A Christian should NEVER think of themselves as a 'sinner".
"as a person thinks in their Heart, so are they"...
So, if you are born again, you are not a "sinner,... = you are FOREVER a Child of God. You are THE Bride of Christ. You are a "Lively Stone"... You are a "Redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb"... You are a "Child of the Light... You are a "SAINT".... You are a "Brethren"....You are a "Heir of God"... You are a "Joint Heir with Christ"....You are "The Temple of the Holy Spirit"..... "Jesus has called you FRIEND".
So why are you no longer a "sinner" if you are Born again? ??
Well this Title...."sinner" and "sin", is a former product of the Law's ability to define an unbeliever as those words, as that Title.. See, The Law has an authority, and it has a dominion... So, an unbeliever is UNDER the dominion and authority of "the Law", so, the Law has a right to define an unbeliever as a "sinner, and their trangression, their iniquity , as "sin".
Jesus has removed the "curse of the Law".. from the Born again. This means that IF you are truly born again you are no longer under the "dominion of the Law".. This mean that the Law has no more RIGHT to label you, or define you, as anything... And why is that? ??
= "Christ has REDEEMED the born again, from the CURSE of the Law".
= The born again are "not under the law, but UNDER GRACE".
= Jesus said, "all POWER is given to me, In Heaven and on EARTH"
= "As JESUS IS.....so ARE ... the born again...IN THIS WORLD">..
If you are Born Again, then you are now under a new dominion... you are "under GRACE".
The Grace of God now has Dominion and final authority over you...
Saint, in the "time of the gentiles" there are 2 dominions as work...
1.) The Law
2.) Grace.
So, every person breathing, is BORN or BORN AGAIN UNDER one of those dominions... And each has the right of authority to DECLARE YOU TO BE....
The born again are under the Dominion of GRACE.
Grace removes the title 'sinner" from you, BECAUSE it has replaced the Law's dominion over you.
This is why you are no longer to be considered as a "sinner".
And this is why what use to be referred to as "sin", "under the Law", is now referred to by Paul as "works of the Flesh", regarding the Born Again.
Notice this verse...Galatians 5:13 Paul Speaking... "Use not your Freedom in Christ to commit a work of the flesh".... Here Paul is talking only to the Born again, who are not "under the Law".
Notice this verse..."
Galatians 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings..
Notice that these are all the same DEEDS or Behavior, that were previously defined as SIN when you were an unbeliever...... But notice that when Paul is NOW teaching the Born again, in Galatians, who are not "under the Law", but "under GRACE", he does not define the same as "sin"... He defines these works according to the Dominion of Grace, as "works of the flesh".
So, IF you are born again ... do not see yourself as a "sinner".. Do not define yourself as a "saved sinner". Do not accept being labeled as this by Teachers who are in Theological error, and are Legalists / Heretics.
Define yourself..= SEE YOURSELF ONLY as GOD sees you, as defined by The dominion of GRACE..
= You are a Born Again : SAINT.
This is your Heavenly ID.. This is your ETERNAL "new creation IN CHRIST" Status and TITLE.
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When we SEE OURSELVES as "the righteousness of God, IN CHRIST" then we are mentally aligning ourselves with God's ETERNAL perspective.
When we do this, we lose our self condemnation, and begin to accept that the blood of Jesus has made us accepted by God and keeps us there, always, and then we find that we understand WHY we have eternal "peace with God".
"not of works, lest any person will boast" and try to keep themselves saved.
When we learn to BELIEVE that "Jesus who saved us, keeps us saved" then we are walking in FAITH....but not until.
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A lot of religious people read this in the NT, "i am chief of sinners"...and never read the end of that commentary that Paul is teaching. They never finish it all the way through. They stop there, and live there = with their repenting and confessing lifestyle.
Imagine the misunderstanding a hyper religious person has, a carnal believer has, when they misread the verse like this....."I Paul, am continuing to be a dirty rotten sinner, the Chief".
That is how a hyper religious person, a carnal bible rejector misunderstands that verse.... They actually think the Apostle who wrote most of the NT is living in sin....
= YIKES>.
So, what you do is read the end of Paul's commentary, that is explaining how he stopped trying to fight his carnal nature and started to exist completely under the dominion of Grace. "walking in the Spirit", "walking in THE Light", and once that became his MIND, he was no longer going back and forth, with a divided mind, that was causing him the pain and misery. This is why he says.....that he serves no longer his flesh, but now walks in the right MIND, and from that he teaches that he ALWAYS has Victory, thru Christ.
