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Overcoming Sin with Divine Guidance
Discover the challenge of subduing our sinful nature as Christians and learn how to… (visit YouTube for more)
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One of the hardest things that we have to do as Christians is to tell our sinful flesh who’s in charge. Let’s do this as we meditate on Romans chapter six, verse 12. Let not sin, therefore reign in your mortal body to make you obey its passions.
Paul is following a conclusion here. We’ve been purchased by Jesus Christ and redeemed by him. Therefore, we shouldn’t any longer let sin be in charge in these bodies of ours.
Now that is easier said than done, isn’t it? It’s a great struggle. It’s a fight. But if we don’t want to be killed by our sinful nature, we have to put our sinful nature to death.
Otherwise, it will reign. It will continue to dominate us. It will make us obey its passions. Whatever those passions may be. It may be food or wealth, or sex or power. So many things that drive us towards sin, towards destruction, towards chaos.
The longer we walk with Jesus, the more experience we have that helps us to recognise these passions rising. The more we keep in step with the Holy Spirit, the more attuned we are to those deviations away from that path.
But somebody who is a baby Christian, day one can absolutely nail this just as much as someone who’s been walking with God for 40 years or more. It requires a decision of the will, and it requires reliance, not on our own willpower. The best thing that we can do is to recognise that we can’t do this. If we try and do it on our own, all we’re achieving is self-righteousness and pride anyway, which is another sin.
So we have to engage with the Holy Spirit in this process of ensuring that sin isn’t reigning. this is a daily thing, isn’t it? What a good thing it would be at the start of every day to say, Lord God, I’m not reigning today, my sin is not reigning today, you are. I will do what you want me to do every minute of this day.
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