all right let’s turn over to
Romans chapter
6 and you know I’ve experienced this
hundreds and maybe thousands of times
how God supernaturally direct our paths
when you acknowledge Him in all your
ways that was really excellent what
Jeremy was saying this morning I
appreciate him following the Holy Ghost
and getting off what his track was
because that was just excellent but he
only acknow it that only works him
Direct in your past if you acknowledge
Him in all of your ways so I’ve
experienced this a lot of times but I’m
still just amazed because very seldom do
I ever know what I’m going to minister
before I get up to minister and there’s
reasons for that that’s not saying that
anybody else who does it differently is
wrong it’s just that’s the way it is
with me but this week I really felt like
God gave me some things to say and I
didn’t know what this musical would be
like but it was just perfectly with what
God had told me to say and then what
Jeremy’s sharing and everything it just
seemed like this is divinely ordered of
God and I believe that the Lord has a
purpose he’s trying to get some things
across to us and uh boy some of the
things jery said today about a identity
I thought that was just excellent so
after this meeting I’ll pinch all of
those things and tell people this is
mine God told me that it was really
really good
stuff
but here in Romans chapter 6 let me just
read some of these verses because
there’s so much in here I can get bogged
down with it and I want you to at least
read it and then we’ll be I’ll come back
and comment on this this morning and
also tomorrow but in Romans chapter 6
verse1 it says what shall we say then
shall we continue in sin that Grace May
abound God forbid how shall we that are
dead to sin live any longer therein know
you 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
you have been planted together in the
likeness of his death we shall be also
in the likeness of his resurrection
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 also we shall
also live with him knowing that Christ
being raised from the dead dieth no more
death hath no more dominion over him for
in that he died he died un sin once but
in that he liveth he liveth un God God
likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be
dead indeed unto sin but alive unto God
through Jesus Christ Our Lord let not
sin therefore reign in your mortal body
that you should obey it in the lust
thereof man it’s hard for me to quit
reading because this is just so powerful
but I do want to comment on some of
these things so let me stop there but
let me start by saying he says what
shall we say then the word then means
means that this is dependent upon all of
the other things that he had said in the
previous five chapters and I hadn’t got
time to go back and summarize this but
man Paul Romans is Paul’s Masterpiece on
Grace he had been attacking this mindset
that God loves us because of some virtue
that we have because of our performance
and he’d been showing that it was
totally by grace and uh he had made that
point so conclusively in the fourth
chapter he showed you that that Abraham
and David two of the greatest examples
in the Old Testament it wasn’t their
goodness you know if people would really
use your brain for something besides a
hat rack when you read the Bible you
would find out did you know that Moses
killed a man thinking he was going to
bring God’s will to pass and he wrote
the first five books of the Bible and
also Psalms chapter 90 David wound up
killing his Lover’s husband trying to
cover up his sin he was a murderer he
wrote most of the Psalms and all of 1
and 2 Samuel First Kings uh a lot of
things is written about him Saul was the
one that converted to Paul we saw that
musical last night and he’s the one that
wound up killing Christians persecuting
them and giving consent even to their
death so what this means is the majority
of the Bible was written by people who
are
murderers and yet people don’t make this
connection nection they think that you
got to be holy and you got to do
everything right before God can move in
your life it’s just amazing how you can
miss this the Bible is so candid so
clear about the way that it presents
people man it shows you that God’s never
had anybody qualified working for him
yet God doesn’t use us because we’re
lovely he loves us because he is love
and so it’s clear and so anyway he’d
been making these points and because of
that and he was showing that God doesn’t
love us based on our performance well
then a logical question is are you
saying that we can live in sin because
religion basically tries to motivate
people not to live in sin by telling you
that if you sin God won’t answer your
prayers God won’t use you God won’t
bless you and there’s two extremes to
this the Altra Pentecostal will say you
lose your salvation every time you sin
and if you die before you get that sin
confessed and under the blood you’d die
and go go to hell even if you’ve been
walking with the Lord for 40 years a
lesser interpretation but it’s like a
stick or something it’s just the other
end of the stick it’s still the same
stick you may not go to hell but God
won’t answer your prayers he won’t
fellowship with you he won’t use you if
there’s any unholiness in your life both
of those are wrong and this is what Paul
has been saying that it has nothing to
do with your goodness your goodness
doesn’t make God love you more and your
Badness doesn’t make God love you less
yes God loves you because he chose to
