Mills' notes from his sermon August 12th......

I love you Momma, more than you know. Really it's more than words. It's a love that is only a shadow of the Love of our God, but it is still so immense.

Here is the Sermon notes I give Aubi to help translate. It is nice because it gives you time to think about what you are going to say next as he is translating.

Mills

Teaching for 8-12-2007 "The Burden of Sin"-Mills Snell
-Giving Thanks for opportunity to teach and reference to responsibility of teaching. Gabe's preaching on James 3.
-Prayer before diving into God's Word. (Aubi, next time I preach, if you let me again, I want to follow up with this verse.) "See what this Godly sorrow has produced in you: What earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter. -Gabriel taught last week on two kinds of Wisdom. Heavenly and Earthly Wisdom. We are going to look at
two kinds of sorrow. Sorrow is -- "A feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment or other misfortune."

--2 Corinthians 7:11 "Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. "

-This sorrow we are talking about is in relation to the sin in our lives. What is the difference between Godly and worldly sorrow? (I may repeat this a few times). The Answer.... Are we sad because we were caught in sin or are we sad because our sins have hurt our God? Worldly sorrow is when we are sad because we were caught in the act of living a sinful life. Godly sorrow is when you are so broken by the fact that your sins hurt God that you turn to Him. Our sins hurt God because it forces Him
to turn His face from us. (I'll do a demonstration with 2 chairs) Habakkuk 1:13 says " The eyes of the Lord are too pure to look on evil" We must understand the evilness and weight of our sin; if we do not, we cannot understand how it hurts God.

- "Godly sorrow brings repentance" When we are broken by the fact that our sins hurt God, and are filled with Godly sorrow, we repent. Repentance is a complete turn in the opposite direction. We were walking in our sin..... And then turn completely around! Completely!

- "That leads to salvation" Here God tells us that repentance leads to salvation. Salvation does not come before repentance. We must repent, and only then can we be saved. Salvation can only be attained when we realize that there is nothing that we can do to win God's favor. We must be covered by Jesus' blood in order to gain salvation. No amount of good deeds can win over salvation. (I'll give some examples)
- "and leaves no regret" The focus of this teaching is this. So many people have achieved salvation, not by their own strength, but because of Christ, and they still regret. The problem is that we think some of our sins are in a way "too big for God". This is not in the bible. Jesus' death covers all sins. As Christians we don't fully live out this verse, because we still live with the guilt of our sins. This should not be! If we lay our sins at the foot of the cross, which is repentance (turning
away from our sin), then we must lay them all down. Don't be so prideful as to think that one thing you may have done can be kept from the Lord. No sin is big enough to outweigh the sacrifice of our Jesus.

- "Worldly sorrow brings death" . In Paul's letter to the church in Rome he says, "The wages of sin is death". Worldly sorrow will not end in salvation. If you are simply sorry that you got caught in your sin, and not that your sin hurts God, then your fate will be death. Paul talks about it twice here, Worldly sorrow is a sin, and the wages of sin is death. Worldly sorrow will leave you regretting every sin you ever made. Satan will use this as a foot hold in moving you away from God. Don't
let the guilt of past sins keep you from repentance and salvation. We have freedom in the cross. We are literally free from the burden of sin.

These two types of sorrow were fresh in Paul's mind. Look at what just happened. Peter sinned, he denied Christ 3 times, and lied about being one of Jesus' followers. Judas betrayed Jesus with a kiss, for 30 pieces of silver. Peter felt sorry that his sins hurt God. He repented, was accepted back in the body of believers and moved on. Judas though, was "seized by remorse" Matthew 27 tells us. He was sorry that Jesus was condemned, and then he gave back the money and hung himself. What is the difference
in Judas and Peter? Judas was not sorry that his sins hurt God, he was sad that he got caught, that Jesus got hurt. He didn't think about the consequences of his sin. Think about the consequences of your sins.

(I'll summarize the verse a little bit).

What is your attitude towards the sin in your life? Are you sorry that your sins hurt God, or are you sorry you got caught in them?

I'll close in prayer.