DiscipleMakers Class 4 Studying Sin for Conviction

DiscipleMakersDiscipleMakers Class 4Class 4

Studying Sin for Studying Sin for ConvictionConviction

Class 4 AgendaClass 4 Agenda• Review Three Pillars of

DiscipleMakers• Review some GAS• Review PQ Wedge applications via

Class 3 homework on the Discipleship Study

• Review the Study of Sin• Original language (Koine Greek)

considerations for defining sin

DiscipleMaker PillarsDiscipleMaker Pillars

GASGASSeeker’s Seeker’s Question/ConcernQuestion/Concern

•““Don’t these evangelism Don’t these evangelism Scriptures really only Scriptures really only apply to the Apostles of apply to the Apostles of Jesus?”Jesus?”

•““My conscience is clear My conscience is clear on this issue, so don’t try on this issue, so don’t try to convict me about to convict me about something that doesn’t something that doesn’t need it.”need it.”

•““Praying just doesn’t Praying just doesn’t come naturally to me. come naturally to me. Maybe I’m not cut out for Maybe I’m not cut out for it.”it.”

Greatly Applicable Greatly Applicable ScriptureScripture

•Acts 8:1-4 or Luke 9:59-Acts 8:1-4 or Luke 9:59-60. Here are examples of 60. Here are examples of “regular “regular disciples/Christians”disciples/Christians”

•1 Corinthians 4:4. “My 1 Corinthians 4:4. “My conscience is clear but conscience is clear but that doesn’t make me that doesn’t make me innocent.”innocent.”

•Luke 11:1-4. Notice that Luke 11:1-4. Notice that the disciples ask Jesus to the disciples ask Jesus to teach them how to pray. teach them how to pray. It’s learned rather than It’s learned rather than innate.innate.

Purposeful Purposeful Questions: “The Questions: “The

Wedge”Wedge”InterpretationInterpretation

ApplicationApplication

Contem-Contem-plationplation

Then & There

Here & Now

Why It Matters

The Wedge: The Wedge: Application from Application from

Mark 7:20Mark 7:20• Mark 7:20Mark 7:20 “”What comes out of a man is what makes him unclean. For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality...”

• InterpretationInterpretation: “What What is to blame for our sins; that is, where does it come from?

• ApplicationApplication: “WhatWhat other sources have you blamed for your sin?” (Application isn’t always ‘HOW’)

• ContemplationContemplation: “WhyWhy is it easier for you to blame these other factors for your sin?” “WhyWhy are you less likely to change these sins if you blame other sources?”

The Purposeful Question The Purposeful Question WorksheetWorksheet

The Purposeful Question The Purposeful Question WorksheetWorksheet Ed Anton

Discipleship

what a righteous life in Christ really isto pursue real

Christianity/DiscipleshipTell me your definition of “Christian”Tell me your definition of “Disciple of Christ”Why is there a perceived difference?

Gaining Conviction

Ed AntonDiscipleship

what a righteous life in Christ really isto pursue real

Christianity/DiscipleshipTell me your definition of “Christian”Tell me your definition of “Disciple of Christ”Why is there a perceived difference?

Gaining Conviction

Acts 11:26-27

•What were “Christians” called from 30AD to 41AD (the date of this event)? Did that name change affect the righteous requirements of following Jesus?•Since “Christian” only appears 3x in NT, how can we study out and live by these righteous requirements of being a Christian?

Luke 9:57-62

•What’s a nest to a bird, a den to a fox, and a place to lay your head? what’s Jesus telling this man about the requirements of d’ship?•What does it mean to “follow” Jesus for this man? For you? Why would you want to?•How does Jesus restate “follow me” in v. 59-60? How can you follow?

Sin StudySin Study• Remind the Seeker that the Holy Spirit works

to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8)

• Pray for the Holy Spirit to expose, reprove, and convict through His Scriptures

• Begin with Luke 7:36-50 to underscore the fact that greater conviction brings greater gratitude/grace

• How can we even begin to take an accounting of our sins? While that’s not really possible, we can usually recall the first time and the most recent time that we’ve committed a sin listed in the Scriptures to be studied… then one can connect the dots.

