There was an elder old lady who was about 77 years old, who posts on a forum site everyday and always mentioned the notion of, becoming dead to sin.
I hated that, thinking we all have sinned, why do you have to continually harp on sin, Jesus paid for sin. Which Jesus did do, he paid for sin, for all peoples, one time on the cross.
It was something that was misunderstood as person new to faith, and always being told you have to receive forgiveness of sin by having faith, while in contrary my debt had already been paid and Jesus already cleared my debt, it would be up to me to accept it or not.
This also goes for everyone in the world, all of their sin has been wiped away, blotted out, yet as human beings we still sin. This is from our flesh. Our flesh has a nature which can be defined as carnal. It feeds on earthly pleasure, and doesn’t feed of spiritually the things of God.
Therefore the notion of becoming dead to sin, is the deny our selves putting God first, and in time the flesh will slowly start to die off, and these fleshly proclivities are founded stated through out the entirety of the bible.
From pride, to lust, to hatred, to lying, to manipulating, to sexual immorality, and the like, just go look at the fifth chapter in Galatians.
Christians are suppose to become dead to those proclivities though, we still live in this world and we can read books, listen to music, watch tv or movies, have families, and live our lives, going back and forth to work.
Here are some scriptures for you to consider, maybe you never seen them before.
“Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 6:2, 11 NKJV
And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”
Galatians 5:24 NKJV
“For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”
Colossians 3:3 NKJV
“who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.”
I Peter 2:24 NKJV
“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.”
Galatians 2:20 NKJV
“Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men? These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.”
Colossians 2:20-23 NKJV
“This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him.”
II Timothy 2:11 NKJV
I hated that, thinking we all have sinned, why do you have to continually harp on sin, Jesus paid for sin. Which Jesus did do, he paid for sin, for all peoples, one time on the cross.
It was something that was misunderstood as person new to faith, and always being told you have to receive forgiveness of sin by having faith, while in contrary my debt had already been paid and Jesus already cleared my debt, it would be up to me to accept it or not.
This also goes for everyone in the world, all of their sin has been wiped away, blotted out, yet as human beings we still sin. This is from our flesh. Our flesh has a nature which can be defined as carnal. It feeds on earthly pleasure, and doesn’t feed of spiritually the things of God.
Therefore the notion of becoming dead to sin, is the deny our selves putting God first, and in time the flesh will slowly start to die off, and these fleshly proclivities are founded stated through out the entirety of the bible.
From pride, to lust, to hatred, to lying, to manipulating, to sexual immorality, and the like, just go look at the fifth chapter in Galatians.
Christians are suppose to become dead to those proclivities though, we still live in this world and we can read books, listen to music, watch tv or movies, have families, and live our lives, going back and forth to work.
Here are some scriptures for you to consider, maybe you never seen them before.
“Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 6:2, 11 NKJV
And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”
Galatians 5:24 NKJV
“For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”
Colossians 3:3 NKJV
“who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.”
I Peter 2:24 NKJV
“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.”
Galatians 2:20 NKJV
“Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men? These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.”
Colossians 2:20-23 NKJV
“This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him.”
II Timothy 2:11 NKJV
