Struggle Against Sin

The destruction of all things that are good has come in and through sin. When we believe in Christ, we are enlisted in the battle against sin both internally and externally. Do not grow weary of this struggle oh Christian!

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Sermon Preview for Sunday, January 18, 2026

In our last discussion aimed at knowing how to combat the reality and presence of sin we looked at some of the more obvious and massive sins. The realities of love of money and pornography, for example, destroy our lives from the inside and pose an obvious and cancerous threat. In Matthew 5:21-48 Jesus provides for us an important nugget of truth in this battle against sin, a nugget of truth worth more than any amount of gold to our lives. He says in our battle against sin there are smaller sins that so easily go unnoticed directly connected to the more obvious sins that can take us out, and paying attention to these smaller sins will go a very long way in protecting us from the sins that can strangle us fully. Men and women are very skilled at keeping the more noticeable sins under control by mere human will and in so doing fool others, and worse yet ourselves, into believing we are doing better than we really are with our sin. In reality the whole time the not so noticeable sin of our lives remains out of control. Truly, it is only a matter of time until these sins we keep under wraps will burst forth in the form of the more noticeable ones unless the grace, mercy, power, love, and truth of God permeate thoroughly thru and thru each and every cell sized deviant in our heart that does not reflect the perfect character and nature of our Almighty God. Brothers and sisters in Christ, cut off all sin at the smallest level possible and be active in helping other brothers and sisters to do the same. God help us in this battle for without Him we are easy prey.

Sermon Preview for Sunday, January 11, 2026

It is very obvious to me that where there is a sermon designed to encourage us to seriously wrestle with our sin in an attempt to put it out, there should be at least one sermon following designed to answer the question how do we seriously wrestle with our sin. The Scripture teaches before Christ set us free and made us alive together with Him we are "dead in our trespasses and sins". That means that sin was alive and well in us and around us and we were actively a part of it going along without any hesitation or second thought. The clear sign we have truly been made alive in Christ is that now we have fight in us against the very sin that made us dead in the first place. It is the wrestle that proves we are alive, we have been set free by our savior to say no to temptation and tell the Devil he can save his lies for the hell he properly belongs to. It goes without saying, clearly, we are not saved because we fight this fight with sin, we are saved only in Christ and only in His accomplished work at the cross and out of the grave, yet the Holy Spirit's work of sanctification begins at that moment, the war begins inside and outside of us against the destruction of sin. Due to this fact, it is sufficient to say we are to wrestle with our sin any way we can as long as we are, but it is also true the Bible gives us a very clear picture of the things of God we are to make routine in our lives which carry with them an automatic added benefit of protecting us and enabling us to fight against sin. We turn to some of these things this morning.