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In Episodes 1 and 2, I invited you to consider that God is always calling us near to experience

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his presence in the core of our being, and that there is a Greek word for our core, phrein.

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In this episode, we're going to look at the Greek word for sin and how that relates to

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God calling us near to his presence.

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What does sin mean to you?

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How do you feel when you think about sin?

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Hi, I'm Suzy Marvin.

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For a very long time, I thought sin was bad behavior or attitudes and thinking.

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And I felt discouraged.

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I was very grateful that Jesus died and rose so that my sins could be forgiven, but I really

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wanted what it took to not sin in the first place.

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Then I saw the Greek word for sin, which is hamartano.

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Ha is the negative, no.

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Martano comes from meros, which means portion.

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Sin literally means no portion.

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The Strong's Concordance Dictionary says this means to miss the mark and so not share

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in the prize or portion.

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That goes along with the Old Testament Hebrew definitions of sinning as missing and sin

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as an offense.

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My perspective changed when I considered that sin could mean no portion.

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In the Bible, the prodigal son asked his father for his portion, his inheritance.

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And Jesus said Mary had chosen the good part or portion, which would not be taken away

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from her.

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And in the Psalms, David wrote, Oh, God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

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And thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

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What does God is my portion or inheritance mean to you?

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And what about no portion?

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I'm thinking that God being my portion or inheritance is connection with him.

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And sin, no portion, is disconnection from him and the thinking, attitudes, and behavior

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that follow.

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You might want to consider these verses from that perspective.

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In Colossians 1, Paul writes his prayer for us, including verses 12 and 13, giving thanks

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to the father who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

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For he delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved

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son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

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Paul talks about sin in Romans 6.

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In verse 4, he says, we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that

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as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the father, so too we might walk

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in newness of life.

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Verse 11 says, therefore, consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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In Romans 14, 23, Paul says, whatever is not of faith is sin.

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James writes in chapter 4, verse 17, to the one who knows the right thing to do and does

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not do it, to him it is sin.

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I'm practicing trusting in the Lord with all my heart and not leaning on my own understanding.

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I'm giving up on my natural mind being able to grasp all of this, but Holy Spirit is calling

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me near to say yes to truths like these in the core of my being, my frame, where I can

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receive what I may not be able to understand.

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I'm trusting him to teach me what it means to be alive to the three, to belong to them,

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to live from their presence, and to reconnect my mind.

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Could it be that the answer to disconnected behavior is reconnected thinking, which comes

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from loving, intimate connection with God in the core of our being, our frame?

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In John 16, 12, and 13, Jesus says,

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Jesus said, I have many more things to say to you,

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but you cannot bear them now.

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But when he, the spirit of truth comes,

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he will guide you into all the truth.

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Holy Spirit will always be calling us near

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for a conversation in the core of our beings, our frames,

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about what newness of life and being alive to God

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and Christ Jesus mean to us in each moment.

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I look forward to reading anything you wish to share

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about this in the comment section below.

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Thank you.