Victory Over Sin — Phil Beach Jr.

The Blaming Heart and Personal Responsibility

Going to continue the messages that we have been ministering on we started out with the Deceitful heart then we went to the defensive heart then we went into the problem within the man and the solution and Then we went into the blaming heart this morning.

We preached on the blaming heart and how it is within the within the heart of a flesh to want to blame What you are on someone else to blame it on a circumstance to blame it on a person to blame it on an Unfortunate mishap that occurred in your life in order to in order to prevent taking responsibility yourself and we showed how Adam was the first human being to Exemplify to manifest this fruit of sin.

You remember when God came to Adam in the garden and God questioned Adam and said Adam what happened instead of taking responsibility for his sin and looking at God and saying God I was tempted to do wrong and I yielded to my temptation and I sinned against you.

Forgive me I'm asking for mercy. No Adam played the shift game. We called it the shift game and it's it's called the blame game. How many have played the blame game? The blame game we blame Someone else for what we are we blame someone else.

For the sin that is in our heart and that manifests and In blaming someone else we discover three things. First of all, you become self-deceived. Secondly, your heart becomes hardened and Thirdly you continue in that state of blaming someone and you don't receive the liberation.

You don't receive the freedom you don't receive the glorious release that is yours in Christ Jesus as long as you blame somebody. Then we went into Exodus chapter 18 and we discovered that the children of Israel blamed Moses for their sin.

They were grumbling. They were complaining. They were sinning. They were tempting God. They were cursing God and Finally when they had to give an account of what they were doing instead of coming before God and saying Lord we confess that these trials that we're going through have served one purpose and That is this instead of saying God you tested us.

You tried us in the wilderness and we've discovered that sin lurks within our life instead of thanking God for the trials and Thanking him for not giving them water three days in order that in order to Thank God because of seeing the sin that lurked within them instead of thanking God.

They blame Moses. They said Moses. It's your fault that we're like we are. Now isn't that interesting? They were blaming Moses and blaming God for their sin. See that's an easy escape what happens when you blame someone for what you are first of all that releases you from taking responsibility.

So so that means if you are released from taking responsibility for your sin Then you can continue in that sin and not feel guilty about it. See if it's someone else's fault, then you've got every right to be like that if it's someone else's fault, but it's not whenever anything unpleasant Surfaces in you it's not because of someone else.

It's because that's what lurked within you all along and God was able to use this external Circumstance to surface it and this is what we've been ministering on the past couple months and that is we must be delivered from the vanity and the lie of the present-day philosophy that is Infiltrating the world and not only the world but is infiltrating the Christian Church.

And it is a philosophy that is suggesting that we have the right to feel the way we do when it is in opposition to God's Word and that we are the way we are because of Circumstances that is in direct opposition to the Word of God.

The Sinful Heart and the Flesh

We learned in Mark chapter 7 this morning that we are what we are not because we are made that way through External circumstances that come our way, but we are what we are because our hearts are sinful.

Jesus said within the heart of man dwells adultery fornication evil thinking blasphemy lasciviousness licentiousness stealing murder hatred bitterness unkindness Impatience, that's the very that's the very nature of flesh that's the very nature of flesh and I and I want you to know that when you become a Christian and a new creation you do not cease from being flesh.

You do not stop being flesh. Therefore the disposition of flesh does not change when you become a Christian. It does not change.

Yes now what.

We're going to get to that we're going to get to that. That's okay. That's good. We're going to get to that now listen like I said when we become a Christian we do not cease from being flesh. This is very important to understand very important to understand because if we did then what is it that comes out of you?

What do you do in screaming and yelling and still sinning? Where's that coming from? Where's it coming from. I haven't met a Christian yet. Who? After becoming a Christian is incapable of sin so the question is now That we are new creatures in Christ Jesus.

We must understand that our flesh what we are the flesh does not change. Listen flesh is flesh is flesh is flesh flesh does not change. So within the heart of man within the flesh is Corruptness utter corruptness.

