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<div class="SSN_title">"FORGIVEN."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE PROBLEM OF SIN.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. It is a universal problem.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. In the text he is dealing with the sins of the common people.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. In the context they deal with the sins of those in the priesthood, then the sins of the elders of the people; finally the sins of the whole congregation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The truth is that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There is none righteous, no not one.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Sin means to miss the mark.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. What is the mark? "Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Some people sin through ignorance. People do not always know what the mark is.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Nonetheless, sin is sin, and must be atoned for.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The text is dealing with sins of ignorance.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Some sin is just the weakness of the flesh.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It is possible to miss the mark, even when you are trying to hit the mark.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Jesus said to Peter, "The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Paul spoke of his personal struggle with trying to keep the law of God. He found a perverse law at work which he described, "When I would do good, evil is present with me, so that the good that I would, I do not."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Though it might be weakness, it is nonetheless sin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Some sin is deliberate. This comes under the heading of transgression. This is conscious and willful, willful disobedience.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. In the psalm this morning David made a difference between sin and transgression.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Oh how happy is the man whose sin is covered.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Oh how happy is the man whose transgressions are forgiven.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. Whether it is ignorance, weakness, or deliberate, it is still sin in the eyes of God and you are guilty.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It is described in verse 27 as doing something that you ought not to have done and you are guilty.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Sometimes it is not doing something that you ought to do.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. <a onClick="return mV('Jam',4,17);">James 4:17</a>: "To him that knows to do good and does it not, to him it is sin."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. A GUILTY CONSCIENCE IS A DIFFICULT THING TO DEAL WITH.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Again in the psalm this morning, David speaks of how his unconfessed sin caused his bones to become weary through his groaning all day long. He said that the heavy hand of God was upon him, and his strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Then He said, "I will confess my sin, and your forgave me."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Oh how happy is the man whose sins are covered, whose transgressions are forgiven.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. The sociologist and the psychologist realize how harmful a guilt complex can be to your mental health.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. That is the thrust behind the endeavor to remove the sense of bad, or wrong, or sin in our society.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. If you feel it is all right to watch pornography, then it is all right for you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. If you feel that it is all right to rape someone, then it is right for you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Nothing is really wrong unless you think it to be wrong.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. There are absolutely no absolutes, of that they are absolutely sure.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. We saw this demonstrated by the president when he lied under oath. To him he was telling the truth when he said in no uncertain terms, that he never had sex with that woman.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. There is a strong move in our culture today to teach that anything goes.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">8. Our law enforcement officers are beginning to see the results of this sociological experiment, and are shocked when these 15-year old girls can bludgeon an elderly lady to death and show absolutely no signs of remorse.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. The psychologist say that man's problems all begin with frustration.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. An awareness that life must surely hold something more than I have yet experienced.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I feel unfulfilled.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. The frustration leads to a rationale.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. If I had only done this.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. If I had married someone else.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. If I had just continued my education.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. If I had just chosen another career.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. I try to understand why I feel this sense of unfulfillment, and I thirst for something more.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">F. This leads to escapes.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Overt escapes.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Drugs, alcohol, movies, compulsive gambling, compulsive eating, extramarital affairs.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Invert escapes.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. I withdraw into a shell and become anti-social.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. I don't want to talk on the phone.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. I do not want people coming by the house.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. I will meet you at my gate, but I will not let you in. e The ultimate form is becoming a hermit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">G. These lead to guilt complexes.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. I know I should not be drinking so much.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I know I should quit gambling.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. I know I am eating too much, I am getting so fat, I hate myself.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">H. This leads to a subconscious desire for punishment that is usually manifested in some form of neurotic behavior.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. I start doing weird things that I really do not understand myself but subconsciously I want people to say, "What is wrong with you? You are becoming so strange I don't want you around."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. When I was young, I had no problem with the subconscious desire for punishment when I had done wrong. My father took care of my need for punishment.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. When I had been disobedient and my father would say that after dinner we will go in the bedroom and take care of it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Those were the hardest meals I ever tried to eat. I felt guilty. My younger brother would be snickering at my discomfort; I felt like an outsider to the family. I wouldn't even ask for seconds on dessert.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. After dinner when my father would take me into the bedroom and spank me, I felt freed from my feelings of guilt. I again felt a part of the family, and could join my brothers and sister again in a game of Monopoly. That was true applied psychology.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. When our younger daughter was quite small she would often start verbally pushing her mother and I, she would sass, and deliberately do other things to upset us. As she would keep pushing, we would say to each other, we do not know what she has done, but she surely needs a spanking. Once we would spank her, she would be her wonderful sweet self again. But we never really knew what we were really spanking her for.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. As an adult it becomes more complex. You do not have your parents to take care of your subconscious need for punishment so you begin to act in peculiar, or unsociable ways.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">f. Maybe you have been having a flirtation at work and you feel guilty. When you come home you begin to complain about the dinner. Too much salt, something does not taste right, and you keep needling your wife until she slams out the door calling you a creep, and saying that she should have listened to her mother and never married you. You now feel good, you have been punished, but your poor wife does not know what has happened to her.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">g. If you go to a psychiatrist they will put you on medication so you can escape, or tell you that there is nothing wrong with what you are doing, or tell you what an idiot you are thus punishing you to help you get rid of the guilt feeling.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">I. Once you have been punished, you usually go back to square one, the sense of frustration. Surely life must be more than what I have experienced. I feel so empty and unfulfilled.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Your greatest need is for someone to say, your sins are forgiven.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. No psychologist can effectively say that.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. There is only one who can say that, and that is God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. When Jesus said to the man with the palsy, "Your sins are forgiven," the Pharisees were upset. They asked, "Who can forgive sins but God." They were right, what they did not realize was that Jesus was God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. David when praying for mercy said, "Against Thee and Thee only have I sinned and done this great iniquity in Thy sight.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">J. Jesus meets us at both ends of this cycle.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He comes to the guilty soul and declares, "You are indeed guilty, but I love you so much. I took your punishment for you, now just believe in Me and you will be forgiven.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. If the gospel only did that, removed the guilt, it would meet man's greatest need.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. But Jesus does more, He comes to the frustration where it all started and declares:</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. "If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink, and he that drinks of the water that I give, out of His inner most being shall gush fountains of living water."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. WE SEE IN OUR TEXT THAT UNDER THE LAW GOD HAD PROVIDED A WAY FOR THEIR SINS TO BE FORGIVEN. IT WAS BY BRINGING A FEMALE LAMB, AND LAYING YOUR HAND UPON IT TO IDENTIFY WITH IT, AND THEN IT WAS SLAIN FOR YOUR GUILT. THE LAMB DIED IN YOUR PLACE. "AND THE PRIEST SHALL MAKE ATONEMENT FOR HIM AND HE SHALL BE FORGIVEN."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. God has provided His Son as a sacrificial lamb to be a substitute for you, and He died in your place.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Paul writing about Jesus declared, "In Him we have redemption, even the forgiveness of sins."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. We read that Jesus, "for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross though He despised the shame." What was the joy? The joy of being able to say to you who are laden down with a guilty conscience, "Your sins are forgiven."</div>
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