Victory over sin
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Moral action comes in two complete
packages. Each package comes
complete with a supreme end, plus the
known means and actions to achieve
that end. One package is labeled
"love." The other is labeled
"selfishness." The one is full
obedience, the other is total
disobedience. The two systems are
mutually exclusive and antagonistic.
There is no mixing, no crossover, no
coexistence between them.
"Virtue consists in willing every good
according to its perceived relative
value, and...nothing short of this is
virtue.... To talk, therefore, of a
virtue...right in kind but deficient in
degree is to talk sheer nonsense. It is
the same absurdity as to talk of
sinful holiness, an unjust justice, a
wrong rightness, an impure purity,
an imperfect perfection, a
disobedient obedience."
Mt 22:37 & 39
Our whole moral obligation is to love
God supremely and our neighbor as
ourselves with all the light we have
and can obtain. God requires nothing
more than this; He can require no
less. We can do no more; we can do
no less and be Christians.
* It is that simple.
"But," someone might ask, "can my
heart be right with God when I feel all
these bad desires and emotions?"
Finney comments regarding the
Christian-"Emotions contrary to his intentions
may, by circumstances beyond his
control, be brought to exist in his mind;
yet, by willing to divert the attention
from the objects that produce them,
they can ordinarily be banished. If this
is done as soon as...it can be, there is
no sin. If it is not done as soon as...it
can be,...the intention is not what it
ought to be."
Victory Over Sin
To walk in the
love of God, we
must live in
victory over sin!
But how?
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Victory Over Sin
When you realize how dumb sin
is, it's a real help.
We Need to Look at:
a. The right motive
b. What did God do?
c. How does God bring
victory?
d. What must we do?
e. How must we do it?
f. When must we do it?
a. The right motive:
Love.
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2 Corinthians 5:14 “For
the love of Christ
controls us...”
To Bring Joy to God's
Heart
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Isaiah 40:11, 62:5
Zeph 3:17
b. What did God do?
He saved us.
Titus 3:5
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The Holy Spirit came
to lead us.
Romans 8:14
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b. What did God do?
The relationship He
gave to us provided
the opportunity for
victory over sin.
Romans 8:13
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c. How does God bring
victory?
c. How does God bring
victory?
The Greek verb
tenses give us
insight to how and
when God works to
establish us
in a mature
Christian walk.
c. How does God bring
victory?
Aorist – God did some
things suddenly and
dynamic to establish
us in our Christian
walk
 Gal 4:19
 1 Th 3:12-13
c. How does God bring
victory?
Perfect – a process has
gone on that brought us
to the wonderful
condition of getting
established in the
spiritual walk of faith
c. How does God bring
victory?
Perfect –
A process that went on.
A completion.
It then leaves a
continuing result.
c. How does God bring
victory?
Perfect –
example: The boy learned
(perfect tense) to ride
his bicycle.
In English: The boy
continued to practice
until he learned to ride
his bicycle with the
result that he still knows
how to ride.
c. How does God bring
victory?
Perfect –
Eph 3:16,17,19
having come to be and
remaining rooted and having
come to be and remaining
grounded
Col 1:22,23
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having come to be and
remaining firmly established
and steadfast
c. How does God bring
victory?
Present – shows that we
must continuously maintain
our victory over sin
 Ph 4:13 (continuously
strengthens)
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Col 1:9-11
(continuously)
bearing fruit in every good work and
(continuously) increasing in the
knowledge of God; (continuously
being) strengthened with all power
c. How does God bring
victory?
Present – shows that
we must continuously
maintain our victory
over sin
 Hb 13:9 (continuously)
strengthened by grace
c. How does God bring
victory?
Future – shows that
God will keep on
working with us.
1 Peter 5:10
Matthew 5:48,45
Romans 2:4
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c. How does God bring
victory?
God did things
suddenly
He had developed
something within us
He is presently
aiding us
He will be active in
the future.
d. What must we do?
