If you are dealing with some significant sin in your life or know someone who is then read these various points about sin and the sinner.
- Sin only makes sense to itself (cf. Genesis 3), and to other apostates (Proverbs 28:4a).
- Sin makes you irrational, insane, crazy, nuts (cf. Genesis 3—Revelation 22; especially, for instance, Genesis 3:8; Numbers 13-14; Matthew 12:24; Ephesians 4:17-19).
- People locked into a sin are impervious to logic, facts and Scripture (cf. Genesis 3:9-10).
- People locked into a sin always say it's someone else's fault (cf. Genesis 3:12-13).
- People locked into a sin hate anyone who tries to tell them the truth, no matter how humbly nor lovingly (cf. 1 Kings 22:8; John 3:19-21; Proverbs 15:12).
- People in love with a sin will always find dire and horrendous fault with anyone who tries to part them from it (cf. Proverbs 9:7-8a).
- Sin destroys, ruins, kills. Its sales-line is a lie: it has nothing we really want (cp. Genesis 3:5 and 7; Romans 6:23).
- Sin doesn't care who it hurts, nor how much, nor how devastatingly, as long as it gets its way (cf. Matthew 10:34-36).
- There is no sin — no sin — that can't make an excuse for itself that makes sense to itself (cf. John 11:50; Philippians 3:19 ["they glory in their shame"]).
- Every unrepentant sinner sees himself as noble (cf. John 16:2).
- Every unrepentant sinner sees his sin as different (cf. Romans 2:3-5).
- Everything a sinner does to "fix" his situation apart from repentance only serves to make it much, much worse (cf. the sad story of Saul)
- You can't talk anyone out of sin (cf. 2 Timothy 2:24-26).
- The only and sovereign cure for sin, still, is the blood of Christ, applied through humbled repentance (cf. Matthew 3:8; Luke 5:32; 15:7; 24:47; Acts 11:18; 17:31; 20:21; 26:20). There is no "therapy" for sin (cf. 1 John 1:8-10).
