In this post, I discuss the pitfalls of accountability groups, and the better way to gain
victory over sin in our lives.
In all that Jesus said and did, in his death on the cross and in the living presence of Christ, a promise
of victory over sin through the forgiving love of God is brought to us.
Through Jesus» life, passion, death and resurrection he has
won victory over sin and death opening up for us the promise of life eternal.
We will have much
more victory over sin when we move our eyes to Jesus and off of ourselves and our sins.
Yet decisive
moral victory over sin by the grace of God is real, with fruits manifest in the way one treats his neighbor as well as in reorientation of the soul toward God.
If all you hear is a sermon a week, you will not
gain victory over that sin in your life, you will not see power and effectiveness in your prayers, you will not gain that insight and wisdom into the difficult decision you are facing, you will never be able to handle with love that troublesome person at work, you will rarely hear from God.
Once we have seen this, we can see that the cross of Jesus is not only reveals the essence of who God is, but is also the place where Jesus achieved His
greatest victory over sin, death, and the devil, and where Jesus finally and ultimately destroyed the devil's work.
If we as Christ followers are not seeing regular and
progressive victory over sin, we need to start asking God to reveal those road blocks in our life so that we can start removing them and be more fruitful.
Grace gifts us with the possibility
of victory over sin, not fully realized this side of the grave; but truly, even if imperfectly, experienced none the less.
For people who purposefully make the chose to follow Jesus and be the church rather than just attend church, all the people I know of this sort have way more joy, freedom, fellowship, community, and
victory over sin in their lives than they ever had before.
Yet both of these are mistaken views, for no Christian is sinless and no real Christian fails to find some
moral victory over sin.
A Catholic is a Christian who commits their life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and lives in
victory over sin.
The imagery in the readings is beautiful and triumphant, a fitting trumpeting of Christ's
victory over sin, death and the devil.
In the providence of God the evil choices of those who crucified Christ, therefore, became the occasion of
his victory over sin and death.
Do we ever truly have
victory over sin?
Through
his victory over sin and all its effects in both body and soul he is the centre of renewed control and direction for fallen humanity.
The early evangelicals, like Katharine Bushnell, understood that for too long the church associated women with Eve's sin and men with Christ's
victories over sin — a view that wreaks havoc on the Christian view of sanctification.
But
victory over sin and Satan and the world and the flesh comes only through walking by faith.
The eternal peace of humanity with God, received by faith on account of Christ's
victory over sin, death, and the power of Satan, is dismissed as pie in the sky to be exchanged for the various approximations of peace and happiness that in good times this world also knows about and experiences.
Until you understand the love of God,
no victory over sin and temptation will be possible.
In the New Testament death is sometimes represented as the penalty for sin, or it becomes the symbol for separation from God, and thus Christ's
victory over sin is also the victory over death.
Another blessing that can be gained from the Bible is how to have
victory over sin.
It will, as verse 9 shows, give
you victory over sin.
The empty tomb is the first sign of Christ's
victory over sin and death.
Not only is death the one absolutely inescapable event of life, but
the victory over sin and death has always been at the center of Christian faith.
Paul believed that in Jesus God won
a victory over sin.
Justice, God's gift of life, the command of love, the prophetic call to care for the poor and outcast, Christ's
victory over sin and death... it would be hard to imagine a biblical theme that would not simply and straightforwardly apply to the imperative of pro-life work and witness.
Sin is doomed and its power is weakened, but it has not been actually destroyed: salvation has already been bestowed in Christ, but the fulfillment of that salvation awaits Christ's return in glorious power to bring to completion
his victory over sin and death and to inaugurate fully and finally the Kingdom of God.51
It will be best to end this chapter on the note, not of man's sinfulness, but of God's
victory over sin.
It is also transformational, if we have received it, in that it gives
us victory over sin and changes us positively in other ways too.
In Jesus as the Messiah, the hope had been vindicated; God's
victory over sin was manifest; his final victory over the world and the powers of evil was assured.
Appollonius continued to explain incarnation, the Word becoming flesh and the revelation of God through Jesus Christ and his passion,
victory over sin and went on to say that,» He has taught us to rein in our anger, to direct our desires, to restrain our instincts, to dissipate our sorrows.