Such Were Some Of You
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You’re not who you were
You’re not who you were
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Cor: 6
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Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
The world is divided into two groups:
Those who are saved, and those who aren’t. The Bible pulls no punches in laying out the behavior that God finds unacceptable.
The Bible also makes it clear that once you are saved, your past does not just disappear. The Apostle Paul calls out the church, saying “this list? Yeah, that used to be you.”
That word is key. He says “such WERE some of you”. Not “are some”, but WERE. Past tense. Why does he emphasize this?
Because the devil will do his best to use your past against you. “You can’t change. You’ll also be that person. You might as well give up because once a ____ always a ____”. Sound familiar?
Doctor offered me a treatment at the age of 16 - said it would never end
Cancer patients are always cancer patients
Alcoholics are never considered “cured” by the world
It’s a lie of the devil that you can never change.
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What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 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. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 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.
When you get baptized in Jesus’ name, the bondage of sin is broken. Paul talks about 2 laws: the law of sin, and the law of the Spirit.
describes a law of Sin in his body:
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
But tells us there’s freedom available from that law, because there’s a greater law:
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
The law of the Spirit gives freedom. It breaks every chain of bondage, it breaks every shackle, every influence of the enemy.
You want to know the answer to why you keep going back to what you know is bad for you? It’s because you need to let the law of the Spirit operate in your life. If you’re not baptized, you need to get baptized so you can kill the old man and be a new creature.
If you are baptized, then you need to realize that sin has no dominion in your life. You have the freedom to lay aside everything that binds and controls. You can ignore the pull of your flesh to fulfill its desires, and instead walk in newness of life with Jesus.
Some of you need to realize what Paul tried to tell the Corinthians. Such *were* some of you. You’re not a drunk no more, you’re not an addict no more, you’re not a liar or a thief or a cheat no more. You’re a new creature in Christ, and the fact that you’re still here means He’s not done with you - you have a purpose and a mission and it starts today by laying down every lie of the Devil that you are too damaged or too entangled by your past to live for Jesus.