No, what I'm saying is as long as I continue in a genuine faith in Christ's sacrifice I won't willfully sin. .
It would not be honest to say that your sinning was all an accident since you were born again.
Even yesterdays....
It would also not be accurate to say that your sin, is actually "sin", anymore.
The deeds you committed as a sinner, are not found in the same Light, after you are born again.
So, to have the faith in Christ that you need, is to come to THAT understanding, and many other things..
Christians are not sinners. The born again are a "new Creation"....so, "old things have passed away, and all things are become new".
Including Romans 4:8.
Think of it like this..
A person, who is a new Christian, still sees themselves as a sinner, sinning.
A carnal self righteous preacher or pope, or similar,, is still preaching the same devil's message of...>"you will sin, you have to repent, and then God is happy with you again".
However, God does not teach that as His New Testament, or as the Grace of God.
So, right there, is the first step into the Light, that you have to come to, so that you begin to think of yourself according to God's perspective.
Right Believing is to SEE as God Sees it., and to live THERE.
"Renewing your mind", is to bring your mind into right alignment with God's perspective of YOU.
And This is missing from your Preachers's teaching. But its not missing from mine.
Listen, i wrote many Threads explaining how to get away from the way you see salvation, so that you can begin to see it from God's perspective.
It would take some digging, but, i taught a lot about this, for the first 2 months i was here, this yr.
I still include touches/traces of it, in almost all my responses, but, the Threads are detailed.