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Welcome to the podcast of the 
White Church in Adelaide, South 

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Australia. 
Morning, guys. 

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Morning. 
While you grab your Bibles, 

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we're going to open up to the 
Book of Colossians. 

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We're going to start in the Book
of Colossians this morning. 

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Colossians Chapter 2, how good 
has the last couple of weeks 

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been? 
Hey, with Bruce and Meyer a 

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couple of weekends ago, teaching
us around, walking in victory 

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over sin, teaching us to build 
our life on the rock. 

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And we're going to dive into 
this morning our victory over 

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sin. 
Yeah, let's, let's start in the 

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book of Colossians, chapter 2, 
and we're going to start in 

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verse 11. 
It says in him that is Christ in

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him also you were circumcised 
with the circumcision made 

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without hands by putting off the
body of the flesh, by the 

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circumcision of Christ, having 
been buried with Him in baptism,

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in which you were also raised 
with him through faith in the 

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powerful working of God. 
I want you, if you haven't 

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underlined it, you should 
underline the powerful working 

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of God. 
This isn't just an ordinary 

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working of God. 
This is a powerful working of 

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God who raised Jesus from the 
dead. 

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This is the exact same power 
that raised Jesus from the dead.

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We think resurrection from the 
dead is this extraordinary 

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action. 
That is the exact same power 

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that has brought us from a 
Kingdom of darkness into a 

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Kingdom of life like this is. 
This is not just an ordinary 

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work, an ordinary thing that any
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This is incredibly powerful, and
it's a powerful working of God. 

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When we are transferred, ripped 
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transferred into a Kingdom of 
light, this is a powerful 

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working of God, and you, this is
verse 13, were dead in your 

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trespass and the uncircumcision 
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However, God made alive together
with Him, having forgiven us all

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our trespasses by cancelling the
record of debt that stood 

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against us with its legal 
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This He set aside, nailing it to
the cross and verse 15 I find 

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incredibly powerful. 
He disarmed the rulers and 

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authorities. 
He disarmed, I think Bruce 

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mentioned that the the devil has
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It's very hard to hold weapons 
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He disarmed the rulers and 
authorities, but more than that,

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he put them to open shame. 
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He put them to open shame. 
As I said this morning, we're 

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going to talk about Christ's 
victory, and we need to remember

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that this isn't like to like an 
equal fight we have. 

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We have to remember that this 
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I was thinking about this, and 
I'm sure many of us were 

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probably familiar with names 
like Novak Djokovic and Roger 

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Federer. 
Rafael Nadal, the top three 

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tennis players in the world 
retired now, but they were 

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champions. 
Like, we're not talking about a 

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champion tennis game like Nadal 
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We're not talking about two 
equal opponents playing against 

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each other, right? 
We're talking about one of these

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champions taking on my son 
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We're talking about one of the 
most comprehensive, overwhelming

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victories of all time. 
We're not talking about an equal

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fight here. 
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remember sometimes in our life 
that when we're talking about 

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wrestling, you know, the flesh 
and the spirit, that we're kind 

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of going, man, it's, it's a 
struggle. 

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It's a real struggle. 
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Jesus has an overwhelming 
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He has an overwhelming victory 
over sin. 

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This is one of the most 
comprehensive victories of all 

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time that Jesus put them to open
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Open shame. 
Not only did he take all the 

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weapons away, but he also put 
them to open shame by triumphing

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over them in Christ. 
Doesn't that fool you with such 

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confidence, such celebration, 
such joy, such peace? 

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Like man, sin in my life doesn't
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of God is alive in me. 
Sin in my life does not stand a 

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chance when the Spirit of God is
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And so this morning I want to 
look at 4 areas that Jesus has 

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conquered sin, 4 areas that 
Jesus has provided victory for 

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sin. 
And we're going to look through 

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4 chapters of the book of Romans
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So if you flick over Romans 
chapter 5, Romans chapter 5, and

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it says this in verse 12. 
Therefore, just as sin came into

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the world through one man and 
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spread to all men because all 
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Verse 14, we skip down. 
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We know from the Scriptures, it 
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is death. 
And the first thing that Jesus 

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has comprehensive victory over 
is the penalty of sin. 

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Jesus has victory over the 
penalty of sin. 

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Now I'm sure we all believe like
you put your faith in Jesus, you

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have eternal life, right? 
But we are death and life equal 

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opposites here. 
Like death does not stand a 

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chance when Jesus comes. 
Any effect of death does not 

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stand a chance because Jesus has
a comprehensive victory over the

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penalty of sin. 
Where in Genesis chapter 2 and 

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3, when God comes and he says 
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that day you will surely die. 
And that was that was a command.

