{"id":3440,"date":"2012-06-11T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T15:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2012-06-11T09:31:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T15:31:04","slug":"the-god-centeredness-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-god-centeredness-of-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"The God-Centeredness of Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yesterday&#8217;s sermon, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/Date\/JUN_10_2012.php\">The Heart of the Gospel: What God Requires, God Provides<\/a>,&#8221; we explored the wonder of God&#8217;s provision for us in the gospel. Through Christ, God provided for the payment of our sin and the righteousness that he requires for\u00c2\u00a0reconciliation\u00c2\u00a0with him.<\/p>\n<p>Critical to grasping this as good news, is a proper understanding of the nature of our problem as sinners. For this, John Piper has a helpful definition of sin in his book, &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Let-Nations-Glad-2nd-Edition\/dp\/080102613X\/desesprichur-20\">Let the Nations be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions<\/a>.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is sin?<\/p>\n<p>It is the glory of God not honored.<br \/>\nThe holiness of God not reverenced.<br \/>\nThe greatness of God not admired.<br \/>\nThe power of God not praised.<br \/>\nThe truth of God not sought.<br \/>\nThe wisdom of God not esteemed.<br \/>\nThe beauty of God not treasured.<br \/>\nThe goodness of God not savored.<br \/>\nThe faithfulness of God not trusted.<br \/>\nThe commandments of God not obeyed.<br \/>\nThe justice of God not respected.<br \/>\nThe wrath of God not feared.<br \/>\nThe grace of God not cherished.<br \/>\nThe presence of God not prized.<br \/>\nThe person of God not loved.<\/p>\n<p>That is sin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yesterday&#8217;s sermon, &#8220;The Heart of the Gospel: What God Requires, God Provides,&#8221; we explored the wonder of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-god-centeredness-of-sin\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}