Drive out sin radically - Deut 7:1-6

Drive out sin radically
March 10, 2013
Deut 7:1-6

INTRO
- Paul tells us to leave behind the sin that so easily besets us
- Heb 12:1 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us
- Let us lay aside the sin that so easily besets us
- What does it take for us to actually do this?
- How would you lay that sin aside?
- It takes forgiveness and the blood of Jesus to lay it aside
- Otherwise it clings to us like some sticky goo
- But to lay it aside
- That means I totally no longer want that thing that so easily beset me
- I no longer want it to have even a little bit of me
- I have laid it aside
- I radically no longer want it
- This evening we will look at radically putting sin out of our lives

READING
- Deut 7:1-6

BACKGROUND
- Israelites had been in Egypt for 430 years
- Egypt in the Bible represents sin
- Inhabitants of the land were wicked
- Child sacrifice
- Israel had been freed from slavery, just as we have been freed from sin
- We have not been freed to once again become slaves to sin
- The Israelites had been freed from sin, were not to tolerate coexisting with it once again

TOTALLY DESTROY SIN
- Just as God told the Israelites to exterminate the squatters in Abraham's land, he wants us to absolutely destry the sin in our lives
- God says not to look at our sin with pity, or give ourselves over to serving it, it will ensnare us v16

NO COMPROMISE
- When the Israelites took the land, they did not obey the instruction to wipe oput the inhabitants
- As a result they were ensnared
- Baal worship
- Later the whole nation went into captivity, and eventually scattered
- No fellowship with darkness - Eph 5:11

WE ARE HOLY
- Because I am holy to th Lord - v.6
- Wherever God is, is holy
- Moses at burning bush - the ground where you stand is holy
- Jesus and the Father and the Holy Spirit come to dwell in our spirit
- Our spirit became alive and is holy
- All kinds of blessing is for those who obey him with their whole heart - Eph 1:3
- God will not do this because of our greatness, but because he loves us and is faithful to the covenant he made with us
- We made that covenant with him when we accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior

DO NOT FEAR
- We may fear the sin it seems stronger than us but God says dont be afraid
- God will take care of it with his outstreched arm, signs and wonders
- Do not be terrified because the Lord your God who is among you, is a great and awesome god

SONG
- Our God is an Awesome God