Galatians 2:20

Some Christians can live double life?Sin continues to find its way into our lives?After a major victory, we find our selves being lured back to where we started?

WHY? WHY? WHY?

“I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.”

The inclination is to sinWe are ruled by…

Worldly attachmentsEGOLust of the eyes

The life that we live is all about us

We keep the same body and personality but…

Jesus now lives in usJesus’s strength is made

availableVictory over sin in gainedThere is a new direction

“In order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”

New allegianceDeep and meaningful rest New positionPower for livingSustainable victory

4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

Matthew 9:23 “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.”

Romans 7:15 “I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.”

1 Peter 5:7-8 “Casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you… Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour…”

James 5:16 “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”