Title: You're Dead to Sin, But Still at War
Meta: Sin will plead to you and say, "Just spare me, I'm just a little one!" But give it no accommodation. Remember, you're dead to sin. You can do this clinging to Christ.
Tags: Romans 6:14,Sin,Killing Sin,believer,battle,Christian Living

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Brethren,

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you're dead to sin,

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but doesn't mean it's easy,

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that doesn't mean we go to sleep

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or sit back and relax.

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God does make us dead to sin, that's true,

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but he means to demonstrate that reality

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by exerting His own power upon us, and in the us

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to create within us,

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what?

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A militancy!

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To fight sin

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and mortify sin

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and put it to death.

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He means for us to have this determination of will

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but it's a determination of will

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that's based on what we know

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it's based on what we believe.

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It's grabbing hold of truths

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about my being united to Christ.

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I'm dead to sin.

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And in the light of that reality,

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with the militancy of determination in my will to say,

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"Yes I believe I am dead to sin, I am going to fight this!"

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That pride that just keeps holding on and lingering,

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I am going to fight that.

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That sexual lust,

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I am going to fight that,

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controlling my eyes,

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I am going to make a covenant with my eyes

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and I believe by the power of Jesus Christ

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that I can keep control,

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and I may fall,

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but I'm gonna get back up and I'm going to confess that sin

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and I'm gonna go on in the power of the Spirit of God.

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Clinging to Christ.

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Brethren and we've got to have that mindset,

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that is what this is all about.

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This is war.

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This is war brethren.

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Those passions of the flesh

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seek to destroy your soul.

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That's what Peter tells us (1 Peter 2:11).

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You better take this dead serious.

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As John Owen said, “Be killing sin or it will be killing you.”

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And it will,

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it's one or the other.

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There's no in-between.

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There's no neutrality here.

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You're either killing sin or it's taking your life.

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This is serious.

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I don't know if you've ever noticed this

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but they're definitely spiritual parallels between Joshua

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and Israel going into the land of Canaan.

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What did God tell them?

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You kill everybody, you go in there and you wipe them out.

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Young and old.

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Man and woman.

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Children, you wipe them out.

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You go in there, wipe them out.

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That is a spiritual parallel to our Christian life.

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No longer brethren!

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No longer.

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No longer.

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You are dead to sin.

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No quarter.

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It will plead mercifully,

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those little children will plead mercifully,

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“Don't kill me.”

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The women...

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nope, you kill them all.

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You kill them all.

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You know what I'm talking about,

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I'm not talking about actual women and children.

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I'm talking about every sin,

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and they will plead mercifully,

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“Just spare me, just spare me.”

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“I'm just a little one.”

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No quarter.

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You gotta have the mindset to know

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that you're dead to sin.

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You can do this.

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You must do this and God commands you to think right.

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Brethren, this is huge.

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This is huge.