HAs anyone seen my monster II

Review last week

1. A Monster is living in you still.

20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin (the Monster) living in me that does it.

Out of control

making me a prisoner of the law of sin (monster) at work within my members Addicted, captured by sin, or being controlled by the monster.*

2. The battle is for your mind.

V:5-7 Have their minds-set (to have a certain mind set)

Mindset: Def: (postoj, přístup ) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations [syn: mentality, outlook, mindset]

How is your mind set?

On what you natural man (the Monster) wants

Those controlled by the sinful nature (The Monster) cannot please God * On what your spirit man wants
the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace

3. The ONLY way to destroy him is to slowly starve him of his 'food source.'

HULK Movie

The movie starts with a scientist in a Laboratory and he is working on a medicine to heal sicknesses quickly and to give super human strength. (To be like Gods)

The Father has been commanded not to experiment on humans (eat from the tree), but he is overcome by the desire for success that he tries the serum on himself.

Shortly after that his wife becomes pregnant and he finds out that the serum has altered his DNA and was passed onto his son. #1 Intro:

Bruce Banner’s Father (Adam) injected himself, with something that was carried on to his son (us). It was the monster (The sin nature).

Romans 5: 12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned—

He begins to try to find a cure for his son and the organization finds out about his experiment on humans and throws him out. #2 the Cure:

He is afraid and wants to spare his son the suffering and tries to kill him. An accident happens and his wife is killed instead, he ends up in prison for 30 years and the little boy goes to an orphanage and is later adopted into a family. He has a new name and thinks his father and mother are dead.

The boy grows up knowing that something is different, but doesn’t know what it is. He actually ends up becoming a scientist too and studies to work in the same area as his Father did.

One day an accident happens in the Laboratory and he is exposed to a large dose of Gamma rays

(the Law). Normally this would kill a person but he does not die.

The monster was awakened.

The law was given to help, like this experiment that they were working on was to heal the sick quickly.

Ro 5:13 for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come. NIV

He actually becomes stronger and healthier( for a while). But he notices that something else inside of him has become stronger too. THE MONSTER.

Romans 7:15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin (The Monster) living in me. 18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin (the Monster) living in me that does it. 21 So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil (The Monster) is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

#3 the Monster in the Mirror

From this point on whenever someone makes him angry he loses control and is transformed into the Hulk. A giant angry monster. The more that people attack him and try to control him, the larger he grows and the angrier he becomes.

9 For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin (the Monster) living in me that does it. 21 So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil (The Monster) is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

#4 the monster grows

The one that loved him in the movie, his girlfriend was the only one with a solution. She said leave him alone and he will calm down. Separate from him and he will change back. Love was the only thing that could get through his anger. #5 Stop feeding the Monster, show mercy to the man

Back off and let him be and he would calm down
The food that the Monster (sin) eats is the law. Trying to control the monster only brought him to life and made him stronger.

Till the law was given the sin was not deposited into a persons account. * But Death still happened.

Ro 5:13 for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come. NIV

Adam to Moses – Death reigned, but sin was not placed in a person’s account

Moses to Jesus – The Law was in affect, Death Reigned and sin was placed into your account.

Jesus till now – We can choose to live in the flesh and continue like before or we can walk in the newness of life. We can walk separated from the control of the monster.

· sin is not taken into account when there is no law.