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• I. The Documentation to Keep Us From Practicing
  Sin, v1a

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1. Chapter 1 Fellowship with Christ and His
followers,
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2. Chapter 1 Walking in Light and not Darkness
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3. Chapter 1 The cleansing Blood of Jesus
Christ,
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4. Chapter 1 Owning up to the possibility of
sinning,
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5. Chapter 1 Confessing When sin has occurred.
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6. Chapters 2-5 all helping the believer to deal
with the problem of sin and overcoming.
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• II. The Advocacy of Jesus Christ should we get
  entangled with sin, vs. 1b

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• 1. Sin is insubordination to God.
• 2. Sin insults the suffering of Christ.
• 3. Sin suggests that we have the nature of
  Satan rather than God.
• 4. Sin jeopardizes our assurance of salvation.
• 5. Sin can put you beyond the reach of hope.

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• 1. Sin destroys testimony
• 2. Sin destroys relationships
• 3. Sin weakens the believer
• 4. Sin causes illness in a believer,
• 5. Sin causes death to a believer
• 6. Sin grieves and quenches the Holy Spirit,
• 7. Sin has a haunting effect.

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• III. What Is Christs Case on Our Behalf? Vs. 2

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• A. Jesus Christ is the Sin-Offering
•              i. For then must he often have
  suffered since the foundation of the world but
  now once in the end of the world hath he appeared
  to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
  (Heb 926 AV)         

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•   ii.      For he hath made him to be sin for
  us, who knew no sin that we might be made the
  righteousness of God in him. (2Co 521 AV)
• iii. For what the law could not do, in that it
  was weak through the flesh, God sending his own
  Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,
  condemned sin in the flesh (Ro 83 AV)

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• B. Jesus Christ is the Sin-Offering for the
  World.

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•           i.There is only One Provision and means
  to satisfy Gods holiness Christs sin
  offering.
•           ii. There is only One Way of Salvation
  to Jew and Gentile
•           iii. Jews, Muslims, Catholics,
  Protestants, - all must come to Christ for
  salvation.
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• iv.For the believer He has been
  pardoned by Jesus Christ he must of necessity
  bring every thought to the obedience of Jesus
  Christ.
• v. He cannot deal with sin on his own
  Only Christ can answer for his sin. The believer
  must depend on Christ for his Sanctification in
  the same manner he came to Christ for salvation
  by faith.