The point is that we have a change of heart towards sin, and to the best of our abilities, with THE LORD, and HOLY SPIRIT, understand it, avoid it, and correct that which leads us to sin! We will not complete the task of HOLINESS in this lifetime, it is that we DESIRE HOLINESS OVER all else, and in allegiance TO THE LORD, attempt to refrain from it, repent of it as it comes about, and work through it...
Through *GOD*, we ARE equipped, and enabled by HIS own SON, and SPIRIT, to ARISE from sin, and to grow past it! Some sin is expected, but there is sin that IS avoidable, which takes knowledge, wisdom, and the fullness of the LOVE we have for HIM to be able to do so! I think it is best said that we begin to SEE ourselves as we REALLY are, the heirs of THE KINGDOM, and then, act according to THE KING'S DECREE!!!
2/ Beloved, we are God's children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
3/ Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure.
4/ Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness.
5/ You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
6/ No one who remains in him sins; no one who sins has seen him or known him.
7/ Children, let no one deceive you. The person who acts in righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.
8/ Whoever sins belongs to the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. Indeed, the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the devil.
9/ No one who is begotten by God commits sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot sin because he is begotten by God.
10/ In this way, the children of God and the children of the devil are made plain; no one who fails to act in righteousness belongs to God, nor anyone who does not love his brother.
The sons of God know that their Lord is of purer eyes than to allow any thing unholy and impure to dwell with him.
It is the hope of hypocrites, not of the sons of God, that makes allowance for gratifying impure desires and lusts.
Sin is the rejecting the Divine law.
In him, that is, in Christ, was no sin. All the sinless weaknesses that were consequences of the fall, he took; that is, all those infirmities of mind or body which subject man to suffering, and expose him to temptation. But our moral infirmities, our proneness to sin, he had not. He that abides in Christ, continues not in the practice of sin.
Renouncing sin is the great proof of spiritual union with, continuance in, and saving knowledge of the Lord Christ.
But a man cannot act like the devil, and at the same time be a disciple of Christ Jesus.
Let us not serve or indulge what the Son of God came to destroy. To be born of God is to be inwardly renewed by the power of the Spirit of God. Renewing grace is an abiding principle. Religion is not an art, a matter of dexterity and skill, but a new nature. And the regenerate person cannot sin as he did before he was born of God, and as others do who are not born again.
There is that light in his mind, which shows him the evil and malignity of sin. There is that bias upon his heart, which disposes him to loathe and hate sin. There is the spiritual principle that opposes sinful acts. And there is repentance for sin, if committed.
It goes against him to sin with forethought.
The seed of the serpent are known by neglect of religion, and by their hating real Christians.
He only is righteous before God, as a justified believer, who is taught and disposed to righteousness by the Holy Spirit. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. May all professors of the gospel lay these truths to heart, and try themselves by them.
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