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Zeena
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Eden:
In Christ, we are also FREE from the debt or penalty of our sin. God no longer counts our sin against us, ever.
YES Eden, THANK YOU! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Praise God!!! ![[clap2]](graemlins/clap2.gif)
Joel 2:25
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
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Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
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Zeena said quote:
In Christ, YOU ARE FREE from the authority of sin.
In Christ, we are also FREE from the debt or penalty of our sin. God no longer counts our sin against us, ever.
That's really important because that means we are at complete LIBERTY in Christ; however, we can not take this LIBERTY in Christ (having no more sin counted against us) for occasions to sin:
Galatians 2:4
And that because of false brethren, unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Galatians 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Galatians 5:13
For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty, only do not use liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
God no longer counts the the fruit of the old man that still grows below the graft. After Jesus has died 100% for my sins so that my sins are no longer counted against me, God only looks at the fruit that I produce WITH THE HELP OF GOD ABOVE the graft, blessed be His Name forever.
with love, Eden
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Zeena
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It's not sin that died..
It's you!
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Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
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In Christ, YOU ARE FREE from the authority of sin. The "old man" is now out of the picture: "knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should NO LONGER BE SLAVES of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin" (Rom 6:6). What liberating truth! (John 8:32).
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Christ's sinless life qualifies Him as our advocate. "For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin" (Heb. 4:15).
1 Thess. 4:3-5,7
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
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Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
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[7] For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Romans six! He that is dead is free from sin. One only has to ask, "Am I free from sin?" All they have to do is look. It is really obvious. There is a 'condition' wherein there is sin we just cannot help. On the other hand, there is potentially a condition where we simply choose to sin (but hopefully not), but we are not helpless to avoid it. It is a free thing.
On the one hand, where we are helpless against it, we are not dead! We have not learned what it means to be dead. How do we know? Verse seven, "He that is dead is free from sin." That means that if you are helpless concerning sin, you are not dead. How so? Because the scripture says that if you 'are' dead, you are 'free' from sin. Therefore, if you cannot help but think and perform sin, you are not dead, because you are still in bondage. Tis that simple. The inverse of that is that 'if' you are dead, you do not sin, as a rule, mind you. Because you can sin, but it will be chosen, rather than involuntary. But in this condition we begin to understand what scripture means when it says "The blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin."
Without the touch of Jesus, it is not easy to hate sin. We want to cling to sin and hold onto Jesus. But sin separates, and/or threatens to, and to find some distance, or to feel a cloud between one and their maker, who loves them so much, is a very, very insecure feeling, for there is no approval in it. Whosoever loves Him does not like that feeling. And He never intends for one to experience that. One makes their own experience out of unbelief in His provision, and staticly clings to that which would be unpleasant ere His light were to shine on it.
[4] Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Even so, we also should walk in the newness of life. Newness of life! Is being subject to think and perform sin 'Newness of life'? Or is it bondage? Doesn't "Newness of life sound free?" Verse six said that "He that is dead is free from sin." Free? Newness of life? Does it fit you? Or do you embrace that which you know you shouldn't do? There is help for us all. We can hate sin. We can hate doing damage to the testamony of Him. And sin does not minister love. It destroys.
The point is, if we are ready to dislike hurting the testamony of His love and goodness, He will give us a boost. We are not required to dump on Him by failing, and constantly come to Him begging restoration. That is not "Newness of life." It is beggarly. It is not being 'dead'; it is being alive to self.
One is alive to self, which is the same as to be dead, or they are alive to His Spirit. Which one sounds refreshing? One is alive to self, which is not to be under the cross, and which does not to relate to being baptised into His death. One is alive to His Spirit which is newness of life, wherein we are pleasing to Him. Do we want to be pleasing to Him? Because that's refreshing. It is joy!
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