love you not because there was anything
of worth and value in you that made you
uh valuable to him it was his value it’s
just he chose to love us man I’m not
going to take time to turn over there
and read it but if you read Ezekiel
chapter 16 he’s reasoning with them and
he says you were like a child that was
born and your Naval wasn’t even cut and
you were rolling in the dirt you had
been thrown in the dust and I found you
polluted in your own blood and yet you
were precious to me and I took you and
cleaned you up and made you my own there
was nothing in us that made God love us
when the Bible says that he loved us he
loved us because he’s love not because
we’re lovely and so this is the point
that he’s been making and it brought up
this qu well then why live holy because
most people the only reason they live
holy is so that they can earn something
from God so that they can get a prayer
answered or be used or or do something
like that so that’s the reason he says
what shall we say then did you know that
he said this in Romans chapter 3 he said
it in Romans chapter 6 verse1 he said it
in Romans 6:16 I didn’t read down that
far and then twice in the book of
Galatians the Apostle Paul as he
preached the gospel constantly had to
ask this question can I am I saying that
we can live in sin and the answer to it
is God forbid in the Greek this is as
close to profanity as you can get
without blaspheming somehow or another
it’s an absolute unqualified negative no
absolutely not that’s not what he’s
saying but here’s the point if you never
have this question come up can I just
live in sin because God’s not dealing
with me based on my sin if that question
never comes up you haven’t heard the
same gospel that the Apostle Paul
preached and sad to say most of the
church body today has not heard the same
gospel that is the power of God to set
us free Romans chap 1 verse 16 And1 17
the gospel is the power of God un
salvation and most of us haven’t heard a
true gospel we’ve heard some things
about Jesus coming dying for our sins
but it’s tied to your performance and to
your goodness and anytime you do that
you have polluted the whole
thing anytime you tie your goodness to
God’s moving in your life then you have
polluted the gospel the gospel means
good news or literally I I could go into
more explanation but in my opinion I
believe it means the nearly too good to
be true news you mean that God would use
me even though I’m not usable even
though I’m not a a great person and I
don’t have talents and abilities and I
hadn’t done everything right that’s
nearly too good to be true but that’s
what it is you know I heard a story
about a man one time that his son wanted
to go see a movie and the other kids
from the church wanted to go see and so
anyway he came to his dad and saids
could I go see this movie and he says
well what’s it rated and he says well
it’s are rated but it’s just a little
bit of
nudity and just a little bit of
profanity and all of the other kids from
the church their parents letting them go
uh can I go and he said no and in order
to compensate for turning him down he
says you can come you can bring bring
those kids over to our house and you can
play at our house so anyway they came
over to his house they were in the
backyard playing and he made some
brownies and he he brought these
brownies to the kid and called them all
to the back door and he says hey I made
some brownies anybody want them and met
everybody wanted them and he says but
before you eat it let me just tell you
that I put a little bit of dog poop in
these brownies there’s not much you
aren’t going to be able to taste it it
won’t hurt you everything is fine you’ll
be able to survive but I just wanted you
know there’s a little bit of dog poop in
here and did you know what none of the
kids had eat
it see anytime you mix your your
poop this is why we have a men’s Advance
you
can’t you can’t say things like that
when women are present and those of you
that are bootlegging this gospel
watching it right now uh you can’t
criticize me cuz you aren’t supposed to
be here amen but but anytime you mis
miix your goodness it’s like putting
your poop up against God’s and it
pollutes the whole thing it has to be
100% total confidence in Jesus and not
in yourself and if you are mixing your
Holiness in there and thinking God
you’re using me because I’ve done this
and this and this or if you’re saying
God you can’t use me because I’ve done
this and this and this then you have
perverted the gospel
so man I could preach another hour on
that that’s the first verse and if you
if you haven’t heard something that is
so good about God loves you and he wants
to use you and it doesn’t matter whether
you’re living holy or not that it’s all
based on Jesus this is why we pray in
the name of Jesus not in your own name
as Jeremy pointed out really well if you
if you never have this question come up
do it can I just live in sin well then
you hadn’t heard the true gospel the
true gospel will bring that question out
but the answer to it is an absolute
unqualified negative God forbid and then
in this sixth chapter he gives two
reasons why a Believer doesn’t live in
sin it’s not so that you can earn the
favor of God not so that you can keep uh
the things of God and keep God pacified
and off of your case he says the first
reason right here he says how shall we
that are dead to sin live any longer
therein you are dead to
sin and with most people this just does
not communicate because they look at
their life and they think man I can sin
