1 Jn 1:19 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
Does this give us the license to dwell in sin?
Read Rom 5...don't skip 6:1
1 Jn 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us,” and this can run the gambit of willful sin to that of sins of omission.
1 Jn 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin (hopefully this is all of us); for his seed (Jesus is the seed) remaineth in him (us): and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In God’s eyes we are measured according to the new nature of Christ in us, and nothing less than Him and His righteousness.
There is an old Lutheran hymn that begins with:
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus' name.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
Rom 6:1 What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Rom 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4 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.
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us (not by us), who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. This is the ongoing work of God’s in us.
2 Yes, oh, so was is your point?
