| “DYING FOR TO LIVE #2
The Right Word © with Brother Scott : scott@portervillepost.com
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(† John 12:24 ) --
(† 1 Corinthians 15:35 )
Our subject is the steps needed to have victory over our sin and especially
habitual sinfulness—those things that are sin that we don’t want to do but find that on our own by our own strong willingness we do not have the power to
not sin (
† Romans 7:15+ ).
The reason we cannot find victory over our sin is because we are ignorant of what the Word has to say about how to deal with our sin and or our un willingness to do what the Bible says is needed to stop sinning. Preachers and teachers today ignore the subject for two reasons—they themselves continue in their own sin not knowing or not caring what the Word commands and how to appropriate the victory and or they do not address the sin issue because it is unpopular to cause their listeners to look at themselves at their sin.
Let me be as succinct
Let me be as succinct as I know how to be: Your sin and mine separated us from God; Jesus died on the cross because of our sin and His blood shed to give us the forgiveness of God and the cleansing of our sin from God’s sight justifying us
and making us “accepted by God in the Beloved”.
Once we are forgiven, cleansed and born again from above, we still have the propensity to continue sinning; our sinful nature’s strong instinct to pay no attention to the requirements of our new life as a follower of Jesus.
We must come to painfully understand that our sin nailed Jesus to the cross and led to His death, hate our sin and be convicted in every part of our conscience of the need to stop it, repent of new sin quickly, and seek the remedy provided for us to stop sinning, which comes by knowledge of the Word and the power of the cross.
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† 1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. . . 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
† Romans 5:8 ...God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
† Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. . .
Now these are hard-core spiritual facts that many Christians never hear about or if they do will take seriously enough to give these facts the weight needed that leads to freedom from sinful ways. Paul’s letter to the Christians in Rome is critical to our understanding about believer’s sin and our “old man”.
If you are serious getting free
If you are serious about getting free from sin, I urge you to carefully read all of Romans prayerfully and more than once each year. An essential revelation of some spiritual facts is in chapter 6 where we must pay attention to two terms that Paul uses: Knowing and reckoning.
If a believer does not seek a complete revelation of what these things inform us of then we cannot be effective in our actions to stop sinning as we are commanded to by participating with God and the power of the cross to accomplish († 1 Cor. 1:17-18 ).
But before we go on, I must share with you about how meaningful biblical revelation comes to us individually; from the Greek language there are two different meanings for the English word “word(s )”.
There is from the Greek its word “logos” (log’-os ; † Matt. 8:16 ), which are words read or spoken and heard by our minds but are not fully understood, and there is a second Greek word “rhema” (hray’-mah ; † Matt. 4:4 ), which are the “logos” words spoken to our mind but become wonderfully and spiritually understood with the power to act on; in the KJB “rhema” also comes into English as “word(s )”.
Hear What Jesus Said “ rhema”
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† John 6: [Jesus teaching about His flesh as food and His blood as drink, indeed a very difficult thing hearers to understand …] 6:60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this , said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? . . . [About this teaching , Jesus said :] 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words (as rhema ) that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Why do I bring this up? We read our Bibles and our minds hear its “logos” words, usually at a superficial level, meaning we often more or less sleep -walk through our Bible reading or the hearing of the Word from others.
However, with a dedication to God’s Word, it is by our thought and study and knocking on Heaven’s door for the meanings of those words that “rhema” comes as a sudden explosion of understanding with Heaven’s expected resulting actions of us to take place.
