“The Need to Sin” Ephesians 2:1-3

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Date: November 6, 2022 Author: Wayne J. Edwards

The term “cheap grace” can be traced back to a book written by German theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, called The Cost of Discipleship, published in 1937. In that book, Bonhoeffer defined “cheap grace” as “the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline. Communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ.” The concept of “cheap grace” is that as long as one makes a profession of faith in Christ, he or she is saved. As a doctrine, cheap grace an intellectual assent to the idea that remission of sins is found in the cross of Christ – i.e., “Jesus died for my sins,” therefore, there is no need for one’s personal confession or repentance. We will explain this further in our next sermon, “ This I Believe; That Man is a Sinner – The Need to Sin.”

The term “cheap grace” can be traced back to a book written by German theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, called The Cost of Discipleship, published in 1937. In that book, Bonhoeffer defined “cheap grace” as “the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline. Communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ.”

The concept of “cheap grace” is that as long as one makes a profession of faith in Christ, he or she is saved. As a doctrine, cheap grace an intellectual assent to the idea that remission of sins is found in the cross of Christ – i.e., “Jesus died for my sins,” therefore, there is no need for one’s personal confession or repentance.

We will explain this further in our next sermon, “ This I Believe; That Man is a Sinner – The Need to Sin.”

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Old Testament Reading – Genesis 3:1-24 New Testament Reading – Romans 7:7-25

The Bible says man’s rebellion against God and man’s inhumanity to man is because man is a sinner, not just in theory or in practice, but by nature.

In Ephesians 2:3, the Apostle Paul declared the root cause of sin by saying, “We are by nature, children of wrath,” which means man is not a sinner because he sins, but rather man sins because he is a sinner by nature and by choice.

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