THNK VICTORY! PUT SIN TO DEATH

PUT SIN TO DEATH

It's not a popular topic in church any more. We dance (oops!) around it -- try to sugar coat it, and even try to re-package it. But the Bible is pretty clear that God's position on sin has been consistent - He hates it! It is the reason that He sent His Son Jesus to die to take it away once and for all so that we could have a right relationship with Him.

We need to remind ourselves of its pull and tug in our lives. You've heard me say it before but it does bear repeating:

1. Sin will always take your further than you want to go.

2. Sin will cost you more than you are willing to pay.

3. Sin will keep you longer than you want to stay.

Chambers nails it - "At the beginning of our lives we do not bring ourselves to the point of dealing with the reality of sin. We look at life through the eyes of reason and say that if a person will control his instincts, and educate himself, he can produce a life that will slowly evolve into the life of God. But as we continue on through life, we find the presence of something which we have not yet taken into account, namely, sin - and it upsets all of our thinking and our plans.
Sin has made the foundation of our thinking unpredictable, uncontrollable, and irrational.

We have to recognize that sin is a fact of life, not just a shortcoming. Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life. The New Testament brings us right down to this one issue - if sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed. The culmination of sin was the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and what was true in the history of God on earth will be also true in your history and in mine - that it, sin will kill the life of God in us."

Get God's perspective on the power and grip of sin. Why not read Romans 6-8 sometime this weekend. He died for it. He gives you the power to defeat it! Check it out.

Great quote: In the final analysis our greatest problem with holiness is not that our concepts of holiness are feeble, but that our hearts are rebellious. We are selfish, that's our problem. And the fact that we often won't admit our selfishness shows how deep the pride goes. Floyd McClung