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  KILLING SIN
  by Donny Coulter
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of living a life of
holiness as believers, focusing on putting away relational sins and
behaviors that are offensive to God. The message highlights the need to
acknowledge the old self as dead, make sin an enemy, rebel against its
power, close the door to sin, and daily acknowledge and repent of sin
while relying on God's power.

Duration: 47:20 Topics: "Holiness", "Repentance"
Scripture References: Romans 6:6, Romans 6:12, Romans 13:14, 2 Peter 1:3, Ephesians 4:29, Colossians 3:9, Ephesians 5:4, Colossians 3:8, Ephesians 4:25

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of living a life of holiness as
believers, focusing on putting away relational sins and behaviors that
are offensive to God. The message highlights the need to acknowledge the
old self as dead, make sin an enemy, rebel against its power, close the
door to sin, and daily acknowledge and repent of sin while relying on
God's power.

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Raising money for a bag of rice, so teach your children to give and send
them with some funds to give away every Sunday morning. Speaking of,
there are some bottles back there in the back for the Lethbridge
Pregnancy Center that we want to encourage you to fill up with your
change as well. I guess you could never stop giving, could you? There's
lots of stuff to give to.

Just an encouraging reminder, too, that if you're putting your kids in
Sunday school that sign them in or Allison will fire me. Colossians
chapter 3, if you would, Colossians chapter 3. We are continuing on our
journey to figure out what it looks like to live a life of holiness.
What exactly does that look like in the life of a believer? We have
covered now two sections of scripture.

The first section was in 1 Peter which covered relational sins against
one another. Last time we looked at several sexual sins that once again
are against one another or against our own temple. Today we're adding a
few more to the relational sins from Colossians chapter 3. Join with me
as we read chapter 3 verses 1 through 17 again.

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above
where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on
things above and not on things of the earth. For you died and your life
is hidden with Christ in God.

Seek those things which are above, not those things which are here and
now, but those things which are above where Christ is. He says that we
have died with Christ. If you remember the illustration, we had the
little donkey in the cover that was Christ.

Our life is hidden with Christ in God and we are rejoicing over that.
Aren't you? Do you rejoice over the fact that your life is hidden in
Christ? Amen. When Christ is our life appears, and I don't know about
you, but it sure seems like it's closer and closer all the time as I
look around the world.

But if it's not, it's closer than it was yesterday. Amen? It says when
Christ who is our life appears, Christ is our life and he will someday
appear, then you will also appear with him in glory. Remember, this is
the standard by which we are to measure our life and holiness because
Christ is our life, all of our life, our whole life.

Christ is our life. Someday we will appear with him in glory. And so why
are we waiting until glory to allow that cleansing work to happen in our
lives? Why do we wait? If we are to appear, then should it not be our
lofty goal to pursue a life of holiness here while we wait for that life
to appear? Verse 6 or verse 5, therefore, because Christ is your life,
because you someday will appear with him, because you are to put your
mind on things above and not on things below, because your life is
hidden in Christ, therefore, because of all of those things, put to
death.

It means to completely annihilate. It means to destroy. It means to
kill.

These are not easy words. These are not make you feel good words. These
are tough words that Paul is using.

Put to death, kill, mortify, if you have the old King James, mortify the
deeds of the body. Look what he says. Mortify, put to death, therefore,
your members which are on the earth, those sensual desires that still
linger within, even though you have been forgiven and your life is
hidden in Christ, your battle is still with the flesh, he says, to put
those things to death.

Now he's going to name some of those things for us, and we went through
these a couple of weeks ago. Fornication, any kind of sexual immorality,
we went through all of that. Sex outside of marriage, sex before
marriage, sex with same-sex sex, all of these things that we call sexual
immorality or fornication.

Uncleanness or impurity, passion, evil desire, covetousness, which is
idolatry, coveting that which we do not have, which someone else may
have above God, that is idolatry. Verse 6, because of these things the
wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you
yourselves once walked when you lived in them. Now catch a hold of the
power of that one verse and statement alone.

Some of these things were things that we used to do. He's saying that
these are things that you used to do, that you once lived in these
things and lived these things out, that you yourself once walked in
these things. That was the way that you were characterized.

These kinds of things characterize your life. When they spoke of Donnie,
they spoke of these things. That's what he's saying.