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If you break the law of God, if 
you sin against God, the penalty

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is death. 
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And yet Jesus comes in verse 17.
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trespass, Speaking of Adam, 
death reigned through that one 

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man, how much more will those 
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grace and the free gift of 
righteousness reign in life 

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through the one man, Jesus 
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How much more this is not like 
we've just got a death is equal 

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to life and like I've just been 
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No, no, no, I've been 
transferred from a Kingdom that 

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was so down here to a Kingdom 
that is now so far the life. 

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Jesus says in John chapter 10, 
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steal, kill and destroy. 
But I have come that they may 

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have life and life more 
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Like it's not just that they 
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I've come that they might have 
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Jesus has victory over the 
penalty of sin. 

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The second thing that Jesus has 
victory over, we see in Romans 

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chapter 6 is that Jesus has 
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the power of sin. 
Verse 6, it says this, we know 

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speaking to believers, we know 
that our old self was crucified 

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with him, with Jesus in order 
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brought to nothing, might be 
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I'm sorry, how much it's not 
something that it might be 

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brought to a little bit, that 
this body of sin would be 

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brought to nothing. 
Like it's not even like Xavier's

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taking on a champion anymore. 
This is like he's not even 

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showing up on the court. 
Like he's being brought to 

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nothing so that we would no 
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See, when we transfer, when we 
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the victory is over the power of
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Jesus changed our master. 
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Sin is a terrible master because
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don't want to do. 
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Because sin, like you just can't
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But why? 
Because you're enslaved and 

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chained to sin. 
But you know, now we're slaves 

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to righteousness, and 
righteousness is a way better 

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master than sin. 
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It's so much more wonderful to 
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My master has changed under this
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slave to sin. 
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I'm linked to sin. 
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But over here now, I'm slave to 
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I do what righteousness says. 
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This is a terrible master, but 
this master has no authority 

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when I'm a slave to 
righteousness because I have 

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been freed from the power of 
sin, sin no longer has power 

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over me. 
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Because I am now under the 
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If the Bible goes on in Romans 
chapter 6, it says that we are 

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now slaves to God. 
We are now slaves to God. 

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Verse Romans 6. 
Verse 20 says, For when you are 

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slaves of sin, you were free in 
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what fruit were you getting at 
that time from the things of 

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which you are now ashamed? 
It's kind of going, whoa, you're

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a slave to sin, but what is that
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chained to sin? 
What's that going to do? 

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That's going to bear nothing 
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It can never bear anything good,
for the end of those things is 

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death. 
But now, but now that you have 

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been set free from sin and have 
become slaves of God, the fruit 

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you get leads to sanctification 
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For the wages of sin is death, 
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eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord. 

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There is a way better fruit when
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And we need to understand here 
that we have been set free from 

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the power of sin. 
Sin is no longer my master. 

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When I put my faith in Jesus, I 
am now a slave to righteousness.

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So Jesus has set us free from 
the penalty of sin. 

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He has set us free from the 
power of sin. 

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And the third thing, he set us 
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So this is in Romans 7, Paul 
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hypothetically. 
He speaks to Jews who have the 

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law and he's kind of addressing 
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Some scholars talk whether this 
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The point that he kind of gets 
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that, you know, I do what I 
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what I do want to do. 
That kind of peace, right? 

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In essence, what Paul is trying 
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if I could do everything good, 
even if my master was not sin 

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and I was, I was pursuing 
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It's going even if that were the
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life, you still have a problem. 
And that is the fact that the 

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sin is in you, sin is in you. 
See if I can find it, it says 

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here in verse 17. 
So now it is no longer I who do 

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it, but the sin that dwells 
within me who's kind of going, 

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even if I could do everything 
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Sin is sin is with me. 
I can't shake this thing that's 

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inside of me, this sinful 
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I can't deal with it. 
He's he's pretty much comes to 

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the end of it and kind of going,
even if I could do everything 

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right, even if I could live in 
victory over the power of sin, I

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cannot deal with the presence of
sin, which means I still can't 

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make it to that Kingdom. 
I still can't make it into the 

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Kingdom of God. 
Even if I could do everything 

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right by the law, by God's 
standard, and I could live a 

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perfectly holy life, I still 
cannot deal with the presence of

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sin. 
And we so see this in verse 24 

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of Chapter 7, Romans 724. 
Wretched man that I am, who will

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deliver me from this body of 
death is going to sin is within 

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me who is going to deliver me no
matter how hard I try to live in

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victory over sin, I cannot deal 
with the presence of sin. 

