Don't Let Sin Revive
/Romans 7:9 KJV
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
This topic is for people that are ready and willing to surrender to God’s will. What I mean by that is this, when people are living in failure, there are usually one of two reasons:
The person is saved and wants to live for God, but doesn’t know how
The person is not really interested in living for God, right now, they’re living for self.
God’s power and grace is sufficient to break through and give the victory, but if a human refuses to yield his will and surrender to God’s will, that person will remain in bondage until he or she is willing to surrender—many times it starts small and grows, but there will be joint participation with the Holy Spirit, and that is who I am talking to.
Alive- to live, breathe, be among the living (not lifeless, not dead)to enjoy real life to have true life
Romans 7:9 AMP
Once I was alive…But when the commandment came, sin lived again and I died…
Galatians 3:12 ESV
But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”
Leviticus 18:5 ESV
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.
Romans 10:5 ESV
The Message of Salvation to All
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
Doing vs believing
Go back to Romans 7:9
**Doing is Law/ Law is performance focused
Believing is Faith focused
Trusting in Law or self performance results in frustration and failure (Galatians 2:21)
Believing or faith in Jesus results in God’s righteousness- where there is righteousness, there is grace and where there is grace, there is victory
Romans 4:3 ESV
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
Romans 4:5 ESV
And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Galatians 3:6-7
6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?
7 Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.
Galatians 3:9
So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
Romans 3:24 ESV
and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Romans 5:1-2 ESV
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Grace vs law
Trying to do something instead of being something by believing something. The next question is do you want to be something new or does a person want to remain their old man? There is a part that is contingent on the believer— Submission to the truth. The truth says that we have to die to self.
1. Die to sin
Romans 6:1-2 ESV
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
What do you mean I died to sin? When did I die to sin?
2. Die to the law
Romans 7:4 ESV
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
3. Die to flesh
Galatians 5:24 ESV
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.