That corruptness is not sanctified. It stays the same. It does not change it stays the same. That's why God provided as George was saying which is we're going to get to it. God provides a way to escape.

The influence of flesh over our life, but not the presence of flesh over our life. The influence of flesh over our life, but not the presence of flesh over our life now. What we're going to do is we're going to fill this in and then we're going to give you another Illustration in a picture and we're going to explain this again, but only in picture form first of all.

We want to see through this illustration that I am sin for or I am Flesh the Bible says in Romans chapter 7. Romans chapter 7 you could turn there if you like Romans chapter 7. Romans chapter 7 be verse number 20.

Romans 7 20 now if I do that I would not it is no more I that do it, but the sin that dwelleth in me. I Find in a law that when I would do good evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind and Bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members.

Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death. I Thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with my mind I myself serve the law of God. But with the flesh the law of sin and death now the key in understanding this.

Let's go with two more scriptures before we. First of all, let's put down Romans chapter 1 verse 9. Romans 7. Romans 7 19. Now, let's go to Ephesians chapter 4 and we'll put this all together and Understand the way of victory over the old man.

Putting Off the Old Man

Ephesians chapter 4. Beginning in verse number 17 this I say therefore and testify in the Lord that ye henceforth walk. Not as other Gentiles walk in a vanity of their mind having the understanding Darkened being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart.

Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness. To work all uncleanliness with greediness, but ye have not so learned Christ. If so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus.

Listen that ye put off Concerning the former conversation the old man. Now who's he talking to now Christians. But Christians are to put off the old man. So therefore the flesh Has to be recognized as an enemy to God.

Now we can go into the book of Corinthians and show how the flesh is not subject to God. We can show how the flesh is at enmity to God. We can show how the flesh cannot receive anything from God. The flesh is flesh is flesh is flesh and the flesh is corruptible.

The Bible says in verse 22 of Ephesians chapter 4 that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is Corrupt the old man is corrupt. Don't expect your old man. Don't expect that flesh to respond to the things of God it will not respond to the things of God.

That's why we have to recognize what God's provision for the old man is and we're going to see that in a moment. So that's Ephesians chapter 4 verse number 23. Ephesians 4 23 and 24. Also, let's turn our Bibles to Colossians chapter 3.

This is the same thing here that Paul is teaching in Colossians as he is in in Ephesians chapter 4. Colossians chapter 3. We're looking at verse number 1 in Colossians chapter 3 and we'll read down to verse number 10 and 9.

If ye then be risen with Christ. Seek those things which are above. Where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God set your affection on the things above not on things on earth now. I want you to know that setting your affection means setting your your will.

Setting your will on things above rather than things on earth because if you set your will on things on earth. That's not only talking about earthly things externally. But that's also talking about setting your will on earth inside and what happens when you get when you begin it when you get Interested in earthly desires you discover the flesh which is wholly corrupt and which is completely perverted and If you keep your mind and your will in your heart on the flesh and on the corruptness of your old nature.

Then you will indeed begin to be driven by his desires. And if you are driven by his desires, then you are indeed most miserable. You see so this is why Paul says if you be risen with Christ. In other words, if you've been quickened with Christ if God has given you new life in Christ Jesus be Be desirous to learn about the new life.

Don't be don't be Lingering in the old life. Don't be sniffing the old man. Don't be sniffing the old man and and given listen. Don't give the old man an occasion to express his evil corrupt desires through your mortal body.

Don't give him an opportunity through the power of grace through the power of the Holy Spirit through the power of the Indwelling Christ and through the power of the Word of God resist the old man, and that's how we do it.

So if you then be risen with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God set your affection set your desires set your volition set your will set your intentions on Christ on things above on heavenly things on holy things on Spiritual things on things that have to do with redemption and salvation and and the fruit of the Spirit.

Listen the old man has not been annihilated. The old man has not been eradicated. The old man has not been sanctified. He is yet living in the body of your Flesh not your human flesh, but inside there is a disposition in you that is corrupt.

