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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s banana

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s banana. Struggling with sin. Romans 6-7. Our spiritual journey. v1b Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! v15 Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! .

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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s banana

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  1. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s banana

  2. Struggling withsin Romans 6-7

  3. Our spiritual journey

  4. v1bShall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! • v15 Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

  5. v1bShall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! • v15 Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

  6. misunderstandings of sin. antinomianism • God’s grace and love is so great you can sin as much as you like, He will still forgive you.

  7. Henry Winkler

  8. We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. v4.

  9. “It is I, but not I” Augustine of Hippo

  10. Infused with the Gospel. • Died to the penalty of sin (v2) as we are now justified by faith. • Baptized into Christ’s death, sharing in his resurrection (v3-5). • Old self crucified with Christ, new self will live with Christ (v6-10). • Consider ourselves dead to sin but alive to God (v11). If it doesn’t bother you at all when you sin, you have not been infused with the Gospel.

  11. misunderstandings of sin. antinomianism moralism Sin is mainly about a list of do’s and don’t’s. • God’s grace and love is so great you can sin as much as you like, He will still forgive you.

  12. V16don’t you know when you offer yourselves to someone to offer him as slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey-whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to righteousness?

  13. Who’s the scene stealer?

  14. Who’s the boss- you or the coffee?

  15. Offering to God OR offering to the god of pride and self righteousness?

  16. Recognize who really is your spiritual master. • Therefore offer ourselves to God (v12-14). • Either God is our Master or sin will be our Master (v15-23). • People who say they are masters of their own destiny cannot even break their own bad habits.

  17. Thou shalt not listen to secular music. • Thou shalt not watch TV. • Thou shalt not watch movies. • Women shall not wear jeans. • Men shall not keep long hair (or have ponytails). • Thou shalt not drink coffee.

  18. Thou shalt not listen to secular music. • Thou shalt not watch TV. • Thou shalt not watch movies. • Women shall not wear jeans. • Men shall not keep long hair. • Thou shalt not drink coffee.

  19. The Law aggravates sin. For I would not have know what coveting really was if the law had not said “Do not covet.” But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. 7:7b-8

  20. The law exposes the extend of our sin. • Augustine-stole pears not because he was hungry, but because he was told not to. Fed pears to pigs. • Story of Mark Twain-a man is like a mule who will do exactly the opposite of what it is told to do. We can be mean for meanness sake.

  21. Realize everyday you are at war with sin. • Most people are at “peace” with sin in their lives. • Everyone has a conflict between what they desire and what their conscience says they should do.

  22. All human beings have a duality.

  23. War between our selves. • I believe in honesty (but I have no choice to be dishonest in my business). • I want my wife and daughter to be virtuous and pure (but I enjoy indulging in sexual sin). • I think there should be equality in this country (but I have no qualms making derogatory racist remarks).

  24. “With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth; by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.” “I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.” Robert Loius Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  25. Romans 7:19 For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do- this I keep on doing.

  26. For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age Titus 2:11-12.

  27. For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age Titus 2:11-12.

  28. The gospel leads us to repentance of our sins. • Learn daily to hate sin.(7:24 what a wretched man I am!) • When was the last time you admitted you were wrong in any conflict?

  29. The gospel renews our thinking-dead to sin but alive to God (6:11). • Sin begins in the mind. • Determination to fight sin begins in the mind. (6:11a in the same way, count yourself dead to sin).

  30. But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord, is there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 Cor 3:14-18

  31. The mind of the Spirit-chapter 8:1-11 • 8:5Those who live in accordance to the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. • What preoccupies us, what drives us, how we spend our times and energies, what we concentrate on and give ourselves up to will reveal whether we are in the flesh or in the Spirit.

  32. “We become what we think about all day long” Ralph Waldo Emerson

  33. Think about His Love, think about his goodness Think about His grace that’s brought us through For as high as the heavens above So great is the measure of our father’s love Great is the measure of our Father’s love So great is the measure of our Father’s love How could I forget His love And how could I forget His mercies He satisfies, He satisfies, He satisfies my desires Don Moen-Think About His Love

  34. The gospel brings new life and power through the Holy Spirit. • Keep in step with the Holy Spirit to fight sin. • The power of the Holy Spirit is demonstrated when we are free from the slavery of sin.

  35. How many Christians think the journey to fight sin is like.

  36. How the journey to fight sin really is.

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