Sermon Tone Analysis

*Breaking The Law Of Sin And Death*

 

Romans 8:1 (Text)

 

How many of you are ready to live in the high life?

How many are tired of living in the low life?

"I am tired of living in the low life, I am ready to live in the high life" Ready to live higher than what I have ever lived before in Jesus Name ‑ that is our prayer for you today.

Teaching you how to get out of low life living and get up in high life living!

Verse 1‑2

 

Key here is are you in Christ Jesus?

If your in Christ Jesus, born again living for Jesus condemnation is not for you, you should have it broken off your life no matter what is going on.

Spirit of Life is where we live in the high life, The law of sin and death ‑ is where we live in the low life.

What is in that low life?

Poverty is there, sickness and disease is there, crisis and turmoil is there, anxiety and fear, confusion all those sorts fellowship there, it is called low life.

(Low living, low standards of living).

Now just because you want to come out of that and live higher in life does not mean you get too: Just because you want to have more money does not mean you get it!

Just because you want to have better health does not always mean you get it.

Just because you want everything to go your way does mean it always does.

But if you and I can find the ladder to climb out of low life living and come up here and live on the higher plan that God has for us: that old hymn ‑ Lord lift me up let me stand, by faith on heaven's stable land".

I am not looking for promotion and attention and a big name, I am just looking to be closer to Him.

Get out of some of this stuff down here that bugs me and affects me.

You and I have to admit that almost everything around us all day long brings you back down to the blunt reality that you live on the earth.

And if you let it you will start acting talking and feeling like an earthling.

But we are not earthlings but we have been redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb.

Old thing passed away, behold all things have become new and it says we are new creatures, brand new creatures in Christ.

[ref. 2 Cor.

5:17]We are not suppose to be living down here, were suppose to be living up here in the realm of the spirit!

Now let me make my self clear ‑ we are not talking about being a fat‑cat, made in the shade:

 

\\ I am not talking about just having more natural things, more goodies.

I am talking about being spiritual, having revelation knowledge, inspired, walking with God, hand in hand you and I in the Master hand.

Talking about living in a place where not everything bugs you, not everything effects you and your not offended all the time.

Even if something does happen around you and its painful and hurtful, it does not drag you out, it does not ruin your day or your life.

You don't ignore it, but life is filled with a lot of things that you and I don't like.

But that they don't get inside of us and eat us up is important.

But it will if your down here living low.

Just let one thing happen in life ‑ if your living in that low life you will take the blame for it:

 

It is amazing, people getting divorces, you don't know why it happened so don't get judgmental and critical in the Body of Christ ‑ some things we just need to mind our own business.

You don't know what people go through ‑ but there has to be pain that things are not working out for them.

So if your not careful you will take condemnation for that, its my fault, if I would have done this or would have done that.

Just loose a family member ‑ loose a loved one, and pretty soon here comes the condemnation trying to sneak up on you, if I would have done this or said that and on and on.

I have a word for you read verse 1.

No condemnation does not mean its not real hurt and real pain when things happen: It just means your not condemned for it.

Glory to God there is a place to find more of God's grace.

We have a law working in us and its not the suppose to be the law of sin and death.

\\ There is a law connected to sin ‑ there is a law connected to death.

Just law there is a law of gravity connected to height or when you get elevation off this earth.

You climb up on something and jump off, the law of gravity will kick in automatically you can't stop it.

You can put on some man made thing to combat the law of gravity so you come down slower, but you are coming down one way or other.

You may buffer the fall, but you are falling.

Because that is a law!

There is a law to sin ‑ you think sin, talk sin, and practice sin, and you don't have any choice but to face the blunt attachments that come with sin.

Sure God can forgive you if you confess sin, but sin can and will leave scars.

There is a law connected to the spirit of death ‑ you flirt with things that bring death, and it can kill you marriage, kill your health, kill your attitude, kill your countenance and its amazing what you can kill all day long, just by the law that is attached to the spirit of death and you get messing around over in that sin realm and that law works just as sure as gravity work.

The beauty for Christians is that there is also a law that is connected to the spirit of life that is Christ Jesus

 

It is an automatic law if you just get in the realm of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, the law attached to the spirit of life that is found in Christ Jesus it breaks all the laws connected to sin and death automatically.

This is not magic or open says me thing, not a chant or code of conduct, its coming out of low life living and living up here.

Living in high places, praying and fasting and studying the Word, worshiping God, fellowshipping with the right people, and you purpose to climb up and live in this realm with God, though your still on the earth, your not down here wallowing around on your belly.

The devil is suppose to be on his belly, not you and I.

 

$Verse 3‑4

 

Now notice this is the 2nd time the Holy Spirit has used the phrase "walk not after the flesh, but according to the Spirit" (we need to see that.)

So there is a difference in walking after the flesh and walking after the Holy Spirit.

$Verse 5 (now He will compare the 2 kinds of people)

 

Mind ‑ means to pay attention too, mediate on and in, think upon.

So pastor how do I know if I am living after the flesh or after the Spirit?

Its an easy test you can give it to your self: What are you thinking about, mediating in, and reasoning over?

Where does you mind go?

Do you have faith or do you have fear?

Do you pray or do you worry?

Do you study the Bible or do you go for something else to give you counsel?

See this is an easy test you can give yourself to see if your going after the way of the flesh or whether were going after the way of the Holy Spirit.

Now you say why is that so important for us Christians?

 

$Verse 6

 

Now if my mind stays on natural and carnal things what does it bring me?

It brings me death.

But if my mind is spiritual and thinking on things of God and about the things of God, what does it give me?

Life and peace.

Can anyone who is reading this or listening to this message think if anything better than life and peace

 

What is better than life ‑ life in your body, in your marriage and home, life in your mind, finances, what's better than peace?

Having turmoil inside of you.

Your nights are not sleepless living in fear and torment.

What is better than peace?

Peace among you and people and even you enemies?

Tell me what is better than peace and life?

(I can't think of anything can you?)

\\ Peace and Life ‑ everybody wants it, but not everybody has it.

Many people live in turmoil all the time.

Always has an argument going with someone all the time.

Has a debate all the time going, always somebody mad at them.

It is almost like they live that way on purpose.

But its not suppose to be that way.

Well what do I do about it?

Well I just read out of the Bible what to do about it.

If your mind, the way you think, what your thinking about all the time is chasing after natural principles and natural fleshly things, you will never experience much life and peace.

But if your mind is always thinking after and upon and studying and finding out what the Word means, what does God have to say about this, that tends to life and peace.

You want life and peace ‑ you have to do what the Bible says.

You have to become spiritually minded.

If you don't want life and peace, then don't do anything.

Because your mind automatically runs to what it wants and what it fears.

You don't have to help your mind be fleshly.

Your mind will automatically bring up to your attention everything it wants, everything it fears.

Let me tell you something else about the mind ‑ it is enmity against God which means ‑ if it is allowed to run it natural course everything it thinks of will be against God.

That is why if you just let your mind go and do what ever you feel like, say what you feel like, give people a piece of your mind, it is breeding death into your life and sin.