The Power of Sin Has Been Broken
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Scripture:
For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 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.
Look at verse 6:
Paul writes that our old self was crucified with Him (NASB). The Message Bible says “Our old way of life was nailed to the cross with Christ.”
We must believe and have faith that Jesus did a wonderful and great work for us. When he died, he nailed our sins to the cross.
Do you understand what Jesus did for you? Every issue, every bad habit, every addiction, every sin, Jesus took it…..he who knew no sin, took on the sins of the world and he took our sins and nailed it to the cross. Is there anyone in here that can tell the Lord “Thank You!” Just tell someone “He nailed my it…..to the cross!”
That means when your flesh wants to act up, when the devil tries to tempt you, when the world tries to pressure you…..you need to declare in your mind, you need to declare to the devil, you need to declare to the world……that Jesus made a way for me…..he took my sin and nailed it to the cross.
I don’t have to give in, I don’t have to say it, I don’t have to do it, Jesus died to give me power!
Jesus said you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you. It is not just limited to the power to witness, but is inclusive in the fact that Jesus through his death, resurrection and by the power of the Holy Ghost has given us power so as Paul says “that sin might lose its power in our lives” this is what it means when Paul says in verse 6 “that henceforth (from now on) we should not serve sin or that we should not be servants or slaves to sin.
Verse 7 then says: “For he that is dead is freed from sin.” The question we have to ask ourselves is “have we died”….sounds like a foolish question. Paul isn’t talking about a physical death, he is talking about dying to sin, dying to a life that opposes God, dying to things that are against the will of God. Then the question is “Have you died with Christ, because if you have truly died with Christ we should be set free from the power of sin.”
How do I die with Christ?
By believing that Jesus died and rose again.
By believing that we have been made right with God by our faith in his work. Because we do not have the power to make ourselves right….otherwise there would have been no need for Jesus to come and die for us.
By believing that through the blood of Jesus we receive remission of sin.
We die by repenting. To repent first of all means to think differently. Because when you think differently, you’re going to act differently. To repent means to undergo a change in frame of mind and feeling. The way I’ve been living has been wrong.
To repent means to make a change….see some of you are thinking I’m talking about the unsaved…..but I’m talking to you! Because everyone needs to repent! Some of us we still talking, we still doing things that God is not pleased with, we still bitting and devouring one another, still thinking evil of one another…..and God says you need to change your mind. From the front door to the back door….we need to change our mind!
We have the wrong principles, when you are not obeying God, when you are not living for the Lord, when you are doing whatever you feel like doing with no governance and no control, when you are free to sin and live in sin….your principles are wrong and they need to change! Your principles and your practice (what you do need to change).
If you lie, that practice needs to change, if you gossip and are a busy body, that practice needs to change, if you think evil of your brother or your sister, that practice needs to change, if you have an uncontrollable urge to drink, to smoke, to do drugs, to have sex outside the bounds of marriage, to have intimate relations with the same sex, to cause division and strife……..YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR PRINCIPLES AND YOUR PRACTICE……YOU NEED TO REPENT!
YOU LOVE TO DRINK, YOU LOVE TO COMMIT WHOREDOMS, YOU LOVE TO BE REBELLIOUS AND DISOBEDIENT, YOU LOVE TO CAUSE CONFUSION…..YOUR PRINCIPLES NEED TO CHANGE….YOUR PRINCIPLE SHOULD BE TO HATE WHAT GOD HATES AND LOVE WHAT GOD LOVES. AND IF HE HATES SIN….YOU SHOULD HATE SIN.
To repent is to amend or make amends with God, it means to get right with God it means you need to come to a place where you hate your past sins. And until you hate the sin that you love……you will NEVER GET DELIVERED!
To repent means to seek a pardon from God.
Major Point:
Anyone who has been imprisoned, locked in jail on charges and is given a pardon or amnesty, if they are in their right mind….they are going to try to do all they can to not be bound again. Whatever action or crime they did to get them locked up, if they are in their right mind…..they are going to avoid it like a plague.