No more sinning, no more crazy struggle, no more repenting....but ALWAYS has the VICTORY, he states.
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Lets look at this verse.
"if we say we have no SIN"...
So, This means, that someone's sin has not been forgiven, because they STILL HAVE IT.
This means that Christ has not paid for it yet.
This is not talking about a born again believer, who has the blood atonement, applied.
Here is a revelation for some of you Legalist who are trying to keep yourself saved.
Q.) What sin did the blood of Jesus pay for ??
A.) The ones you did before you were saved and the ones you committed after you were saved.
Reader.....Do you think an Apostle is standing there with SIN?...... Really?
You need to remeasure that idea.....
So, what is wrong do you think?
Well, its what you believe., and what you believe is what you were taught, and whoever taught you has no idea what they are doing. Ok?
Believe it, that Apostle is not standing there with UNFORGIVEN SIN needing to be confessed, while he's talking to people about having sin.
But he IS doing this.... He's talking to a group of unbelievers. And its like this.....
Lets say im talking to a group of unbelievers....in a room. And a couple of them are Scientologists (Tom Cruise) who say that "sin" is not real......and a couple of the listeners are followers of Mary Baker Eddy, who taught that sin is an illusion.
So, i just said to the room...... "listen, sin is what is going to keep you out of heaven after you die, so, this is why Christ came.........etc.
4 people stand up.......... 2 scientologists and 2 of the Baker boys........and i say....OK WHAT? And they say......we dont have sin because we dont believe in sin...
I am now talking to them, and i say......."Listen if we say we have no sin we make Jesus a liar".
Now, did you notice that i said....."WE" ??
But i dont have the sin...they have it...So, am i including myself with them as a SINNER? = NOPE.
No im not....i am using a technique that is understood as corporally speaking, that speaks to the hearer, yet not about myself, when i say "we".
This is PREACHER speak. Pastors do this all the time when they are talking to a group.
They talk about the group's issue, but they say..>"if WE".., yet they are not talking about themselves.
And that is what is happening in the verse. And if you go to Hebrews 4, and 6, and read the Apostle to say...>"WE". "if WE sin willfully',= again the speaker is not speaking about himself, he is talking only about THEM.
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And about your sin.... Are you born again? or only water baptized?
If you are born again, then your SIN was removed from you when Christ became it on the Cross and died.
And the reason you had it, was because the LAW that you were under, that had dominion over you, had the authority to declare you to be a sinner and your "iniquity", your carnal deeds >as sin.
The Law is gone now, if you are born again....."you are no longer UNDER THE LAW, but UNDER GRACE".
"Jesus has removed the curse of the Law".
GRACE... now has dominion over you, and GRACE has redefined you with a new Heavenly ID...
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= If you are born again...
You are no longer deemed a sinner by God, you are now a "New CREATION IN CHRIST">... a SON of GOD.....a TEMPLE Of the Holy Spirit, a BRETHREN...a CHILD OF GOD.. THE BRIDE OF CHRIST...... a SAINT.
So, that is how GOD now classifies you, for eternity.
Get your MIND in line with God's perspective and walk no longer thinking you are what you are not.
You are not a "sinner".....you are a Redeemed Child of God.
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Its only the blood of Jesus that "makes you Righteous".
You can't do this for yourself. And after you are RIGHTEOUS, after you have "the gift of Righteousness" .....do you have it or not?
If God gave you His righteousness, are you righteous or not?
"well sure, im RIGHTEOUS< but im still a sinner".
No you are NOT... You can't be BOTH.
You are redeemed, and this excludes you from being what you WERE before you were "made the righteousness of God IN CHRIST"..
Listen, the real you, is the "New Creation" in Christ..
The old man, the former SINNER, who was under the law= is DEAD.
You are not to see yourself as THAT anymore... and if you do, you will keep committing works of the flesh...(sinning to you)...and that is what you will keep doing when you do not recognize who you are now, "in Christ".
See, many of you are defining yourself as what you were before God made you RIGHTEOUS with the Blood of JESUS.
You are still defining yourself (believing wrong) as what you were before you were saved.
Listen, You are not that now, you are the "New Creation"... So, bring your mind into alignment with who you are "in CHRIST".