It is the old man that is the hope of righteousness for which we are waiting Galatians chapter 5 on the day of redemption when Jesus comes and Transforms us then and only then will we find Complete liberty from the corruption of the old man, and we will be brought into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

That's the hope that the Christian has in Galatians chapter 5 we can find that scripture. We wait for the hope of righteousness. But right now while we are yet in these Mortal Corruptible vessels there is yet still power to be free from listen free from the dictates of flesh.

We are not delivered from the presence of the old man. We are not delivered from the presence of sin. We are not delivered from the presence of all of the deceitful works of the flesh. But we are delivered in Christ from the dominion and the tyranny of the flesh in other words the flesh.

Now that we are Christians and Christ dwells in us the flesh Does not have dominion over us that is if we choose to follow Christ rather than the flesh so we have I am flesh I am sinful. Romans 719 Ephesians 4 23 and 24 and Colossians chapter 3 for ye are dead and Your life is hid with Christ in God.

Now listen carefully when Christ our Life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory in light of those facts. Verse number five is written in light of the fact that you have been saved from your sins.

Number two you have been given the Holy Spirit. Number three Christ now dwells in your heart by faith. Number four you have been caused to dwell with Christ in heavenly places. Number five in light of all of these wonderful finished acts of redemption.

That have been wrought in you the moment you believed in light of all these things Paul says in verse number five put to death mortify Your members which are upon the earth. What is he talking about. What did we read in Ephesians where was it?

Ephesians chapter 4 verse number 21. If so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus that ye put off. Concerning the former conversation the old Man. So when Paul talks about mortifying your members which are upon the earth he's talking about putting to death or Making it impossible.

For the flesh to express its evil desires through you. Put to death there see because you know what's in the flesh. You know what's in the heart of man. You know what lurks within all of us. And there's no one not even Christians that are free from this the flesh.

What I'm trying to say is the flesh doesn't change. Listen your spirit is redeemed, and you have become a partaker of divine nature that is true. But your flesh remains the same it doesn't matter how holy how sanctified or how close you get to God.

You are a man. Your old man is yet alive in you. And if you don't continue to abide in Christ those corrupt desires are just as strong as they ever were. See that's why it's important for us to understand this.

Many Christians expect that some day. They're going to wake up. And there's suddenly going to be holy in that they're they're going to be free from the corruptness of flesh not so the corruptness of flesh will be with us until the day of redemption and then it's when the Trumpet is sounded and when we are loosed from this body of death.

Then we enter into the glorious liberty of the sons of God which refers to in Romans chapter 8. So Colossians chapter 3 verse number 4 verse number 5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth now.

This is what lurks within the heart of sinful man this you need to know that your old man. If you are if you are a seed from Adam. This lurks in you now watch this Fornication. You know what that means?

Fornication is any form of sexual activity whether it is physical whether it is through magazines whether it is through Television I don't care what it is any form of sexual activity that is outside of marriage is absolutely sinful absolutely sinful.

Fornication uncleanness. Inordinate affection. Evil concupiscence that means evil desires evil desires and covetousness which is idolatry. See they're the deeds of the old man. They're the deeds of the old man.

For for which things sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience. Now listen in the which ye also walked sometimes when ye lived in them. But now ye also put off all these anger wrath Malice blasphemy filthy communication out of your mouth.

Lie not one to another seeing that you have put off The old man with his deeds and I've put on the new man. Listen which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that Created him. So what we have to do as Christians is we have to learn By the grace of God by the working of God's Word in our life and by the power of the Holy Spirit.

We have to learn to put off The flesh the old man by faith and to put on the new man. Which is renewed in the image and likeness of God who created him and this is a daily process. So this is Colossians Chapter 3 verses 1 through 10.

Mortification and the Newness of Life

Verses 1 through 10. Now Let's turn to Romans chapter 6. Romans chapter 6. Romans chapter 6. Romans chapter 5 describes the glorious act by which God has declared us righteous and just Through Jesus Christ, but now that we stand as children of God now that we stand as Those who have been redeemed and saved and we have been given the power of the Holy Spirit and the person of Christ dwells in Us through the Holy Spirit by faith.