You used to walk in this. When you lived in them, that's how you walked,
right? That gives us the idea that there should be something different,
shouldn't there? That it shouldn't be the same. That when we come to
Christ and Christ is our life, that there should be some kind of change
that takes place.

There should be something that's different about me and different about
you as the children of God who has Christ in our life. And if it's not,
if there's never a change, then I fear that something is wrong. Verse 8,
but now you yourselves are to put off all these.

Now you'll notice again, once again, there is no exception clause
included. I love it when Paul writes like this, Peter writes like this,
when he uses the word all. Take note of that word.

Because of these things, I'm sorry, verse 8, but now you yourselves,
notice who the agent of the action is. But you yourselves are to put off
all of these. You ready for the list? God's list, not mine, not yours,
God's list.

Anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy or slander, filthy language out of your
mouth or abusive language out of your mouth. Do not lie one to another.
Since you have, now here's why we don't do these things, because you
have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man who
is renewed in the knowledge according to the image of him who created
him.

Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised,
barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on, we have put
off all of these things that we just read. Now, we are instructed to put
on.

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies,
kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering, bearing with one another
and forgiving one another. If anyone has a complaint against another,
even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all things,
put on love which is the bond of perfection and let the peace of God
rule in your hearts to which you also were called in one body and be
thankful.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and
admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Sing
with grace in your hearts and to the Lord in whatever you do, in word or
deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God, to God
the Father through him. Let's pray.

Father, take these next few moments that we have, I pray. I pray that
your Holy Spirit would be our teacher, that his power to arise in us,
the knowledge, the recognition of those things which are offensive to
you and offensive to the gospel in our lives. No matter how strong or
how high on the scale of wickedness they may be, I pray that your Holy
Spirit would speak directly to us, drill into those things, bring them
to the surface.

God, I pray that we would repent from them, that we would turn from them
and we would turn to you, that we would put them away as we have been
commanded here to do. Father, I pray for my own life that you would do
that in me. It's amazing how you can reveal so much ugliness in us.

And Father, I pray that you would do that even this morning through the
wisdom of your Holy Spirit. Bless the words that are said, God, because
I want them to come from you. Use them for your glory, we pray in Jesus'
name.

Amen. So, he says then to put aside, put aside all of these. Now, you
notice there's no exception clause, right? It says, put aside all of
this, all of these, not only do you put aside sexual immorality and the
list of all of the wicked things.

Now, we would look at verse 5 and we'd say that things like fornication
and uncleanness and passion and evil desire and covetousness, those are
really bad things, aren't they? Those are things that we can see and we
go, ooh, he did what? She said what? We look at those things and we
think that these are bad things. And the reason is, is oftentimes they
are recognizable from the outside. But, he says here to us that we are
to, verse 8, but now you yourselves are to put off all of these.

In other words, anything that is contrary to the gospel, the message of
the gospel, Christ in you, anything that is contrary to him, you are to
put off all of it. Put off the ugly stuff as well as the stuff that we
don't consider to be so bad. And then he gives a list of things that we
have, for some reason, come to accept as normal for us.

That we've just accepted some of these things as the normal way that
we're supposed to act and react to people around us, to my husband, to
my wife, to my neighbor, to my boss. We're supposed to act this way
because, well, you know, they hurt my feelings and they did something
wrong to me. But he says to put aside.

It means to completely rupture the former association you had with those
things. That means to, it is to put it in a completely different
location. Put it aside.

Put it away. Dislocate yourself from these things, he's saying. There
should be some separation between you and them, these things.

Paul's intention here in using this word is so that the believers would
stop doing the things that they have become accustomed to doing. They,
as believers, are accustomed still, even as believers, in doing these
kinds of things. And he's using these kinds of words, put off all of
these.

He's using that kind of word, that separation, that idea of dislocation,
so that they will stop doing the things that they have become accustomed
to doing. In Acts chapter 7, the Jewish leaders, if you remember the
story of Stephen, the stoning of Stephen, and they went to stone
Stephen, and the Jewish leaders laid their robes aside. They put aside.

Same word that we have here. They put aside their robes at the feet of
Paul, Saul, as a witness to the stoning. If they did that, and they did
that so that their ability to throw the rocks would be unhindered.

Think it through. Look at the picture. They took their robes and they
set them aside so that they could have the freedom to do an evil work.

