There has been much discussion about sin, how Christians can lose their salvation, and love and obedience. Let's look at some scriptures that can be puzzeling to many.
1 John 3:9: whosoever is born of God doth not sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
One might say, How can that be? I know I have sinned since I have been saved, but this scripture says I cannot sin? I believe this verse is talking about the inward man. Physically we are born of human parents and we partake of their nature. Spiritually we are born of God and partake of His nature. God's nature is not the nature to do wrong.
I have missed it a lot of times as a Christian. But my inward man did not sin. He didn't even agree with me when I did sin. He tried to get me not to do it. My heart wept because I sinned. I allowed my flesh to dominate and I missed it, but my spirit never did consent to it. God's seed is in my spirit, not in my flesh.
If we continue to allow our flesh to dominate us, we will continue to miss it. If we continue to let our natural mind dominate us, and do not get our minds renewed with the Word, we will continue to miss it.
That's why Paul wrote to Born Again Christians at Rome and told them to do two things: First, they were to present their bodies, and second, they were to renew their minds with the Word ( Rom. 12:1, 2).
Until your mind is renewed with the Word of God, your flesh and your unrenewed mind will dominate your spirit. That will keep you as a baby Christian, a carnal Christian.
Paul said to the church at Cornith, I, brethern, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ ( 1 Cor. 3:1). For ye atre yet carnal He said ( v.3). One translation says, For you are not body-ruled. What Paul is trying to convey is they were walking and doing things just like unsaved men do.
When we get our minds renewed with the Word, then our minds will side in with our spirits instead of with our bodies. And the 2 of them, our spirits through our minds, will control our bodies.
Our spirits will not tell us something wrong. It has the nature of God in it; it has the life of God in it; it has the love of God in it; and it has the Spirit of God in it.
2 Peter 1:4 tells us that ye might be partakers of the divine nature. We are born of God. Then we feed on the Word of God. By doing so we are partakers of the divine nature, God's nature. If we have the divine nature in us, our spirit will not tell us to do something wrong. Whatever your spirit tells you will be right.
I hope this has helped someone. It has helped me a great deal in my Christian walk.
May God bless, Golfjack
1 John 3:9: whosoever is born of God doth not sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
One might say, How can that be? I know I have sinned since I have been saved, but this scripture says I cannot sin? I believe this verse is talking about the inward man. Physically we are born of human parents and we partake of their nature. Spiritually we are born of God and partake of His nature. God's nature is not the nature to do wrong.
I have missed it a lot of times as a Christian. But my inward man did not sin. He didn't even agree with me when I did sin. He tried to get me not to do it. My heart wept because I sinned. I allowed my flesh to dominate and I missed it, but my spirit never did consent to it. God's seed is in my spirit, not in my flesh.
If we continue to allow our flesh to dominate us, we will continue to miss it. If we continue to let our natural mind dominate us, and do not get our minds renewed with the Word, we will continue to miss it.
That's why Paul wrote to Born Again Christians at Rome and told them to do two things: First, they were to present their bodies, and second, they were to renew their minds with the Word ( Rom. 12:1, 2).
Until your mind is renewed with the Word of God, your flesh and your unrenewed mind will dominate your spirit. That will keep you as a baby Christian, a carnal Christian.
Paul said to the church at Cornith, I, brethern, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ ( 1 Cor. 3:1). For ye atre yet carnal He said ( v.3). One translation says, For you are not body-ruled. What Paul is trying to convey is they were walking and doing things just like unsaved men do.
When we get our minds renewed with the Word, then our minds will side in with our spirits instead of with our bodies. And the 2 of them, our spirits through our minds, will control our bodies.
Our spirits will not tell us something wrong. It has the nature of God in it; it has the life of God in it; it has the love of God in it; and it has the Spirit of God in it.
2 Peter 1:4 tells us that ye might be partakers of the divine nature. We are born of God. Then we feed on the Word of God. By doing so we are partakers of the divine nature, God's nature. If we have the divine nature in us, our spirit will not tell us to do something wrong. Whatever your spirit tells you will be right.
I hope this has helped someone. It has helped me a great deal in my Christian walk.
May God bless, Golfjack
