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We’re called to a life of holiness, but to understand what that means we have to have an understanding of how human nature and sin relate.
Every human has sinned -
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We all inherit a sinful nature from Adam.
Sinful nature is known as the flesh, or the carnal man.
Even after the new birth, we still possess the sinful nature.
Sinful nature consists of a compulsion to commit sinful acts.
It’s more than capacity (which Adam had):
Paul teaches in that neither the law of God or law of the mind brings power over the law of sin.
Romans
If we rely on the flesh, we will always fail and revert to sin.
tells us Christians should not sin.
tells us we cannot resist sin by our own power.
tells us the law of the Spirit is the only way to overcome the sinful nature.
The spirit does not destroy the law of sin, it supresses it.
Bird vs gravity analogy
We have the freedom as born again believers to follow the Spirit and not sin.
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Threefold approach to overcoming sin:
Know who we are and what happened.
We were born again and we died to sin, so sin has no power over us.
Reckon this to be so.
Act as if we died to sin and sin has no power.
Yield to God.
Replace sinful habits with an active performance of God’s will as revealed by His Word and His Spirit.
At the new birth, we die to sin.
We don’t lose the sinful nature, but it loses its dominion over us.
Now if we sin it’s not because we’re forced to, it’s because we choose to.
We’re voluntarily exercising our free will to sin against God.
God gives us the Holy Ghost to enable us to choose not to sin.
Born again believers, then, should not sin.
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We cannot confuse the potential for resisting (God gives us) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours).
Continuing to choose to live sinfully will cost you your salvation
I John 2:
“they are” literally translates as “remain” in the Greek
Jesus lived a life intended for us to emulate or copy
Our confidence in Him stems from our obedience
A Christian with specific unrepented sin cannot inherit the kingdom of God and eternal life
I Corinthians 6:
Galatians 5:
Failing in our obedience to the Word is a sin and affects salvation
II Peter
If we sin, we must repent
Past righteousness is not enough to make up for new sin
Ezekiel
God does not automatically forgive sin without the person actively repenting
Anyone can return to God through repentance.
We can be sure of our salvation and confident in our destination when we die so long as we keep following after the Spirit and abiding in Him
What is sin?
Sin is both a nature, and an act.
The bible describes sinful acts in three ways:
All disobedience of God’s commandments is sin, whether by commission or ommission.
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Anything incompatible with faith is sin.
If we believe something is wrong or have doubts about it, but do it anyway, then we have gone against what we believe to be the will of God.
This attitude is a willing rebellion against God, and is therefore sin.
Even if it’s something that’s not sinful for someone else, it’s wrong for us because it violates our conscience and contradicts the faith principle.
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Any choice between morality and immortality, or between obeying/disobeying God, is a sin if the wrong way is chosen.
Temptation is not sin - Jesus was tempted
Not every mistake, fault, or personality flaw is a moral sin, though we should still seek God’s help in improving in these areas.
Rudeness, oversleeping, habitual lateness, insensitivity, etc.
God’s grace enables us to live an overcoming life
Phil
Grace is why we have the ability to resist sin and choose holiness, but it does not enable us to live in sin and stay “safe”.
It is still our responsibility to do what we’re supposed to do.
The Christian responsibility then can be summed up in two parts:
Do not sin.
If you do sin, confess to God and repent and live right from that point on.
His Grace enables us to both be forgiven of past sin, and enables us to live a holy life moving forward.
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