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When we sin, trouble enters our lives. Therefore, the Lord instructed us not to sin. Jesus said it like this: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." (Matthew 4:17 RSV).
Congratulations on your victory over Alabama yesterday.John does too, even after our sin has been cleansed and taken away. What is left are misdemeanors from immature fruit (1 John 5:16-17 sins not unto death), so we MUST grow in the Spirit and follow the steps of 2 Peter 1:5-7.
1 John 3:1-3
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
When we sin, trouble enters our lives. Therefore, the Lord instructed us not to sin. Jesus said it like this: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." (Matthew 4:17 RSV).
But we never really arrive because as long as we live in these mortal bodies, we have a Sin Nature, and it is always a struggle to die to ourselves, to give way to God's lordship.
That is not true. Don't you know what being born again frees us from? Answer this. Why did Jesus come regarding the name of this OP?
lol! You don't know yourself very well, do you?
That is not true. Don't you know what being born again frees us from? Answer this. Why did Jesus come regarding the name of this OP?
Paul said that sin will not have dominion over us. Sin has dominion over us by way of the sin nature we inherited from the fall.
It is the "sin that so easily besets us" as Paul said.
Through faith in what Christ did on the Cross, we have been set free from that sin nature, it will not have dominion over us as it did before the regeneration of salvation.
This does not mean we will stop sinning altogether as in sinless perfection. It means we are now conscious of our sin, whereas before we gave it no thought. As the believer matures in Christ, the sin will become less and less, which is our sanctification where the Holy Spirit is slowly but surly taking our practices of sin from us through faith.
Paul makes it clear that perfection takes place at the resurrection, when the mortal shall put on the immortal, the corruptible will put on the incorruptible.
In other words, when we put down this body of flesh, we will put down sin with it, and forever. But not until then!
This is better than Randy's statement, but doesn't quite hit the mark. To make your election sure, you must put down sin now before we die. To say we can't is the defeatism of the devil and his lie, and not scriptural. Jesus not only took away our sin nature and sins of lawlessness, but gave us His Spirit to plant fruit to grow into perfection, so we never need to stumble any longer. What you are lacking is knowledge of what is flesh, and the fact that our body doesn't sin on it's own, so doesn't need to be born again now. It is a just a puppet doing what our born again spirit and soul makes it do. That is why it can wait for death and resurrection, unlike our spirit and soul that made up our nature that needed to be born again now.
That didn't answer my question, nor made sense. You're the one who seems clueless. LOL