Sin StudySin Study

Sin Study in GTGSin Study in GTG• While we want all seekers to be saved by

grace, there is no grace if we perceive no sin.

• Of course, all have sinned (Romans 3:23); therefore, we all desperately need the grace of God (Romans 6:23).

• Thus, the aim of this study is to help seekers see themselves as our Holy God sees them: utterly sinful and separated from our God. This realization brings about a desire for both forgiveness and repentance.

• Pray for the Holy Spirit to convict seekers in this study (John 16:8).

Sin Study in GTGSin Study in GTG



Digging Deeper: Sins Digging Deeper: Sins DefinedDefined

• sexual immorality: πορνείαπορνεία (porneia); fornication, sexual immorality, sexual sin general kind, that includes many different behaviors

• impurity: ἀκαθαρσίαἀκαθαρσία (akatharsia); immorality, sexual impurity

• debauchery: ἀσέλγειαἀσέλγεια (aselgeia); sensuality, debauchery, licentiousness, lewdness, be unrestrained in moral attitudes and behaviors


• debauchery: ἀσέλγειαἀσέλγεια (aselgeia); sensuality, debauchery, licentiousness, lewdness, be unrestrained in moral attitudes and behaviors

• idolatry: εἰδωλολατρίαεἰδωλολατρία (eidōlolatria); idolatry, worship of idols (greed in Eph 5)

• witchcraft: φαρμακείαφαρμακεία (pharmakeia); sorcery, witchcraft, black magic


• hatred: ἔχθραἔχθρα (echthra); enmity, hostility, antagonism

• discord: ἔριςἔρις (eris); strife, dissension, conflict ; quarrel, to speak discord, argue, rivalries

• jealousy: ζῆλοςζῆλος (zēlos); jealousy, envy, resentment


• fits of rage: θυμόςθυμός (thymos); fury, wrath, anger, rage, intense desire; in contrast with ὀργή (orgay) as settled indignation, thymos is used of anger that boils up and subsides again, swelling up of anger, hot temper, angry outburst

• selfish ambition: ἐριθείαἐριθεία (eritheia); selfish ambition, implying rivalry, hostility, feeling of strife for another; as denoting an attitude of self-seeking selfish ambition, self-interest, rivalry (Philippians 2.3)


• dissensions: διχοστασίαδιχοστασία (dichostasia); discord, division, dissension, disunity

• factions: αἵρεσιςαἵρεσις (hairesis); (1) of a separatist group characterized by loyalty to a certain school of thought and practice sect, party, school (AC 5.17); (2) of such separatist groups claiming status within the Christian community heretical sect, party, division (1C 11.19); (3) in a religious sense, of belief contrary to established doctrine heresy, false teaching (2P 2.1)


• envy: φθόνοςφθόνος (phthonos); jealousy, envy

• drunkenness: μέθη (methē); drunkenness

• orgies: κῶμοςκῶμος (kōmos); originally festive procession in honor of the wine god, merrymaking; in the NT always in a bad sense carousing, revelry, excessive feasting

• and the like: ὅμοιοςὅμοιος (homoios); similar, like, resembling ,that is, pertaining to being of same or similar nature or quality

Upcoming Class Upcoming Class ScheduleSchedule

• Class Five:Class Five: Repentance and Judgment

• Class Six:Class Six: Grace and the Cross Grace and the Cross

• Class Seven:Class Seven: Baptism and False Baptism and False Doctrines of SalvationDoctrines of Salvation

• Class Eight:Class Eight: The Holy Spirit and The Holy Spirit and ChurchChurch

Homework for Next Homework for Next Class 5Class 5

• Complete a “Purposeful Question Worksheet” for a “Sin Study” (you can download an electronic copy from cwacademy.net)

• Memorize GAS through Discipleship and Sin studies for the quiz

• Review the sin definitions for the quiz

• Ask a new friend to study with you!

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DiscipleMakers Class 4 Studying Sin for Conviction