Sin is a dynamic power that holds your life in it's grip. You cannot not sin! Your life is held so tightly in it's grasp, that you cannot break free. How many times have you tried to stop sinning and live a good life? New year's resolutions have been broken in days! You cannot change your life on your own. As a power, sin dominates the lives of unbelievers. Your life is under sin's dominion. It rules your life, why? Because it reigns in your heart. It rules the control room of your life. Ever wonder why your life is so miserable? Why so many things have gone wrong for you? Why things have not worked out? Why you have had so many disasters in your life?
You can be saved from your sin, you know; and its dominating power on your soul can be broken. How can this become yours? By doing the following things: (1) Own up to your sin. Admit it. See it for foul offensive thing it is. See it as the very thing that is keeping you out of heaven and bound for a Christless hell. (2) Confess your sin to God. Tell Him all about it. Don't try to cover it up, or lessen its seriousness. Call it by its proper name, see it as the God-defying thing it is. Call your sin by same name as God calls it - SIN. (3) Now, put your trust in the only Saviour the world has - our Lord Jesus Christ. Cast your all on Him. Tell Him He is your only hope. Cast self on His mercy, and beg for mercy. (4). Dedicate your life now to His service in this world. Surrender your life fully to Him. Give your life over to Him for keeps.
Did you ever ask self why you sin? May I tell you? You are not a sinner because you sin: you sin because you are a sinner. You sin because you are a sinner. You sin because you can't do anything but sin. Your very nature predisposes you to sin. Every part of your nature is inclined to sin. Theologians call this "Total Depravity." That means, not that you are as bad as could be, but that every part of your nature has been tainted by sin. Your mind has been darkened by sin so that it does not see truth. Your heart been polluted by sin, so that you cannot love the Saviour. Your will has been perverted by sin so that it always chooses the wrong thing, namely, that which displeases God. Your mind does not grasp why you need to be delivered or saved from sin; your heart cannot love and trust the only One Who is able and willing to save you from sin's dire consequences; your will is so inclined to choose evil that it does not choose the good.
What an awful description of human inability!
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