See yourself as GOD sees you now. = always
"as a person thinks in their Heart, so are they"...
So, if you are born again, you are not a "sinner,... = you are FOREVER a Child of God. You are THE Bride of Christ. You are a "Lively Stone"... You are a "Redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb"... You are a "Child of the Light... You are a "SAINT".... You are a "Brethren"....You are a "Heir of God"... You are a "Joint Heir with Christ"....You are "The Temple of the Holy Spirit"..... "Jesus has called you FRIEND".
So why are you no longer a "sinner" if you are Born again? ??
Well this Title...."sinner" and "sin", is a former product of the Law's ability to define an unbeliever as those words, as that Title.. See, The Law has an authority, and it has a dominion... So, an unbeliever is UNDER the dominion and authority of "the Law", so, the Law has a right to define an unbeliever as a "sinner, and their trangression, their iniquity , as "sin".
Jesus has removed the "curse of the Law".. from the Born again. This means that IF you are truly born again you are no longer under the "dominion of the Law".. This mean that the Law has no more RIGHT to label you, or define you, as anything... And why is that? ??
= "Christ has REDEEMED the born again, from the CURSE of the Law".
= The born again are "not under the law, but UNDER GRACE".
= Jesus said, "all POWER is given to me, In Heaven and on EARTH"
= "As JESUS IS.....so ARE ... the born again...IN THIS WORLD">..
If you are Born Again, then you are now under a new dominion... you are "under GRACE".
The Grace of God now has Dominion and final authority over you...
Saint, in the "time of the gentiles" there are 2 dominions as work...
1.) The Law
2.) Grace.
So, every person breathing, is BORN or BORN AGAIN UNDER one of those dominions... And each has the right of authority to DECLARE YOU TO BE....
The born again are under the Dominion of GRACE.
Grace removes the title 'sinner" from you, BECAUSE it has replaced the Law's dominion over you.
This is why you are no longer to be considered as a "sinner".
And this is why what use to be referred to as "sin", "under the Law", is now referred to by Paul as "works of the Flesh", regarding the Born Again.
Notice this verse...Galatians 5:13 Paul Speaking... "Use not your Freedom in Christ to commit a work of the flesh".... Here Paul is talking only to the Born again, who are not "under the Law".
Notice this verse..."
Galatians 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings..
Notice that these are all the same DEEDS or Behavior, that were previously defined as SIN when you were an unbeliever...... But notice that when Paul is NOW teaching the Born again, in Galatians, who are not "under the Law", but "under GRACE", he does not define the same as "sin"... He defines these works according to the Dominion of Grace, as "works of the flesh".
So, IF you are born again ... do not see yourself as a "sinner".. Do not define yourself as a "saved sinner". Do not accept being labeled as this by Teachers who are in Theological error, and are Legalists / Heretics.
Define yourself..= SEE YOURSELF ONLY as GOD sees you, as defined by The dominion of GRACE..
= You are a Born Again : SAINT.
This is your Heavenly ID.. This is your ETERNAL "new creation IN CHRIST" Status and TITLE.
-
-
When we SEE OURSELVES as "the righteousness of God, IN CHRIST" then we are mentally aligning ourselves with God's ETERNAL perspective.
When we do this, we lose our self condemnation, and begin to accept that the blood of Jesus has made us accepted by God and keeps us there, always, and then we find that we understand WHY we have eternal "peace with God".
"not of works, lest any person will boast" and try to keep themselves saved.
When we learn to BELIEVE that "Jesus who saved us, keeps us saved" then we are walking in FAITH....but not until.
-
A lot of religious people read this in the NT, "i am chief of sinners"...and never read the end of that commentary that Paul is teaching. They never finish it all the way through. They stop there, and live there = with their repenting and confessing lifestyle.
Imagine the misunderstanding a hyper religious person has, a carnal believer has, when they misread the verse like this....."I Paul, am continuing to be a dirty rotten sinner, the Chief".
That is how a hyper religious person, a carnal bible rejector misunderstands that verse.... They actually think the Apostle who wrote most of the NT is living in sin....
= YIKES>.
So, what you do is read the end of Paul's commentary, that is explaining how he stopped trying to fight his carnal nature and started to exist completely under the dominion of Grace. "walking in the Spirit", "walking in THE Light", and once that became his MIND, he was no longer going back and forth, with a divided mind, that was causing him the pain and misery. This is why he says.....that he serves no longer his flesh, but now walks in the right MIND, and from that he teaches that he ALWAYS has Victory, thru Christ.
