falling into sinful mistakes

TMC INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSIONS

TOPIC: FALLING INTO SINFUL MISTAKES

TEXT: JAMES 1:14-15

INTRODUCTION: Thoughts gives energy to the body to act; what you don’t think or imagine doing, your body wouldn’t have the impetus to carry it out. For example, immorality: its not a sin you just fall into, before you sleep with anyone, whether planned or unplanned, you must have imagined and fantasized such act if not your body wouldn’t respond to such immoral urge or opportunity

QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION

1.    HOW IS SIN CONCIEVED? But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.  VS 14 the bible says, your own lust, it means we aren’t enticed unless we’ve started lusting or fantasizing such sin in our hearts long before time. People who joke with vulgar words are likely those who have been fantasizing immorality in their heart and if these thoughts are left unchecked, it would lead us to the place of temptation.

2.    HOW THEN THE TEMPTATION COMES: Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.  VS 15 we may think it’s safe to think and fantasize sinning in our mind but we may not know that once we are thinking it, we would soon become it because as a man thinks he definitely becomes. The devil makes you think its safe to imagine committing evil but you fail to understand that once the thought is planted in your heart, the energy and opportunity to carry out such sinful acts becomes reality (Prov. 23:7).

3.    HOW TO BE SAFE FROM SIN: Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;  2 Cor. 10:5 if you want to live above falling into temptations, you must get rid of sinful thoughts. Greed, immoral, lying, pride, and all sinfulness begins in the mind as a thought, and if we can cast down such thought and bring them to obedience of Christ then sin would have no dominion over us.

CONCLUSION: when you want to live in perfections, you must begin with thought-managements. Whoever can handle his thoughts and brings them to obedience in Christ, such person would never fall mistakenly into sin. We can be perfect when we perfect our thoughts with God’s word. When your mind is filled with dirty thoughts, let God’s word renew your mind.