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loses its hold on you. Just as death lost its dominion over Jesus when He was raised from the dead, so sin loses its dominion over you. No sin is so powerful that it can dominate the person who knows he is dead to sin. Drug addiction, alcoholism, sexual sins, evil habits—all lose their power to control those who consider themselves dead to sin. "Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God" (verses 11-13). Alive to God It's not enough to consider yourself dead to sin. You must reckon yourself alive to God. That means when sin calls, you don't answer. You answer when God calls! You are motivated by the new man on the inside of you, not by the old man you once were! You can have so much of the life of God fl owing out of you that when you walk into a place, the demons there shudder and tremble in fear at your very presence! That's what the Bible says about Jesus. It says, "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him" (Acts 10:38). One translation says Jesus went about healing those who were overpowered by the devil. You are not overpowered by the devil! You have power over the devil. But if you get your attention on other things, you will let the Word slip and sin will dominate you. Hebrews 2:1, 3 says, "Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip…. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the fi rst began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confi rmed unto us by them that heard him." The Word in our hearts causes us to walk after God instead of after the world. We've got to give the more earnest heed to the things we learn in the Word of God, and not let them slip. We cannot escape sin and the e ects of sin if we neglect the great salvation the blood of Jesus has provided us. Sin and its consequences will continue to have dominion over us. But if we will continue with the Lord, our great salvation will bring us into a state of soundness—spirit, soul and body! And God wants you to walk in the fullness of your salvation. He wants you to be whole and sound in every area of your life. But you cannot enjoy that salvation now without renewing your mind to the fact that you are dead to sin. And deliverance from sin is the very beginning of our great salvation. 1 8 : B V O V DEC READ THROUGH THE BIBLE Sun 1 Ps. 133-136; Prov. 29:15-27 Mon 2 Ezek. 42:15-44:31 Rev. 3 Tue 3 Ezek. 45:1-47:12 Rev. 4 Wed 4 Ezek. 47:13-48:35; Rev. 5 Dan. 1 Thu 5 Dan. 2:1-3:18 Rev. 6 Fri 6 Dan. 3:19-5:12 Rev. 7 Sat 7 Dan. 5:13-7:14 Sun 8 Ps. 137-139; Prov. 30:1-17 Mon 9 Dan. 7:15-9:27 Rev. 8 Tue 10 Dan. 10-11 Rev. 9 Wed 11 Dan. 12; Rev. 10 Hos. 1:1-4:10 Thu 12 Hos. 4:11-8:14 Rev. 11 Fri 13 Hos. 9-12 Rev. 12 Sat 14 Hos. 13-14; Joel 1:1-2:17 Sun 15 Ps. 140-141; Prov. 30:18-33 Mon 16 Joel 2:18-3:21; Rev. 13 Amos 1-2 Tue 17 Amos 3-6 Rev. 14 Wed 18 Amos 7-9; Obad. 1 Rev. 15 Thu 19 Jon. 1-4 Rev. 16 Fri 20 Mic. 1:1-5:9 Rev. 17 Sat 21 Mic. 5:10-7:20; Nah. 1 Sun 22 Ps. 142-145 Mon 23 Nah. 2-3; Rev. 18 Hab. 1:1-2:11 Tue 24 Hab. 2:12-3:19; Rev. 19 Zeph. 1-2 Wed 25 Zeph. 3; Hag. 1-2 Rev. 20 Thu 26 Zech. 1-5 Rev. 21 Fri 27 Zech. 6-9 Rev. 22 Sat 28 Zech. 10:1-14:15 Sun 29 Ps. 146-147; Prov. 31 Mon 30 Ps. 148-150 Tue 31 Zech. 14:16-21; Mal. 1-4 Old Testament New Testament It's your responsibility to fulfi ll the righteousness that is imparted to you. You do this by renewing your mind.

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