with the best of them amen they think
it’s not I’m not dead to sin I I can
still go out and sin if I was to just
let myself go I could do all kinds of
things what is it do it mean to be dead
to sin keep your finger here cuz I’m
coming back but look over here in 1 John
chapter
3 in 1 John chapter
3 and in verse 9 whosoever is born of
God does not commit
sin for his seed remaineth in him and he
cannot
sin because he is born of God and again
most people when they read something
like this they just have a disconnect
they aren’t bold enough to sit there and
say well the Bible must be
wrong but they can’t see it in their
life and so they just say they they just
disconnect and it’s one of those things
where they don’t explore it they don’t
continue to say God show me what this is
talking about the only explanation that
I’ve ever heard I’ve never heard anybody
else teach on this verse I’m not saying
that I’m the only one but I it’s rare I
just ad never heard anybody else teach
on it the only way that I’ve ever heard
this tried to be explained is they say
well this means you won’t habitually sin
in other words you might have been a
drunk you might have been a drug addict
you might have used profanity you may
have been into sexual sins and you might
sin occasionally you might sin a little
bit but if you’re truly born again you
won’t habitually sin you eventually will
overcome the drug addiction you’ll
overcome the alcoholism you’ll overcome
your lust and things like
this if that’s how you try and Define
this well then you have to put sin into
categories but did you know that the
Bible puts gluttony right there next to
adultery murder everything else gluttony
is a
sin and did you know that you can’t get
fat on one
meal it is
Habitual you habitually sin if you’re
overweight you know yesterday I ate at
least twice maybe three times what I
normally eat and I gained a
pound but you know I could I could eat
until I pass out and I wouldn’t gain
more than two or three pounds you can’t
get fat overeating one time if you are
overweight which I’m not trying to
condemn anybody I’m overweight I need to
lose I don’t know how much it’s been so
long since I was there but I know I’ve
got got some weight that I could lose
I’m not condemned I’m not condemning you
but I’m saying if you are overweight you
habitually
sinned so if you’re going to interpret
this as this means habitual sin well
then that would mean every fat person
every overweight person cannot be born
of God are you willing to stand by
that certainly that’s not what this is
talking about you know the real simple
answer to this goes back to Identity
what we’ve all been talking about here
the only only part of you that is born
of God is your spirit your body is not
born of God your soul is not born of God
now it’s got a promise that your body is
going to be changed when we see the Lord
you’ve got a promise that we will know
all things even as also we are known but
that hadn’t happened yet your body and
your soul are not saved but your spirit
is saved and it is born of God and
whatsoever is born of God can not
sin his seed remains in him he cannot
sin your spirit cannot sin so put this
back with Romans Chapter 6: 2 the reason
we don’t sin is because when you got
born again your new spirit that you
receive from God is dead to sin it can
not sin your Nature has been completely
changed and you do not have have a sin
nature
anymore and again most people struggle
with this because they’re looking in the
Physical Realm most of us are what the
Bible calls carnal many people think
carnal is just a terrible word to
describe a I mean a person that’s just
hates god well a person that hates God
is definitely carnal but did you know
carnal just means of your five senses
you’re controlled and dominated by what
you can see taste hear smell and feel if
you are only looking in the Physical
Realm you’re what the Bible calls carnal
and it goes on to say in Romans 8:6 that
the carnal mind is not subject to God
neither indeed can be so then they that
are in the flesh which is another way of
referring to being carnal cannot please
God if you are only trying to see what
does it mean that I’m dead to sin and
you’re only looking in your physical
actions and you’re searching your mental
part you’re never going to understand
this because your body and your soul are
not dead to sin
but your Born Again spirit is dead to
sin it cannot sin there is no desire for
sin in
it and so he goes on to say in verse
three know ye not that so many of us as
were baptized into Christ were baptized
into his death therefore we were 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 walk in newness of life this
is not talking about water baptism I’m
not going to take time to explain this
but Hebrews chapter 6 says there’s
multiple baptisms Jesus said I have a
baptism to be baptized with and he was
talking about suffering this isn’t
talking about water baptism this is
talking about when you get born again 1
Corinthians chapter uh chapter 12 I
forget the verse it’s around verse 13
says that the Holy Spirit baptizes you
into the body of Christ when you get
born again you get placed into the body
of Christ that’s the baptism that it’s
referring to and when that happened you
died to
sin man I’ve got a lot to say and it’s
not hard but it’s contrary to what all
of us have been taught and because of
that it just raises so many questions
that to deal with all of these questions
uh it’s hard to make
progress but let me just say that when
