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Understand Gravity of the Situation. Helpful Tips For Overcoming Sin. A Few Common Sins People Commit :. Failing to gathering with the saints as we have opportunity (Heb. 10:25) Refusing to help others in need (1 Jn. 3:17 ) Loving the Lord and Your Neighbor With Our All (Mk. 12:30-34 )
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Understand Gravity of the Situation Helpful Tips For Overcoming Sin
A Few Common Sins People Commit: • Failing to gathering with the saints as we have opportunity (Heb. 10:25) • Refusing to help others in need (1 Jn. 3:17) • Loving the Lord and Your Neighbor With Our All (Mk. 12:30-34) • Failure to Obey God’s Commands (1 Jn. 2:4)
A Few Common Sins People Commit: • Failure to Be Baptized as He Commands and Teach Others About Him and Instruct Them to Do Likewise (Mat. 28:18-20) • Failure to study to show ourselves approved and rightly divide the word of God (2 Tim. 2:15) • Loving the World and the Things In It (Materialism, Covetousness – 1 Jn. 2:15) • Failure to Serve God (Heb. 12:28)
Understand Gravity of the Situation • Be Honest About Your Problem Helpful Tips For Overcoming Sin
Admitting You Have a Problem • Confess Your Sins to God: • (1 John 1:8-10) • If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
Admitting You Have a Problem • (1 Peter 5:6) • Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, (NKJV)
Admitting You Have a Problem • Confess Your Sins to One Another: • (James 5:16) • Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
Admitting You Have a Problem • God Already Knows (He’s Waiting For You to Admit You Have Sinned)! • (1 Jn. 3:20) “God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.” • (Romans 3:23) for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (NKJV)
Understand Gravity of the Situation • Be Honest About Your Problem • Reach Out For Help! Helpful Tips For Overcoming Sin
Reach Out For Help! • (Galatians 6:2) • Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Reach Out For Help! • (James 5:19-20) Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. (NKJV)
Reach Out For Help! • (Jude 1:23) but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh. (NKJV)
Reach Out For Help! • (Galatians 6:1) Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. (NKJV)
Understand Gravity of the Situation • Be Honest About Your Problem • Reach Out For Help! • Learn That True Happiness Cannot Be Found in Sin Helpful Tips For Overcoming Sin
Learn That True Happiness Cannot Be Found in Sin • (James 4:1-5) • Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously"?
Learn That True Happiness Cannot Be Found in Sin • (Proverbs 16:20) He who heeds the word wisely will find good, And whoever trusts in the LORD, happy is he. (NKJV) • (Proverbs 28:14) Happy is the man who is always reverent, But he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity. (NKJV)
Understand Gravity of the Situation • Be Honest About Your Problem • Reach Out For Help! • Learn That True Happiness Cannot Be Found in Sin • Just Don’t Do It! Helpful Tips For Overcoming Sin
Just Don’t Do It! • (James 4:7-10) • Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up. (NKJV)
Understand Gravity of the Situation • Be Honest About Your Problem • Reach Out For Help! • Learn That True Happiness Cannot Be Found in Sin • Just Don’t Do It! • Replace Negative, Sinful Behaviors With Positive Spiritual Activities Helpful Tips For Overcoming Sin
Replace Negative, Sinful Behaviors With Positive Spiritual Activities • (2 Corinthians 10:4-5) • For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, (NKJV)
Replace Negative, Sinful Behaviors With Positive Spiritual Activities • (1 John 2:16) • For all that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the world. (NKJV)
Understand Gravity of the Situation • Be Honest About Your Problem • Reach Out For Help! • Learn That True Happiness Cannot Be Found in Sin • Just Don’t Do It! • Replace Negative, Sinful Behaviors With Positive Spiritual Activities • Pray, Pray, Pray For God’s Strength When Tempted Helpful Tips For Overcoming Sin
Pray, Pray, Pray For God’s Strength When Tempted • (James 5:16) • Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. (NKJV)
Pray, Pray, Pray For God’s Strength When Tempted • (Matthew 26:41) "Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." (NKJV)
Understand Gravity of the Situation • Be Honest About Your Problem • Reach Out For Help! • Learn That True Happiness Cannot Be Found in Sin • Just Don’t Do It! • Replace Negative, Sinful Behaviors With Positive Spiritual Activities • Pray, Pray, Pray For God’s Strength When Tempted • Refuse to Tolerate It Helpful Tips For Overcoming Sin
Refuse to Tolerate It! • (1 Corinthians 5:5) • deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. (NKJV)