Too often we and others fight the sins in our lives the wrong way. On Our Own. We put a legalistic front, battling our desires and weaknesses instead of doing what God said to do.
Consider:
Jas 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
First submit to God, His Word, just live it out and hold onto as. Secondly then resist the Devil and his offers.
Christ our perfect example did exactly that after 40 days of temptation. He held onto God's Word, and stood steadfast and unwavering. When the temptations came, He resisted not of his physical/mental strength but of the Word of God. In the End the Devil fled.
(Luk 4:1) And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
(Luk 4:2) Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
(Luk 4:3) And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
(Luk 4:4) And Jesus answered him, saying,
It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.(Luk 4:5) And the devil, taking him up into a high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
(Luk 4:6) And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
(Luk 4:7) If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
(Luk 4:8) And Jesus answered and said unto him,
Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
(Luk 4:9) And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
(Luk 4:10) For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
(Luk 4:11) And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
(Luk 4:12) And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said,
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
(Luk 4:13) And when the
devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
Comments (3)
I agree that we should be crucifying our sins on the cross because that is what Jesus died for. We cannot do it on our own, that's why God came down into the earth to died literally for our sins and bodily rose up again on the third day. Great post.
Amen!
@Christenstein - We just got to accept it.
@sarahflorida1085 - Thank you.