you got when you were born physically
you were born with a nature that was
separated from God you were born with a
fallen nature it says in Ephesians chap
2 verse 1 you hath he quickened who were
dead in trespasses and sin when you were
born as a little tiny baby your spirit
was separated from God that’s what the
word death means in the Bible it doesn’t
mean cease to exist the way that we use
it it means separate
when Adam and Eve sinned their Spirit
didn’t die it was still there and it was
functional but it quit being in Union
with God and it started operating
independent of God and in the day that
they ate of that fruit they would die
Genesis 2:1 17 and if you look it up in
the Hebrew it literally says in the day
you eat of the fruit you shall die die
that word Hebrew word is repeated just
to emphasize that it is absolutely
certain the day you eat of that fruit
you’re going to die they didn’t die
physically they didn’t die mentally and
emotionally but their Spirit became
separated from God when a person dies
physically James chapter 2 verse 26 as
says as the body without the spirit is
dead so faith without works is dead also
so the Bible defines death as when your
spirit leaves your body it’s not ceasing
to exist it still exists it just is no
longer in this physical body so the
point I’m making is that death just
means separation and when you were born
physically you had a dead spirit that
was separated from God it still
functioned but it was functioning
actually in Union with the devil if you
go on down to Ephesians chapter 2:3 it
says that we were by Nature the children
of Wrath even his others you were born
with a sin
nature man I’m trying to hurry up but I
know that the things I’m saying this is
revelation to some people this is baby
stuff this is stuff that every person
ought to know and the average person
doesn’t know this just for time sake I’m
going to summarize the fifth chapter
five different times in the last seven
or eight verses of the fifth chapter of
Romans it says as by one man sin entered
into the world and death by sin so death
death passed upon all men for that all
have sin sin for by one man we were made
Guilty by one man judgment came by one
man condemnation came it is not your
individual
sins that separated you from God that’s
right I know some of the things I’m
saying people are thinking what are you
saying oh Jesus help
me it’s your sin n did you know in the
Book of Romans there are 49 times that
the word sin or sins plural is used and
out of 49 times there’s only one time
that the Greek there’s three different
Greek words used and only one time does
it refer to something you
do 48 out of 49 times it’s describing
your sin nature not your actions of
sin 48 times the word word is a noun
which describes a person place or a
thing a verb describes the action of a
person place or thing and there’s only
one time that the word sin was
translated from a Greek word that was a
verb the other times it’s talking about
your sin nature it’s not your sins your
individual acts of sins that separated
you from God it was the fact that we
were born with a sin nature we were all
born separated from God and the reason
you sin is cuz you had a sin nature that
taught you how to sin it propelled you
to
sin and if you understand this it has
many many different uh benefits to it
one of them is if you think well I
haven’t sinned as much as anybody else
if you understand what I’m saying it
doesn’t matter how little you sinned if
you are a sinner by Nature you’re
separated from God and who wants to be
the best sinner that ever went to hell
we’ve all sin and come short of the
glory of God so so if you have lived a
great holy life and you’re taking pride
in what you’ve done all you’ve done is
restrain some of the actions some of the
manifestation but you hadn’t changed
your nature You Are by Nature a sinner
and you must be born again and on the
other hand if you’ve been a terrible
Sinner and if you’ve lived a terrible
life some people think how could God
ever do anything with me there’s no
difference between the person that’s
gone out murdered raped and plundered
and me who has never said a word of
profanity in my 75 I’ll be 75 next month
I’ve never said a word of profanity I’ve
never taken a drink of liquor I’ve never
smoked a cigarette I have lived a super
holy life but I had a sin nature that
had to be taken away and there is no
difference between the person who’s
murdered and plundered now in the
natural there’s a difference because
you’ll go to jail for those things I’m
not I may not be punished by man I may
get along with people better because I’m
not going out and always offending
people but in God’s side James chap 2:1
says if you keep the whole law and yet
offend in one point you become guilty of
all even though I’ve never gone out and
committed adultery and I’ve never done a
lot of these other things I have broken
the law it’s like if there was a big
glass in front of you and me it wouldn’t
matter if you shoot a BB through it or
if you break the whole thing run a truck
through it if the thing is broken it’s
broken it’s a whole thing’s got to be
replaced God’s standard is perfection
and if you weren’t perfect well then you
need a savior and even if you have
learned how to restrain your actions of
sin your sin nature is what separated
you from God and your individual acts of
sin was just you indulging that sin
nature I didn’t indulge it as much as
some people did because I was brought up
under so much fear that God was going to
