Overcome Evil with Good (Rom. 12:14-21)

Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church

[Sung Psalm: 94]Our ordinary Christian life is lived in union with Christ. Our everyday, normal existence is normed by life in the Spirit.And that means that you don't need to "make up" for failures in the ordinary through doing something extraordinary – but simply through repentance.And what is repentance? I like the Shorter Catechism's answer: "repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, does, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it, unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavor after, new obedience."Repentance includes a clear recognition of how you have fallen short – as well as grasping hold of what God has done in Jesus to deliver us from sin! And when you clearly see your sin – and God's grace and mercy in Jesus – then you hate your sin for what it is – and turn away from sin, and turn towards God! Learning to live an ordinary life the way God calls you to live!And that ordinary life is a life of genuine love...