Episode 387 - Show Notes:
- Most of you listening today are Christ followers. You have placed your faith in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. You are trusting Him as your savior and your Lord, but still have a sinful nature. Living in this life, we still battle our flesh, our carnal man.
- Through the power of the Holy Spirit we can live victorious over sin, but we are not exempt from temptation. The Bible says Jesus was tempted and was without sin. While we are still in this life we will battle our sinful nature.
- Maybe you are still carrying around your old man, your old life. Maybe there are still hurts, hangups, and habits that you are carrying around and they are weighing you down.
- We must refuse to feed our sinful nature. Paul talks about the battle between our spirit and our flesh again in Galatians 5:17 – “For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.”
- Whatever desires you feed in your life will be the strongest. You have spiritual desires and you have carnal, sinful desires. When temptation comes, every one of us has to make a decision. This is where things get tough. But I want you to remember that the Holy Spirit within us is leading us to make righteous decisions. He will give us the necessary power.
- The principle that we must learn and apply is to take off the old man--to be renewed in the spirit of the mind --and put on the new man. This must become part of the many choices we face every day.
Ephesians 4:22-24 - “You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”
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