send me to hell I used to have a
reoccurring dream that I had smoked a
cigarette and that I got turned into the
cops and the cops turn turned me over to
my mother and I woke up in Hell burning
in hell because I had smoked a cigarette
and that was a reoccurring dream I had
it two or three times a year for a
decade I know some of you think well I’m
weird I
am that’s what religion will do to you
so religion scared me and it says that
the fear of God restrains the amount of
sin Proverbs 16:6 and so fear can cause
you maybe not to do it but it didn’t
change my nature just because I didn’t
do some of the stuff that other people
did didn’t change my nature I was by
Nature a sinner but when I got born
again and when you got born again God
took that sinful nature out of
you you do not have a sinful nature
anymore and he put within you his very
nature and you are as righteous and holy
and pure as Jesus is in your spirit and
that Born Again Spirit the part of you
that is Born Again can not sin it has
zero desire for sin it hates
sin therefore if you are still
struggling with sin it’s because you
haven’t seen your new identity you
aren’t walking in what Jesus has done
you have been trapped by what has
happened to you what your old man did
let me man I’m talking as fast as I can
in verse five it says for if we have
been planted together in the likeness of
his death that’s a done deal when you
got born again you were baptized into
his death your new born again spirit is
dead to sin and if that is true that you
have been planted together in the
likeness of his death we shall be notice
that the first part it’s
done it has happened but then we shall
be in the likeness of his resurrection
but verse 6 says knowing this you’ve got
to know something in order to experience
this when you got born again you were
created a brand new person and you are
literally dead to sin it is impossible
for your Born Again Spirit to sin it has
no propensity to sin it doesn’t have any
it cannot
sin man that is
awesome but it’s not going to manifest
in your thought life and in your actions
unless you know something it says you
have to know this that your old man is
crucified with him this is what Paul was
referring to when he says Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ nevertheless
I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me
and the life that I now live in the
flesh I live by the faith of the Son of
God who loved me and gave himself for me
Paul was crucified with Christ you’ve
been crucified with
Christ somebody says well I don’t know
that I have if you’re born again you
have been crucified you are dead with
Christ you were baptized into his death
is what it says up here in verses three
and four it’s already a done deal you’re
born again man is as perfect and holy as
it’s ever going to be you just don’t
know what you’ve got you haven’t known
this so the first thing is you got to
know this that the old man is crucified
with him some people teach well yes that
happen but it resurrects every day and I
got to die to myself daily there is no
resurrection power in the devil there is
no resurrection power in your old man
your old man does not resurrect every
morning you do not have two
Natures you are not
schizophrenic many of you look at your
life and think oh yes I am because man
sometimes I want to serve God and
sometimes I don’t no that’s not true and
man I don’t think I’m going to talk fast
enough to get over to Romans chapter 7
but I could explain that to you that’s
anyway all no you
don’t there’s other people that we want
to let
Minister but you’re old man is gone you
are not schizophrenic you know the only
reason that you still struggle with sin
it goes on and says this right here it
says uh in verse 12 I read that let not
sin therefore p in your moral body some
people think I can’t help it you can or
he wouldn’t say don’t let it happen and
you know how you let it you find out
what you’ve got and who you are you find
out your identity and you realize hey
that’s not me I’m a born again person
I’m a new person I don’t have to be that
way and then it it goes on to say
neither yield your members verse 14 for
sin shall not have dominion over you for
you are not under the law but under
grace sin shall not have dominion over
you if you understand these things that
I’m talking about but if you go ahead
and think but I’m just an old sinner
saved by grace and Jesus I don’t want to
live in sin I don’t want to live this
way but what can I say I’m just an old
sinner you’re identifying with it and
therefore you may give token resistance
but if the desire continues then you
just give in thinking well after all
that’s who I am I’m an old sinner just
like Jeremiah Jeremy was saying about
Saul saying who am I that for you to be
saying these things God had to give him
another heart did you know God has given
you another heart you are a brand new
person on the inside and the key to the
Christian Life is recognizing that’s not
me I am dead to this and I’m not only
talking about the terrible overt sins of
uh you know dipping and cussing and
chewing and going with those that do I’m
not talking about only that it includes
that but just your Persona that well
this is you know everybody in my family
we just don’t show emotion we don’t uh
you know we’re just mean kind of people
we’re just real abrupt we’re real
critical well you’re trapped by that
stuff that’s not the you new you you got
another part of you that is identical to
Jesus that is as forgiving and loving
and caring as he is you can read