Verse number 6 or chapter 6 verse number 1 comes in what shall we say? Then what are we talking about in the state of being saved? It's talking about in the state of being saved now that we are saved and children of God.

What shall we say then shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Shall we here's what Paul's saying now that we are saved shall we continue to set our heart on the flesh? Shall we continue to follow the corruptness of the old man and The deeds of the old man shall we allow the old man to express his deeds through us now that we're saved now that we're new Creations in Christ Jesus was Paul saying God forbid.

How shall we that are dead to sin? Live any longer therein now. I want you to notice. It's very important. The Bible doesn't say sin is dead to us. The Bible says that we're dead to sin. There's a great difference.

We are dead to sin. Here it is. What is sin sin is the flesh the flesh is sin altogether. We are Dead to sin. Here it is. We are dead to sin by virtue of being in Christ as. Listen as we are in Christ abiding in Christ obeying Christ word the deeds of sin.

The deeds of flesh do not express themselves through us. That's how we're dead to sin. We are dead to sin through abiding in Christ for in Christ. There is no sin in Christ. There is no expression of sin in Christ.

I triumph over the old man in Christ. I find power over the corrupt deeds of sinful flesh with yet lurk within me in Christ rather than the flesh Expressing itself through me and manifesting the corrupt deeds that I am in the flesh.

I Find that as I abide in Christ, then what Christ is expresses himself through me what Christ is begins to be seen in my character and begins to be seen in my Nature. Now, let's go on here because this is a very important part God forbid how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?

No, ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death. That like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Now you see we are to walk in newness of life. Now see I am a new creature, okay 2nd Corinthians 5 17. Now watch this as a new creation as a new creature. Christ Lives in me. Number two the Holy Spirit lives in me.

Number three the Word of God lives in me. Okay. Now, what is it to walk in newness of life? Here's what it is to walk in newness of life as I walk in newness of life. I am Drawing my very life and my very strength from Christ Who is in me from the Holy Spirit who is in me from the Word of God who is in me?

Rather than Drawing my life and my strength and my unction from the old man who is to be crucified with Christ. Now we're going to get into that right here in this scripture. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, by the way Christ's death.

You have to understand if we have been buried with him in his death. His death was for your sins. So when the Bible says we've been buried with him what it is actually saying is Christ going to the cross.

Was a sign that our sins were abolished. So therefore if we participate in Christ's death We are basically saying I consider my old life as God considers it and that is dead corrupt useless. Unprofitable it cannot please God it will not please God.

It is not at all Holy and therefore listen, I am going to forever ignore it by the power of God's Word. I'm not going to yield to it by the power of God's grace. I am going to reckon my old man as crucified with Christ.

The victory over the old man comes to a believer as the believer as the believer progressively understands The position that he is in Christ and what God says about the old man. Listen the deeds of the old man Will not express themselves through any Christian who learns to hate the old life and love the new life.

Listen you obey. Now we're getting a little bit ahead of ourself, but choice guess what determines choice? Okay, Colossians 2 9 also, we'll go to 2 10. We'll go to that in a second, but guess what determines choice love.

You obey who you love. You obey who you love and if it's the old man that you are yet committed to his deeds You will obey and he will express himself through you. But as the as the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts through the power of the Holy Ghost.

What happens our wills our affections start changing and rather than Allowing the old man to express himself through us which leads to death and destruction and misery we then Resist the old man. We reckon him as dead.

I didn't say we reckon him is not there. He's there and don't try and play the game of ignoring him like he's not there anymore. He is there. He's there but as we fall in love more and more with our Savior and as love Captivates us more and more we're going to find less and less of the desire To want the old man to express himself in us and more and more a desire for the new man To express himself through us and there's the secret of power over sin.