The heard words “logos” become “rhema” to our spirit and our mind—spiritually understood and living and life-changing words ; logos has meaning but rhema carries the power of change. Now to († Romans chapter 6 ) where we hear the “logos” but must come to understand them as “rhema” for them to do us great good against sin:
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† Romans 6:3 Know ye not (are ye ignorant of, do ye fail to comprehend? 4 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. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6 Knowing (know absolutely, have the knowledge of, be resolved to old man (former + human beinghim , that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. [see 7:24-25 ] 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 11 Likewise reckon (conclude, impute give heed and value to these facts; consider as true settled accounts regarding; make it work for you! ]) ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Have you ever seen in a cartoon or suggested in some movie the depiction of a good angel on one shoulder and an evil one on the other? Of course, the good one is advising right decisions and actions and the bad one is counter -acting that with ways to get away-with wrong things and how much you will enjoy the doing of them. That is a fairly reasonable picture of a Christian but the two entities are instead the regenerated and Holy Spirit-in dwelled human spirit on the one hand, and our own still -living and influential sinful nature on the other.
However, for as long as the old nature remains alive and with a voice, these two pose continually opposite input to our minds and hearts. And as the old Native American proverb goes about a good dog and a bad dog always fighting, it is true that the one you feed the most (the born-again spirit or the sinful nature) will win each argument.
A couple of the apostolic writers identify these two factions using various terms that try to steer us in opposite directions; there is the new man and the old man, the inward man and the outward man, the spirit and the flesh, the new creature versus the old.
What we simply must come to terms with (the rhema of the issue) is these two are completely opposite in the direction they each want us to go, and until the old man dies at the cross, that influence will continue to be an ongoing eternal-life-threatening source of great trouble called sin.
You cannot just hear those as logos words but for the understanding and actions leading to freedom from sin, a believer must have rhema—the “explosion of spiritual understanding and Heaven’s expected resulting actions” that we must act on. Otherwise, we will never get free of sin this side of Heaven. Examples of the names I just pointed out to you are these:
Examples of the names
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† Romans 6:6 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.
† Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man
† Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man . . .
† 2 Corinthians 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. . .
† 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature : old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
† Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh , but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from [the sin-loving worldly flesh operating under] the law of sin and death.
† James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world [doing what the sinful nature wants ] is enmity (hostile, in opposition from hateful , adversarial toward enemy (literally from Greek: hateful, adversarial toward ) of God.
We are addressing the issue of sin in the life of a believer that so many have not been taught is to be overcome and to others that do know, such believers either do not care to stop their sin or do not know how to by obedience to the instructions and commands of the Word to do so.
Two things victory over sin
I will add this to help your understanding about what it takes to begin to have victory over your sin: Two things that aid in victory over sin is (1 ) knowledge of what God’s written Words says, including its “rhema” power, and (2 ) love for God that surpasses love for all others and especially love for God that nullifies one’s love for the world and its things.
As a significant part of the whole solution given to us by the Lord to stop sinning, the Word reveals two areas that must be recognized as the origins of our temptations and sin, which are (1 ) the world and (2 ) the passions and uncleanness of our own fallen nature.
If a Christian is willing to begin getting victory over spiritual laziness and the adulteries of believers with the world, in my experience, the easier of these two to get free of are the things of the world. Victories over the world can come faster and will encourage you to press into overcoming the issues within your own self that are sin.
If you need a focused place to start, with the help of the Word and the Holy Spirit, get things spiritually aligned with the Word between you and this world we live in. Pay attention to what the Word says:
Pay attention to the Word
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† 1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life [all things of the old man, the sinful nature ], is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
† Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified (impaled on the cross passion subdued
† James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted (without blemish stains or soils
† 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
In closing for today I leave you with these things
What things
What things God to get in the way of what we want of the world—what things? ... These things ↙ ↙ ↙
• † 1 Cor. 15:33 )
• † 1 Tim. 6:10 )
• • • • • † Phil. 4:11 )
These kinds of things ↑↑↑ and others are not that difficult to see, if we will. It is wise for believers to keep in mind that the world is not our friend. We are summoned by God’s Word to change our heart attitude toward the things of this present life and to set them one-by-one at the foot of the cross for God’s judgment.
Our next session will set forth the ways in which you and I accomplish do what God’s Word commands of us when it says “go, and sin no more ” .
~ Brother Scott ... With ... The Right Word © ... For Today~
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