So then why can't the believer lay aside sin so that he can go about
holy living unhindered? If they can take their robes off to do an evil
work, shouldn't we put aside these things to do a holy work? Romans 13
verse 12. Turn there, if you would, with me. Romans 13 and verse 12.

Verse 11. Let's just go back up to verse 11. And do this, knowing the
time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.

For now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. Just what
we said just a few minutes ago. The night is far spent.

The day is at hand. Therefore, therefore, what is the therefore? Because
the day is at hand. The night is far spent.

Therefore, let us cast off the works of darkness. Let us cast off, same
word, lay aside. Let us lay aside.

Let us cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of
light. You know what? I believe that Christ's return could be imminent.
I do.

As I look around the world, I believe that it could be imminent. But I
want to tell you right now, I do not want that to be the motivating
factor. Christ's return being the motivating factor for me to turn away
and put away sin in my life.

Do you understand what I'm saying? I believe that Christ could come
tomorrow. The world is moving. The fulfillment of prophecy, if you look
and connect things, it looks like it's there.

But if we are completely wrong, I don't want that, Christ's immediate
return being the one thing that motivates me to put aside my sin. I want
my love of Christ and the gospel itself to be the motivation for me to
put aside the sin. I want to be motivated by the gospel, by His love for
me now, not by His coming.

I want to be motivated by His love for me now and my love for Him.
Doesn't that make a better picture? That I've got some pending event
that's coming down the pike that I need to get to work and why shouldn't
I just get to work because of the gospel? Because I love Him and He
loves me. The tense of the word that's written here, back in Colossians,
Colossians 3, the word put aside, it's used in such a way as to say, do
it now.

Don't wait. Do it right now. That's the way it's written.

Don't put off putting aside. Don't put off putting off. Don't keep
delaying this.

Do it now. Put the habits of the old self away from you. All of the
things that are listed here are things that seem to give you the
satisfaction of winning.

Winning the fight, getting the upper hand in the marriage, coming out on
top, being the one, the number one. We spoke of Jacob the bamboozler and
he always wanted to be number one. Got him in trouble.

He lived up to his name, bamboozler. And Paul says stop doing it. Stop
it.

They are an offense. Now listen to this. This is an important fact.

All of the things that we're about to talk through are offensive to God
and are offensive to the gospel. And if we don't catch on to that, then
we're going to just go on about life as normal. We're going to keep
being angry.

We're going to keep being slanderous. We're going to keep having malice
towards people. We're going to keep having these outbursts.

We're going to keep having these things because we don't consider these
things to be offensive to God, to offensive to the gospel that has saved
me and hidden my life in Christ. If we don't believe that they are bad
stuff, you look at verse 5 and you go, well it's not as bad as that. It
doesn't matter.

There's no comparison in scale. It's offensive to God. And we have to
start right there.

That's why we see, if we understand that they are offensive to God, then
we will begin the process of putting it away, of stop doing it. Now,
let's look at the list. Here's another list of mostly relational sins
that we must put away.

Look at verse 8. Anger. Anger is a deep-rooted, smoldering bitterness. I
do not believe that this speaks of the emotion of anger, but I believe
here it's speaking of the heart of anger.

Have you ever met an angry person? Ever seen somebody that's just angry?
I believe that that's what this is speaking of. You don't just feel
angry. You are angry.

You don't just feel it. It's who you are. It defines you as a person.

It's deep-rooted and down inside, and it comes up all of the time, no
matter what's going on. Turn to James chapter 1. Now, depending on your
translations, some translate the word anger here as wrath, but in the
Greek it is the same word as we have here in Colossians. James chapter 1
verse 19.

So then, my beloved brothers and sisters, let every person be swift to
hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger. Some may say wrath. The new King
James uses the word wrath, but the word is the same word in Colossians
as anger.

He says, for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
Well, then his context is talking specifically about a response to God,
but we could bring that down to people and understanding that when we
have anger, it does not accomplish. Anger will never accomplish the
purposes of God.

Let me read you a statement from Robert Morgan. A holy life never grows
out of an angry spirit. Bitterness never makes us better.

A hot temper never leads to higher ground. Positive accomplishments for
the Lord are never produced by angry passions. This kind of angry,
bitter spirit or heart in us will destroy relationships.

