Deliverance From Sin- Part 2 Series

Hallelujah! You can take whatever sin you have tonight and say, “Lord, pardon me, pardon me for I have sinned against You. When I want to do some wrong to somebody else, it’s really against you first because You made me serve You and that’s against Your will. Nicodemus says, “Teacher, we know You are from God because nobody can do what you do except they come from God. (John 3:2)” Do you know what Jesus said? Did he say, “Nicodemus, I am so glad you woke up and smelled the coffee because you see me do miracles so long and now you are coming to me acknowledging Who I am”. Did He say that? No. Do you know what He said? He said, “I tell you the truth, you’ve got to be born again.” He said, “You must be born again.” What was he doing? He went to the heart of the matter. He said, “Your religion, your efforts, your acknowledging that I am the Son of God, you know, even like flattering. It’s not going to do you any good. You got to become born again.”

Nicodemus says this in John 3:4; Nicodemus scratched his head and said, “How can a man be born again when he is old? How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb?” You know that’s a fair question, right? He says, “You want me to become born again? What do you mean by born again? What do I have to do? Are you telling me that I have to go back into my mother’s belly and then come out a second time?” Jesus said this, He said, “Truly, truly I say to you except a man is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” He can’t. He can’t. He’s got to be born of water and the spirit. And then He says this: “That which is born of the flesh - that is your mother’s belly, your human body, that’s flesh - But that which is born of spirit is spirit.

So He says, 7. “Don’t be amazed, don’t marvel that I said you must be born again.” Finally this verse, 8. The wind blows wherever it wants. It goes from whatever direction it comes from. However you can’t really tell, you can’t really tell. Can you see the wind? I can’t. Neither can you. But if I am standing here and all of our Bibles close this way all of a sudden including mine and we hear a sound; we can tell that was wind, right? And it probably came from there somehow, either through a fan or from an open window. So what is that saying, my friend? It says that Jesus said, “Just like the wind when it comes all of a sudden, you can know it’s there by the effect. You can see an effect come forth. Even though you can’t see with your eyes. So is the Spirit of the Living God.” The Holy Spirit once He starts working in your life, you are going to start hating sin. Amen! Some of you may have experienced that. You start thinking, “I hate this life!” It’s not somebody saying, you know what, “I abused my body so much, I don’t want to live. It’s not that.” It’s “I don’t like the thing that caused the abuse. I want to live but I hate the way I live.’

How many of you want to change your life? Praise God! God is able to do that. And I want to tell you, that God loves you. God is able by the Holy Spirit to let you see your own heart as if an X-ray was shown right now. Because our heart is so corrupt, the Bible says, and we are so blind to sin. Human nature hates to hear when somebody says, “Brother, you got to change the way you are living.” The first instinct is “Who are you talking about? Why don’t you take the speck out of your eye or the log out of your eye before you point a finger at me?” Right? That’s human nature. Instead of saying humbly, “You are right, you are right. I’ve got to change some things, but I need help.” See, that’s the perfect place to start.

If God is holy, if God is full of power, full of love, you know what he wants from you. He wants you to say, “YES LORD, yes Lord!” All he wants us to do is say, “I agree with you, God. Lord, I am getting down on my knees. Lord, you are right and I am wrong. I am wrong. You are right. If you make the way for my soul to be cleansed even tonight through the blood of your Son Jesus Christ and Your Holy Spirit is going to change me from the inside out, then one day, I am going to come out like a butterfly. All of the past sins and the darkness of that cocoon; you know when it’s not a butterfly before it becomes a butterfly; it is shut in the dark. No hope, no light, just the waiting period of hopelessness. One day the butterfly comes out. That’s the work of the Holy Spirit.