Free From Sin
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Hi Jack Thanks, I agree with your article as the truth according to scripture taken as a whole. The truth is in me and I strive out of a pure heart towards sanctification for what Jesus has done for us.
What about willful sins in our lives not yet overcome, like getting intoxicated by drinking to much occasionally, and what if this is a battle as a result of mental illness? Secondly, what does Paul mean in: If all our sins are forgiven, as true children of God with an ongoing relationship with him, and God thinks of them no more, when we truly confess and ask forgiveness, as God can see the meaning of our hearts, Why shall we have to give account of the life we have lived? Thus I presume for all good and bad done and wrongful decisions?
Some works done for show or self will be burned up but those done for Christ will pass thru the fire. That is the judgment of believers; not judged for their sins, which were atoned for at the cross, but for what they did for Christ here on earth as doing it unto Him Matt If the battle is a mental illness, then they can seek help from the doctor and from biblical counseling and from fasting and praying and study of the Word…but no one this side of the veil will be sinless Rom 3: Does this make sense Mr.
Yes, it does make sense now, and I do have spiritual growth and are definitely sinning less and overcoming battles, if I look back over the last 5 years of my Life. Buy The way, Jesus has given me outcome over my Bi-Polar since my last email and I can truly say that I am on the way to being fully healed. I feel like a new person, and that without new prescription medication. My life has completely changed in the last week, such a short time after suffering from this for about 20 years.
God is great, and has created plants and herbs for use as medicine to heal and restore our body, of course the healing and grace are still his work. I am a wheelchair-bound year-old woman in the last year of my Master of Science in Biotechnology.
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Hope you are well. Good to hear from you. Cancel reply Leave a Comment. Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. What Is Speaking In Tongues? What Is the Rapture? What does the devil look like? What will Heaven be like? The mission of this site is to equip, encourage, and energize Christians. Find out more here. If you try to provide some of your righteousness alongside Christ's righteousness as the ground of your justification, you nullify grace Galatians 2: Or, we could say, you are not "under grace. What it means, then, to be "under grace" is that Christ is all our righteousness for justification.
We receive it in him as a gift by grace through faith alone.
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And the opposite is being "under law," which means that Christ is not our righteousness for justification, but lawkeeping is. Now let's see if this is confirmed here in the context of Romans 6. It is, I think, in two ways. One is that it makes sense out the objection in verse 15, "What then? And indeed, that's what it looks like if being "under grace" means that all our righteousness for justification is Christ's and not ours. So the objection seems plausible. In addition to that, the same objection was raised in verse 1 in response to Romans 5: Remember that in Romans 5: That gift of righteousness is Christ's righteousness, not ours.
You can see that in the next verse. It is Christ's righteousness imputed to us. Now with that in mind, we read Romans 5: We may as well sin that grace may increase. Verses say, "Where sin increased grace increased all the more, so that just as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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To which someone says, "Well then, let us sin that grace may abound! Which is also what he says in verse 15, "What then? So from all this I conclude that being "under law" means that lawkeeping is the way we will provide a righteousness that lets us stand before God. If we treat the law in such a way that lawkeeping provides the righteousness that justifies us, then we are "under law. But being "under grace" means that we receive as a free gift all our righteousness, namely, the righteousness of Christ, by grace as the ground of our justification.
That is the gift.
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That is the basis of our right standing with God. Christ was born and lived under law and fulfilled it perfectly by faith.
That is his righteousness. We escape from being "under law" by trusting Christ as our righteousness. That is what it means to be under grace. Now the question is: Why is it that not being under law but being under grace guarantees that sin will not triumph in your life and become your Lord? That's what verse 14 says: And that is what we will take up next Sunday. I want to close today where we began — with the Christian life as the triumph of desire, not just decision. Connect this now to what we have seen. Who is this in verse 15 that talks like this: Since Christ is our righteousness for justification, since our right standing with God is based on his righteousness not ours, then let's sin, because there can't be any penalty.
Christ is our righteousness. I said at the beginning it is people whose Christianity is a group of ideas about Christ, not an experience of the preciousness of Christ. Their Christianity is all truth and no treasure. All "choices" and no cherishing.
So why does Romans say, "You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness"? Is this a contradiction? Sin can be defined as " any. Becoming free from sin in this life is impossible, according to popular opinion. However, the Scriptures say that being free from sin is entirely possible!.
All logic about Christ and no love for Christ. All "decision" and no delight. And O how many people there are who come to church and are in this category! So my closing plea is that during Advent , we would all pursue the preciousness of Christ. And the preciousness of justification by faith. And the preciousness of being under grace, not under law. He came under law and satisfied the law, so that we might be redeemed from law and become children of God. If that does not feel precious to you, if that is not the treasure of your life — more precious than gold and sweeter than honey — would you pursue the preciousness of Christ this Advent?
Ask God to open the eyes of your heart. Turn off the television. Set your mind on the things of Christ. Fast and pray, "Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad in you all our days" Psalm Free from Sin, Slaves of Righteousness, Part 1. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.
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