Rise Up
July 9, 2017
When Jesus died for our sins He gave us the power to die to our sins. Sin is a bully. Sin will tell you, “You can’t beat me. You may as well give in.” But when you give your life to Jesus, sin is all talk. It has no power over you, even if you don’t realize it. Whether or not sin reigns in your life is up to you. You can rise up against sin. You can tell sin to back off and back down.
In this series
Reel Grace
Join Pastor Merritt for this hope-filled series entitled "Reel Grace", which will show you how the grace of God can become real in your own life. Illustrations from the movies will bring this series into today's language.
Bible Reference
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
For one who has died has been set free from sin.
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.
Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.