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May 3, 2016 · 4. Overwhelm it. In the gospel, God has given us the resources that we need to deal with nagging sins. Let me just mention three: patience, pardon, and power. The gospel means that God has “perfect patience” (1 Timothy 1:16) for us even amid our struggles with nagging sins. To truly kill a nagging sin, we need to know that God has not given ...
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- Pray for the Holy Spirit’s conviction and help. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
- Practice regular confession. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- Remove the temptation. And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
- Tell a friend. Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
Nov 16, 2015 · 9. Admit failure and confess all known sin every day (1 John 1:9). Ask God for forgiveness (Matthew 6:12). 10. Ask for the Spirit’s help and power in all these things. “By the Spirit . . . put to death the deeds of the body” (Romans 8:13). All that is good in us is a “fruit of the Spirit” (Galatians 5:22).
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Now, I’m a very experienced sinner (like you are), so I know how reductionistic this can sound. There are many factors contributing to why we keep giving in to sin, even if we think we don’t want to. Sin is quite complex, isn’t it? Actually, no. Sin can create complex illusions, and it can result in all kinds of complexity. But at its essence, sin ...
Every sin, every wrongdoing, no matter what kind — whether acted out in behavior or nurtured secretly in some dark place of our heart (Matthew 5:28) — is a manifestation of something we believe. Every sin is born out of a belief that disobeying God (wrongdoing) will produce a happier outcome than obeying God (right-doing). Whether or not we’re cons...
It wasn’t wrongdoing for Adam and Eve to be motivated by joy, any more than it was wrong for Jesus to be motivated by joy (Hebrews 12:2). That’s why we choose to do, or not do, anything. If given the choice, we choose what we believe will make us happier than we are, or less miserable than we are — even if the knowledge in our head tells us our cho...
When we are caught in habitual or besetting sin, our problem, at its core, may be simple. What’s holding us captive is a deceptive belief about what will make us happy. I know the objections that might come. We do often “know” that a sin is destructive to us and others. We might loathe the sin in certain ways and feel shame over it. We may have a s...
The secret to getting free from the entrapment of habitual sin begins with a prayerful, rigorous, honest examination of what satanic promises we have believed — and the better promises God has made. Which promises will reallyproduce the longest and best happiness if true? And which source of promises has the most proven credibility? Then we must re...
Jan 4, 2022 · The first resource the Bible mentions in our effort to overcome sin is the Holy Spirit. God has given us the Holy Spirit so we can be victorious in Christian living. God contrasts the deeds of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:16-25. In that passage we are called upon to walk in the Spirit.
Jan 4, 2022 · Second, forsaking the sin is the proper way to handle sin. When Jesus forgave the woman taken in adultery, He told her, “Go, and sin no more” (John 8:11). Go—that is the word of forgiveness and release. Sin no more—that is God’s command to live a holy life. We cannot seriously claim to be properly handling sin if we refuse to give it up.
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Jul 9, 2013 · 1. To win over sin, give yourself as a slave to righteousness (6:19). Romans 6:19: “I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in ...