Those of us who have been in toxic relationships will understand what I
mean. The slippery slope down in relationships begins with this deep-
rooted seeded anger. Jesus said that anger is the seed or the beginning,
the root of murder.

Do you remember that in Matthew? If you look at Genesis chapter 4 and
verse 6, do you remember the question that God asked Cain when he had a
response to his sacrifice not being acceptable? Do you remember? And his
brother Abel was acceptable. Do you remember the question that God
asked? He says, why are you angry? Why has your countenance fallen? And
then Cain went out and killed his brother. Anger, this deep-rooted anger
seeded heart of anger.

Add a D on the beginning of anger and you got what? There you go. Anger.
And we are to put away anger.

We are to put that away. It is not to be a part of us. And in a minute
I'm hoping to give you some things to help you practically if I don't
run out of time.

I'll keep you hanging on until next week for the practical help. Number
two. Let's move on.

Number two. Wrath. Wrath.

Now we have anger which is a deep-rooted inside heart thing. Wrath is
the eruption of anger on the outward. Wrath is an outburst of rage when
we become physically and emotionally abusive.

So the anger and wrath work together. When we feel angry and it gets the
best of us, there's this outburst of rage that comes up within us and it
shows up on the outside. It's the throwing a wrench across the garage.

Slamming the car door. Slamming the bedroom door after an argument with
your wife. It's road rage on the road.

It's trying your best to find that guy and run him down. I have to tell
you, this is my crazy brain, I have to tell you this story. I had a
friend of mine in Colorado who had one of the most intense road rage
incidents I've ever heard of.

And this was 20 plus years ago. He was a bull rider and he was driving
out of Denver and somebody swerved or something and cut him off and he
went and cut him off. They pulled over on the side of the interstate.

Cars are driving by at 65 miles an hour and they went to fighting. They
fought in the ditch. It moved from the ditch right up onto the road and
he said, hold on a minute, let's move back to the ditch.

They stopped the fight. It's too dangerous. Moved back to the ditch and
continued to fight.

He came home a bloodied mess. That's an outburst of anger. That is wrath
in itself.

That is a description and a picture of wrath. And we are to put away
wrath. Anger and wrath work together.

And often times it produces the third thing which is malice. And we've
talked about malice a few weeks ago. Malice describes this vicious
intention.

It's a vicious intention that expresses a desire to hurt someone else.
Malice says, I don't like you. I don't like what you did and I would
love for you to get hurt because I don't like you.

Because of what you did. Wrath has now become the intention to hurt. See
wrath has gone from an outburst to an intention of throwing fists.

Malice. Webster says that malice is the desire to cause pain, injury or
distress to another and implies a deep seated often unexplainable desire
to see another suffer or experience pain, injury or distress. Do you
ever have malice? Do you ever want what's bad for your wife, your
husband or your neighbor or your brother or your sister or your co-
worker or your boss? You wish them hurt? The fourth one is slander or
blasphemy.

This is speech that denigrates or defames. It's speech that puts people
down. Slander is speech that is of false, it's of false words towards
someone, a misrepresentation of someone with the intention of doing them
harm.

The Greek word is blasphemy. It is most often translated blasphemy when
it's about God. In other words, if it's about me and God, then it's
called blasphemy.

If it's about me and you, it's called slander. It's usually translated
slander. Towards God, when you impute evil to God, He made me sick.

God lied to me. He didn't keep His promise. God is not trustworthy.

Those are the kind of things that we would say and mean towards God.
When we misrepresent God to others or by perverting the truth of God,
that is what we call blasphemy. But towards others, it's circulating
untruthful stories.

It's using bad language and bad words towards someone else, lies about
someone else, misrepresentations, all for the intention of doing harm.
Do we slander one another? Do we speak bad and ill of others? The fifth
one is filthy language or abusive language. Oh no, preacher, you're not
talking about that, are you? Yeah, I am, because God did.

This word is derived from a two-part word in the Greek. The first part
is to say, and the second part is filthy. To say something filthy.

It means to be foul-mouthed. It means to have obscene talk. Look at
Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 4. Ephesians 5, 4. We'll go back up to
verse 5, I mean verse 1. Chapter 5, verse 1. Therefore, be imitators of
God as dear children.

