The Matter Of Sin

I have written a little on this subject and if you have read my other posts you will know that I come back to this subject quite often. I have read in the bible, especially from the apostle Paul about how we are freed from sin. Well before I was saved I would read this and not understand it because it was not a reality in my life. I was not free from sin, and I thought I was saved, so I figured that this could not mean what it says. Often I would do this when reading the scriptures, just thinking that it could not possibly mean what it says, and move on. Is that not how we all think before we are born again? It did not even register to me that just because it was not true in my reality, did not mean that it was false. So I would continue sinning and confessing and sinning and confessing and striving to gain God's acceptance. If I had continued on this path I would never have had assurance and lived a miserable life and spent eternity in hell. This is where the story gets good. Well I got born again and started living by faith and stopped sinning. That is it. In my reality I looked to Jesus and saw what He did for me on the cross, the blood that was shed, the atonement that was made on my behalf. I read in Romans chapter six how when He died, He destroyed the body of sin (His flesh) and and rose again and went to heaven in glorious triumph. Jesus did not only suffer and die on the cross to give us salvation and then leave us, but He destroyed the body of sin thereby freeing us. See all our sin went on Him and He became sin, so when His flesh was crucified, the body of sin was destroyed. We then when we believed were baptized into His body. But you might say dear reader, so what does that have to do with me and my addiction to sin? Well, there are only two reasons that you are addicted to sin, either you are not saved or you have briefly fallen into sin because you are not believing God. If you are saved but you walk after the flesh the bible says you will die (Romans 8). A "born again" Christian is not addicted to anything! You may say friend "well I am addicted to pornography, fornication, and I have this anger issue". Why? Why if you are sanctified by the blood of Christ and have put your trust in what He did for you, are you addicted to this sin?



Heb 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Heb 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
Heb 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.


Why if Christ having freed you from that are you still bound by it? Why are you praying that God should release you from your bonds of sin when you have already been freed? What is keeping you in bondage is your prayers. Stop accusing and blaming God for not releasing you from your sin when He already HAS! You need to stop praying and start believing God! YOU ARE TO RECKON YOUR BODY DEAD to sin and alive to God!

Ro 8:10 ¶ And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Ro 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Ro 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Ro 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

I want to make another subject abundantly clear. This is absolute bible truth! If you live in sin then you are of the Devil! If you are walking, talking and dressing like the world and if you have no desire for spiritual things (Jesus, the cross, the blood atonement made on your behalf, the bible) then you are of the world and the Spirit of Christ is not in you and you have no right to call yourself a Christian. Your profession of faith means nothing! When a person gets "born again" he starts walking in holiness and living unto God. He becomes a new creature in Christ and he "sins not." He stops living in sin because of his faith in Christ, that he walks in daily. I am not referring to "sinless perfection" which would state that we no longer have the ability to sin. We still in our reality have the same body with the same temptations but we reckon ourselves to be dead indeed and alive unto God. I am stating the fact that there is a regeneration that happens in a new believer, where he hates the things he used to do, and now seeks after righteousness and holiness. From time to time we might slip up and sin but God will chasten us immediately and we will turn again to God (which is new testement repentance) and stop sinning. If you can continue in sin and are not chastened by God then are ye bastards and not sons.

Heb 12:8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

So if today, dear reader, you are living a life of sin and living in the flesh please I beg you, Do not call yourself a Christian! If there is no regeneration, then there is no Christian. This "ability" to stop sinning is a miraculous work of God. It is a greater miracle than divine healing and it is accessable by anyone who has the Spirit of Christ and is "born again". But if you truly are born again and have fallen into sin, STOP! Read your bible (Romans 6-8) and believe what it says! Live in the faith of what God's word says and thank Him daily or hourly for freeing you from sin and you will "sin no more".

Romans 4:5 To him that worketh not but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Jesus died for the UNGODLY! Friend, that is you and me!
It's a FREE GIFT. Dwell on that, FREE GIFT! You cannot do anything to earn it and and the only people the gift is offered to, is THE UNGODLY! This means YOU! This is wonderful news and you don't have to DO ANYTHING, just believe. It's not what you do my friend, it's what He has done... Tetelesti. It is finished.