Let Not

“Let Not”

From the desk of Pastor Blankenship

TEXT: Rom. 6:11

Ro 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. {instruments: Gr. arms, or, weapons}

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

1. Dominion Over Sin

Ro 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. {from...: Gr. to righteousness}

21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

2. Dominion Over Pride.

Ga 5:26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one

another.

Ps 73:6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

Pr 16:18 ¶ Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

1Jo 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

A minister, a Boy Scout, and a computer expert were the only passengers on a small plane. The pilot came back to the cabin and said that the plane was going down but there were only three parachutes and four people. The Pilot added, “I should have one of the parachutes because I have a wife and 3 small children.” So he took one and jumped.

The computer whiz said, “I should have one of the parachutes because I am the smartest man in the world and everyone needs me.” So he took one and jumped.

The minister turned to the Boy Scout and with a sad smile said, “You are young and I have lived a rich life, so you take the remaining parachute, and I’ll go down with the plane.”

The Boy Scout said, “Relax, Reverend, the smartest man in the world just picked up my knapsack and jumped out!”

Pride is the only disease known to man that makes everyone sick except the one who has it.

3. Dominion Over Anger

Eph 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, and in the right way-that is not easy.

Ps 30:5 For his anger endureth but a moment;

Ps 103:8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

Eph 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Col 3:8 ¶ But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Pr 15:18 ¶ A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

4. Dominion Over Sloth

1Th 5:6 ¶ Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

Jg 18:9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.

A farmer was sitting on the porch of his house when a stranger cam by and asked, “How’s things?”