Why Do We Sin?
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Why do we sin, even if we know it's wrong? Today, R.C. Sproul confronts the lie that we embrace every time we rebel against the Lord.
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| 0:00.0 | You know that every time you sin, you are confronted with the same issue, every time we sin, |
| 0:09.5 | we sin because we want to. |
| 0:15.5 | And we want to because we're convinced that if we do the sin, it will make us happy. |
| 0:20.8 | And if we don't do the sin, we'll lose something in our pursuit of happiness, right? |
| 0:27.9 | And we know that if God's law says no to us, and I want to do it, and I go ahead and |
| 0:33.6 | do it, what am I saying? |
| 0:36.2 | I'm saying, I know what's going to make me happy. |
| 0:39.9 | God doesn't know what's going to make me happy. |
| 0:42.7 | He has arbitrarily put a restriction on me to keep me from being happy. |
| 0:48.1 | The same slander that the serpent is giving to the integrity of God is repeated every single |
| 0:53.1 | time we sin. |
| 0:54.4 | That's why it's so serious, even in our slightest sin. |
| 0:57.3 | We slander the integrity of God. |
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