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Verse 25 Thanks be to God 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

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Thanks be to God through Jesus 
Christ our Lord. 

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See, Jesus does not just have 
victory over the penalty of sin.

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He doesn't just have victory 
over the power of sin, but he 

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also has victory over the 
presence of sin in my life. 

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We spoke, we read out a 
Corinthians, Colossians earlier 

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about circumcision, about this 
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Romans, Romans earlier says that
we have a circumcision of the 

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heart. 
This thing has been cut out. 

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Like it's not like there's 
anything left. 

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It has been completely removed 
from us and now the Spirit of 

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God lives inside of us. 
The sinful nature has been 

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completely removed. 
It's not like there's a little 

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bit that like they had a bit of 
an operation and that 

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something's still left. 
It's gone completely right. 

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There is no resemblance of this 
sinful nature at all because 

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Jesus has a comprehensive 
victory over the presence of sin

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in your life. 
When you put your faith in 

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Jesus, that thing is cut out. 
Like this is this is the 

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powerful working of God that we 
read out of Colossians like this

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is the powerful working of God. 
This sinful nature that I cannot

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do anything about because I'm 
born sinful. 

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The minute I put my faith in 
Jesus, that thing is cut out. 

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It is removed and now instead of
having a sinful nature, I now 

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have a brand new nature in 
Christ. 

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Do we understand that like this 
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because we often think there's 
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struggle of flesh and spirit, 
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of me. 
It's not really much of A battle

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because the sinful nature is 
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power of sin, but I am free from
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Yeah, that's that's that's wild 
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sinful acts, but we need to 
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that we are completely brand new
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When Paul writes, he says this, 
if any man be in Christ, he is a

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He is made new. 
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gone. 
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It's not like upgrading from an 
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whatever, right? 
This is like going from an old 

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That is the difference of the 
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nature. 
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put your faith in Jesus. 
I know that we don't often feel 

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When we put our faith in Jesus, 
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dodgy old Nokia brick phone to a
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That is the transfer. 
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powerful working of God in our 
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our trust in Jesus. 
So Jesus freed us from the 

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penalty of sin, transferred from
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of eternal, abundant, 
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He's transferred us from the 
power of sin, a terrible master,

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a terrible master that bears 
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wonderful master who bears fruit
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fruit in serving God, that has 
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God. 
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the presence of sin, this sinful
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that is terrible. 
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have been transferred. 
We now have a brand new identity

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in God, a new creation, an 
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The Spirit of God lives inside 
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spirit nature untainted by sin, 
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Fourth thing that Jesus has 
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sin. 
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chapter 8, it says we're going 
to read from verse 2 for the law

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of the Spirit of life. 
The Spirit of life has set you 

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free in Christ Jesus from the 
law of sin and death, and we all

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said Amen. 
The law of the spirit of life 

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has set you free in Christ Jesus
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That's a comprehensive, that's a
that's a full stop on the end 

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there. 
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That's not a ellipsis. 
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This is it. 
You have been set free. 

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Verse 3 For God has done what 
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could not do by sending His own 
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flesh and for sin. 
He condemned sin in the flesh in

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order that the righteous 
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fulfilled in US who walk not 
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according to the Spirit. 
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the flesh set their minds on the
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But those who live according to 
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the things of the Spirit. 
But to set the mind on the flesh

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is death. 
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Spirit is life and peace. 
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flesh is hostile to God, for it 
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Indeed it cannot. 
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cannot please God. 
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read this, you might kind of 
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a bit of a wrestle of the 
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Like man, sin wants one thing. 
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And I'm trying to live this this
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You, however, are not in the 
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If in fact the Spirit of God 
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not in the flesh. 
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seven a bit now in a bit of a 
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Ah, verse 5 actually. 
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the flesh, set their minds. 
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flesh. 
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the flesh set their mind on the 
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The pursuit of sin is to set its
mind on the thing that think sin

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desires. 
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just looks to the things that 
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Those who walk in the flesh 
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their mind set on the things of 
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But those who live, who have 
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who are now free from the 
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of sin, from the presence of 
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their Kingdom, their rulership, 
their mastership, those who have

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received the Spirit of God 
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those who are now in the Kingdom
of light now have their minds 

