Today's lesson is about sin. Okay, we do not like to talk about it, but we all are familiar with it; we are all fighting our own sins daily. It's easy for us to look at our sins as someone else's responsibilities. Take Adam. When confronted by God with the first sin, he played the blame game. First, he blamed Eve, then he blamed God for giving Eve to him as a helpmate.
As we learn in James 1:13, God doesn't tempt anyone. To tempt is Satan's domain, not God's. We are tempted when we "are dragged away by [our] own evil desire and enticed" (James 1:14 NIV). Sin will hunt us down then, once sin is born within us, sin causes death.
As we read in Col 3:1, we are to seek those things which are from above, "for you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God" (Col 3:3 NIV). With Christ's resurrection, we also have experienced our own resurrection, when we accept the Lord as our Savior. Then we are to put to death our earthly nature.
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