Sunday Words of Encouragement November 29, 2020

We are still sharing church through online. I especially enjoyed one of our worship songs this morning:  See a Victory. This led to a shared word of a message of victory.

Pastor continued his sermon series Shattered. Pastor encouraged us to go back and read Romans Chapter 5.

We are still living under the consequences of Adam’s sin that shattered the perfection of creation. But Jesus came and shattered the separation of sin!

Events in life change our life…sometimes the prior time of life is shattered.
You grow up and have to get a job; carefree days are gone.
Single life is gone when you marry.
Pleasures of two are changed when you have children.
Moving to a new home or changing jobs will change your old life.
The death of a loved one changes your life.
But when life changes there is a new opportunity.

Romans 5:20 to 6:1-18.
When sin abounded, God’s grace became more abundant! Sin is no longer your master! Sanctification comes in two parts: Dying to sin – Living to righteousness. Should we keep on sinning so grace can be magnified? NO! That would be an abuse of grace.
How can you be dead to sin – a disciple of Christ - and still live in sin? We were crucified with Christ. (Galatians 2:20.)

When Christ died, He shattered the power of sin. You have been saved and sanctified, so you have also died to sin. We are no longer slaves to sin. (Romans 6:7 and 10.)
And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with Him. We will not taste death. We must help others find the same life.
So use your whole body is an instrument to do what is right for the Glory of God. Romans 6:13.

The Point: We must give our whole life completely to the one who gave us new life!

Questions:

1. Have you died to sin?
2. Are you free and living in your new life?
3. Do you need to step back into that new life feeling again?

Give your life to God. Die to sin. Seek the New Life that God gives!

I am glad that we can "See a Victory!"

Verses for Today:
Romans 6:8-11 NIV
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Lord, help me resist temptation and help me give my life more fully to You.