BELIEVERS RESPONSE TO SIN AFTER CONVERSION

 

SCRIPTURES

  1. II Corinthians 5:14 “For the love of Christ constraineth  (sunecho=to hold together, controls, compels) us; that if One died for all, then WERE all dead:”

  2. II Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if anyone be in Christ, he IS a new creature: old things ARE passed away; behold, all things ARE become new.”

  3. Romans 6:3-4 “Know ye not, that so many of us as WERE baptized into Jesus Christ WERE baptized into His death? Therefore, we ARE buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we HAVE BEEN planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:”

  4. Romans 6:6-7 Knowing this, that our old man IS crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead IS freed from sin. Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:” (Luke 9:23-24 “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.”

  5. Romans 6:11 “Likewise RECKON (logizomai=to count, to credit, regard, think of, consider, look upon) ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

  6. Romans 6:12-13 “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that ARE alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.”

  7. Romans 6:14, 18, 19 “For sin shall NOT have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. NOW yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.”

  8. Romans 6:22 “But NOW being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life.”

  9. Romans 12:1-2 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye PRESENT your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.” (II Corinthians 2:16 “We HAVE the mind of Christ.”

  10. I Corinthians 10:13 “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

  11. Galatians 2:20 “I AM crucified with Christ: nevertheless I LIVE; yet not I, but Christ LIVETH in me; and the life which I NOW live in the flesh, I LIVE by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

  12. Galatians 5:24 “And they that are Christ’s HAVE crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we LIVE in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

  13. Galatians 6:14 -15 “But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world IS crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ Jesus we ARE a new creature.”

  14. Colossians 2:12-15 “BURIED with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are RISEN with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead. He quickened together with Him, having FORGIVEN you all trespasses…NAILING it to His cross. And having SPOILED principalities and powers, MADE a shew of them openly, TRIUMPHING over them in it.”

  15. II Timothy 1:12 “I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.”

  16. James 1:14-15 “Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”

  17. James 5:16 “Confess your faults(paraptoma=a falling aside one to another, and pray for one for another.”

  18. I John 1:6-7 “If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”

  19. I John 1:8-10 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess(homologeo=to speak the same thing) our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.”

  20. I John 2:15-16 “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”

  21. I John 3:7-10 “Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.”

  22. Jude 1:24 “Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding

PRACTICAL APPLICATION

  1. Hide God’s Word in your heart (Psalms 119:11)

  2. Know that every believer is tempted in like manner as we! (I Corinthians 10:13)

  3. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another! (James 5:16)

  4. Be accountable, submitted, open and truthful! (Ephesians 5:21)

  5. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7)”Flee lusts” (II Timothy 2:22; I Corinthians 6:18)

  6. Put on the whole armor of God! (Ephesians 6:11-18)

  7. (II Corinthians 10:4-5) “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of god, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ:”

  8. Be aware of people, places, times, things, that lead to temptation! (II Timothy 2:22; I Corinthians 6:18)

  9. Faith is our victory”(I John 5:4-5) and “we live by His faith!” (Galatians 2:20)knowing that “Christ in us, is our hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)