Strategy for Battling Personal Sin
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Introduction
Introduction
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
What is do you think is our biggest enemy with battling sin and temptation?
The devil is doing what he is expected to do!
It’s us that gives in to it!! So what is really our biggest enemy?
There are many struggles that we will have:
addiction, a habit, or a choice that you constantly make
maybe its an insecurity
or are you a worrier, anxious
I THANK GOD FOR VERSE 14!
Romans 6:14 “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.”
You CAN have victory over your sin!!!
The Road to Victory
The Road to Victory
The Biblical Strategy for battling personal sin in found in 3 words in Romans 6.
KNOW
RECKON
YIELD
Lets pull some truths out of these words!
KNOW
we find this word in verses 3, 6, and 9
Romans 6:3 “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?”
Romans 6:6 “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.”
Romans 6:9 “Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.”
Knowing is not based on feeling, but on a TRUTH
The Truth of IDENTIFICATION
Galatians 2:20 “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
We can only IDENTIFY as a Christian because of His death on the Cross
He died for me, and I died with Him!!
Paul said he died daily!
It’s a daily choice to die with Christ! Identify with Christ EVERY DAY!!!
The Truth of EMANCIPATION (The act or process of freeing a person or group from slavery)
When Jesus Died on the Cross or our sins, He made a way for us to be saved
Not only did it SAVE us from our sins but it gave us POWER over our sin!!
We can Live in freedom from sin because we are not under sin but under GRACE!!
The Truth of SANCTIFICATION- (SET APART)
His death and resurrection gives us the ability to live HOLY in and UNHOLY world!
**WE MUST KNOW THESE TRUTHS TO HAVE VICTORY OVER PERSONAL SIN**
RECKON (put on one’s account/to count it as so)
Romans 6:11 “Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
When Paul says “LIKEWISE RECKON YE ALSO” here he is saying do as I am doing: Believe the truths that God has spoken about identification, emancipation, and sanctification.
Reckoning leads to obedience every time!
When you battle your personal sin you will eventually either obey your lust or obey the Lord!
you are either counting what God has said about identification, emancipation, and sanctification as so in your life or you aren’t.
you can BELIEVE all these truths, but until you RECKON yourself (count it as so) it will always be easier to submit to the lust rather than to the Lord
YIELD (relinquishing our will to the Lord)
What does the Lord want us to yield to him?
Our members:
mind, mouth, eyes, feet, and hands
These members can cause us the most trouble
Micheal Jordan illustration
When we yield to him our members to his control, He gives us the victory!!
The Results of Victory
The Results of Victory
What happens if we start living out the words that we find in Romans 6?
God gives us favor
Genesis 39:21 “But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.”
This doesn’t mean we wont endure hardship and difficulties but we will have God’s favor!
He will give us what we don’t deserve!
I would rather have God’s grace hovering over me than sin!!!
God gives us freedom
freedom from sin comes when we live in obedience to God
freedom says you’re not a slave to sin!
The devil shamed us but Jesus Saved us!
The devil wants to limit our life but Jesus wants to give us Life Abundant!
God gives us fruitfulness
Righteous living gives us purpose and production
I want my life to count for Christ
time is short
if you want your life to count for Christ, live for Jesus today!
Reasons for Missed Victory
Reasons for Missed Victory
The Lord has a roadmap to victory, so why do so many Christians never experience the promised victory??
Lies of the Foe
He has been a liar from the beginning
if you believe the devil when he lies to you saying:
your not good enough
you cant
you’re only going to fail again
BELIEVING THESE LIES IS A SURE WAY TO FAIL!!!
THE DEVIL IS A LIAR BUT JESUS IS A LIBERATOR!!!
Lust of the Flesh
Sin is appealing but its only pleasurable in the moment and for a moment
it only brings remorse and consequences
we live in a feel good society
the problem with that is it gives you the mentality that if it feels good it must be good
the feeling will rule your life!!
LET JESUS RULE YOUR LIFE NOT A GOOD FEELING!
Lukewarmness in their Faith
They are saved, but something else or someone else means more to them than the Lord!
ALL THESE THINGS CAN BE SUMMED UP IN LUKEWARMNESS
WE NEED CHRISTIANS WHO KNOW GOD’S TRUTH, RECKON IT TO BE SO, AND YIELD TO CHRIST ALL OF THIER MEMBERS!!!
WILL THAT BE YOU?