okay verse number four whosoever committed sin transgresseth also the law
for sin is the transgression of the law and he know that he was manifested to
take away our sins and in him is no sin so what does this mean in
verse number four well first and foremost this basically
debunks this whole saying that you know mainstream christianity likes
to say where it's like well what sin for you is not necessarily sin for me
and what sin for me is not necessarily sin for you wrong
sin is the transgression of the law folks and whatever god says is sinful
for you it's sinful for me too because if god
says it's a transgression of the law that's what it is we never want to go
down this path of teaching for doctrines the commandments of men
and say well this is sinful and you know this is sinful and
you know doing this is sinful when you can never point to a verse in the bible
that specifically says this is a transgression of the law you
understand but number but also what it's really
doing right here in verse number four is it's building up to what he's going to
talk about in the next in the next couple verses now when he
says whosoever committed sin transgresseth also the law for sin is the
transgression of the law you got to keep in mind that
when we sin it's not our spirit that sins
when we sin it's not our flesh it's not our it's not our excuse me when we say
it's not our spirit it's not the new man it's not the son of god
when we sin it's only our flesh that's doing that
okay so who's the only part of our being that transgresses the law
our flesh why well the bible says in roman chapter 8
that the flesh is not subject to the law of god
neither indeed can be so your flesh cannot subject itself to the law of god
it will never do that that's why it's foolish to say you're just
gonna you will yourself to obey god you're just gonna
make your body just obey the lord your your flesh doesn't want to do those
things you know in order for you to obey god
you gotta be filled with the spirit you gotta walk in the spirit
because we delight in the law of god after the inward man
the flesh does not desire to be under the laws of god
but the spirit does the spirit desires to fulfill the law of god
it delights the law of god you know your flesh doesn't want to hear preaching
your flesh doesn't want to hear hard preaching you know what wants to hear
hard preaching is your spirit you know when you come to church and you
hear a sermon on doctrine or your sermon a
topical sermon on the bible you know your spirit loves that and you
say well you know i don't really delight in that then you probably walk it in the
flesh you're probably walking in the flesh
but folks if you're walking in the spirit you
won't despise prophesying even if i'm preaching against you like
are you preaching against me yes anytime someone's coming to me and
said you're preaching against me i'll be like yep
is that what i'm supposed to be doing when we come to church
yeah but you're talking specifically about me yeah i'm glad you know that
so change get right with the lord then you know
i won't tell him all that but i want to
but isn't it true and you know what the spirit
loves the truth it loves the bible it loves the truth
now don't go around asking people so did you like that or not are you in the
flesh or in the spirit you know examine yourself if you feel
like i'm stepping on your toes and you don't like what's being said
hey don't kill the messenger it's just showing you that you're probably in the
flesh and here's how you correct that you
just repent of that and then you delight in the law of god
after the inward man