Does It Matter? Tilly And Irvette
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REVIVING THE SPARK
Study Skits Of Biblical Truths For Youth
Irvette: What a message this morning totally bad!
Tilly: Yeah, Irvette.
Irvette: Remember what he said about the importance of doing good works?
Tilly: (Looks at her hand) That part got all smeared out.
Irvette: Tilly, do you always take notes on your hand?
Tilly: It's a tip I learned from another kid in drama class in case I forget my lines. I've since found other uses for it like taking notes in church, or helping me to remember the answers to test questions at school.
Irvette: Wait a minute. Isn't that last part cheating?
Tilly: So?
Irvette: Cheating is wrong.
Tilly: Remember what our youth pastor taught us? All our sins are forgiven past, present, and future. All we need is to believe in Christ, and we're completely under his grace. Right?
Irvette: (Reservedly) Yeah.
Tilly: So he forgives my cheating, too. I figure it's okay as long as I'm not hurting anybody else.
Irvette: It still doesn't seem right.
Tilly: Irvette, chill.
Tilly And Irvette
Questions to consider:
1. If we have believed in Christ and are thereby pardoned from our sins, do we then have license to sin, knowing that there will be no consequences?
2. Is it okay to sin as long as we think we're not hurting someone else?
The key point:
We need to be delivered from the mindset that considers the doing of sin to be advantageous. Sin is not advantageous.
First of all, there are two main consequences of sin: the temporal and the eternal. Sin always has its temporal, earthly consequences. Grace does not cover those consequences. If you cheat on a test at school and get caught, you must pay the price. If you don't get caught, you'll cheat again until you do get caught. Either way, you didn't properly learn the subject matter, which also may come back to haunt you.
Secondly, there are eternal consequences to sin, even for the Christian who is under grace. God has a plan for our lives. The more we indulge in sin, the less we will know and do that plan. In the next life, there will be great loss of reward.
Finally, the most miserable people on earth are those who have Christ, but who still choose to live in sin. Sin is an enslavement that destroys our faith, our self-image, our joy, our freedom, our ability to discern, and on and on. To walk in fellowship with Christ is an experience of freedom, but sin is a cruel taskmaster.
Tilly: Yeah, Irvette.
Irvette: Remember what he said about the importance of doing good works?
Tilly: (Looks at her hand) That part got all smeared out.
Irvette: Tilly, do you always take notes on your hand?
Tilly: It's a tip I learned from another kid in drama class in case I forget my lines. I've since found other uses for it like taking notes in church, or helping me to remember the answers to test questions at school.
Irvette: Wait a minute. Isn't that last part cheating?
Tilly: So?
Irvette: Cheating is wrong.
Tilly: Remember what our youth pastor taught us? All our sins are forgiven past, present, and future. All we need is to believe in Christ, and we're completely under his grace. Right?
Irvette: (Reservedly) Yeah.
Tilly: So he forgives my cheating, too. I figure it's okay as long as I'm not hurting anybody else.
Irvette: It still doesn't seem right.
Tilly: Irvette, chill.
Tilly And Irvette
Questions to consider:
1. If we have believed in Christ and are thereby pardoned from our sins, do we then have license to sin, knowing that there will be no consequences?
2. Is it okay to sin as long as we think we're not hurting someone else?
The key point:
We need to be delivered from the mindset that considers the doing of sin to be advantageous. Sin is not advantageous.
First of all, there are two main consequences of sin: the temporal and the eternal. Sin always has its temporal, earthly consequences. Grace does not cover those consequences. If you cheat on a test at school and get caught, you must pay the price. If you don't get caught, you'll cheat again until you do get caught. Either way, you didn't properly learn the subject matter, which also may come back to haunt you.
Secondly, there are eternal consequences to sin, even for the Christian who is under grace. God has a plan for our lives. The more we indulge in sin, the less we will know and do that plan. In the next life, there will be great loss of reward.
Finally, the most miserable people on earth are those who have Christ, but who still choose to live in sin. Sin is an enslavement that destroys our faith, our self-image, our joy, our freedom, our ability to discern, and on and on. To walk in fellowship with Christ is an experience of freedom, but sin is a cruel taskmaster.
