Saints With Sinners Problems

• No doubt that we Love the Lord!

• Our desire is to operate by the Will of God

• Our daily prayer NOT MY WILL BUT THEY WILL BE DONE

• No longer about us, all about Jesus

• Understand we have Come This Far By Faith

We are therefore by Definition = Saints – Don’t look strange at the person next to you – you have to focus on yourself. I want to address this issue of Saints with Sinners Problems. Well I’m still not with you, what do you really mean Reverend? We are saved but:

• Why did we Cuss at the neighbors child?

• Turn up the Liquor bottle when we felt stressed

• Keep running back to the Drug Dealer with my paycheck

• Carry that Lie about that Bro. or Sis. Sitting next to me

• Cuss all day long on the job

• Cheat on my timecard last week

• Cheat on my Taxes

• Have those thoughts about the new Secretary and I am happily married

• Talking about Saints with Sinners Problems

Stopped by this morning to let you know that we are Saints with Sinners Problems. Because we have been saved and washed in the Blood of the Lamb, does not mean that sin will no longer knock on our door. You need to understand that there is nothing wrong with you because of the struggles you encounter in your life.

• So quick to point a finger at one another when we fall

• We gage our spirituality by viewing our hurting neighbor

• I am spiritually okay because I’m not behaving like my neighbor

• Line our lives up in the Word – None of us look so good then

• Because your faltering and Falling, God still on your side

I am reminded of a flippant young man who once remarked to a Preacher in mocking fashion, "You say that unsaved people carry a great weight of sin. Frankly, I feel nothing. How heavy is Sin? Ten pounds? Fifty pounds? Eighty pounds? A hundred pounds?" The preacher thought for a moment, then replied, "If you laid a four-hundred-pound weight on a corpse, would it feel the load?" The young man was quick to say, "Of course not; it’s dead" Driving home his point, the preacher said, "The person who doesn’t know Christ is equally dead. And though the load is great, he feels none of it" The Christian, unlike the average non-Christian, is not indifferent to the weight of sin. He is actually Hypersensitive to it. Having come to Jesus Christ, his senses are awakened to the reality of sin. His sensitivity to sin intensifies as he matures spiritually. Such sensitivity is what each of us feels whenever we err and allow Sin to Creep into our lives. The Holy Spirit begins to Quicken our Spirit to the point we can not get rest until we get it right.

Vs. 14 “FOR WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS SPIRITUAL: BUT I AM CARNAL, SOLD UNDER SIN.” Paul is reminding us that there is an internal battle going on. The spirit man that is the nature of Christ dwelling in us is constantly at war with the carnal man. It is often a struggle to do the right thing. Carnal means the Flesh, and we all know the Flesh wants to do what feels good, which is ordinarily contrary to the Will of God. When we consider that the Law is Spiritual we must then determine what we understand and believe about Man’s Nature. Is our nature Dichotomous (Body and Soul) or Trichotomous (Body, Soul, Spirit)? There are good arguments for both views, but the point being that we Struggle Internally with more than One Nature. We will learn more about this in a Bible Study Class that I am designing. Paul reminded us that No good thing dwelth in the flesh. It is only by the Help of the Holy Spirit that we are able to put our flesh under subjection. Adversary causes us to walk in the flesh or by Sight