Apostle Law #3

“Anyone who wants to be a disciple of Christ will experience a struggle w/ sin”.

No one is exempted, as what Apostle Paul went through each Christian will experience a struggle with sin too. All who is in Christ will struggle, if not, they have problem with their self, they are spiritually blind.

Look of what it said in the Bible, “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would”. (Gal 5:17)

Flesh is in no way cooperates with the Spirit. Peter really want to pray for at least one hour but he could not do it. Jesus found Peter sleeping and said, “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak”. (Mat 26:41)

The number one struggle of many Christian is in the area of prayer. Many are lack of prayer and that is the main reason why they have many struggle in their Christian life. They have struggles in their eye, hand and tongue. They have struggles in their mind about attending in the church, forgiving those who hurt them and other spiritual concerns that hinder their spiritual growth.

What is the best thing we can do? One of the best thing we can do is to struggle and keep on struggling. Struggle means “to endeavor to accomplish something”: - fight, labor fervently, strive, wrestle (Strong Dictionary). Therefore, we must fight, wrestle and strive hard to accomplish something.

We are called to fight like a soldier, to endure hardship like a farmer and be discipline like an athlete. By regularly complying on that representation flesh (desires) will be put to death. When the flesh was continually being put to death we can now do what the Spirit wants.

We must struggle (wrestle). Struggling with sin is actually an indication of spiritual growth. Like a caterpillar that struggle to come out on the cocoon to become a beautiful butterfly, so we Christian should struggle to come out from the “cocoon of sin” (that enslaving us and ingrained in our whole being) and become the newness of the creation.

We must struggle-wrestle-strive to pray, to read the bible, to have joy of belonging (fellowship), and to witness and also we must struggle-strive hard to surpass the law which is the Ten Commandments.