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Abounding Grace Series
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: Abounding grace means dead to sin and alive to Christ. But what does it no mean to be dead to sin? And what are we to do as a result of this abounding grace in our llives?
THIS TEACHING IS VERY PRACTICAL V12 -14:
IN A TWOFOLD MANNER 1) LOOK IF I FIND THAT SOMETHING THAT I AM DOING IS CASUING ME TO SIN. I MUST CUT IT OUT ITS CALLED MORTIFICATION LITERALLY MEANS “PUTTING THE FLESH TO DEATH.”
IF THE TV IS CAUSING ME TO SIN – MORTIFY IT - PUT IT TO DEATH. IF ALCHOL IS CAUSING ME TO SIN – MORIFY IT PUT IT TO DEATH. IF A RELATIONSHIP I AM IN IS CAUSING ME TO SIN - THEN MORITFY IT PUT IT TO DEATH. IF PEOPLE I’M AROUND ARE CAUSING ME TO SIN - THEN MORITFY IT! SAY NO PUT IT TO DEATH.
AFTER ALL YOU ARE DEAD TO IT HOW YOU CAN LIVE IN IT ANY LONGER?
FOR EVERY SIN THAT REVEALS IT UGLY HEAD IN OUR LIVES THEN WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MORTIFY IT, TO PUT IT TO DEATH, TO SAY NO, BECAUSE SIN NO LONGER HAS ANY JURISTRICTION OVER YOU ANY MORE ......WE HAVE A NEW MASTER IN SO DOING WE WILL BEGIN TO GROW IN OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH AND WILL MOVE INTO VICTORY OF LIFE......
VIDEO SLOT.. PUTTING TO DEATH THE SINFUL NATURE.
2) BUT MORE THAN THIS WE NEED ALSO TO BE PRO - ACTIVE NOT ONLY REFUSING THE OLD MASTER BUT SERVING THE NEW ONE OFFERING OURSELVES - OUR DAILY PRAYER MUST BE “HERE I AM LORD WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO TODAY FOR YOU?” AS ONE WHO IS INDEED IS ALIVE TO GOD WALKING IN THE SPIRIT OF GOD GAL 5:16 . WILL ENABLE US NOT TO GRAIFY THE DESIRES OF THE SINFUL NATURE.
AS WE OFFER OURSELVES TO GOD - WE ARE GOING TO BE KEEPING OURSELVES IN JOYFUL SERVICE TO GOD AND THIS IS WHERE THE BLESSING ARE ...YET WHEN WE FIND OURSELVES DISTANCING OURSELVES FROM SERVING GOD WE ARE PUTTING OURSELVES IN GREATER RISK OF COMING UNDER ATTACK AND FALLING INTO THE OLD WAYS..
WRAPPING IT UP
SO WE HAVE SEEN THAT GRACE ABOUNDING IS NOT A LICENCE TO SIN BUT INFACT JUST THE OPPOSITE A LICENCE TO HOLY LIVING - AN OPPORTUNITY TO OFFER OURSELVES TO GOD. ABOUNDING GRACE MEANS WE ARE ACTUALLY DEAD TO SIN AND ALIVE TO GOD IN CHRIST WHICH HAS DEALT A FATAL BLOW TO THE OLD LIFE (ITS DEAD ). THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST AS IDENTIFIED IN OUR BAPTISM IT WAS CRUCIFIED, WE CAN CONTINUE TO PUT IT TO DEATH WHENEVER IT REVEALS ITS UGLY HEAD BECAUSE WE HAVE A NEW RISEN LIFE IN CHRIST. WE CAN SERVE HIM IN FREEDOM.
FOR THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST JESUS ROM 8:1.