Be ye holy as I am holy. From 1 Peter. And walk in love as Christ also
has loved us and given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to
God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, have we heard this
before? Let it not even be named among you as is fitting for saints. Did
you hear how serious Paul is about this? It should not even be named
among us. No one should talk of these things within those who belong to
the body of Christ.

It shouldn't even be a part of us. Verse 4. Neither filthiness nor
foolish talk shall be our talking, nor coarse jesting which are not
fitting, but rather the giving of thanks. Do you see what he's saying?
That the words that we use, the filthy words and the filthy language,
the filthy talk, the obscene talk that we have.

I read this week in studying, I read a story of a man who was with a
bunch of Christian men. And he looked around the room and said there,
notice that there's no women. He said, well now that there's no women
around us, I'd like to tell you this story.

And one of the men said, brother, although there's no women around us,
the Holy Spirit is here. Will you defend the Holy Spirit? Needless to
say, he did not tell the story. Filthy language, coarse language,
jesting.

Should the believer who is pursuing the holiness of God have language
that sounds like those who do not know God? Should our mouths sound,
whether it's a swear word or whether it's a lie or whether it's an off-
color joke, should those things come out of the mouth of the believer?
Ephesians 4, just turn back a little bit to chapter 4 verse 29. Look
what he says. Let no corrupt word or unwholesome communication proceed
out of your mouth.

Don't let it come out. Put it aside. If your language sounds like that
of the rest of the world, if your language sounds like that that you
hear on TV, I can't watch anything anymore.

It's so bad. I got rid of cable because it was getting bad, and then I
got Netflix. Oh my goodness, that was even worse, except I can control
what I watch.

But if my language begins to sound like some of those shows that I watch
or some of the people that I work with or stand around, then look what
he says. Let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but that which
is good for necessary edification. I would love to spend an hour right
there with you, because just in those three words, which is good for
necessary edification.

In other words, the words that we speak have a purpose for those that
are around us, and that is, it is to be good because it is necessary
that we edify, that we lift up and build those up, that we may impart
grace to the hearers. A new self equals a new language, would you agree?
It ought to. It ought to for all of us.

And I'm not just talking about swearing, I'm talking about the way that
we, the kind of words that we use, especially when it comes to sexual
things, when we talk about things, when we talk about things we disagree
with, the words that we use, may they reflect the new self, the new
creation. The last one, number six, is do not lie. Lying is contrary
both to the law of truth and to the law of love.

You cannot be truthful and you cannot be loving if you are lying. It
speaks of communicating what is false. It is intentional.

It is not accidental, it is intentional. I accidentally lied today. I
said that there were snacks in the back.

There were no snacks in the back. I told an untruth, but it was by
accident. I thought there were snacks in the back.

Now, if I had known there were not snacks in the back, and I told you,
oh, there's some good old snacks back there, some cinnamon rolls and
buns, then that would be lying. That's intentional. More often, now
listen to this for a moment, think about why we lie.

Would you think about it for a moment? More often than not, lying is
born from a need of self-preservation. Would you agree with that? When
you think about all the times that you have lied, it is most often
because you feel the need to preserve yourself, your reputation, to keep
you from looking bad. Anytime we tell a lie, it is focused on self, it's
focused on producing a self that is seen better than it is.

That's why we lie. It's to my advantage when I come to the border, and I
haven't done that for a long time, but when I come to the border and I
have $800 worth of stuff in my truck, and I tell them I've only got $300
because it brings me underneath the tax. I don't have to pay a personal
tax after being out for 24 hours or 72 hours, whatever it is.

When I come up to that gate and I intentionally, that's lying, so that I
can be at an advantage. Believe me, there have been times when I have
been tempted to lie in that place, but I don't. Remember Acts chapter 5?
Remember Ananias and Sapphira? They had sold some land, they had done a
great job in selling land, and they were going to give a gift to the
church.

They gave a misrepresentation to all of the people as to how much they
were giving. We're giving it all. But they had actually held back some
for themselves.

They lied, and because they lied, they died. I'm glad we're not living
there. But why did they lie? So that it would look like they were more
generous than they actually were.

It was a self-promotion of self-preservation. Instead of a self-
preservation. Why should we not lie? Back in Ephesians, I hope you're
still there, look back up at verse 25.