No more sinning, no more crazy struggle, no more repenting....but ALWAYS has the VICTORY, he states.
-
Lets look at this verse.
"if we say we have no SIN"...
So, This means, that someone's sin has not been forgiven, because they STILL HAVE IT.
This means that Christ has not paid for it yet.
This is not talking about a born again believer, who has the blood atonement, applied.
Here is a revelation for some of you Legalist who are trying to keep yourself saved.
Q.) What sin did the blood of Jesus pay for ??
A.) The ones you did before you were saved and the ones you committed after you were saved.
Reader.....Do you think an Apostle is standing there with SIN?...... Really?
You need to remeasure that idea.....
So, what is wrong do you think?
Well, its what you believe., and what you believe is what you were taught, and whoever taught you has no idea what they are doing. Ok?
Believe it, that Apostle is not standing there with UNFORGIVEN SIN needing to be confessed, while he's talking to people about having sin.
But he IS doing this.... He's talking to a group of unbelievers. And its like this.....
Lets say im talking to a group of unbelievers....in a room. And a couple of them are Scientologists (Tom Cruise) who say that "sin" is not real......and a couple of the listeners are followers of Mary Baker Eddy, who taught that sin is an illusion.
So, i just said to the room...... "listen, sin is what is going to keep you out of heaven after you die, so, this is why Christ came.........etc.
4 people stand up.......... 2 scientologists and 2 of the Baker boys........and i say....OK WHAT? And they say......we dont have sin because we dont believe in sin...
I am now talking to them, and i say......."Listen if we say we have no sin we make Jesus a liar".
Now, did you notice that i said....."WE" ??
But i dont have the sin...they have it...So, am i including myself with them as a SINNER? = NOPE.
No im not....i am using a technique that is understood as corporally speaking, that speaks to the hearer, yet not about myself, when i say "we".
This is PREACHER speak. Pastors do this all the time when they are talking to a group.
They talk about the group's issue, but they say..>"if WE".., yet they are not talking about themselves.
And that is what is happening in the verse. And if you go to Hebrews 4, and 6, and read the Apostle to say...>"WE". "if WE sin willfully',= again the speaker is not speaking about himself, he is talking only about THEM.
------------
And about your sin.... Are you born again? or only water baptized?
If you are born again, then your SIN was removed from you when Christ became it on the Cross and died.
And the reason you had it, was because the LAW that you were under, that had dominion over you, had the authority to declare you to be a sinner and your "iniquity", your carnal deeds >as sin.
The Law is gone now, if you are born again....."you are no longer UNDER THE LAW, but UNDER GRACE".
"Jesus has removed the curse of the Law".
GRACE... now has dominion over you, and GRACE has redefined you with a new Heavenly ID...
-
= If you are born again...
You are no longer deemed a sinner by God, you are now a "New CREATION IN CHRIST">... a SON of GOD.....a TEMPLE Of the Holy Spirit, a BRETHREN...a CHILD OF GOD.. THE BRIDE OF CHRIST...... a SAINT.
So, that is how GOD now classifies you, for eternity.
Get your MIND in line with God's perspective and walk no longer thinking you are what you are not.
You are not a "sinner".....you are a Redeemed Child of God.
-
-
Its only the blood of Jesus that "makes you Righteous".
You can't do this for yourself. And after you are RIGHTEOUS, after you have "the gift of Righteousness" .....do you have it or not?
If God gave you His righteousness, are you righteous or not?
"well sure, im RIGHTEOUS< but im still a sinner".
No you are NOT... You can't be BOTH.
You are redeemed, and this excludes you from being what you WERE before you were "made the righteousness of God IN CHRIST"..
Listen, the real you, is the "New Creation" in Christ..
The old man, the former SINNER, who was under the law= is DEAD.
You are not to see yourself as THAT anymore... and if you do, you will keep committing works of the flesh...(sinning to you)...and that is what you will keep doing when you do not recognize who you are now, "in Christ".
See, many of you are defining yourself as what you were before God made you RIGHTEOUS with the Blood of JESUS.
You are still defining yourself (believing wrong) as what you were before you were saved.
Listen, You are not that now, you are the "New Creation"... So, bring your mind into alignment with who you are "in CHRIST".
See yourself as GOD sees you now. = always
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