Truly In Him

Mwanzo 4:7 " K**a ukitenda vyema, hutapata kibali ?......."

Ndugu mpendwa, Mungu ni mwenye haki siku zote, hakuna atendaye vyema akakosa kibali mbele zake. Ukitenda vyema, Mungu atakupa kibali katika kila upande wa maisha yako. Utaona amani, afya, mafanikio katika biashara, kazi n.k na maombi yako yatajibiwa.

Mungu hana upendeleo, biblia inatufundisha katika Matendo ya Mitume 10:34-35 "Petro akafumbua kinywa chake, akasema, Hakika natambua ya kuwa Mungu hana upendeleo 35 bali katika kila taifa mtu amchaye na kutenda haki hukubaliwa na yeye"

Ukifanya mambo kwa kumpendeza Mungu, atakulinda na watu wanaokuotea. Atakupandisha na kukuweka juu.

Mungu akubariki.

VICTORY OVER SIN
Part 8

Victory over sin.

Praise Jesus, We continue with our subject on victory over sin. In this section, we will conclude our series.

Everyone who believes in Jesus, has been rescued from the kingdom of darkness and transferred to the kingdom of light, he has been set free from sin, and has become a new creature in Christ. We read in 2Corinthians 5:17 " Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."

When Jesus came to free us, we were powerless to sin， we could not choose to do good, but only to be enslaved by it. But God freed us by His power, and now we are no longer slaves to sin, and have received the eternal life in us.

Now that we are free, God has let us to exercise our free will to obey him, we have the choice to do good or evil.
We read the story of Israelites, when God took them out of slavery in Egypt, they were powerless, with no choice over their destiny. God saved them by His mighty hand, and set them free so that they can worship and save Him.
But after they were free， they had to choose to obey God and do good, God did not force them.
We read in Deuteronomy 30:19 "I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live," He told them to choose, not forcing them.
We read also in Joshua 24:14-15 "Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."
God wants us to obey him with love that leads to fear of the Lord, not with fear (being afraid of him).
Being free from sin, we have power to reject sin, and all sinful desires. The bible says in Romans 6:12-14 "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.13 Do not present your members (body parts) to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace."

We can resist sin, it doesn't own us any longer for Jesus bought us by His blood, we are under His grace. So we have the power to control our actions, we have the choice to present our body for sin or to save God.

There are those sins, that get us easly, even those ones can no longer enslave us, the bible tells us to put them aside, its in our decision to do so, Hebrews 12:1 "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,"

We also need to remember that the devil is still working against us, he puts ideas in our minds that we are still unable to defeat sin, or some sins are difficult to reject.
We need to reject his ideas, and stick to the truth that, no sin has power over us.

Now, Jesus defeated sin, and gave us eternal life. Only by staying in Him, we can have this victory. Out of Him we can still be defeated by sin.
He said in John 15:4-5 "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing."

Only by abiding in Jesus, we can do good. Only in Him we have Victory over sin.

God bless you.