The Struggle is real
Dying to Live • Sermon • Submitted
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The Problem
The Problem
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I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God’s law with all my heart. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?
What is this text saying to you?
What is this text saying to you?
How often do you experience something like this?
When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death.
This says before that Without the influence of the spirit our flesh controlled our actions
we were bound by our desires
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The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.
This says that there is no way to be obedient in the flesh
So we’ve set up a premise that Living Godly is impossible in the flesh
What is the difference between living good and living Godly?
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Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of sin.
Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.
When have a choice to obey God’s commands or to obey our own desires but we tend to make the wrong decision
it’s human nature to mess things up
we naturally sin even when we don’t want to
that’s what the first text was saying
Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.
When you are a slave to something or someone that’s who you live for
So how do we account for free will?
Have I and has the church overstated this case?
The Double Life
The Double Life
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Mt 6
“No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money.
You can only live for God or Live for sin you can’t do both
How common is it for a Christian to try to do both?
So if it’s natural to sin we need a new nature
We in fact need a new life
that’s what we’re talking about when we talk about dying to sin
We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.
So when we talk about dying we mean dying to sin
How does free will come in to play?