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NASB | Malachi 3:10 "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this," says the LORD of hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Malachi 3:10 "Bring all the tithes (the tenth) into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this," says the LORD of hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you [so great] a blessing until there is no more room to receive it. [Mal 2:2] |
Bible Question:
drtbloor, How is it that as you say even though we still sin that we live in a state of sinlessnes? This seems to be somewhat of a misnomer. I know and understand that the Christ in us ( Col 1:27) does not sin,we do. How can we say we live in a state of sinlessness when we blow it on a daily basis. 1 John 1:5-10 We dont choose to stay in our sin we can must repent. What say you? |
Bible Answer: I appreciate that it might sound like a confusion to say that we live in a state of sinlessness, whilst yet sinning, and maybe I have not explained it clearly enough, for which I apologise. Your quote in 1 John 1 explains the dichotomy: "the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin". Jesus died once for ALL our sins, and we are told that if we repent and are baptised then we partake of this forgiveness. We are not told that we will be forgiven on Sunday morning, then again on Tuesday night, and then again next Wednesday - we are told that we are Forgiven. This is not an excuse to continue to sin, or a reason not to continually pray for that forgiveness. The first sacrifice was in Genesis 3, when the Lord God made coats of skins to clothe Adam and Eve - to provide a covering to their nakedness. In like manner, God has provided us a more perfect sacrifice, that we might be clothed with Christ and that only with his covering might we be presented before God as spotless, that "though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow" says Isaiah. This all comes back to the idea of Law, and why it was a curse. It was a curse because with Law came sin, and with sin came death. If God had not given the Law that Adam and Eve should not eat of the fruit of the Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil, they would not have sinned by eating it, and would not have been cursed with death. This example holds true with the Law of Moses, and is precisely WHY we needed Christ to remove that curse. If then we now live under Grace and not Law, then we no longer live under the sin which came by Law. This is obviously a complex idea, and one which Paul especially had to reinforce with the Romans, who believed that because they were under Grace, they could "continue in sin," which is not the idea at all! Romans 6 is a great place to examine this teaching in practice, and it contains an abundance of verses to prove the point: Verse 2. "God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" If we are dead to sin, it is because we are dead to the law which cursed us with sin. Under the law of Grace we are no longer cursed. Verse 7. (Talking of the metaphorical death of baptism) "For he that is dead is freed from sin." Verse 14. "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. " I hope that this helps to present this idea - that in Gods eyes we are held as if we were sinless, even though we are not. Yet for the sake of emphasis: "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid." |