Digging Deep With Zonal Pastor on this day Tues 25/06/2013 (Topic: DEALING WITH SIN)

Topic: DEALING WITH SIN
INTRODUCTION:

Many Christian have big problems with their bodies; what they do not want to do is what they keep doing and what they would love to do, they just fail to do them. This is not a new problem Rom 7:19, how can this problem be solved? How do we deal with the flesh? May the Lord grant us victory as we study today in Jesus, name Amen.

COOPERATING WITH THE FLESH WILL SPELL DISASTER

There is no good thing in the flesh, all it wants to do is to sin. Yet the wages of sin is death and anyone who cooperates with the flesh will reap the fruit of corruption i.e, curses, sorrows, and problems. That is why he who converts a sinner saves a soul from death and serious troubles

Rom 7:18-25, 8:8,6:23,8:6, Gal 6:8, James 1:15, 5:20, Rom 13:4

DON'T TAKE IT EASY WITH THE FLESH:IT IS YOUR ENEMY

There are several advices the bible gives us on how to deal with the flesh. These includes

• Saying no to the demands of the flesh
• Mortifying it
• Keeping it under
• Abstaining from its lusts
• making no provision to satisfy its lust
• Flee from dangerous zones and
• Amputating offending member to the body

Gal 5:16, Col 3:5, 1Corin 9:27, 1Peter 2:11,Romans 13:14,6:6, Gal 5:24, IITimon 2:22, 1Thes 4:3-5, Matt 5:28, 18:8-9, John 15:5