Victory Over the Iniquities that Currently Drive You [podcast]

“Too many Christians blame their flesh on Satan and try casting it out. Never works. That’s why they don’t grow! Must crucify the flesh!” Karen Cochran

Recently, a brother in Christ was pushing the fact that Genesis 6:5, 12 use the phrase “only evil continually” pertaining to mankind, all men.

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Ask for yourself the important question: WHY did Jesus come to the earth? And from this moment forward, allow the Bible to answer that question …. Look for the Bible answer…… Why Jesus came to die for us and make us new creatures in Christ whereby OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY. 2 Cor 5:17-18. The “old man” (sin nature) is still there and in Christ we “put OFF the old man” and “put on the new man”… Read Colossians 3. “Only evil continually” – That’s God’s statement on fallen man – before Christ came to give us the victory over sin. Read Romans afresh! It’s rightly called “The ABC’s of the Christian Faith.”

We are fighting the good fight of faith, “striving against sin” and “more than conquerors” over sin through Jesus who loves us and bought us with His own blood! (1 Timothy 6:12; Hebrews 12:4; 13:12; Acts 20:28; Romans 8:37) Jesus came to give us the complete victory over all sin and expects to see exactly that in our lives!

“Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from ALLLLL iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” Titus 2:14

Did Jesus Christ come to the earth and die on that cross to forgive all your sins and yet leave you relegated to a life of sin – without His ability, His empowering grace to overcome all sin? Anyone who believes such a myth is in great need of repenting and getting into God’s Word for themselves! (2 Timothy 2:15)

“Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” 2 Corinthians 7:1

Read the above Bible verse again and let it be forever settled in your own heart and mind that God expects you to “perfect(ing) holiness in the fear of God.”

To deny that God gave His only begotten Son for us to completely be delivered from “all sin”, is to deny the LORD’s testimony on the matter and what He defines salvation as being (Titus 2:14; 1 John 1:7, etc.).

“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.” Romans 6:14

All sin is overcome by self-denial with the grace of Christ and not by self-will! Surrender sums up the key to experiencing Christ’s victory (Luke 22:42; 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, etc.).

“And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him” 1 John 3:5-6

“Moreover WHEN ye fast, …” Matthew 6:16

Did God command His people to “Be ye holy; for I am holy” and yet doesn’t give us His grace ability to do what He Himself commanded? That would NOT be the God of the Bible but is rather an evil indictment against the almighty that we should immediately repent of.

“FOOLS” vs Those who confess and forsake sin and receive divine mercy

“Fools make a mock at sin.” Proverbs 14:9

“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” Proverbs 28:13

Those who if they sin, stop and return to the LORD, confess their sins, and turn from their wicked ways.

The LORD would have us today to repent of making excuse for sin, of pandering to the lusts of the flesh, and to admit that every time we’ve sinned, it was a choice (James 1:13-15). Sin is 100% always our own fault! Not God’s! So, place the blame on yourself – not the LORD. Every moment we walked without being truly crucified with Christ, we’ve not walked in the Spirit and have therefore sinned. Read Galatians 5:16-24.

“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” Romans 6:1-2

Recently, when ministering to a man who during our fellowship, came back to Christ, I found myself telling him that “God loves your more than you can ever know and yet, the LORD requires that you obey Him and not the dictates of your flesh.” And also shared with him that “True repentance always brings forth the fruit of a holy life.”

Jesus desires to raise up His people out of their iniquities. He shall do just this as we lay down our lives – as we submit to His mandate that we be crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20). Are you ready for the full and complete victory that the LORD alone can bring you into? (1 Corinthians 15:57)

In the scope of past, present, and future history – HIS-story – nothing is over till Jesus wins!

“For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. … 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 15:25-26, 57

“I especially like the way you wrapped up this podcast in the last couple of minutes. Gives so much hope.” Debbie L.

“But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:15-16

Those who possess saving faith as opposed to the many counterfeits, trust God to deliver them from all sin and they seek His face for it. They don’t make excuses, but obey God, crying out to Him to sanctify, to make them whole, and to make them holy.

“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.” 1 John 5:3 

“According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4 whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” 2 Peter 1:3-4 

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” Romans 5:12

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:23

“Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” Romans 5:18-19 
 
“Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:” Hebrews 12:14
 
“Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth. 13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.” Ezekiel 33:12-13
 
“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Genesis 6:5
 
“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.” Romans 7:18
 
“And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.” Genesis 6:12

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9
 

“And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:” Isaiah 37:31
 
“But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him.” Psalms 4:3
 
“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.” 1 John 5:3

“If ye love me, keep my commandments.” John 14:15

“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” Matthew 5:8

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:19-21

“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” Matthew 5:28

“Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:” 1 Corinthians 15:36

“But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.” 1 Corinthians 9:27

“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” Luke 21:34-36

“Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.” 2 Corinthians 4:10-12

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.” Romans 8:28-29

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” James 4:7

“And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.” Luke 4:14

“But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.” Romans 8:11

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;” 2 Corinthians 5:17-18

Pour over Isaiah 58.

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