How to Live without Sin

I. “Why should I live without sin?”

A. God commands us to live without sin (John 8:11, 5:14; 1 Corinthians 15:34; Job 5:17, 24; 1 John 2:1, 3:9, 5:18)

B. God commands us to be perfect and holy (Matthew 5:48; Job 1:1; Leviticus 11:44)

II. “What is sin?”

A. Knowing to do good but not doing it (James 4:17)

B. Breaking God’s Law (1 John 3:4)

    1. No other gods (Exodus 20:3; Luke 14:26)

    2. No idols (Exodus 20:4-6; Romans 6:16; 1 Corinthians 10:19-20)

    3. Do not misuse God’s Name (Exodus 20:7; Matthew 12:36-37; Philippians 2:10-11)

    4. Keep the Sabbath (Exodus 20:8-11;Matthew 11:28;Luke 10:38-42)

    5. Honor parents (Exodus 20:12; Matthew 15:3-6; Ephesians 6:1)

    6. Do not kill (Exodus 20:13; 1 Samuel 16:7; 1 John 3:15)

    7. Do not commit adultery (Exodus 20:14; Matthew 5:27-28)

    8. Do not steal (Exodus 20:15; 1 Corinthians 6:10,19-20)

    9. Do not lie (Exodus 20:16; Ephesians 4:25)

1    0. Do not covet (Exodus 20:17: Ephesians 5:26; 1 Samuel 18:6-9)

III. What are the consequences of sin?

A. One sin separates you from God (Isaiah 59:2)

B. One sin blots you out of God’s Book (Exodus 32:33)

C. One sin makes you of the devil (1 John 3:8)

D. One sin takes you out of God’s family (1 John 3:6-10)

E. One sin makes God angry with you every day (Psalm 7:11)

F. One sin makes God hate you (Psalm 5:4-5; 11:5-6)

G. One sin causes your righteousness to be forgotten (Ezekiel 18:24)

H. One sin causes you to die (Ezekiel 18:4)

 I. One sin causes you to be judged (Hebrews 9:27)

 J. One sin causes you to be cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:11-15)

IV. “How can I live without sin?”

1. Repent, deny yourself, follow Christ, sin no more (Luke 13:1-5, 9:23; John 8:11)

2. Keep the fear of God before your face (Exodus 20:20)

3. Hide God’s Word in your heart (Psalm 119:11)

4. Suffer in the flesh (1 Peter 4:1)

5. Don’t stand in the way of sinners (Psalms 1:1)

6. Break off sin by righteousness (Daniel 4:27)

7. Don’t walk according to the course of this world (Ephesians 2:2)

8. Don’t despise God’s correction (Job 5:17, 24)

9. Stand in awe, commune with your heart, be still (Psalm 4:4)

10. Receive and obey a righteous man’s warning not to sin (Ezekiel 3:21)

11. Receive and obey Christ’s command to sin no more (John 5:14)

12. Receive and obey Christ’s command to go and sin no more (John 8:11)

13. Reckon yourself to be dead to sin but alive to God (Romans 6:11)

14. Don’t let sin reign in your body (Romans 6:12)

15. Don’t yield your limbs to sin as instruments of unrighteousness (Romans 6:12)

16. Awake to righteousness and sin not (1 Corinthians 15:34)

17. Be angry and sin not (Ephesians 4:26-27)

18. Lay aside the sin that so easily besets you (Hebrews 12:1)

19. Resist unto blood in striving against sin (Hebrews 12:4)

20. Know the good that you should do and do it (James 4:17)

21. Only do what is of faith (Romans 14:23)

22. See sin as exceedingly sinful (Romans 7:13; Exodus 20:3-17)

23. Daily read and obey the book of 1 John (1 John 2:1)

24. Study, learn, be taught, and obey God’s Ways (Psalm 51:13)

25. Stop forsaking the Lord (Isaiah 1:28)

26. Stop contradicting Christ (Hebrews 12:3)

27. Submit yourself to God (James 4:8)

28. Resist the devil (James 4:8)

29. Be born of God (1 John 5:18)

30. Keep yourself (1 John 5:18)

31. Commit to telling the truth, regardless of the consequence (Leviticus 6:3)

32. Live continually in love (Proverbs 10:12; James 5:20)

33. Break off sin and iniquity by showing mercy to the poor (Daniel 4:27)

34. Repent and be converted (Acts 3:19)

35. Don’t walk according to the course of this world (Ephesians 2:2)

36. Don’t walk according to satan (Ephesians 2:3)

37. Don’t live after the lusts of the flesh (Ephesians 2:3)

38. Don’t live after fulfilling the desires of the flesh (Ephesians 2:3)

39. Don’t live after fulfilling the desires of the mind (Ephesians 2:3)

40. Lay aside the sin which so easily besets you (Hebrews 12:1)

41. Look unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of your faith (Hebrews 12:2)

42. Consider Christ, that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself (Hebrews 12:3)

43. Don’t charge God foolishly (Job 1:22)

44. Put off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ (Colossians 2:11)

45. Don’t lay hands suddenly on anyone (1 Timothy 5:22)

46. Come out of the anti-Christ system (Revelation 18:4)

47. Obey the Gospel (1 Peter 4:17-18)

48. Marry your virgin (1 Corinthians 7:36)

49. Abide in Christ (1 John 3:6)

50. Destroy all ungodly people and their things out of your life (Deuteronomy 20:18)

51. Don’t cease to pray for people (1 Samuel 12:23)

52. Don’t fear and obey people more than you fear and obey God (1 Samuel 15:24-25)

53. Don’t speak a multitude of words (Proverbs 10:14)

54. Resist, don’t receive, cast down, foolish thoughts (Proverbs 24:9)

55. Ask counsel of God (Isaiah 30:1)

56. Allow the Holy Spirit to convince you of sin (John 16:7-11)

57. Obey your conscience telling you not to sin (John 8:9; Romans 9:1)

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