Galatians chapter 5: 22 and 23 the fruit
of the spirit that’s talking about
you’re born again Spirit your nature
you’re born in nature produces love joy
peace
longsuffering some of you think well I
just have a short fuse that’s just the
way that they are in my family well
you’re describing your carnal self you
aren’t describing your Born Again self
you’re living out of the Flesh and you
cannot please God but you could identify
with who you are in Christ and say I am
dead to that maybe everybody in my
family is mean and critical and they
gossip and do stuff but that is not the
born again in me I am dead to that I
will not live that way
anymore so you have to know this that
the old man is crucified that the body
of sin might be destroyed what is the
body of sin did you know when a person
dies as I quoted that verse already
James chapter 2: 26 says the body
without the spirit is dead so faith
without works is dead when a person dies
physically their Spirit leaves but did
you you know it leaves behind a body and
for a period of time that body looks
alive I actually have been with people
who were dead and I didn’t realize they
were dead at first because I thought
they were just asleep and then I found
out that they were dead you leave behind
a body and for a period of time matter
of fact I had a friend of mine that
worked in the Parkland Hospital in
Dallas Texas the hospital where John F
Kennedy was pronounced dead and he he
did a autopsies on the thir 13th floor
and he pulled a guy out of a slab and
put him on a stretcher and he was
getting ready to do an autopsy and he
turned around to get his instruments and
when he turned back this guy was sitting
up and his arms were dangling like this
and his eyes were open and my friend
nearly jumped out the 13th floor window
it scared him so bad he went running
down the hall and yelled and somebody
came in and they checked this guy out
and he was dead but did you know that
even after you’re dead your body has
these electrical impulses and it can
make a muscle contract and this guy just
sat up anyway they checked him out he
was dead didn’t have any brain wavves
didn’t have a heartbeat and they just
pushed him back down did the
autopsy but for a while you can look
like you’re
alive so your old man that sin nature
that was separated from God and lust for
sin and lust for all of this wrong stuff
it programed
your brain how to think it programmed
you to be afraid of death it programmed
you to be selfish it programmed you to
think that if you don’t take care of
yourself nobody else will it programmed
you that when you have a need to hoard
and hold back instead of doing what
Jeremy was talking about and giving you
were taught by that old sinful nature
the wrong way to look at everything and
it left behind a body a way of thinking
and the only reason that you still are
dominated by sin worry fear anxiety and
on and on you could go is because you
haven’t renewed your mind your spirit is
completely changed your spirit doesn’t
have any fear in it your spirit trust
God 100% your spirit can believe for
anything did you know faith is already
something that is one of the fruit of
the spirit Galatians 5:23 that’s one of
the fruit of the spirit you’ve already
got faith I’ve got a teaching out
entitled The Faith Of God every one of
you have The Measure of Faith Romans
12:3 there aren’t different measures
every one of you were given the Faith of
Christ Paul said in Galatians chapter 2:
20 I’m crucified with Christ
nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ
liveth in me and the life that I now
live in the flesh I live by the faith of
the Son of God he didn’t say I’m living
by faith in the son of God
if that’s what your Bible says you ought
to get a real Bible it’s it says I live
by the faith of the Son of God if
there’s only one measure Romans 123 and
again I know that the nearly inspired
version says that I live that every
person has a Measure of Faith but the
King James the one that Jesus used it
says that you were given the measure of
Faith there’s only one measure and if
Paul’s measure was the faith fath of the
Son of God then you’ve got the faith of
the Son of God in your spirit you have
the fullness of the godhead bodily but
it doesn’t work until you renew your
mind it’s got to flow through your mind
to get into your physical
body and so if you’re thinking that well
I know that Faith Works but I just don’t
have enough I don’t have any of it
you’ve got the faith of the Son of God
You’ got everything that you need in
your spirit already but see your old
nature that sinful nature that was
separated from God taught you how to
think wrong taught you how to be
pessimistic taught you how to see the
worst side of everything and you are
going to continue to function the way
you were programmed until you
reprogrammed this
mind and I tell you one of the greatest
things that you could ever learn is that
you as the Born Again part of you is now
dead to sin it cannot
sin it’s dead to that it’s dead to fear
it’s dead to timidness and shyness it’s
dead to worry and care that is not your
Born Again Spirit anytime that you come
up and say man I’m just so depressed
you’ve solved the
problem somebody’s thinking why did that
Sol because your spirit can’t be
depressed you’re in the flesh you’re
indulging your feelings and emotions and
you’re going by the way the old man
programmed you in the spirit man you are
righteous and you’re bold it says in
Proverbs chapter 28:1 that the wicked
flee when no man is without but the
