Overcoming Sin (Part 1): Dying to Sinful Habits (Colossians 3:5-6)

 

Cannot just cage the desires:

21 “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” Colossians 2:21 (ESV)

 

20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Romans 5:20–6:3 (ESV)

 

Purge Corrupt Carnality

5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Colossians 3:5 (ESV)

5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth . . . Colossians 3:5 (KJV 1900)

 

Ponder Consequences Carefully

6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. Colossians 3:6 (ESV)

18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 1 Corinthians 6:18 (ESV)

4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. Hebrews 13:4 (ESV)

Pursue Christlike Character

7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Colossians 3:7–8 (ESV)

6 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. 1 John 3:6 (ESV)

11 so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.
2 Corinthians 2:11 (ESV)