Move From You Are A Sinner To You Were A Sinner

Hello and welcome to Social Media Ministries. My name is Spencer Coffman. Thank you so much for being with us today. Got a great sermon. You need to accept you are a sinner. Now, what are we talking about here, because if you are redeemed, you are in Christ.

You are no longer a sinner. You were a sinner, but sometimes you still slip up, so you are a sinner in that fact; however, when you became a Christian, you became dead to sin. You were no longer a slave to sin, but now you are a slave to Christ.

So you were a slave to sin. Now you are a slave to Christ. What are we talking about here? Remember when the Bible was written, that term – “slavery” had a different meaning. Now we say, “Oh no. This is no good. No good.”

Of course, then it wasn’t good either, but now we say it’s almost negative. It’s bad. It’s horrible because we don’t quite understand what that meant then, in the terms it was then.

The terms then was more of a bondservant, meaning a willful servant to serve the master. That’s what we are in Christ. You say, “Whoa, man, not even a minute in and we’re diving in heavy.” Yes, because we don’t have time to mess around.

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What’s the situation today? Bondervant, that’s what–that’s what this was, meaning a slave to sin, meaning like you don’t want to do that, but you’re doing it anyway. Sin is controlling you.

Then, when you cross over from death to life, you become a bondevant—a slave to Christ, meaning, you will willingly obey your master because you love your master and the master is good. You trust them.

It’s like you would rather be a servant in the house of the wise or, in this—what—Psalm, says, you’d rather be a servant to God, or working at the door as a doorman for the Kingdom of Heaven than be feasting in a house full of strife, or than be ruling in a house full of feasting and strife.

Psalms and Proverbs has verses on that. Check those out. The point is you need to accept the fact that as a human being, as someone without Christ, you are a sinner, and as a sinner, you are separated from God. That’s a serious thing. Let’s go to a verse. Romans 3:23.

Romans 3:23 says—what does it say—Romans 3:23, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” We’ve talked about that before. Your sins, the sins of other people, all have sinned—fallen short of the glory of God.

We have a sermon called “Sin Is Sin.” Now we’ve talked about that, in that sin is sin, not like all sins is the–are the same, but like sin is sin. No matter what. God sees it as sin. It’s sin. It’s wrong. He doesn’t like it. He hates it.

Boom—all have sinned, fall short of the glory of God. Your sins and the sins of other people are equal in the eyes of God. They are equal in the fact that no matter the sin, they separate you from God, and we have a sermon on that. “All Sins Equal”.

Now, that doesn’t mean that, like, lying and murder are equal. Now in–on Earth, we’ve given them levels. In God’s eyes, whether you lie or whether you murder, you’re going—you’re done. You’re separated.

Now there are some sins that have more weight, or more consequence than others. For example, unforgiveness—that’s a sin God says if you don’t forgive, you will not be forgiven. So obviously, that holds more weight than lying or murder.

Or blasphemy of the Holy Spirit—that means if you willfully choose to disobey God time and time again, you are putting yourself in a–in a higher state of sin, an unforgivable type of sin. You say, “Once saved, always saved.”

I say no because if you–once saved, always saved; yes, where can I go from your presence? Where can I hide from you, oh God? Yes, true. No one can snatch us out of His hand. No one can snatch you, but you can remove yourself.

In the fact, like Judas, he was saved. He was going to heaven, and then he willfully continued to choose to live in sin by stealing money out of the ministry, and then eventually, by betraying Jesus and sentencing Him to death, to crucifixion.

He was so filled with guilt and remorse that he ended up killing himself. He chose to remove himself. Nothing snatched him away. He chose. If you choose to willfully live in a life of sin, you are undoing your own salvation.

If you are a Christian, arguably, you’re probably not a Christian if you’re choosing to live in sin. So there you go. If you are a true Christian, you’re not choosing to live in sin because Christians have crucified the flesh, and they hate sin, and they no longer do those things, or they no longer want to do those things.

If you choose to live in sin, you are saying you want to do that. You should no longer want to do that if you are a Christian. So once saved, always saved, well, yes, if you are truly saved, you will not want any of those things anymore, and you will stay saved.

So, sin separates you from God. All sin separates you from God. That’s what we said. So watch those two sermons: “Sin Is Sin,” “All Sin’s Equal.” We’ve talked about them before. They are equal in the fact that they sentence you to death.

Romans 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” So yes, there are different levels of sin, as in some is worse than others. We told you about those.

What you need to do and, and think about and meditate on and study—because this is a very important topic—you need to make sure you are choosing the life of righteousness because if you choose to live in sin, to be a slave to sin, to allow sin to control you, to hold onto your demons, then you are choosing a life away from God and that is not good.

You have free will. God will let you do it. He doesn’t want you to do it. That’s not doing God’s will, so you need to rely on the grace of God to save you from your sin. Accept you are a sinner and turn from it.

Turn to God. We have a sermon series, “Saved by Grace.” Two-part sermon series—you should check that out.

You need to know that Jesus Christ came to Earth and died for you. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that he sent his one and only son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved. Accept the fact that you are a sinner. Understand that you need to repent. Turn to God, and He will heal your land. Forsake your old ways.

