Romans 6:19
How Do I Get to Victory from Here?
Romans is a powerful book with glorious truths. It is a deep book, a
book that many do not like to study through but the rewards are well
worth the labor you invest into it.
The theme of the entire is "Saved by Grace." It is this book that we
gain much of our understanding of salvation by grace. In Romans 6,
Paul was speaking to the Christian about the things that are now His
in Christ by God’s grace.
But not only was Paul teaching doctrinal truth, he was also giving
practical help.
Tonight, let me lay the ground work for us to have victory in our
lives from sin. The Bible make it clear that doctrinally we are
free from sin, but being doctrinally free from sin and practically
free from sin are not always the same thing.
Let me share some thoughts:
I. The first step to deliverance is DESIRE.
A. You can’t be free from sin if you don’t want to be free from
sin.
1. This is not a Bible truth as much as a lesson I have
learned.
2. I’ve seen the old adage proven many times, "You can’t help
a person that doesn’t want to be helped."
B. This is the reason Jesus always invited the lost to come to
Him for salvation and the saved to come to Him for help.
Joh 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the
feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man
thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Mt 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
C. There are two wells in this world.
1. The well of life and the well of this world.
2. The well of life gives life enteral and the power of
deliverance.
3. The water of this world is a trained, polluted water.
4. Yet, if you would rather drink dirty water—saved or lost-
God will not drag you from it or it from you.
D. So the first question is to you want to be free from sin?
II. The second step to deliverance is ACCOUNTABILITY.
A. You cannot overcome something for which you are not accepting
responsibility.
B. As I said this morning, the Bible deals with every issue we
face.
1. The problem is that we do not read the Bible and put it
Into practice.
2. The Bible teaches us that we are accountable for every
action we do and every word we speak.
Romans 14:12 So then every one of us shall give
account of himself to God.
Mt 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle
word that men shall speak, they shall give
account thereof in the day of judgment.
Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall
die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the
father, neither shall the father bear the
iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the
righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness
of the wicked shall be upon him.
C. Let me direct some words to parents and grandparents that are
having to raise their children in today’s drug crazy world.
1. Any doctor that is prescribing medication for behavior
problems without a clear regiment to teach the individual
how to control his behavior, is not a doctor. He is a
quack.
a. Someone says, “The doctor doesn’t have the time and
expertise to teach parents how to train children.
b. Then he doesn’t have the expertise to put your child
on a behavior-altering drug.
2. We have exchanged medication for discipline,
entertainment for parenting,
junk food for nutrition,
peers for parents,
schools and daycares for the home,
social media for family conversation,
violent and explicit movies, games, and music for quality
imagination time,
and we wonder why our children are hyper, stressed, and
uncontrollable.
3. It is time for people—especially Christians—to
understand that just because someone has a degree or
education in a field, it does not make them an expert.
4. All a doctrinal degree means is that people have studied
a lot in a particular field.
a. It does not mean that the field they have studied had
any truth or value to it to begin with.
(1) You can spend 10 years becoming a doctorate in
the field of evolution, but all you did was
spend 10 years studying in a made-up field.
(2) There is NO EVOLUTION.
(3) We are Bible believers.
(4) It’s all made up!
b. So is this branch of medicine that says we must sedate
and medicate our kids.
e. I know some children are a handful, but the human race
existed for thousands of years without medicating our
children for misbehavior. I think we can survive a
while longer.
5. All of that might sound like I am saying never give your
children medication for behavior problems.
a. I am not.
b. I am saying that mediation alone is not the answer.
(1) There must also be accountability.
(a) It is not the drug’s problem when you child
misbehave. It is not their teacher’s
fault. It is not your fault. It is your
child’s fault. He or she is making a
decision and must be held accountable for
it.
(b) I fear that the opportunity to teach a child
accountability has an expiration date. That
some are losing the opportunity to help
their children by solely relying on
medication and instead of working to help
their child.
(2) There must be communication.
(a) Children have to be taught right and wrong
and if they have a harder time
comprehending it, they must be taught all
the more.
(b) It may be tiresome to have to explain over
and over to the child what they are doing
that is wrong and why it is wrong but it
must be done.
