Don't give in to sin!

 

Short devo's this week as we have VBS all this week! I hope to continue the series on How God views us next week. So here we go:

Proverbs 1:10 10 My son, if sinners entice you,Do not consent.

Be very careful of who your friends are and who you hang out with. When they sin do not follow their lead! Sin is all around us and we must keep a watch out for the devil and his demons tempting us! Stand strong in the faith my brothers and sisters!

Tom

Who are you from God's perspective? #8

Today as we continue to look at who we are from God's view we see something that should comfort us in a great way...read this verse:



John 1:12

12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:



If you have received Jesus as Lord and Savior then you are a child of God! We are adopted into the family of God! Wow!



Ephesians 1:5-6

5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.



Stop and think about that for a while. You are child of God. Nothing we have done for this honor. Jesus did it all on the cross! God loves us so much and we are His children!



Now maybe you have a great dad or maybe you don't but one thing is for sure.....you have a heavenly Father who loves you more than you can comprehend! Rejoice in that fact today!



Tom

Who are you from God's perspective? #7

I hope you have been letting these ways that God sees you sink in! It should make you feel great about yourself and life to know that God sees you in the most loving, awesome ways. So lets continue this morning.

Ephesians 1:3-63 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

What I want you to see in these verse is God sees those who have put their faith in Christ as holy and without blame! Wow! I don't know about you but most days I don't see my self as very holy but you know what? It don't matter how I view myself because God views me as holy because I am covered by the blood of Jesus! God's opinion rules! So live a holy life! God also sees us as blameless. All the blame we deserve for our sin is gone! Again removed by the blood of Jesus upon that cross at Calvary! So we have no reason to live under guilt or shame because God does not blame His Children who have received His forgiveness! That makes me smile this Monday morning!

So praise God this morning for His grace, mercy, and love! You are loved, blameless and holy!

Tom

Who are you from God's perspective? #6

OH my brothers and sisters! As we continue to look at who you are from God's view, this morning you are going to want to shout, sing, dance, flip, smile, hop, jump, run around the house, hug someone, and praise the Lord when you see view today! Here it is:

1 Corinthians 15:55-57

55 “O Death, where is your sting?O Hades, where is your victory?”

56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

YOU ARE VICTORIOUS! Through Jesus we have defeated sin, we have defeated death! YESSSSSSSS! Their is no such thing as a loser when covered by the blood of Jesus! The devil can try to beat us down, but He has been defeated! Death and hell are nothing and of no concern to those who have placed their faith in Christ! If that don't make you smile I don't know what will!

Praise be to God, I am a winner for eternity! How does that feel????? AWESOME!

Tom

Who are you from God's perspective? #5

Living by the way God sees us is so refreshing! As we continue to look at how God sees us I want you to ask yourself, "Do I live like I am free, or am I in bondage to something, or someone? Look at these verses:



Galatians 5:1 5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.



John 8:32

32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”



John 8:36

36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.



Do you see why I asked that question above? Jesus made us free to live in Him and from bondage to anything! That is awesome news. In Christ we have the power to overcome anything....a relationship that is not God honoring, a sinful habit, a habit that may be hurting our bodies, hobbies that keep us from the best relationship that we can have with God and the list goes on. Don't be in bondage to anything but Jesus! You can not live the life God desires for you if you are enslaved by people or things of this world. Thank God He has provided the answer...His Son Jesus. Don't you want to be free, really free??? Come to Jesus, and you can have that victorious, joyful, life that can only be had in truth, Jesus!



Tom

Who are you from God's perspective? #4

I sure an enjoying seeing how God sees me, for that is most important. My view and others view are of no value as we see how God sees us! His view rules. So let's look at another way God sees us this morning:


Romans 8:35-39

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:“For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.



Two main points we need to grab this morning from God's perspective:



1. There is NOTHING that can separate us from the love of Jesus! Did you catch that? NOTHING! Life's trials...no, distress is that which causes anxiety, pain, or suffering....no, persecution......no, famine.....no, nakedness....no, peril means exposed to danger....no, or even the sword or death.....no, no, no!!!!! You are loved by Jesus and NOTHING can take that away!



2. You are a conqueror in Jesus! Do you see your self as a conqueror? You should because if have given your life to Jesus and are a follower of Him you are victorious! Live like it. The devil and his tactics have lost, you have won through Jesus!!!! There are no powers anywhere that can separate us from the love of God through Jesus today or any other day!!!



Praise the Lord, shout, dance....God says you are loved and a conqueror! That makes it fact!



Tom

Who are you from God's perspective? #3

Ok let's continue on looking at how God views us, not how we view ourselves! Today we see we are free from the hold sin has on us look at this verse:


Romans 6:18

18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness



Oh yeah! We are free from sin. It no longer has a hold on us, because now we are slaves to righteousness in Christ. God does not see our sin anymore! He sees the righteousness of Christ in us! So why oh why do we let past sin come back to haunt us and burden us? The devil is good at this trick of bring our past sin up to try and beat us down with it....don't allow it! It is a lie! You are righteous in God's eyes!



So if we are free from sin than we are free from it's condemnation! Look here:



Romans 8:1-4

8 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the

flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but

according to the Spirit.



God no longer sees our sin so we are no longer convicted by God for our sin because it has been covered by Jesus! Makes me want to shout! Thank you Jesus! Jesus fulfilled the the law, all the requirements of God for us so that we no longer walk in our sinful fleshly desires but according to the Holy Spirit who dwells in each child of God!



So today we see that God sees us....sin free, righteous in Christ, and free from the convictions that sin brings upon us! Are you living this way or are you allowing the devil to warp your view? Don't! You are victorious through Christ Jesus...live like it!



Tom