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Winning the War on Sin
by Steve May
Text: Romans 6:1-23
Topic: How to win the war on sin
Big Idea: God has promised us victory over sin.
Keywords: Sin; Salvation; Forgiveness; New Life;
Introduction:
- The word you emphasize when you ask yourself, “How can I be good?” indicates your attitude toward to holiness.
- Some people may think winning the war on sin is impossible, but it’s not.
- Romans 6:14
- Big Idea: God has promised us victory over sin.
Understand the meaning of salvation. .
- Becoming a Christian is a matter of beginning a new life.
- Romans 6:4
- Because of God’s gift of salvation to us, we are, quite literally, dead to sin.
- Romans 6:6-7,11
- Your spiritual standing isn’t based on your feelings; it’s based on the Word of God.
- Illustration: May quotes the movie Keeping the Faith, illustrating how some believe our faith to be a feeling, but May contends it’s a fact.
- Salvation gives us the capacity for holiness.
- Illustration: May draws an analogy between our new life in Christ and a fishing license: both are purchased, both give you the capacity to do what they were intended to do, but it’s up to you as to how seriously you’re going to take your new ability (whether to fish or to become holy).
Do the math on sin and righteousness.
- Nothing good comes from sin.
- Romans 6:16,21,23
- Illustration: May quotes a country song, illustrating how some people believe God will get them for their sins, but, May contends, sin brings its own punishment.
- Righteousness, however, leads to life, joy, peace, and so forth.
- Romans 6:16,22
- Sin or righteousness—do the math, then make your choice.
Choose the master you will obey.
- Romans 6:16
- Illustration: May quotes a Bob Dylan song that sings you must serve someone, God or the devil.
- Romans 6:17-18
- Illustration: May draws a brief parallel between being a slave to righteousness and Han Solo’s reluctant return to join the heroes in the movie Star Wars.
- Romans 6:14
- Illustration: May compares the choice between two masters to a baseball player who has left one team to join another and now decides to follow his new manager, rather than the old.
- Romans 6:20,22
Conclusion:
- Because of God’s grace, we can live a holy, righteous life.
- Romans 6:6
- Choose your master.
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