Ephesians 4, verse 25. Therefore, putting away lying, now we're using
exact same word as put aside, putting away, putting separation, he says,
putting away lying, let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor.
Why? For we are members of one another.

You are a part of the body. You are all connected. To lie to those
within the body, or to anyone for that matter, but specifically within
the church, to lie to someone in the church, completely breaks the rules
of unity.

Doesn't it? Because we're talking about the unity of the body, how we
are all connected. And if we're lying to the body, he says, because you
are all members of one another. Don't lie to yourself and to others
because you are of each other.

We are members of one another. In verse 9, now back to Colossians.
Colossians 3, last one, promise.

The rest of it's your homework. Colossians 3 and verse 9. Do not lie to
one another since you have put off the old man with his deeds. You see,
he's saying, he just told us that you are, in verse 8, put off all of
these since you have put off the old man, you have put away the old
person.

He says, now do not lie because the old man does not exist anymore. The
old man is, you have put him away. You have put a distance and a
separation between them.

Now, since you have put off the old self, don't lie to one another. It
does nothing for the body to lie to one another. Don't do it.

So we've had now killing all of these things in verse 5. And now we have
put off or put away all of these things in verse 8. And verse 9, do not
lie. How in the world are we able to do that? Let me give you five
things quickly. Five things, they're in your notes.

This is your homework. Okay? If you want practical help, go home, mull
over these verses, these ideas, work through them, and put them to work
in your life. Okay? Number one, you must realize and reckon the old self
to be dead.

That is scripture. The old person you were before you came to Christ is
dead. You have died and your life is hidden in Christ.

Romans chapter 6, Romans chapter 6 verse 6 and verse 11, Colossians 6
and verse 6, Galatians chapter 5 and verse 24, 1 Corinthians 5 and verse
7, all tell us this is how we must realize that the old man is dead. And
then Romans 6 talks about reckoning that to be true. That means to take
into account that it is dead and make it work.

We must believe it and then make it so in our lives. Number two, make
sin your enemy. No matter how big or how small that that sin may be,
make it your enemy.

You know why? Because it's the enemy of God. Sin is the enemy of God.
God hates sin and so should we.

Number three, rebel. I said the word. I'm telling you to be a rebellious
Christian.

Rebel against sin's power. Rebel against the power of sin. Romans 6 and
verse 12, rebel against the power that sin thinks that it has over you.

It no longer has power so now rebel against it. An uprising. Number
four, do not leave the door open for sin.

Do you remember what God said to Cain again? Sin crouches at your door.
Don't leave the door open. Don't give yourself room to do it.

Shut the door and lock it. Deadbolt it. Romans chapter 13 and verse 14
and then the fifth one, acknowledge and confess.

Repent of sin every day. Now I know that almost sounds like a work. A
religious work.

But you know what it does? Here's what I believe it does. Not so that I
can remember. We're not doing any of this to maintain and hold our
relationship with God.

But if I am, if I am recognizing my sin, acknowledging it and I'm
confessing it and I'm repenting of it every day, guess what happens? You
become more sensitive to sin. You do. If you deal with it on a daily
basis, you become more sensitive to all of the sin that seems to creep
up in your life.

So deal with it daily. Don't wait until Sunday morning and you wake up
and go, oh boy, this has been a bad week. Deal with it.

Look, I had a bad day on Friday and there were people around me that I
came to on Saturday and said, I dealt with it on Friday night between me
and God. And then I came to those people that had seen me. I don't know
if they were offended or hurt or recognized it or whatever.

But I came to each one of those people, my wife, my child, Jerry,
anybody that was around me, David, anybody that was around me, saw me,
heard me, felt me. I said, I'm sorry for being a radical bad
representation. Forgive me.

Deal with it on a daily basis and it will make you more sensitive to
sin. And then lastly, don't forget to seek God's power that's yours. 2
Peter chapter 1 and verse 3. You have the power that's been given to you
to do it.

Now let's do it together. Can we? Let's pray. Father, thank you for your
word this morning.

So much to cover and so little time to cover it. I pray that you would
use it to glorify yourself in us. I pray, God, that somehow we would
respond to you in all of these things.

May we not look at someone else and say that's their problem. I pray
that we would look deep inside and see us. See in the places where we
are an angry people.

Deep rooted anger when we are full of malice and wrath. Slander for one
another. God, I pray that you would set us free from filthy language.

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