WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW - PART 1 (2 OF 3)
Scripture: Romans 6:1-14
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What You Need to Know - Part 1 (2 of 3)
Series: Defeating Sin
Robert Dawson
Romans 6:1-14
I saw a comic strip in a church leadership publication that showed four people sitting in the living room having a Bible study and one lady speaks up and says, 'Well, I haven't actually died to sins, but I did feel kind of faint once.' (Some of us can sympathize). Sin is something we struggle with and deal with even as people forgiven, redeemed and made new.
Last week in 1 John we saw how Jesus Christ came to deal with sin.
1. He came to take away sin and remove its penalty over us by substituting Himself for us on the cross.
2. He came to break the power of sin in our lives. Sin was not master over Him and now as those who belong to Jesus, our new master, sin is not to be master over us.
3. He dealt with sin in the past and the present and He will deal with it in the future. One day He will remove us from the very presence of sin, either at our deaths or His coming.
Those are wonderful truths. They should elicit an Amen, a holy grunt or at the very least a nod of the head from every true and genuine believer.
While these are wonderful truths, we find that we live in a very harsh reality, one where sin is very real, very destructive and an everyday struggle. We live in the in-between.
1. We have been saved.
2. We will be saved. God, by His grace and power, will take us home to be with Him where we will be perfected.
3. In the meantime, we are being saved, we are being conformed to the image of His Son and we live in the in-between.
4. Sin is defeated. It cannot and will not ultimately win but it is still present. It is still a very real struggle.
5. It can still create problems without end and we feel its power and pull almost daily as we still struggle with its presence in our lives.
It is a battle we need to understand. Part of understanding and being victorious in this daily battle is discovering who we are in Christ, our identity with ...
Series: Defeating Sin
Robert Dawson
Romans 6:1-14
I saw a comic strip in a church leadership publication that showed four people sitting in the living room having a Bible study and one lady speaks up and says, 'Well, I haven't actually died to sins, but I did feel kind of faint once.' (Some of us can sympathize). Sin is something we struggle with and deal with even as people forgiven, redeemed and made new.
Last week in 1 John we saw how Jesus Christ came to deal with sin.
1. He came to take away sin and remove its penalty over us by substituting Himself for us on the cross.
2. He came to break the power of sin in our lives. Sin was not master over Him and now as those who belong to Jesus, our new master, sin is not to be master over us.
3. He dealt with sin in the past and the present and He will deal with it in the future. One day He will remove us from the very presence of sin, either at our deaths or His coming.
Those are wonderful truths. They should elicit an Amen, a holy grunt or at the very least a nod of the head from every true and genuine believer.
While these are wonderful truths, we find that we live in a very harsh reality, one where sin is very real, very destructive and an everyday struggle. We live in the in-between.
1. We have been saved.
2. We will be saved. God, by His grace and power, will take us home to be with Him where we will be perfected.
3. In the meantime, we are being saved, we are being conformed to the image of His Son and we live in the in-between.
4. Sin is defeated. It cannot and will not ultimately win but it is still present. It is still a very real struggle.
5. It can still create problems without end and we feel its power and pull almost daily as we still struggle with its presence in our lives.
It is a battle we need to understand. Part of understanding and being victorious in this daily battle is discovering who we are in Christ, our identity with ...
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