righteous are bold as a lion if you
aren’t bold it’s CU you aren’t walking
in the spirit you’re walking in the
flesh you’re going by how you feel in
the spirit your spirit doesn’t know any
fear your spirit’s not afraid of
anything you are dead to all of this so
You’ got to know that the old man is
dead so that that body the wrong
thinking that it programmed you with
might be destroyed and then the result
result of that in this sixth verse is
that you will not serve
sin man this is power if you could
understand brothers that you are dead to
whatever your problems
are finances health problems emotional
problems relational problems anything
that you’re dealing with it’s only
affecting your physical body it’s only
affecting your mental emotional part but
your spirit man is perfected
forever Hebrews chap 10: 10 and 14
you’ve been Sanctified and perfected
forever somebody says well maybe I got
born again that way but I’ve messed up
since then Ephesians chapter 1: 13 says
once you believed and you were baptized
into his death you were sealed by the
Holy Spirit of promise that means vacuum
packed when you sin as a Christian it
will give Satan an inroad into your
physical body to affect you it’ll give
Satan inroad into your mental emotional
part to change your thinking but your
spirit this part of you that is Holy and
pure and you got a brand new nature it’s
Vacuum Pack sin doesn’t penetrate the
cell your spirit retains the same
righteousness and Holiness that you were
born again with and it never
changes and so the second reason that he
gives man I’m just running out of time
but the second reason that he gives in
this chapter he he says it again down
here in verse 15 after he had said all
of these great things about your dead to
sin he says in verse 15 What then shall
we sin because we are not under the law
but under grace and again the answer is
God forbid know ye not that to whom you
yield yourself servants to obey his
servants you are to whom you obey
whether of sin unto death or of
obedience unto righteousness so the
second reason the first reason is you’re
dead to sin and if you were to live in
the spirit and if you knew if you had
the right identity and knew what had
happened to you you would just naturally
not yield to sin anymore because sin is
deadly sin is depressing sin is not
fun sin is bad so if you really knew
what you had you’d quit living in sin
because living in Holiness is better
than living in sin but the second reason
he gives is that if you yield to sin
then you are yielding yourself to the
author of that sin which is Satan
Satan’s the one that comes against you
to steal to kill and destroy and so if
you yield to sin you’re giving Satan an
inroad into your life and he’s he goes
about as a roaring lion seeking whom he
may devour if you give Satan the
opportunity if you yield to sin he’s
going to eat your lunch and pop the
bag for those of you that don’t know
that you can’t graduate from Caris
without knowing that
PHR and so I don’t yield to sin because
number one my heart’s been changed I got
a brand new heart and I I cannot
sin but then also even Beyond just my
relationship with God if I yield to sin
I’m yielding myself to Satan and even
though God’s not going to impute that
sin unto me Satan will Satan will hold
my sin against me and if possible he
will use my sin against me if you were
to take what I’m saying and say man
Andrew says that I can’t sin and that
it’s all and so you know what I’m going
to go out here and rob a bank get a
million dollars and they can’t do
anything to me well no God’s not going
to reject you if you’re truly Born Again
God won’t reject you for robbing a bank
but I guarantee you men will and they’ll
put you in jail and while you’re rotting
in prison you could just have a
wonderful communion with God because he
still loves you he’s dealing with you
based on who you are in the spirit but
that’s just dumber than a hammer for you
to go out and live and aw that gives
Satan an inroad into your life that’s
going to cause you and other people
problems as much as you can you need to
have
self-righteousness so that you can
relate to people without hurting them
and reaping rejection and stuff and also
so that you can keep the door closed on
the devil so as much as you can you need
to live a holy life but when it comes to
God you can’t approach God on the basis
of your Holiness you have to approach
him only on who you are in Christ I use
this verse already but John 4: 24 says
God is a spirit and those who worship
Him must worship Him in spirit and in
truth when you approach God you have to
approach him on the basis of what Jesus
did for you and not what you’ve done
he’s a spirit he sees you in the spirit
and in the spirit you are righteous you
got a brand new nature that is dead to
sin and in your spirit you’re as
righteous and holy as pure as Jesus is
because Ephesians 4:24 says put on the
new man which after God was created in
righteousness and true Holiness your
spirit is created righteous and holy and
God looks at you and he sees you
perfect there is no sin in your
spirit and if you’re going to truly
connect with God you’ve got to worship
him through that Spirit through this
Born Again Spirit but does that mean
that but since you know we’re clean in
the spirit that I can just go live
however I want to you aren an only
Spirit you’ve also got a body and you’ve
got a soul and if you yield those things
to the Devil he’s going to come and sin
will take you further than you want to
