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God is for Us, Who is against Us

 

Romans 8:31- What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 

Here Paul is reminding us that God is on our side, as he asks the question, “Who can be against us? I want to show you from the Truth of God’s Word who it is that is against us. 

 

1.  The Enemy of Self – I John 2:15-17, There is something within this flesh that wants the attention of the world, we want to be recognized and loved by the world. But, the Bible says, love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. What is it about this world that attracts people so, we see the destruction, we see the emptiness and loneliness that the world offers and yet day by day we are losing our young people to the attractions of this world. Christians are getting sidetracked as they yield to the temptations of this world. 

 

What is it about this world that is so distracting from the Truth of the Word of God?

 

2.  The lust of the flesh – Our flesh wants us to follow after it, to watch out for it, to love it and walk in it. But God says in Galatians 5:16, “Walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.”  Galatians 6:8 tells us the fruit of sowing to the flesh is corruption.

Romans 7:8, “For I know that in me, (that is in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing. 

2.  The lust of the eyes – Many of us need to do as Job did in Job 31:1, and that is to make a covenant with our eyes. We need to say as David did, I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes. It is very important to protect the eye gate of our bodies, WHY? Because Jeremiah tells us in Lamentations 3:51, “Mine eye affecteth mine heart…”

3.   The Pride of Life – Proverbs 16:18, “Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” Pride is the original sin of Satan and that old sin still haunts folks today. 

Pride: self importance

Romans 12:3, “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”