Friday, October 31, 2008

GOD'S Grace Has Set You Free

Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

I've been set free from the bondage of sin, by dieing to self and coming alive to GOD. Satan can't use the law against me, I answer to a relationship based on HIS work not mine.

Sin's desire is to rule over you, but your not given over to it, GOD'S grace has set you free.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Instruments of Righteousness

Romans 6:13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Present yourselves to GOD as instruments of righteousness, because you have followed (Romans 6 verses 8-12)

1st we know that we need to die with JESUS, BUT KNOWING ISN'T ENOUGH

2nd we came to HIM with that that I need to die to, A PRAYER RECOGNIZING MY INABILITY AND HIS ABILITY. My need to die in order to allow HIS ability to work through me.

3rd I reckon myself dead to it and alive to him I TAKE MY FAITH AND PUT IT TO ACTION

4th I see that, SIN can not reign in me when I do this, I don't have to obey it's lust.

5th I present myself unto GOD an instrument not just dead to sin but alive to HIM.


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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Rule Over Sin

Romans 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

This does not happen automatically.We must either dethrone sin or obey its evil desires. Either JESUS reigns in our hearts or we do.

In order to allow JESUS to reign and dethrone sin we must die to the lordship of the flesh and come alive to the lordship of JESUS.

Sometimes it will be easy to die to self and come alive to JESUS other times it will be a struggle but should be done or JESUS will be pushed out of our live.

Much like what GOD told Cain,(Genesis 4:7) "If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it."

WE ALSO SHOULD RULE OVER SIN, AND GOD HAS PROVIDED THE WAY BY COMING ALIVE IN CHRIST.


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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Reckoning Ourselves DEAD TO SIN.

Romans 6:11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

:: yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, and alive to GOD. Not just dead to sin! Reckoning is counting something as happened. It is faith in action ignoring circumstances & feelings.

Back in verse 6 it said, knowing this, that the old man was crucified. The death that we die spiritually is a death by crucifixion. In order to be crucified, we must have someone's help,
one can't crucify themselves.
So I must go to GOD with the thing that I need to die to and it is there that I will find the ability to come alive to GOD.

Normally when we come alive to sin we try and hide from GOD. We ignore HIM, we avoid HIM, we pretend HE’S not there... ... THIS IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF RECKONING OURSELVES DEAD TO SIN.

And if we don't we are alive to sin and dead to GOD.But I could be and should be alive to GOD and dead to sin.





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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Made Alive in the Spirit

Romans 6:10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

The death that HE died was a total and complete payment for all sins. PAID IN FULL. And the life that HE lived HE lived to GOD, not himself or anything else.

Our relationship with GOD begins at JESUS death; it is there where we must take care of cleansing our sins and allowing GOD'S grace to be implemented into our lives.

Then we move on into a life in CHRIST.

Peter wrote;

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, OK THAT COVERS THE DEATH PART that He might bring us to God, THAT WHY HE DID IT. BUT HERE HOW IT WORKS = being put to death in the flesh but THAT’S NOT SO BAD BECAUSE IT CAUSED ME TO BE made alive by the Spirit, I MUST PUT TO DEATH MY FLESHLINESS SO I CAN BE MADE ALIVE IN SPIRIT.

Failing to put to death means I can't come alive to HIS spirit.

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Monday, October 13, 2008

What You Already Know

Romans 6:9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.

knowing - this is the 3rd time in 9 verses Paul is saying we know something, also in vs.3 & 6

In Romans 6 vs. 3 we need to know that we died when we where baptized in HIM

In Romans 6 vs. 6 we needed to know that our death brought freedom from sin

now in Romans 6 vs.9 we need to know that JESUS has dominion over death or we might say dominion over the wages of sin.


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Friday, October 10, 2008

New Life That Has Power Over Sin

Romans 6:8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

died being in the Indicative mood causes the "if" to means since or because, The if is not subjunctive which could imply one did or didn't die with Christ.

If you where justified by faith you must of died with Christ. And since you died with Christ you will live with Him.

Remember the question in verse 1 shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? GOD forbid or based on what we know we might say, that would be impossible.

If a death to self hasn’t taken place, GRACE CAN’T ABOUND. But with a death to self not only does grace abound but also sin’s hold is broken.

Not only are my sins washed away, but also I can have victory over them.

GOD DIDN’T JUST CLEAR A BELIEVERS SLATE, BUT HE GAVE THEM A NEW LIFE THAT HAS POWER OVER SINS GRIP.


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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Free Man

Romans 6:7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.

As a justified believer, I died, the old me and that death brought new life in JESUS as well as freedom from the grip of sin.

When someone says the devil made me do it, that would be to say I am not a believer and I'm in bondage to sin.The devil can’t make a believer do anything.


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Friday, October 3, 2008

Freed From Sin

Romans 6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

This is something that Satan does not want you to know either. As a justified believer you are no longer a slave to sin, you do not have to give in to sin, that old you that was in bondage to sin, DIED and the new you is freed from sin’s grip.What a victory it is for the believer who knows and experience’s this.


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