Do them no more for you were once a slave to sin, but now be a slave to righteousness, not necessarily a slave but a servant. You were slaves, but now you have become sons and heirs to the throne.

You were an outcast, an orphan, but when you became a Christian, you became a brother of Jesus Christ, a son of the Most High God. You say, “Well, I’m a female. I’m a daughter.” No, you are called to be a son.

Why? Because you are called to be like Jesus. Jesus is a man. Jesus was a Son of God. So if yes, if you are a female, you are a Christian, you are called to be a son. Now again, think of the time when this was written.

Exactly like bondervant, women did not have a place in this day and age, and so yes, today with–with the feminism, with women’s rights activism, with women’s movement—I’m not advocating for anything like that—yes, we are all equal.

That’s what the point is. We are equal in the body of Christ. There is no male or female. There is no slave or free. We are all one in Christ Jesus. We’ve had sermons on that, discrimination, favoritism, partiality.

You can check all of those out, uh, zero tolerance—all of those. The point is that when you become a Christian, whether you are slave or free, Jew or Gentile, male or female, you are all one in Christ Jesus.

You are all called to be sons of God. Why? Because you are called to be like Jesus, and Jesus is a Son of God. That’s what you are called to. Be heirs to the throne, a co-heir with Christ. Think of the honor. That, that is—that’s your calling.

Jesus Christ was the sacrifice for your sins. You were a sinner. You might still be a sinner, but when you turn from sin, you turn from death. Death has lost its grip on you, and you choose to follow Christ. That’s the process.

Accept you are a sinner. Repent of your sins and be a sinner no more. Like Jesus says, “Go and sin no more.”

Christ was the perfect sacrifice for your sins, and to sin it would be to dishonor that sacrifice. Yes, His blood can atone for that, but that doesn’t mean that you have a blank slate to go out and do whatever you want to do because Christ paid for it.

No, that’s choosing to live in sin. You cannot do that. You need to choose the life of righteousness. Let’s go to Hebrews 10:14.

“For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.” Alright, listen to this. “One sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.” Jesus Christ was the one sacrifice. He has made perfect those who are being made holy.

If you are living in a life of sin, are you being made holy? No, you are being more like the devil.
You are choosing to be a child of the devil. We have a sermon on that. Check it out: “Child Of The Devil.”

If you choose to be a child of the devil, if you choose to live in sin, you are not being made holy; therefore, you are not being made perfect. That one sacrifice is no longer covering you. You are taking yourself out of the covering, and you will go to hell.

“Well, I–I prayed the sinner’s prayer. I–I–I’m a Christian. I believe in the Lord Jesus. I’m saved. I confess with my mouth. I, I believe in my heart.” Yes, but if you choose to live a life of sin, you have removed yourself from the covering because you are not being made holy.

You are being made unholy. You are doing what the devil wants, not what Christ wants. You can’t choose to live a life of sin and say you’re a Christian. That’s misrepresenting. Just like the Bible says, “Many will come to me on that day and say, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name?

‘Did we not cast out demons? Did we not do signs and wonders? Did we not do all of this in your name?’ And He will say, ‘Get away from me, you perverse and wicked generation, for I never knew you.’” Why?

Because they thought they were Christians, but they did not live the life of holiness, so that perfect sacrifice did not cover them. They removed themselves from the covering. Stay under the covering, under the shadow of His wings, as Psalms says.

Let Christ be your firm foundation. Live according to the Word. Hebrews 10:18: “And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.” Think about this.

When the one perfect sacrifice, Jesus Christ, died for you, you accept it. Alright, when that happens, you have been forgiven. Sacrifice is no longer necessary. This is so important, guys, because in the old days of the Old Testament, that was an old covenant.

Anytime something happened, they had to make a sacrifice to atone for the sins, and that’s how they maintained that right relationship with God.

There are so many sins that you could sin and not even know it. They had sacrifices for all of these; read the Old Testament. Look at the jobs of the priests.

The jobs of the priests were full-time jobs. Multiple priests were needed because of all the sacrifices that had to be made for all the many sins of the people.

That’s where we get the term scapegoat. One goat was sacrificed, the other was sent out into the wilderness, and the sins rested upon them. For anything, other sins, that they may not have known, they—this is the scapegoat, and they would send it out.

There are so many different sacrifices that had to be made to cover for all of the many different sins, and if people chose to live in sin, then that sacrifice couldn’t cover them because they had to continually make so many.

Like if you chose to live in a wrong way, most of the time, what happened in the Old Testament is; God just killed you. The ground opened up and swallowed you up for–for continuing to complain or murmur, for living in fornication.

You just—the people died until Phineas rose up and pinned people to the ground with a spear, and then the plague stopped because God can’t tolerate it, so until that one sacrifice came, Jesus Christ.

Now we no longer need that because if we have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary, because the sacrifice has already happened. You just need to choose to allow Christ’s blood to cover you and no longer live in sin.

