What’s Wrong With Us?

SIN 101

Pastor Hope Flask

February 15, 2026

Main Scriptures: Numbers 11:4-6, 10-20

Additional Scriptures: Romans 7:14-15, Isaiah 57:15, Psalm 34:8, 9-10, 1 Peter 2:24

POINTS:

• Human hearts are not only sinful, but we are slaves to sin. And sin has the power of death.

• Sin lessons:

1. Sin gives us a very selective memory.

2. Sin makes us spiritual slaves, because all slavery is powerlessness.

3. Sin is addictive.

• There are two ways in which we address sin's powerlessness outside of the gospel: We try and try and try, or we settle for the lowest rung of moral ambition.

• A religious spirit boasts about the work they do for the Lord, while selectively minimizing or even ignoring their own sinful deeds.

• No one thinks that they are responding to sin’s power religiously or by lowering their moral ambition until they are tested.

• Sin always begins with a craving.

• The craving starts to overwhelm your reasoning.

• Sin will dry up your strength.

• Because you see sin destroying you, you will begin to loathe it.

• Sin will destroy you in three ways: tolerance, denial, and willpower.

• Any time we disobey God for the sake of our personal freedom, it actually makes us more enslaved.

• Sin is craving something more than God.

• Steps to freedom from sin:

1. God responds to sin by intervening.

2. We acknowledge our need for a Savior.

3. We gain an appetite adjustment by tasting and seeing that the Lord is good.

• Salvation = God intervening to save those who know they need saving.

• Contrite = to be deeply sorry over sin.

• The only way to have quality time with God is to have quality time with God.