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set on the things of the Spirit.
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mind, their tendency, their 
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now to do the things of God, not
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Like this. 
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when we begin to think about it,
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choice is no longer to do the 
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becoming more and more like 
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of our brand new identity, the 
victory that Jesus has is he has

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freed us from the pursuit of 
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I don't know if you noticed, but
when now that you're saved, when

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you start looking at sin, you 
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You see the desires of sin 
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sinful. 
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Because Jesus freed you from the
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Kingdom, you kind of go, I don't
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I do what I want because it's 
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It's desirable. 
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When I see sin, I kind of go, I 
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that. 
Because I've been freed from the

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pursuit of sin, I no longer 
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I no longer desire to do what is
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I now desire to do what is in 
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What's better is fruit for God, 
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That is now where I sit and 
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For you are not in the Kingdom 
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in the flesh desire the things 
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Those who are in the Spirit now 
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Galatians 5 tells us now if you 
walk by the Spirit, keep in step

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with the Spirit and you will not
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because obviously our question 
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That's true. 
Sometimes I still desire the 

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things of the flesh. 
I choose the things of the flesh

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instead of choosing the things 
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But Paul's encouragement to us 
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Spirit and you will not not, you
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You might on occasion. 
No, no, no, you will not gratify

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the desires of the flesh. 
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the flesh, it's when I decide to
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But he says, walk by the Spirit,
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keep in step with who you are in
Christ, and you will not gratify

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the desires of the flesh. 
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Jesus freed me from the pursuit 
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As I said, this is one of the 
most comprehensive victories of 

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all time. 
I think again, in our minds we 

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have this idea that maybe 
there's this still, this bit of 

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back and fro, back and fro kind 
of stuff going on where we've 

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got 2 equal champions taking on 
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But I want to remind us this 
morning, this is not an equal 

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fight. 
This is the most comprehensive 

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victory of all time. 
Jesus conquered sin once and for

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all. 
It's not like sin is kind of 

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come back up and be like, ha, 
like you lost that battle. 

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I'm here for another one. 
Sin is done. 

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Sin is done. 
It is done once for all. 

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Dave read it out during 
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Once for all done. 
Sin has been brought to nothing.

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The penalty of sin done. 
The power of sin over my life 

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done. 
The presence of sin in my life 

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gone and the pursuit of sin 
done. 

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This is one of the most 
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time. 
And this is the remarkable thing

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when we turn over to the book of
Corinthians, pretty sure it's in

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Corinthians chapter 15, verse 
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But thanks be to God who gives 
us, who gives us the victory 

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through our Lord Jesus Christ. 
See, sometimes we can also say, 

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well, that's great, Jesus has 
the victory. 

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Jesus has the victory over sin 
and we kind of go, but I still 

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struggle with sin. 
Thanks be to God who gives us 

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the victory through our Lord 
Jesus Christ. 

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I want to leave with us this 
thought that when we put our 

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faith in Jesus, not only does 
Jesus deal with all of those 

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things, not only does he free us
from the penalty of sin, the 

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power, the presence, and the 
pursuit of sin, but then he 

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gives us that victory to 
enforce. 

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He gives us the victory through 
our Lord Jesus Christ. 

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When we put our faith in him, we
stand in the victorious place. 

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When sin comes knocking, I 
exercise my victory and says, 

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fine, you're defeated. 
Sin. 

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When the devil comes and starts 
shoving sin in my face, I'm 

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like, that's fine, you've been 
defeated. 

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When sin kind of stirs on the 
outside and I start looking, I'm

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like this, this desire is 
defeated. 

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This thing is defeated. 
Why? 

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Because I now stand in the 
comprehensive victory of Jesus. 

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His victory has become my 
victory over sin. 

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And so when I talk about this 
battle or when we talk about 

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this battle of the sin and the 
flesh, and it's kind of 

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backwards and forwards and I'm 
not sure what to choose, I just 

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want you to remember you have a 
comprehensive victory over sin. 

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We stand in a victorious place 
because we now, because of Jesus

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putting our faith in Jesus, we 
now have victory over the 

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penalty of sin. 
Penalty is death dominion when 

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we're talking about praying for 
sickness. 

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We have victory over the penalty
of sin. 

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We have victory over the power 
of sin, over the presence of 

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sin, and over the pursuit of 
sin. 

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We now stand in that victory 
through faith in Jesus Christ. 

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His victory has become our 
victory. 

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Amen. 
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