The Secret Of Spiritual Victory
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Believers
in Christ have been made “free from sin” by race (Romans 6:14,18) in
the sense that they need not, indeed, should not, yield to sin when
temptation arises (Romans 6:12,13). Believers have also been made “free
from the law of sin and death” (Roans 8:2) for Christ, in grace, bore
the death penalty for them.
But
no believer is free from what Paul calls “the law of sin which is in my
members” (Romans 7:23), that is, the old Adamic nature, with its
inherent tendency to do wrong. Nor is he free from the conflict with the
new nature which this involves. If the Christian would be truly
spiritual and deal in a scriptural way with the sin that indwells him,
he must clearly recognize its presence; he must face the fact that
while, thank God, he is no longer “in sin”, sin is still in him.
But
this conflict should not discourage us, for it is one of the true signs
of salvation. It is unknown to the unbeliever, for only the additional
presence of the new nature, along with the old, causes this conflict,
for the Bible says about these two natures: “these are contrary the one
to the other” (Galatians 5:17).
But
not only is this conflict within the believer a sure sign of salvation;
it also creates within him a deep and necessary sense of our inward
imperfection and of the infinite grace of a holy God in saving us and
ministering to us daily in helping us to overcome sin. And this in turn
gives us a more understanding approach as we proclaim to the lost “the
gospel of the grace of God”.
Paul’s
epistles show clearly that there is nothing that will so help us to
overcome sin and live pleasing to God as an understanding and an
appreciation of what He has done for us in Christ. As we are occupied
with these “things of the Spirit” we find ourselves “walking in the
Spirit”, and Galatians 5:16 says: “WALK IN THE SPIRIT, AND YE SHALL NOT
FULFIL THE LUST OF THE
FLESH”.
How much better to have our lives transformed by occupation with Christ
(IICor. 3:18) and our position and blessings in the heavenlies with Him
(Col.3:1-3), than to assume the hopeless task of trying to improve the
“old nature”; always engaged in introspection; always occupied with the
flesh!
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How
God Saves Men
Believing
Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing
Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
ead
Acts 16L31 Romans 1:16, and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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