As Jesus says, “Go and sin no more.” That’s the New Covenant—the New Testament. The Holy Spirit is testifying like your last will and testament of your life. The will of God, the testament of God, is this new covenant that we no longer need a sacrifice for sins, because why?

Because we are made perfect forever as we are being made holy. Like the Bible says, “Be holy because I am holy.” You need to be holy because God is holy, because Jesus is holy.

It’s so important that when you have been forgiven, that sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. Christ was your perfect lamb, the lamb of God. His blood was shed for you. For you alone. We have a sermon on that.

Check that one out. If you accept that, you have that amazing ability to be with God for all eternity, provided you abide in Him as the fruit, the branches, the vine.

He is the true vine. You are the branches. If you’re not bearing fruit, what happens? You will be cut off—not by Jesus. Jesus is the perfect sacrifice. His blood covers you, but if you choose not to abide in Him and you choose not to bear fruit, but you are doing the works of the devil, you are living in sin.

Then God the Father will cut you off. You remove yourself from the covering, so yes, you need to accept you are a sinner. Repent. Go and sin no more.

Now you were a sinner. You are pursuing holiness, and you abide in Him. You bear much good fruit so that they may glorify your Father in heaven, and you stay under the covering, under the shelter of His wings, and the shadow of the most high, as, Psalms says, and accept that the greatest gift of all is Jesus Christ, that you have that ability to be with Him for all eternity.

Let’s go to 1 John 5:11. 1 John 5:11 says, “And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.” That’s the testimony, the testament, the covenant—the testimony is this: that God has given you eternal life and that life is where—not in some religion, not in “Well, there are many roads that all lead there,” no.

“There are many doors. We just choose to take—” no. Where is it? Where is the testimony? Where is the eternal life? It is this: His Son. That life is in His son, Jesus Christ. You must accept that the greatest gift of all is Jesus Christ.

Let’s go to 1 John 5:12. “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son does not have life.”

So if you have the Son, you have that eternal life. If you do not have the Son, you do not have life. There goes that argument of many doors. “Well, we all take a different path to get to heaven.” No, Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. Whoever has the Son has life. Whoever does not have the Son does not have life.”

So guess what? Get out there and share this greatest gift with everyone. We have a playlist “Get Out There.” You need to make disciples of all nations. Jesus did not say, “Go out there and make converts of all nations.”

Because when you convert someone to Christianity, that is excellent, but they are now a new creation in Christ. That’s a baby. Someone’s got to raise that baby. That someone is you. Disciple them. Teach them.

When you receive a great gift, you go out and tell your friends, don’t you? “Look what I got! Look what so and so gave me.” Why wouldn’t you tell everyone about the greatest gift of all? Then go out and share this great gift of Christ.

Tell them, “Hey, you are a sinner. I was a sinner. You can no longer be a sinner. Become a Christian. Choose to sin no more. Choose to be a servant of Christ. Choose to have the Son and have life.”

Tell them about this. Explain it to them and then choose to live a life worthy of the calling you have received, of the calling to go out and make disciples of all nations, of the calling to do your Father’s will who is in heaven, making it on Earth as it is in heaven, building the Kingdom here on Earth.

Let’s go to Colossians 1:21-22. “Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight without blemish and free from accusation.”

Christ paid your price. He was your perfect sacrifice. Now you can be presented holy and without defect so that you will be accepted into heaven. If you continue to abide in Jesus, you will be accepted.

So yes, you need to believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, as it says in Romans 10:9, and you will be saved. But you also need to do the will of your Father on Earth as it is in heaven. How do you do that?

Study the Bible. Do what it says. If you have any questions or comments, post them below. Communicate with us. Watch more sermons. We will help disciple you so that you can go out and disciple others as well.

Let’s pray. Father, thank you so much for this, this great message. I ask that each and every person watching and listening, that they would accept they are a sinner and that they would accept that they were a sinner, that they would make that transformation from death to life, from darkness to light.

That they would enter into the body of Christ, that they would become believers, that they would know exactly what it means to be a Christian, and that they would act like it.

That they wouldn’t just call themselves Christians but that they would be true and accurate representations of Christ, that they would be Christlike, that they would be sons of you, Father, that they would be brothers of Jesus Christ, and that they would be inspired to learn more about what this means, and they would be inspired to go out and do it, to act like it, to behave that way, to transform and renew their minds because that is their job.

Father, speak to each and every person. Prompt them. Stir them up. Inspire them, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

If you’re watching and you haven’t made that decision to follow Christ, we’d love to help you out with that. Reach out to us. But the prayer is very simple. Accept you are a sinner. Say, “Dear Jesus, I accept I’m a sinner. I don’t want to be that way anymore.

I choose to follow you. Come into my life. Be the Lord of my life. In Jesus’ name, amen.”

Do that, but not only do that, but then choose to live that way. Choose to be different. Dive in. Learn more. Watch more sermons. We referenced several. You must dive in.

You need to be the seed sown in fertile soil because if you just pray that prayer and go out and live in the world, the weeds will choke you out. The sun will scorch you exactly as the parable says.

Believe and do. Have a great week, and God bless.