There is VICTORY IN JESUS! Why do we not hear more teaching of this victory?
I hear preachers talking about “Repentant Sinners” almost to the point you would think we have to be saved or at least repent of our many sins every week, day, hour.
But, the work of Jesus on the cross made a difference, we are not, cannot be, in the flesh bound to sin. Jesus changed all that!
Rom 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous.
Rom 8:2 But the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
Grace, Faith, Indwelled, Family, Adopted, Child, Heirs, Priest, Kings, all of these names apply to a Christian and understood in order they are the story of a Christian.
The only way to be saved is by Grace, it is a free gift and available to All.
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Faith is our part. Grace is offered but must become real to us accepted by us. Every thing Changes at this point.
A Christian is not a Repentant Sinner. A Christian is “Indwelled By the Holy Spirit”, Adopted into the family of God, Adopted as Sons and Daughters, Children of God, Heirs of God, Joint heirs with Christ. We are the temple of God indwelled by the Holy Spirit we are Priest of the Most High God with Jesus as Our High Priest. We are a Royal Priest hood and will rule with Christ in Eternity.
Now I Call that VICTORY!!
We teach that there are no works in BEING saved it is by Our Faith in God's GRACE.
The Idea of SIN being great or small, seems to me to be an inconstancy in thought. Sin is to Disobey GOD!
I ask what is there that we do that is “our SIN”. There is no work that we may do to gain, deserve, or to earn God’s Grace. I will also say there is no act or work we may do to gain, deserve, or earn rejection from grace and a place in Hell.
God’s Grace is freely offered, and we by faith accept or ignore that offer.
Once you make that choice there are requirements of LIVING A CHRISTIAN LIFE, there are clear symptoms that show from the way we live that we are saved, in CHRIST and living for Him.
AND, there are clear symptoms that one ignores or rejects God's grace and is LOST. ALL THE "SINS" we list are the symptoms of being lost and Disobeying GOD! CHRISTIANS do not LIVE in sin, yes we fail, we do things that we should not, but there is a difference in LIVING in SIN and failing as humans. Christians TRY not to sin. Some things just should not, must not, be part of out consideration, In CHRIST we do not live like that.