Romans
6:11 (NKJV)
11 Likewise
you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive
to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
If we felt dead to
sin, we wouldn't have to reckon ourselves to be dead to sin.
We are in a world
that's filled with sin. We must realize that we are free when sin pulls
at us.
Who we are in Christ
Jesus is stronger than the impulses of sin. We are dead to sin. It
has no control over us. We're dead to sin, but alive to God.
Romans 6:12 (NKJV)
12 Therefore
do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
When we got born
again, it was our inner person that got born again. It wasn't our flesh
that got born again. Our bodies will do anything that we let it do.
James 4:17 (NKJV)
17 Therefore, to
him who knows to do good and does not do it, to
him it is sin.
With the Spirit of
God in our lives, sin is powerless to make us to do anything. Sin is
violation of light. Being saved, means that we are free from sin and
it's power over us.
Matthew 1:21 (NKJV)
21 And
she (Mary) will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His
name Jesus, for He will save His people from their
sins.”
Romans 6:12 (NKJV)
12 Therefore do
not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its
lusts.
If the Lord told us
not to do it, then we have the freedom not to do it. He wouldn't tell us
to do something that we can't do.
Romans 6:13 (KJV)
13 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.
As born again
believers, can we yield our bodies to things that are wrong. Yes, but we
don't have too. Can we yield our tongues to speak that which is
wrong. Yes, but we don't have too.
There are spiritual
influences on the outside of us, and there are Spiritual influences inside of
us. It's up to us which influence we yield too.
We can be doing just
fine, and in a moment of time a thought will come to us telling us that we feel
bad. It's up to us whether we yield to it.
Wrong thoughts and
feelings come to us all. Thoughts and feeling can come to our minds
unexpected. We must identify it, and determine it's origin. We have
a list...
Philippians 4:8 (NKJV)
Finally, brethren, whatever things
are true, whatever things are noble,
whatever things are just, whatever things are pure,
whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good
report, if there is any virtue and
if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate
on these things.
If it's not on this
list, don't let it in. It's from the enemy. Other influences will
knock on our minds trying to get in and not the Lord.
2 Corinthians 7:1 (NKJV)
Therefore, having these promises,
beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and
spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
The enemy is trying
to get in too. He wants our tongues, hands, and feet. Don't give
the devil something to work with in you. Do I let the enemy use me?
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NKJV)
Or do
you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who
is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your
own?
20 For you
were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in
your spirit, which are God’s.
If you say anything
that comes to mind, the enemy will talk through you.
Romans 6:13 (KJV)
13 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.
It's up to us to
yield ourselves to God. If we don't do it, it won't get done. We are dead
to sin. We are alive to God. We must reckon it that way. We
must call it that way.
Everything we are and
do should be consecrated to God for His use. If we don't make
everything available to Him, it's just empty talk.
Romans 6 (NKJV)
14 For sin
shall not have dominion over you, for you are not
under law but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin,
because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Let's point our
finger in sin's face, and say you will not dominate me any longer. You
don't control me!
Those who were under
the law were not born again. We are under Grace if we have surrendered to
Jesus. We've been born again. Our sins have not be covered but
washed away.
Romans 6:16 (KJV)
16 Know
ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his
servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience
unto righteousness?
Sin shall not control
me!
Romans 6:17 (KJV)
17 But
God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the
heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
We have opened the
door of our hearts to Jesus and His words.
Romans 6:18 (KJV)
18 Being
then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Morning, noon, and
night, we yield ourselves to right and to God's Holy Spirit.
Romans 6:19 (KJV)
19 I
speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as
ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity
unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness
unto holiness.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)
17 Therefore if
any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold,
all things are become new.
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