it’s not so easy as just denying it because before we even engage in the action of sin, there is a exception that takes place in our mind.
You see the enemy isn’t just after what you do. The enemy is after what you think.
Because if the enemy can get your mind, he can change your actions.
And we see his plan laid out in Genesis 3 in which he wants to distort our image of god.
Did god really say? You didn’t just sin. You didn’t just mess up.
You may have known better, but before you actually engaged with the action there had to have been a deception in your mind.
Of other people’s minds.
That means before we even had an encounter with god that we were born in a framework that made things okay that really weren’t okay.
And it wasn’t until we had an encounter with God that we began to realize that I am gonna have to be transformed by the renewing of my mind because I was born into sin.
I was born thinking that it was okay to act this way.
I was born thinking that retaliation was my only option.
I was born thinking that it was okay to be angry and so often in church.
We make sin the big ones.
As long as we’re not shacking and as long as you don’t do this and that, then you’re living without sin.
But if we were honest in this room, there were some of us who would be willing to admit that every single day I need saving.
I need saving from the way that I think I need saving from the way that I talk. I need saving from this wretched mind of mine because I am wired to think against that, which is good for me.
Sin is not just what you did before you got saved, sin is what you’re doing right now, trying to get your mind right.
Some of us had to come to church today, because I need to be in the presence of other people who are chasing after a renewed mind.
I need to be in the midst of people who are trying to set their mind on things above because sometimes I set my mind on what happened in my past and sometimes I set my mind on how worried I am in the future.
Sometimes I set my mind on trying to control a situation and setting just letting go and letting god sending his not just who you slept with and what you drank, sending us how you think about how god is showing up in your life.
And the me says, if I can get your mind, then I can get your hands, and I can get your feet.
And all of a sudden, you will be going against the very thing. God called you to do.
Eve doesn’t just eat from the fruit.
The serpent deceived me. That word deceived in the Hebrew means led astray.
I was let astray before I did it.
No one came and got me. I was let astray.
Change my mind and change my path. I was led astray before I got here.
And god is so good that even though in Genesis too, he says that if you eat from this fruit, you will surely die.
You would have thought that the moment she ate from the fruit that she would have collapsed and fell on the ground.
But god is so god that he cannot lie about what he said.
And so something has to die in order for his word to remain true, and that when he covered them with the tunics of an animal.
I feel like this is also a glimpse into grace.
A glimpse into mercy where you don’t actually get what you deserve covered.
Not because you did everything the right way, not because you were obedient, you’ve been covered.
There were some people in this room before you were even in relationship with god.
You look back over your life and you see that god was covering you. I wasn’t going to church.
I wasn’t praying. I wasn’t trying to be righteous.
I should be dead and out of my mind, I should be in somebody’s grave.
I should be locked up in jail.
There’s no reason why I should have this house There’s no reason why I should have these children, but I was covered in the midst of it all.
I was covered some kind of way you covered me Even when I didn’t know I was covered, you think your life was bad anyway.
You shouldn’t have seen what it would have been had god lifted that covering off of you.
I know they betrayed you. I know they walked away from you.
I know the family system was broken, but if you think that’s something, you ought to see the plan the enemy actually had for your life.
You ought to see how he wanted to kill you and destroy you.
You ought to see how the cancer cells backed up off of you.
You are to see how the X-ray machine showed what god said and not what was actually in your body.
I’ve been covering you since you were a child. I’ve been covering you. Every step you took, I covered you.
Don’t let the fact that you saw the weapon make you think that the weapon actually prospered just because you saw it It doesn’t mean that it prospered because if you didn’t know where it was really targeting.
Covered every step of the way.
We see god covering the man and the woman in the text, but they’re not reconciled.
Because sometimes you can be covered, but not yet reconciled.
What does it mean to be reconciled with god?
It means that the division that sin created is standing in the way of you being made in the image of god.
Sometimes we’re covered, but where misformed in our covering, which I could.
Sin came and it changed your form.
Anybody who would be willing to be honest in this room could admit that.
When I started sending, it’s not just that I did an action.
It changed the way that I thought change my form no longer do I believe that I am the righteousness of god no longer do I believe that I’m fearfully and wonderfully made.
Now all of a sudden, things I I’d never do, I’m more open to because I’m not even the same person anymore because sin changed my form.
And guys says, I don’t wanna just cover you I gotta make sure that I get you back reconciled with me so that you can get out of the shape that the sin left you in I don’t know who needs to hear this, but I want you to know you don’t have to stay in the same shape that that sin lets you in.
You don’t have to stay in the same shape that that betrayal lets you in.
That’s why we preach against bitterness, and that’s why we preach forgiveness, not because it’s easy, but because unforgiveness changes your form.
Shane changes your form. I don’t know who you are, but I came to wigs war against that shame because that shame is changing your form.
Guys got a mission in the earth that you can only accomplish if you get back in the form that you were in before sin ever said your name.