We incorporate the finished work of Christ. He has triumphed over death. He has triumphed over sin and he has triumphed over the old man. We incorporate that plus we experience on a daily basis the love of God and those two combined together bring Absolute victory on a daily basis in the Christians life.

Walking in Christ by Faith

Colossians chapter 2. Colossians chapter 2 which also Conforms to the point that we just make about being a new creature in Christ. Colossians chapter 2 verse number let's begin in verse number 6. Colossians 2 verse 6.

I Love Bible studies. I hope you do. Colossians chapter 2 verse number 6. As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord. So walk ye in him. Now you see we have received Christ as Lord. I am a new creation.

2nd Corinthians 5 17. But Paul saying if you have received him then walk in him. Don't walk in the ways of the old man anymore now that you're a new creature in Christ. Don't walk in the ways of the old man.

But now that you have received Christ draw your strength from Christ draw your strength from the Holy Spirit. Draw your strength from the word of God and we do that by staying humble before God and by staying close to him and by Seeking and by asking him to reveal himself to us more and more and more.

God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in him rooted and built up in him and Established in the faith as you have been taught abounding therein with thanksgiving.

You see it's Paul's Desire not only for the sinner to become a new creature in Christ and experience new life. But it's Paul's desire, which is the Holy Spirit for the believer now to become so deeply Rooted in the life of Christ so deeply grounded in the life of Christ so drawing Drawing everything that the believer is from Christ as opposed to drawing life from the old man and still Wallowing around in the old life.

Paul saying don't wallow around in the old life. Don't continue to allow the old life to manifest itself through you. But by the power of grace by the power of the Word of God. So allow God to plant you so deeply in Christ in so much that the very life of Christ Himself becomes the very life that is expressing itself in your mortal body.

That's victory over sin. Glory to God. That's victory rooted and built up in him and Established in the faith. I like that. We need to be rooted. We need to be built up. We need to be established in Christ.

Isn't that good my Lord. God loose us from the old man. Lucis Lord Shed abroad pour out into us your love so we could be free from the dictates of the old man. Because we've been delivered from the consequences of sin.

God there is therefore now no Condemnation we don't need to walk around in fear because God is Exposing in us an area where we are yet an allegiance to the old man. We don't need to be in fear if we are genuinely children of God.

Hallelujah, we're free from condemnation so I can approach this whole subject now not in fear, but in hope. See I don't have to approach this sin that lurks in me and I don't have to come to God wrestling with sin anymore with fear.

But I've been delivered from fear. I've been delivered from torment so that I can come to God as one of his children and say Lord This flesh is evil and I see that there's still an area in my life where I am committed to the flesh.

Where where I am allowing the flesh to express its evil desires through me, but Lord I'm one of yours, and I don't want this to be deliver me. Lord have mercy upon me. Oh, what liberation my god this liberates you beloved this liberates you.

The Sufficiency of Christ Against the Old Man

Now verse number eight beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit. After the tradition of men after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily and ye are complete in him.

Which is the head of all principality and all power? Now you are complete in him as a Christian. Christ is dwelling in you and in him you are complete in other words. You don't need anything more than Christ himself who dwells in your heart by faith and your entire Behaviors and your actions will all change.

Listen in relation to. How much you draw your life from Christ now rather than the old man? Glory to God. Let's draw our life from from from the new man. Which is Christ in me and my spirit joined to him.

See my spirit is now joined to Christ. I am a new creature. I've been made a partaker of the divine nature. 2nd Peter chapter 1 verses 1 through 9. I am actually a partaker now of the divine nature. My spirit and God's spirit are joined together, and we are one that unity that unity of my Union with Christ.

Now my union with God in Christ gives me the power over the flesh. See the fact that God has joined his spirit with my spirit, and now I am a new man. I've been given a new nature. I've been given a new disposition.

The fact that I've been joined together with God now Gives me in Christ the power over the old corrupt man. Gives me power over the corrupt man. I don't have this power in myself. But I have it in Christ by virtue of God living in me by virtue of Deity himself has come in Christ and has joined himself to your spirit if you are a believer.

