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1 | Why remain defeated? | Heb 10:14 | Gal5:16 | 108091 | ||
Why do we hang on to that sinful nature so dearly? Everyone always quotes the later part of Romans chapter 7 because they find that it soothes their guilt! Move on to chapter 8! "You however are not controlled by the sinful nature, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you..." People have turned what Paul was saying about the sinful nature before you die to it, into a license to sin. The reason your conscience is not clear is that you still sin. Read 2 Timothy 2:19 if you think that remaining in your defeated state is okay. People love to quote 1 John 1:8-2:2 to prove their point that everyone sins, has sinned, and will always sin. Again, keep going! Read 1 John chapter 3. "No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him." Even in the former passage the Holy Spirit tells us that the point is that you will not sin! It says "But IF anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense", not WHEN everybody sins! Do I claim to be perfect? No, not yet. The difference between me and the other commentors is that I believe that Christ will produce it in me before I die. One question I always ask people to which they cannot respond is if perfection is not humanly possible, then how did Jesus do it. We deny the power of the Holy Spirit which we have received through Christ when we refuse to believe that he will produce in us the kind of righteousness that the Father requires. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 is fulfilled before our eyes. To those who are waiting for death to come before they are perfected, I refer you to 1 John 3 where the Holy Spirit calls you a deceiver trying to lead us astray. If I do what is right, I am righteous, just as Jesus is righteous. You who do what is sinful are of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason Jesus appeared was to destroy the devil's. work. Again, no one who is born of God will continue to sin because God's seed (which is the Holy Spirit) remains in him; he cannot go on sinning because he has been born of God. |
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2 | Why remain defeated? | Heb 10:14 | Searcher56 | 108107 | ||
Gal5:16 ... Makarios posted on 08/15/01. "Everyone always quotes the later part of Romans chapter 7 because they find that it soothes their guilt" is incorrect, because I do not. Romans 7:14-25 show me I, like Paul have a stuggle with sin. Romans 8 is about our new life because of the Holy Spirit. ... "Everyone always" make it a double absolute. 1 John 1:5-2:6 (not just 1:8-2:2) proves that everyone sins, has sinned, and will always sin. 1 John 3:6 which you quoted, in part does not say I will not sin ... it says that we don't have the habit of sin - we don't deliberately sin. Continue to read on ... verse 8 says if we do what is sinful, we are of the devil, which means, according to you, that if we sin, even once as a Christian, we are of the devil. 2BContinued. |
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3 | Why is it so hard to believe? | Heb 10:14 | Gal5:16 | 108127 | ||
Please explain to me how you think that those passages can be construed to mean that we will always sin. I am getting the exact opposite. What part of "If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth." says that we are going to sin? On the contrary, "If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin." Unless you are saying that you can walk in the light and sin at the same time? How many verses can I point out against that notion? On to "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us": I do not claim that I am perfect yet, but my conscience is clear. Paul claimed this over and over again. I am simply saying that I have the hope that I will be changed into the likeness of God's Son one day. In your follow up post you reference 1John 3:2 - notice the word "when". It's not "after he appears", it's "when he appears". It's the same thing in 1John 3:28 "And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming." Why do you refuse to believe that the Holy Spirit in me is capable of producing perfection/holiness identical to that of Jesus Christ? I have received the Spirit of Christ Jesus, and have died to my sinful nature. I am not living my life anymore, but Christ's. He bought me at a price, and now I will live for him. For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of selfÂdiscipline (2 Timothy 1:7). I choose, therefore, to live by the Spirit, and keep in step with the Spirit, and claim the promise that I will not gratify the desires of my sinful nature if I do (See Galatians 5). God's word cannot be broken, and God cannot lie. The same God that created the universe with words spoke that promise, and I believe it. |
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4 | Why is it so hard to believe? | Heb 10:14 | MICAHEL1961 | 108129 | ||
Can you go without sin for 30 seconds? Can you go without sin for 1 Min? Is it possable to go with out sin for 30 Min... 1 Hour...1 day... 1 week. How do you make your choices? To sin or not to sin is your choice and your choices should be led by the spirit and the word. So in answer it is not hard to believe because "all" things are possable for those in christ Jesus. |
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