Archive for 'Sin'

Pastor Tim explains that will power alone can’t change our hearts. That requires a New Nature in Christ. Tim describes the difference between the three types of people the Bible talks about as the Natural man (1 Cor 2:14), the Spiritual man (1 Cor 2:15)  and the Carnal “Fleshly” man (1 Cor 3:1). Which category best describes you today?

“There are many reasons why a Christian would want to avoid sin.  First of all, it grieves the Holy Spirit. Secondly, it offends God.  Also, it causes our prayers to be unanswered and the Bible says sin makes our life powerless, our praise inappropriate, our blessings are withheld, our joy is removed.  It brings us into chastening from God.  It hinders our growth.  It limits our service.  It pollutes our fellowship.  It endangers our life.  But the bottom-line is it’s really contrary to our desires.” (John Macarthur)

“As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God.” (Psalm 42:1) This is the characteristic of a Christian, one who has been made new who has died to sin.

Series: Romans 7:14-25
Speaker: Tim Miles
Type: Sunday Sermon

The Weakness Of Will Power [ 32:34 ] Play Now
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Paul talks about the believer’s relationship with the Law from a new perspective.
He uses marriage as an illustration of how we are to relate to the Law. Pastor Tim explains that before we are saved we were married to the Law, but when we except Christ as Savior we are baptized by the holy spirit into the Body of Christ and therefore released from the Law to now Serve the Lord out of love and gratitude for what He has done. Tim then describes what a bond servant is and why the door must be open to punch a hole through the ear with an awl. (Deuteronomy 15:16-17)

When we give our lives to Christ we have died to our sin and we have joined Christ in his death. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may rise and live a new life as a Believer in Him. (Romans 6:6-9)

Series: Romans 7:1-6
Speaker: Tim Miles
Type: Sunday Sermon

New Wife in Christ [ 33:13 ] Play Now
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Pastor Tim explains that for a Christian to return to sin after accepting Christ is like a woman returning to a man who seriously abused and beat her before and now she’s accepting the abusive person back in her life.  Tim also explains how sin is pleasurable because of its temptation, but how 3 minutes of pleasure can lead to serious consequences and possibly even death.  Sin leads to death, but Christ leads to Righteousness, Holiness and Life Everlasting.

Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. (Romans 6:11-14)

Series: Romans 6:12
Speaker: Tim Miles
Type: Sunday Sermon

Making Wise Choices [ 37:58 ] Play Now
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Pastor Tim talks in detail about what the Bible says about eternal security and spirit baptism. He explains that some people say that if God doesn’t hold hell over your head to force you to be good, what incentive is there to be a Good Person if you have no fear of losing your salvation and being sent to hell?

The new covenant is the promise that God will put a new heart in us and cause
us to walk in his ways so that we will not turn away from doing what is right.
(Romans 6:3-4)

Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them,
and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh.”
(Ezekiel 11:19)

“I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes,
and you will keep My judgments and do them.”
(Ezekiel 36:27)

“Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they
shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with
their whole heart. (Jeremiah 24:7)

“And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn
away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they
will not depart from Me.” (Jeremiah 32:40)

“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give
eternal life to them, and they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them
out of My hand,” (John 10:27-28)

Series: Romans 6:1-11
Speaker: Tim Miles
Type: Sunday Sermon

Is Grace a License to Sin [ 29:38 ] Play Now
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Pastor Tim talks about one of the most difficult sections of Scripture in Romans and in the entire New Testament for that matter. And yet it is one of the most important sections for truths regarding the very foundation stones of the Gospel. Tim explains that the entire human race was represented by our champion called Adam who was the head of a race of sinners. He was the best we had to offer and he blew it. Although, we can’t say that we would have done any better.

“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.” (1 Corinthians 15:22)

Series: Romans 5:12
Speaker: Tim Miles
Type: Sunday Sermon

A Matter of Life and Death [ 37:29 ] Play Now
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