Now that I am in Christ and that my spirit is joined with his spirit. Paul teaches this in 1st Corinthians chapter 6. The two become one spirit now as I learn. This is the secret now as I learn to yield to the desires of Christ Rather than the desires of corrupt flesh Which dwells in me and which will be there until the day of redemption as I learn to yield to Christ Rather than to the old man.

I am daily victorious. Now this is the process that we're undergoing now now. Let's go to Romans chapter 6. Verse number 11. Colossians chapter 2 in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands in.

Putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. Putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. Putting off the body of the sins of the flesh you see that in Christ in Christ.

You put off the old man and his deeds do not find expression in you. But what what what expresses itself through you when that when when you're in Christ? Jesus does. Jesus expresses himself. Hallelujah the victory is Jesus himself.

Crucified with Christ and Freed from Sin's Dominion

Now let's go to Romans chapter 6 and let's go into this matter of choice now. Romans chapter 6. Romans chapter 6. Remember what we said now verses 1 through 4 described our participation in the identity.

Identifying with Christ. Now watch this verse number 5 for if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death. That is if we have put off the old man by being Translated into Christ if we've been translated into Christ through the redemption through the new birth.

We shall also in the likeness of his resurrection be. Listen to this now knowing this that our old man is or was crucified with him now, here's. Here's the biblical remedy to the old man now how many people here understand what I'm saying when I talk about the old man.

That's the flesh. All right, that's that that's the flesh that if if you give a foothold to will express his evil desires through you, right? Sure, what's the solution to flesh? What's the solution to the flesh?

You can't pretend. It's not there. You can't confess it away. You can't cast it out. You can't find some deliverance minister to come and lay his hands on you and say I command you flesh in the name of Jesus.

Come out and then be free from the flesh. No, here's God's remedy for the flesh. Verse number six. Knowing this that our old man is crucified With Christ listen that the body of sin might be destroyed.

Now the word destroyed in the Greek. Listen to this the word destroyed in the Greek literally means to make powerless. To make Powerless, how is the old man the flesh which is corrupt made powerless? Through Christ himself the old man is made powerless.

You see. The old man is made powerless now, does that mean that the old man can't express himself through you anymore? Absolutely not. Think about it use your heads here. Can the old man express himself through you anymore?

Of course he can. So, how is he made powerless as we? Participate in Christ the old man is made powerless as We are rooted and grounded in Christ as we Yield ourselves therefore unto God if we're yielding ourself to God.

We are drawing our strength from Christ and the old man is rendered powerless. He doesn't go away. He stays corrupt, but he doesn't express his evil desires in us. He lays dormant rendered inoperative rendered inoperative.

Knowing this that the old man is Crucified that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth We should not serve sin. See. The old man cannot be saved. The old man cannot be sanctified. The old man cannot put on religious garments and try to become holy.

The only place for the old man is crucified with Christ reckoned as dead. You have to consider your old life corrupt like God's Word says it is. You have to consider your old life to be something. You shouldn't touch.

You shouldn't want to touch. And if God shows you that it is still expressing itself through you. You should find in God's grace and in God's power the ability to resist it break your allegiance to the old man.

So that that area of your life can be free from dominion of the old man and brought under the control of Christ. That's what the believers should desire every day right there because the old man is crucified with Christ.

So that what we should not serve sin so we find that sin the root of sin is in the old man. The law of sin continues to work in the old man, that's why our bodies are getting old and dying. But the law of sin though it is operating in our bodies.

Yet should not be operating in our members that means we shouldn't be obeying its desires. Because God's going to deliver us from the body of sin on the day of redemption. But now we've been delivered from the dominion of sin not the presence.

But the dominion of sin through Christ Jesus. Now watch this Verse 7 for he that is dead is freed from sin. See we are freed from sin in Christ Jesus. We're freed from sin in Christ. Now, it's appropriating that on a daily basis.