If You Can't Stop Sinning, Start Doing This Now

I wanna talk to you about how the Holy Spirit helps us to overcome the sin nature.

Whether you're dealing with lust, with pride, with fear, doubt, unforgiveness, greed, laziness, impatience.

No matter what it is, no matter how frustrated you've become with yourself, no matter how many times you've thrown your hands up in the air in defeat saying, "I messed up again.

I made the mistake again.

I allowed myself to get in that mood again.

I allowed my thoughts to wander there again.

I allowed my attitude to shift to that ungodly attitude again.

I said words I shouldn't have said again.

I had an outburst of anger again.

I was impatient, unkind again.

I was a poor reflection of Christ again." No matter how many times you felt backed into a corner, frustrated with who you aren't yet, the Holy Spirit is your helper.

No matter how deep the darkness seems, no matter how difficult the problem seems, no matter how complex your issues may appear, the Holy Spirit can untangle that web of deceit and selfishness and pride, and cause you to yield to His work in such a way that the character of Christ comes out.

You see, Christ lives in you, and there is no nature more powerful than the nature of Christ.

There is no power more strengthened, there is no power so powerful as the power of the Holy Spirit within you.

And so if you are a born-again believer, if Jesus is your Lord, if the Holy Spirit lives within you, then there is a force within you that's fighting against the forces of darkness.

There is a power within you that is pushing back against that nature in you that you battle with so often.

Every day, you are faced with decisions.

Each moment presents to you two paths that you can go down.

You either respond like Christ would respond, act like He would act, or you act like the flesh.

You respond as the world says to respond.

Now, the Holy Spirit helps you.

You don't have to fight that battle alone.

You don't have to give up.

You don't have to quit.

I know that many believers become frustrated because they feel like hypocrites.