Do You Have A Frog Problem? Series

- Yet they allow their lust to control their thoughts about the women or men around them…

- For the Christian, even though they might not be committing these sins as bad as some other people do, the fact is that the sin is still there…

- And oftentimes, these habitual sins become “a frog of a problem” and they end up covering everything in that person’s life.

- Their job, where it affects their co-workers and customers…

- Their home life, where it affects their family members…

- Their spiritual life, where it affects themselves, and they start to grow distant from the Lord…

- So is there hope for the Christian struggling with habitual sin?

- Absolutely!

- James 4:7-8 says, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”

- Habitual sins are still sin, so the struggle with them is very real…

- Yet God tells us to submit to Him, and draw near to Him…

- When we do, He will give us victory in those areas, as we go through the process of sanctification, growing closer to Him…

- Sometimes, it’s slower than other times, but He will give us victory, and the nearer we draw to Him, the easier it becomes to defeat those habitual sins.

- Romans 6:17-18 says, “Thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.”

- But what do we do about these habitual sins covering everything?

- 1 Peter 4:8 says, “…above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”

- To cover sin means to forgive it, and forgiveness is associated with love.

- The greatest example of this for the Christian is of course the Lord Jesus Christ.

- Romans 5:8 says, “…God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

- 1 John 4:10 says, “In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

- Christ’s love has forgiven all our sin, even habitual sins.

- So when we’re feeling overwhelmed by those sins, we can look to Him, and remember that His love has done more than cover our sin…His love has completely done away with our sins!

- Now let’s look at this “frog problem” that seems to cover everything in the life of an unsaved person.

- Ephesians 2:1 says that those without Christ are “…dead in their trespasses and sins…”

- Romans 8:7 says, “For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.”

- Galatians 5:1 calls sin a “yoke of slavery.”

- So the person without Christ has a huge problem, because their sin covers everything in their lives, but they don’t have deliverance and forgiveness of sin like the believer does.

- 2 Timothy 3 gives a list of some of their sins…

- They are “…lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God…”