{"content":[{"text":"Jason Upchurch - 1 Cor. 6:9-11 - No Vice Is Too Great For Jesus - Part 2","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.062163,"width":0.612261,"height":0.016556000000000008}},{"text":"We continue this morning through this vice list that Paul gives us. There are many vice lists in the Bible - \n basically they are lists of sins that are easily recognizable. These aren’t necessarily the worst of the worst sins, \n they’re just common sins.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.094117,"width":0.8821030000000001,"height":0.046484}},{"text":"And I want to remind us from last week, the point here is not to simply clobber people over the head with this \n list of sins. It’s not a list just to rant about sin. There is a place for simply showing people that certain things are \n sins, but that’s not the primary reason for this list here.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.154723,"width":0.8882140000000001,"height":0.046485}},{"text":"This list is here as part of Paul’s encouragement to believers who have been washed and justiﬁed and \n sanctiﬁed to solve their ﬁnancial disputes in house. Don’t go to unbelievers in the legal system. Why not? \n Because unbelievers are deﬁned by sin. You used to be deﬁned by sin, but no more. Now you’re in Christ, \n don’t go back to the pagans to resolve things that should be resolved in the church.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.21533,"width":0.8476460000000001,"height":0.06163500000000002}},{"text":"And he gives this list as a reminder of what God had saved the Corinthians from. Vs. 11 is really the controlling \n verse of all these sins: Read","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.291961,"width":0.8852479999999999,"height":0.03297}},{"text":"And so we are working through these sins through the lens of grace. What can the grace of God wash away? \n The answer is that for anyone who trusts in Jesus and turns from their sin, the grace of God can forgive \n absolutely every single sin. There is no sin so greater than the grace of God.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.339067,"width":0.87317,"height":0.04648399999999997}},{"text":"If there’s a sin you struggle to trust has really been forgiven, know that in Christ it’s gone. And if there’s \n someone in your life you think is too far gone to ever come to Jesus, don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. God loves \n saving the worst of sinners because that’s how his grace shines the brightest.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.399673,"width":0.886614,"height":0.046484000000000025}},{"text":"Remember Jesus’s words: He who has been forgiven little, loves little. But he who has been forgiven much \n what? Loves much. Those who have been forgiven much usually shine the brightest in the Kingdom where \n grace rules.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.460279,"width":0.85356,"height":0.04648400000000008}},{"text":"With that, let’s keep looking at this list. And then we’ll unpack what all those terms mean - washed, sanctiﬁed, \n justiﬁed - at the end.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.520885,"width":0.879928,"height":0.031332999999999944}},{"text":"1) The grace of Jesus washes away thieves. Read 10 \n So thieves don’t make it into the Kingdom of God. Theft is the wrongful taking of someone’s property. It’s a \n violation of the 8th commandment: you shall not steal.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.567213,"width":0.855663,"height":0.046873000000000054}},{"text":"And this includes property, money, possessions. But it also includes all kinds of other things in our day as well \n including intellectual property and ideas.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.628208,"width":0.880575,"height":0.031333000000000055}},{"text":"Plagiarism is huge these days. Plagiarism is usually pawning oﬀ someone else’s writing as your own, whether \n intentional or not. I had a professor in Bible college who wrote a commentary and a year after the publication \n the publisher pulled the commentary because he wasn’t thorough in his citation of other sources. He didn’t \n intentionally copy them. He wrote a lengthy and heartfelt apology. But he didn’t give credit where credit was \n due. I know that he’s in the Kingdom, but nowadays this can be easy to do unintentionally.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.673663,"width":0.874841,"height":0.07678699999999994}},{"text":"A thief takes God’s place in the bigger scheme of things. God gives and he takes away. And so they are, in \n some sense, taking the place of God and deciding who gets and who receives at the expense of others.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.764572,"width":0.853615,"height":0.031332999999999944}},{"text":"Interestingly, there are several places in the NT where God speciﬁcally describes his coming in terms of how a \n thief operates. Just to be clear: Jesus is not a thief and is not sinning. But how Jesus destroyed Jerusalem in \n 70 AD and how is described at his second coming are described as how a thief operates.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.810027,"width":0.87982,"height":0.04648399999999997}},{"text":"Matt. 25:43-44: But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was \n coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also \n must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.871506,"width":0.888591,"height":0.046873000000000054}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}