Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Your mind is the greatest gift God has given you. That's why today we continue with a series

called Rethinking Your Life. In these lessons, Rick shares nine biblical pillars we need to reshape our minds so that we can

become more like Jesus Christ. Right now, here's Pastor Rick with part two of a message called

Rethinking the Problem of Sin. All right, number four, the fourth definition. Sin is not just selfishness, and the opposite of love and the opposite of God.

Sin is always unbelief.

Unbelief.

And specifically, it's an unbelief in who God is.

At the root of every sin is, at that moment, I don't trust God.

I doubt something about God. I'm doubting his love, his compassion, his wisdom, his plan. I'm doubting something about God.

Unbelief is behind every sin. It's the root. It's a lack of faith. What I'm saying is I don't trust God in this

situation, so I'm going to have to take it into my own hands, figure it out myself. And Jesus says,

in John 16, he's talking about the Holy Spirit and the three purposes that the Holy Spirit is sent to

earth. And in verse 9, Jesus says, the Holy Spirit will show that the world's

sin is unbelief in me. That's the root of all sin. When I don't believe God is who he says

he is, and I don't believe that God will do what he says he'll do. Unbelief is the world's big sin. Everything else comes out of that.

Now, I could give you several hundred examples of this, and we'd be here a long time.

Let me just give you three or four there. My sin, whenever I sin, it reveals what I'm doubting

about God at that moment.

I'll say it again.

Every time I sin, it reveals what I am doubting, my unbelief, my lack of trust, my lack

of faith in God at that moment.

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