Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church

[Sung Psalm: 19] Is it true? Sin shall not have dominion over you? You know the problem well: you seek to obey God and live a life that is pleasing and holy before him, but you continually fall into sin. Then you repent and confess your sin to God with the promise of new obedience, but then you fall again, and the cycle of sin and repentance wears you down. "How could God forgive me for the same sin, over and over?" you ask. Paul answers: "Our old self was crucified with him, in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin." Yet in my experience, the struggle continues. I do not feel that my old self is dead - it seems all too alive and well for a corpse. It's all well and good to talk about progressive sanctification, to say that these things take time, but that does not remove the horrible fact that I am still sinning - and often times it is quite deliberate. Children, don't you find yourselves doing things which hurt your parents or your brothers a