I woke up early and prayed. I asked God for guidance and wisdom for todays devotion. God showed us "Struggling with Sin". When we live for Jesus Christ and accepted him as our savior - for that very reason he died in the cross he cleans us. He is giving us a fresh start, a CLEAN slate for us to take. Friends - when you encounter Jesus Christ he will renew you! He is the only one who can do that. I want you to open your bible and go to the Book of Romans there we could see the illustrations.
Since the creation of the world, Sin entered the world through Adam that leads to Death. In the same manner as God show his great love through one man Life comes.
Romans 5
12 So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned – Gen 3:6; 1Cor 15:21; Gen 2:17; Rom 6:23; 13 for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed. 15 But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many! 16 And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification. 17 For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!
18 Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous. 20 Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more, John 15:22; Rom 4:15; Rom 7:8; Gal 3:19; Luke 7:47; 21 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Remember
John 3
16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
Rom 5:8; Rom 8:31; 1John 4:9; John 3:36; Luke 19:10; 1John 5:10;
God the Father send his Holy Son for us to be saved. So, BELIEVE you can be saved from your pain, BELIEVE that Jesus Christ can clean you. When we encounter great distress we are willing to give up everything or at some point we will surrender to something. I hope you surrender to a great authority - rather than giving up your life to idols, money, leisure, expectation of your parents, partners and all worldly individual or things which in time will eventually disappoint you. Surrender to God - give your life to Jesus and you would get everything you need.
I surrendered my life to Jesus and I am proud to say I am with him and He is with me. I am doing this because once I was there longing for something. Now I am testifying for the great things I have when I belong to my true master.
Should you have a need for more help about our master email or chat with me rykenceremonia@yahoo.com and I will help. I hope and prayed that you would have the hunger to seek for Jesus. All you need to do is pray and ask for it.
As you live with Christ you will be considered Dead to Sin and Alive in Union with Christ. The next chapter of your life would be to protect that perfection and you have to be SLAVE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS. During your encounter with God he will not let you be alone. Again he will send you the Holy Spirit to help you and do the work for you. Can you see it? God is so great that he will do everything for you. He knows you can't do it alone - reason why he will send great helper to expose the truth to you and lead you towards righteousness. I testify the power of Spirit, they are real they talk and they take charge!
All they need (The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit needs) is YOUR authorization to be under them. Invite them in you and surrender your all - let them take control. I guarantee you would just relax and have a great life with them.
Now, for today after your conversion as you protect your righteousness you would struggle with Sin. Together we will remind ourselves with the power of the scriptures and the truth about them. In the book of Romans Lord explains them - take time to read this and pray for understanding.
Romans 6
1 What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase? 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Gal 3:27; 4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life. 5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection. 6 We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires, 13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness. ; 14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!
16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to, 18 and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. 19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness. John 8:34;
21 So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life. 23 For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
It might come to you as always in me before that - it's true, wow! this is so Good that's what Jesus did however I don't think I can do it because I know myself I can't I have tried that and I always sin. You know what?! ABSOLUTELY! Thank you for being honest! Again, you can't do it and NEVER WILL. God won't let you do it alone! God knows that while we are still in this wicked world we are in constant assault with 3 factors - the Devil, the world and ourselves. That is why he gives the Holy Spirit to be helper! Friends God loves us so much and with his wisdom he knows better.
Again, for the same reason you need someone to help you. YOU NEED THAT ENCOUNTER with God. I hope that you be hungry for that desire.
So, as we choose to be in the righteousness (WE NEED TO Choose) we should live in it. In regard to Struggling with Sin here is what God want us to do.
Romans 6
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead. 9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive 10 and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death! 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin. 15 For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want – instead, I do what I hate. 16 But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good. 17 But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me. 18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want! 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.
21 So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being. ; 23 But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Pray that you understand the scripture - as God want you to understand that the law was created to expose sin and for you to admit that you are guilty of such sin. To label sin as SIN and for you not to do it because you KNOW it is sinful to do such act. Truth is exposed to us - Knowledge is Given! Move away from anything that would cause you to sin.
You know what, the best way not to sin is to MOVE AWAY FROM THEM! Stay away from people, circumstances, places, things that cause you to sin. When you SEE that this is temptation - move away from it. BECAUSE what ever gets your attention, creates a behavior and it leads to emotion then will become SIN and when sin is at its fullest it will lead you to DESTRUCTION AND DEATH!
It's like this - when you see that there is a temptation of lust (a person who seems interested in you), because it catches our attention we then think because he/she is quite easy we may want to go close to him/her its not bad to have a talk, then you started talking then it goes to foolish talk and dirty talk then to touching/kissing then to the SIN and then you did not know he/she is married and have kids. Then you think and doubt then you might continue until it becomes addiction then it would be hard to get out of it. Suddenly the real partner caught you and due to the not so good circumstance and jealousness that person shot you! Then YOUR DEAD! Can you change it when your 6 feet below?
Can you see the picture? If we shut it off before hand then it would be easier. Reason why God tells us to stay away from them because He know that the devil was there in generations. Devil lured many people using the same tactics - show us the desire in us, then use confusion that "it is ok to do it", then telling us "it is easy and won't harm to try it" and he will try to give us doubt to the right teaching.
Never under estimate the power of ATTENTION and the power of the devil, no one is so great that can toy with the devil and not be harmed. Move away from it.
As you grow spiritually and have the Holy Spirit in you, as you live with Jesus Christ you can command the devil to stay away.
James 4
7 So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you. (Eph 4:27; 1Pet 5:9)
You can move away from Sin! Pray all the time that you would get the protection and ask for the Holy Spirit to help you in your journey.
I hope that this would create another thirst for the greatness of Jesus who provides.
Should you have any suggestion, comments or anything you are free to comment. You can also email me at rykenceremonia@yahoo.com
God bless you and may others be blessed by you. Remember you too are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.
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