How to Stop Sin Dead in its Tracks // Eliminating Sin, Part 2

<p>Most of us have heard sermon after sermon, message after message telling us that we shouldn’t sin. That instead we should repent and live a godly, holy life. That’s great – but the real question is HOW?</p> <p> </p> <h3><strong><span style="color: #ff9900;">STIFF-NECKED GENERATION</span></strong></h3> <p>I was never much of an accountant but I do remember learning about double-entry book keeping systems. They were really important back in manual accounting systems because they provided a double check to make sure that the accounts balanced.</p> <p>Basically, here’s how it worked. Every financial transaction in the accounts had two entries – hence the name double entry. A credit entry and a debit entry. And the whole point of that was the double entry provided a double check.</p> <p>And it’s not just in accounting that you find this approach. You find it in physics too. Newton’s third law says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In other words – whenever a body exerts a force on a second body, that second body exerts an equal and opposite force on the first body. Maybe that’s something we should have learned at school.</p> <p>And it’s not just in accounting and physics that we see this two sided approach to life, we also find it in the spiritual dimension. Absolutely we do. Every spiritual transaction has two sides to it. Every spiritual action in one direction creates an equal and opposite action in the other direction.</p> <p>So what’s the point? Well in this double-sided mystery lies our rubber-hits-the-road solution to overcoming stubborn sin – which is the thing that we’re talking about in this series, <em>“Eliminating Stubborn Sin Once and For All”</em>. And it’s a powerful solution indeed.</p> <p>Last week on the program we saw that each one of us finds ourselves with at least one stubborn sin in life that we can’t seem to overcome. Now it’s different for each one of us – anger, temper, sexuality, greed, self esteem, pride … the list goes on. And somehow that one particular sine comes b