That is what repentance is. If God delivered me from alcohol, then I’m not going play with fire and surround myself with it or be around people with it. You won’t catch me sitting at the bar on a Friday night…….I don’t want to be no where near it. Because I remember how bound I was and the Lord set me free!!!
Not going to surround myself around people that all they do is talk about other people and spread rumors, tell half stories, are busy-bodies in other peoples matters….because God delivered me and I can’t go back!
I CAN’T GO BACK BECAUSE JESUS DIED FOR ME AND WHEN HE WAS NAILED TO THE CROSS THE POWER OF SIN OVER MY LIFE HAS BEEN BROKEN!!! I BELIEVE IT…..I RECEIVE IT…..I PROFESS IT……THE POWER OF SIN IS BROKEN!!!
Is there anybody in here this morning that has this confession that “I CAN’T GO BACK!!!” GOD HAS BEEN TO GOOD TO ME!!!! WHEN I COULDN’T GET LOOSE…HE LOOSED ME…WHEN I COULDN’T LET GO….HE HELPED AND FREED ME……WHEN I COULDN’T HELP MYSELF……HE GAVE ME THE HELP THAT I NEEDED…..WHEN I WAS IN DARKNESS…..HE BROUGHT ME INTO THE LIGHT……AND I CAN’T GO BACK!!!!
HE WHO PUTTETH HIS HAND TO THE PLOW AND LOOKETH BACK IS NOT FIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD!!! I CAN’T GET TO WHERE I NEED TO GO IF I KEEP LOOKING BACK. I GOTTA KEEP MY EYES ON JESUS…..I HAVE HEAVEN IN MY VIEW!!!
Paul said in another scripture:
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,
What is it that Paul says he hasn’t achieved yet?
To fully know Christ (verse 8)
Discarding his own righteousness or self righteousness, Paul said “I want to be found in him, not having my own righteousness, discarding all his knowledge of the law and his strict adherence to it, disregarding his reputation and his inclusion in the sect of the Pharisee. All for the sake of knowing Christ all for the sake of following Christ.
Now comes the question……what are you willing to give up to follow Christ? Are you willing to give up everything?
Paul said all that I knew, all that I possesed I count it as dung, I count it as garbage so that I could gain Christ and become one with him.
He said…..I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith.
Then he said “That I may know him. Is there anyone in here that wants to know him? That really wants to know him, and the power of his resurrection…..I need to experience the mighty power that raised Jesus from the dead.
In another portion of scripture Paul says in Romans 8:11
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
I’VE GOT TO KNOW HIM AND I WANT TO EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION!!! AND PAUL SAID “THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERINGS.” I want to suffer with him, and share in his death. Because the scripture says:
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Paul then says in Phil 3:10 “being made conformable unto his death.” that means to share in his death….for if we suffer with Him…..we will reign with Him! And the godly…..the scripture says, shall suffer persecution……but that’s alright…..it’s going to be alright after while! One day, I’m going to walk with Him, one day I’m going to talk with Him, one day, I’m going to see Him face to face and see Him as he really is, one day, I’m going to have victory just like him.
I want to close with the last few verse of the text in Philippians. Paul then says “If be any means.” Are you willing to do whatever it takes to make it in. If you’re willing to do whatever it takes to make it in, testify to somebody and tell them…..IIIIII GOTTA MAKE IT IN……WHATEVER IT TAKES….I’VE GOT TO MAKE IT IN. IF I HAVE TO CRY SOMETIMES, IF I HAVE TO SUFFER SOMETIMES, IF I HAVE TO SUFFER LOSS, I MIGHT LOSE SOME FRIENDS, I MIGHT LOSE SOME FAMILY MEMBERS, I MAY BE TALKED ABOUT, THEY MAY SCANDALIZE MY NAME, THEY MAY DO SOME HURTFUL THINGS TO MAY, MAY EXPERIENCE PHYSICAL ALTERCATIONS AND THREATS……..BUT I GOTTA MAKE IT IN!!!
BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY! I MIGHT ATTAIN UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD…….WHEN THAT TRUMP SOUNDS AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST RAISE…..I GOTTA GET UP FROM THE GRAVE…..I GOTTA MAKE THE RAPTURE.
AND IN ORDER TO MAKE THE RAPTURE…..I’VE GOT TO LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT AND EVERY SIN THAT SO EASILY BESET US……AND I GOTTA RUN. TELL YOUR NEIGHBOR…..IT’S RUNNING TIME!!! I’M GOING TO RUN ON TO SEE WHAT THE END IS GOING TO BE!
ENCOURAGE YOUR NEIGHBOR WITH JUST ONE WORD AND SAY “RUN!!!” RUN THIS RACE WITH PATIENCE…..IT MEANS THAT YOU GOTTA TO ENDURE…..YOU’VE GOT TO HANG ON IN THERE!!!
PAUL then says….”Not as though I had already attained.” We’re not there yet. He then says “either were already perfect.” May have been doing some good things and right things but I’m not perfect…..not yet at least. I’m still human, I still have battles to fight, still gotta deny my flesh, still got rebuke myself, still got to judge myself…..I don’t need you to judge me. I gotta judge myself.
Paul says “But I follow after……I’m chasing after it….I’m on the brink of it…..if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. I want to possess perfection…..so I gotta chase after it…..it means you gotta put forth effort. I want to do it because Christ chased after me! I said Christ chased after me……maybe you don’t understand.
Jesus pursued you and you wasn’t even worthy of it!
But in order for me to gain perfection, in order for me run this race, in order for me to attain the resurrection of the dead…..closing this out and summing this up.
In order for me to walk in the freedom that Christ has provided for……in order for the power of sin to be broken in my life.
First you gotta realize that you haven’t arrived yet….PAUL SAID….”Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended.”
HE IS TESTIFYING…..YOU OUGHT TO TESTIFY TO YOUR TO SOMEONE AND TELL THEM…..NEIGHBOR “I’M NOT ONE THAT HAS APPREHENDED YET, I HAVE NOT ACHIEVED PERFECTION.”
THEN PAUL SAYS……”but this one thing I do” I GOTTA FOCUS ON THIS ONE THING……..TELL YOUR NEIGHBOR….WE GOTTA FOCUS ON THIS ONE THING.”
What are we focusing on “FORGETTING THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEFORE……what Paul is really saying is “I GOTTA FORGET THOSE THINGS THAT ARE BEHIND ME…..GOTTA FORGET THOSE THINGS IN MY PAST……I GOTTA KISS MY PAST GOODBYE AND I GOTTA LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT LIES AHEAD!”
I PRESS TOWARD THE MARK…..DEVIL GONNA TRY BUT I GOTTA PRESS, ENEMIES GONNA TRY ME, BUT I GOTTA PRESS, BODY GONNA GET SICK BUT I’M GOING TO PRESS, WORLD GONNA HATE ME BUT I’M GOING TO PRESS……MAY GET HARD SOMETIMES BUT I’M GOING TO PRESS.
I’VE GOT TO MAKE IT TO THE END OF THIS RACE….FOR THE RACE….IS NOT GIVEN TO THE SWIFT OR THE STRONG BUT TO THE ONE WHO ENDURETH UNTIL THE END…..YOU’VE GOTTA HANG ON IN THERE!!! SPEAK A WORD OF FAITH AND POWER TO SOMEONE’S SPIRIT AND SAY “ENDURE”!!!! Say it again with power and authority….they may need that encouragement……grab them by the hand and squeeze their hand and say “ENDURE”.
THERE IS A HEAVENLY PRIZE THAT AWAITS US! THE VICTORY HAS ALREAD BEEN WON…IT WAS WON ON CALVARY....WHEN JESUS BROKE THE POWER OF SIN OVER OUR LIVES…..NOW ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS RUN THIS RACE!