First of all: admit 1 Cor
10:13
“No temptation has overtaken you but
such as is common to man; and God is
faithful, who will not allow you to be
tempted beyond what you are able, but
with the temptation will provide the
way of escape also, that you may be
able to endure it.”
d. What must we do?
☼ We must pay close attention
to our spiritual condition.
☼Deliverance from sin is
impossible unless we are
willing to live a life in
communication with God.
d. What must we do?
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Ephesians 5:15-16
1 Timothy 4:16
Hebrews 2:1
1 Peter 1:13
Jude 20,21
e. How must we do it?
We must build a habit
of looking in faith to
Jesus, our heavenly
Lord and Savior.
e. How must we do it?
We must act.
We must instantly choose to
reject the temptation to
exalt ourselves in selfsupremacy as soon as we are
hit with the evil
suggestions or temptations.
e. How must we do it?
The Gospel promises that when
we do this, the indwelling
Holy Spirit releases His
energizing power within us in
victory.
The grace of God brings it.
“Sin shall not be master over
you, for you are not under law,
but under grace.” Romans 6:14
f. When must we do
it?
Instantly.
Before our emotions
increase the strength of
the temptation.
The way out comes
early sometimes.
f. When must we do
it?
Put on the Lord Jesus (Ro
13:14)
Envelop ourselves in the
presence of God through
worship and
thanksgiving.
We can not expect
spiritual victory when
Victory in Jesus
“As we are beholding as in
a mirror the glory of the
Lord, (we) are being
transformed into the same
image from glory to glory,
just as from the Lord, the
Spirit.” -2Co.3:18
Victory in Jesus
It works because we are
captivated by something so
much better than our
selfish gratification.
Like Jesus:
Hebrews 12:2
Victory in Jesus
When we want deliverance
enough to arouse ourselves
to seek the face of God in
order to get whatever we
need, with great joy God
meets us and grants our
request.
What does Paul say?
What does Paul say?
“Present yourselves to God as those
alive from the dead.” Ro. 6:13 and
“Present your members as slaves to
righteousness, resulting in
sanctification” .Ro.6:19
The word, present, is a command for
instantaneous, sudden, dynamic
action.
What does Paul say?
When temptation comes
redirect your thoughts to
worship.
The temptation gets
upstaged.
What does Paul say?
“Present your bodies a living
and holy sacrifice” Ro.12:1
“lay aside the old self” Ep.
4:22
“and put on the new self.”
Ep.4:24
Paul wrote these using a
Greek form that calls for
instantaneous actions, that
we repeat whenever we need
What does Paul say?
Victory is Not Optional
For Christians
Romans 8:13 “If you are
living according to the
flesh, you must die. If by
the Spirit you are putting to
death the deeds of the body,
you
live.”
Keywill
ingredients:
1. You
2. by the
Spirit
The Holy Spirit is like a
power steering unit
It supplies the extra force
to turn the wheels of a
massive machine.
God does not call upon us to
struggle against temptation
in our own strength.
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Sin is defeated by
contrast
We are never tempted to put
our hand in a pile of cow
manure.
It is because we are never
tempted to do something we
hate.
We sin because we love sin.
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Sin is defeated by
contrast
Victory means we have taken time to see the
true awfulness of sin. It destroys all that
is morally beautiful and good in life. We
see sin’s stupidity, and total
worthlessness.
We turn from sin when we view the true moral
worth of God just as surely as we let
go of a rotten egg that we may reach out and
grasp a dazzling diamond refracting
the multi-colored beams of the sun.
Secrets Revealed
A. Victory through relationship
with the Holy Spirit. Ro 8:13
B. Set your priorities Hb 12:12
C. Lay aside entanglements Don’t tempt
yourself!
D. Run with endurance – break
down big goals to little ones
 runner or indy car driver
 thief at WAL*MART
E. Look to Jesus