1. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith1
Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith
Romans 8: 35-39

2. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith2
"Faster than a speeding bullet!
More powerful than a locomotive!
Able to leap tall buildings
in a single bound."
"Look, up in the sky!"
"It's a bird!" "It's a Plane!"
"It's Superman!“
"Yes it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came
to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.
Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel
in his bare hands and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered
reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending
battle for truth, justice and the American way."

3. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith3
Romans 8: 35-39
35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36. As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.''
37. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
38. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
39. nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

4. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith4
Hebrews 12: 1
(NKJ) “…lay aside….the sin which so easily ensnares us…”
(NAS) the sin which “…so easily entangles us…”
(The Living Bible) “…those sins that wrap themselves so tightly around our feet and trip us up…”

5. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith5
“Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the begeter of secret sedition, the perpetual tormenter of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, a quicksilver, which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.”
Socrates

6. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith6
The Companion Sins of Envy (Galatians 5: 19-21)
19. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
20. idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
21. envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

7. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith7
I John 3: 11-12
“For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother's righteous.”

8. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith8
Romans 13: 13-14:
13. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in licentiousness and lewdness, not in strife and envy.
14. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

9. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith9
Galatians 5:24
“And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”

10. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith10
I Timothy 6: 6-8:
6. But godliness with contentment is great gain.
7. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.

11. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith11
Galations 2: 20 says:
"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

12. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith12
Mark 7:20-23:
18. So He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him,
19. "because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?''
20. And He said, "What comes out of a man, that defiles a man.
21. "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22. "thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
23. "All these evil things come from within and defile a man.

13. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith13
Romans 12: 3
“For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.”

14. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith14
Bible illustrations of inordinate pride
Luke 18: 9-14
Acts 12: 20-23

15. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith15
I Corinthians 13: 4
“…love does not parade itself, is not puffed up…”
Galatians 5:24
“And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”
Romans 13: 14:
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

16. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith16
II Corinthians 3: 5
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God…

17. Overcoming Kryptonites to the Christian Faith17
Galations 2: 20:
"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

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I Cor 10:12
Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.