(3) There must also be discipline. In most cases,
our children are not sick. They are just
misbehaving.
(4) There must be a plan to remove the medication.
Behavior medication is not a cure. It is a tool
to help produce the cure. Accountability,
communication, and discipline are the cure. Here
is where the medical world fails and fails
miserably. You have not cured a child when you
have made him or her an addict.
III. The third step to deliverance is knowledge.
A. We must know how to receive the deliverance we need.
B. There are three enemies we fight and we must know what enemy
we are fighting and how to win.
1. One enemy is the devil. To win against the devil, we must
resist him.
James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
2. Another enemy is the world. To win against the world, we
must separate from it.
Romans 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil
the lusts thereof.
Psalm 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before
mine eyes:
1Corinthians 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin
that a man doeth is without the body; but he that
committeth fornication sinneth against his own
body.
2Co 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and
be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the
unclean thing; and I will receive you,
3. The third enemy is the flesh. To win against the flesh we
must be transformed.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and
acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Ephesians 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of
your mind;
Colossians 3:10 And have put on the new man,
which is renewed in knowledge after the image of
him that created him:
C. Tonight, let’s look at one of our enemies and how we are to
defeat it, the flesh.
1. You can separate yourself from your own flesh.
2. Neither can you resist it. You will lose.
3. You must transform it. That leads to our fourth step to
victory.
IV. The fourth step to victory (over the flesh) is battle.
A. There is no magical cure for conquering sinful habits.
1. God can and sometimes does give a miracle, but that is not
the plan.
2. There are no magical Bible verses, prayers, thoughts, or
act of faith that will break sin’s bondage.
3. If you are going to overcome sin, you will have to go
through the process of transformation.
4. That is usually a long, slow, painful process, but it can
be done if you have Christ in you.
B. The key is found in Romans 6:19.
Romans 6:19 I speak after the manner of men
because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as
ye have yielded your members servants to
uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even
so now yield your members servants to
righteousness unto holiness.
1. You break sinful habits the same way you created sinful
habits.
2. How did you get into sin?
a. There was lust \\#James 1:13-15\\
(1) That is desire
(2) Thinking about a sin is always the first step to
craving it.
(3) Craving the sin is the first step to committing
it.
b. There was an exchange.
(1) You exchanged a right for a wrong, a freedom for
a pleasure.
(2) Most of the time it was a right or freedom that
you took for granted.
(3) You did not even miss it until you were bound by
the wrong.
(a) You did not have to smoke but you traded it
for a craving to smoke.
(b) You did not have to lust but you traded it
for a pleasurable lust.
(c) You did not have to be profane but you
traded it for the power profanity gave to
you.
c. There was a gradual, step-by-step, downward path.
(1) If you knew it was wrong, you probably started
small - maybe just a test to see if you like it.
(2) If there were no great repercussions, you went
further.
(3) At this point, you are committing the sin.
1. You considered the sin each time.
2. You decided to do it each time.
d. It became a habit - You woke up one morning and
instead of you doing the sin, the sin did you.
(1) You didn’t think about it.
(2) You didn’t make the choice to do it.
(3) You just did it.
3. How do I overcome it?
a. Lust after the victory.
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the
Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and
these are contrary the one to the other: so that
ye cannot do the things that ye would.
(1) You must start craving, wanting, thinking not
about being without your sin for then your mind
is still on your sin.
(2) You must crave more of Jesus! More of His
presence, more of His mind, more of His
abilities.
(3) You must crave doing for Jesus.
b. Exchange your wrong for a greater right.
(1) Every time you are tempted to do wrong, start
praying for others and while you pray, go tell
someone about Jesus, or bake a cake to give to
a neighbor in Jesus’ name, or pass out a tract.
(2) You are not giving yourself the opportunity to do
wrong because you are exchanging your wrong
behaviors for right ones.
c. Gradually, step-by-step, climb upward.
(1) Pray more, witness more, do more.
(2) There are too many good things that can be done
for you to let boredom and idleness cause you to
continue in sin.
d. The day will come when right will do you! You will
not have to think about it or decide make a decision
to do it. You just will.
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