go it’ll cost you more than you want to
pay and it’ll keep you longer than you
want to stay now see that rhymes so
that’s got to be
God and you do not want to live in sin
living in sin is stupid but what I’m
saying is God loves you stupid because
he’s not looking at your body and your
thoughts he’s looking at your spirit and
in the spirit you’re a brand new
person the scripture says how can two
walk together except they be
agreed you can’t walk with God unless
you start thinking about yourself the
way he thinks about you he sees you a
brand new person he sees you righteous
and holy he sees you he said that if you
believe on him the works that he did you
will do also and even greater Works than
these Jesus is expecting you to do
everything he did and even greater
works and that’s not for the super Saint
that’s for every one of
us how can you walk with him unless you
agree if you’re going around just
focused on your physical natural
limitations and stuff you aren’t going
to really be in communion with the Lord
the way you
should now I am not denying that we have
all kinds of Hang-Ups in our phys
physical body and God loves you based on
who you are in the
spirit he doesn’t love you based on your
Physical Realm or your mental emotional
part but he loves you so much that he’s
concerned about your physical body and
your mental emotional part and he wants
to set you free and that’s what these
verses go on to say man I wish I had
time to go into more detail on this but
let me show you here in verse 7 he that
is dead is freed from sin it didn’t say
you’re free it says you’re freed there’s
a difference between being freed F re e
d and free you could be freed and not
free did you know Abraham Lincoln freed
the slaves and yet many of them stayed
in slavery for another couple of years
because their masters wouldn’t let them
out and they couldn’t break out of that
but they had been freed many of them
weren’t told that they had been freed
they didn’t have the communication in
the the things that we have and many of
them didn’t know what had happened to
them kind of remind you of
Christians that we don’t know what’s
happened to us and we’re still
identifying and thinking but you don’t
know who I am you don’t know who you are
is what the problem is you’ve been freed
from sin and it goes on to say in the
next verse verse 8 now if we be dead
with Christ which we are we believe that
we shall also live with him that’s
future tense verse 9 knowing you got to
know something that Christ being raised
from the dead dieth no more death hath
no more dominion over him for in that he
died he died unto sin once but in that
he liveth he liveth unto God you you
don’t have to die to yourself over and
over and over you have to appropriate it
over and over and over you have to
constantly keep it in mind but you died
when you got a new nature God took out
of you that sinful evil nature and if
you are born again you don’t have any
part of your spirit being that is
corrupt it is perfect it is pure it was
created in righteousness and true
Holiness and the rest of the Christian
life is just renewing your mind to what
you’ve already got you got three parts
Spirit soul and body your spirit’s
perfect your spirit’s The Same Spirit is
going to be a million years from now in
eternity your spirit’s not going to get
changed you have the spirit of Christ
Living on the inside of you this spirit
is perfect but you got two other parts
and if your mind is over here controlled
by the Physical Realm so that you’re
going by what you see and what you feel
and what people say about you and what
circumstances say then that’s two
against one and that just stops the flow
of who you are but if you get your mind
renewed Romans 12:2 says be not
conformed to this world but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind
that you may may prove what is the good
acceptable and perfect will of God you
get your mind in agreement with your
spirit that’s two against one and your
body just has to manifest the
resurrection power of God the joy of God
the love the peace all of these kind of
things your mind is the deciding
part Proverbs 23:7 as a man thinks in
his heart so is
he your spirit has been changed you are
equipped with everything you need
everything there is nothing that you
will ever run into that you have to go
to God and he says oh I didn’t see that
coming he’s already put within you
everything that you will ever
need the supply was created before the
need even existed your supply that’s in
your spirit is greater than the sickness
that you’re dealing with the poverty
that you’re dealing with the depression
fear
discouragement what you have on the
inside is infinitely greater than
whatever is fighting you on the outside
side but your life is going to go the
direction of your dominant thought and
if you don’t know who you are and if you
don’t stay focused on it and walk in the
spirit then even though you have all of
this life and power of God in your
spirit it will not manifest and you can
live a life of sickness poverty fear
worry bitterness hurt pain on and on it
goes if that’s the way you think but I’m
telling you if you could receive what I
was trying to get across this morning
that you are dead to sin you’ve got a
new nature and now it’s just as simple
as as quickly as you can change your way
of thinking and begin to identify with
who Jesus made you to be you can resur
you can uh demonstrate that Resurrection
Life flowing through
you man what I’ve said here is good
news this is good
news praise
God