Overcome and Conquer

Question: How do we overcome and conquer sin?

Answer: By becoming sick and tired of doing it, Repent, and become willing and determined to get rid of it once and for all

1 John 5:5 - “Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”

What we believe is reflected in what we do. God does not will for us to be servants to sin, but to overcome and conquer sin.

Romans 6:12-13

"Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God."

If we do not realize the power to which we submit when we enslave ourselves to sin, then we are blind also to the realization of the necessity to be rid of it. In other words, if we don't see how evil sin is and the ugliness of it, then we also will not understand the importance of pushing it as far away from us as we can and doing all we can with the power and authority GOD has given us to keep it out of our lives. The Bible compares sin to vomit, mire (heavy, often deep mud or slush) and other filthy things.

2 Peter 2:20-22 - "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.  For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire".

You see, God gave us the commandments which we know commonly as the Ten Commandments, so we will know the basics of God's Law; but His will and desire is that we will Understand them, because the one who seeks to know and understand them will be the one who actually keeps them – walking in the fear of the LORD all day, applying them in every aspect of our lives, thus going much deeper than what is on the surface.

The first commandment establishes who God is, His position, His greatness, and what our duty is towards Him.

Exodus 20:2 - "I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage."

Deuteronomy 10:12 - "And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul."

Matthew 22:36-37 - "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."

The second commandment establishes that He is not a god to be placed alongside idols, but HE IS THE GOD, the Almighty, Alpha and Omega -the beginning and the end, the first and the last. There is none like Him, nor will there ever be. His people are to hold Him and His name with the highest respect - in fear and in reverence of who He is.

Exodus 20:3-5 - "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;"

Deuteronomy 6:14-15 - "Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you; (For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth."

2 Kings 17:36 - "But the Lord, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, Him shall ye fear, and Him shall ye worship, and to Him shall ye do sacrifice."

Exodus 20:7 - "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain."

WE MUST HATE THE SIN NOT THE SINNER – JUST LIKE CHRIST DID. The Holy Spirit in Him is exactly what caused Him to be moved so strongly to go into the temple to overturn the money changer's tables and beat out those who bought and sold in the temple. It was the rage of GOD, the fervor in HIM to get rid of the sin in the temple of GOD, and this is how we must react to the sin or the temptation to sin that presents itself to us. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God? (1 Corinthians 3:16) CAST IT OUT! “GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN, for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve” (Luke 4:8).

Hebrews 12:18-19 - “For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:”

Hebrews 12:22-26 - “But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused Him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from Him that speaketh from heaven: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now He hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.”

Hebrews 12:28-29 - “Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire.”

Jesus said, I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Repent means: to turn from sin and dedicate oneself to the amendment of one's life.

2 a :to feel regret or contrition. b :to change one's mind.

This is to completely turn around not going back, but rejecting what was in the past to walk in newness of Life in Christ. That is what makes the difference in all those who seek after GOD and HIS righteousness.

Romans 6:1-4 - “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”

Colossians 1:21-23 - And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled In the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;”

Hebrews 2:1-3 - “Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard Him;”

This is one of the most important reasons why we must be very cautious as to how we hear, and why pastors and teachers of the Word must take great care to preach the whole Word of God (not giving the flock the fast-food, over-processed version of the Bible) so they will receive the nourishment and sometimes prescribed medicine in time of need.

May God Bless you all.

Deuteronomy 6:4-5

"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."

Deuteronomy 30:6

"And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live."