All my quotes are from KJV so I don't have to indicate that throughout this post
"Sinless perfection" is a misleading term. Continual obedience or I always do those things that please the Father is the testimony of the born again soul. I have so often heard that we will always sin until Jesus comes. This is a watered down gospel that keeps people on a sin and repent treadmill.
So what does it mean to be born again?
Psalm 2:7 "I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee."
According to Paul this is a prophecy of the resurrection.
Acts 13:33 "God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee." The word is "Begotten" which means to be born.
Jesus was born in Bethlehem but he was born again as he came out of the Garden tomb
Romans 6 clearly expresses the Father's belief that we were crucified with Jesus, and raised from the dead when he was.
What does it mean to live by faith? It is to simply believe what God believes. In verse six God says that our old man was crucified that the body of sin might be destroyed. God is telling us that our sinful nature, the old man, the body of sin was destroyed. The nature that I received from Adam was put to death on the cross.
Am I misreading the bible? Can we live by every word that comes to us from the Lover of our soul?
The fact that Jesus was tempted indicates that it was possible for him to fail, yet he did not. After the resurrection it was impossible for Jesus to be tempted or to fail. Why was that so? Because the nature that came down to him from Adam was left in the tomb. He had been born again meaning that the first birth carried with it a fallen nature and that had to be dealt with and destroyed. A new creature came out of the tomb. He was born again as he rose from the dead. The devil was a defeated foe. All power in Heaven and Earth were given to him.
So I have to conclude that Romans six is telling us that we were born again with Jesus, out of the garden tomb. We are now new creatures in Christ, divinity and humanity are combined. The devil is a defeated foe, the old man is no more, we are new creatures in Christ Jesus. We have been delivered from darkness and translated into the kingdom of His dear Son. We have been raised up together with Him to sit in heavenly places. These are God's facts. We must believe what He believes. Is there anything here that you cannot agree with?
A familiar spirit was conjured up by the witch of Endor and Saul thought for sure that it was Samuel. But we know that it was not.
I believe that every one of us has had at least one familiar spirit following us throughout our life. Suggesting thoughts in first person so that we believe might accept those thoughts as our own. The words are so familiar that we think that this spirit is us. This is how demonic forces gain control of the human agent by believing a lie. We know for certain that God has put to death the old man and our life is hidden with Christ in God.
However, it is the devil's intention to cause us to disbelieve what God has said, just as he tried to get Jesus to disbelieve what he had heard 40 days earlier. "This is my beloved Son..." So when thoughts are suggested from these familiar spirits they can stir up feelings. These feelings bring a negative force against our faith in what God has said.
It is like the devil is our personal trainer. He puts an extra 25 lbs. of temptation on our faith and hopes that we will doubt God and fail to lift it. But faith takes hold of the word of God no matter the weight of our feeling. We trust that He is able to keep us from falling and present us faultless. Jude 24. His word becomes greater and more true within us with each temptation, and another nail is driven in the coffin of the old man. We can turn to this demonic trickster and say, "I know who you are!", and he will flee from you.
Necromancy is when you consort with the dead. If anything that these familiar spirits suggest arouse feelings and you accept them to be true over the plain word of God, you are involving yourself in the most subtle form of necromancy. God has said that you are dead. leave him in the coffin and slam the lid shut.
So in actuality the devil becomes our helper to develop greater confidence in Father's Promises to keep us. As we hold on to Father's words we can stand against any of the winds that blow.
1 John 3:9 "Whosoever is born of God (out of the garden tomb) doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God."
"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." 1 Peter 1:23
"And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
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." Rom. 8:10,11 To quicken is to bring to life your mortal body, born again!
I have heard numerous people go through all kinds of mental gymnastics to try to turn 1 John 3:9 on its head so that it doesn't mean what it says. The reason is that they have been constantly told of doctrines from the pit so they can't believe that they can have victory. They don't believe that they are dead to sin and alive to God. But the scripture is very clear , "he that is born of God as Jesus was, out of the garden tomb, has all power in heaven and earth and the devil is a defeated foe. This should give every believer a reason for great rejoicing.
