Sermon Tone Analysis

You’re not who you were

1 Cor: 6

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The world is divided into two groups:

Those who are saved, and those who aren’t.

The Bible pulls no punches in laying out the behavior that God finds unacceptable.

The Bible also makes it clear that once you are saved, your past does not just disappear.

The Apostle Paul calls out the church, saying “this list?

Yeah, that used to be you.”

That word is key.

He says “such WERE some of you”.

Not “are some”, but WERE.

Past tense.

Why does he emphasize this?

Because the devil will do his best to use your past against you.

“You can’t change.

You’ll also be that person.

You might as well give up because once a ____ always a ____”.

Sound familiar?

Doctor offered me a treatment at the age of 16 - said it would never end

Cancer patients are always cancer patients

Alcoholics are never considered “cured” by the world

It’s a lie of the devil that you can never change.

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When you get baptized in Jesus’ name, the bondage of sin is broken.

Paul talks about 2 laws: the law of sin, and the law of the Spirit.

describes a law of Sin in his body:

But tells us there’s freedom available from that law, because there’s a greater law:

The law of the Spirit gives freedom.

It breaks every chain of bondage, it breaks every shackle, every influence of the enemy.

You want to know the answer to why you keep going back to what you know is bad for you?

It’s because you need to let the law of the Spirit operate in your life.

If you’re not baptized, you need to get baptized so you can kill the old man and be a new creature.

If you are baptized, then you need to realize that sin has no dominion in your life.

You have the freedom to lay aside everything that binds and controls.

You can ignore the pull of your flesh to fulfill its desires, and instead walk in newness of life with Jesus.

Some of you need to realize what Paul tried to tell the Corinthians.

Such *were* some of you.

You’re not a drunk no more, you’re not an addict no more, you’re not a liar or a thief or a cheat no more.

You’re a new creature in Christ, and the fact that you’re still here means He’s not done with you - you have a purpose and a mission and it starts today by laying down every lie of the Devil that you are too damaged or too entangled by your past to live for Jesus.