Chapter
12.6
Sinless
Does
the Holy Spirit Convict or does He Grieve?
I do not understand what I do; for what I want to
do
I do not do, but what I hate, I do
- It’s not me that sins,
it’s
the sin living in me that does it.[1] - Circular Double Talk
First
Word
Is a Believer SINLESS? Scripture seems to be at odds with this; let’s
take a look.
CIRCULAR DOUBLE TALK: Paul says that
what he wants to do, he does not do and the thing he hates doing is the very
thing he does. Paul says it is not him
that does this sin, but the sin that lives within him that does it.[2] WHAT? Has Paul gone plum CRAZY?[3]
THE
CONFLICT WITHIN: This is the first time we see of the TWIN NATURES within man that
are at odds and battle each other every day.
The SIN
NATURE and the SAVED NATURE; life does not
run smoothly; it has effort, strain and failure.[4] This invisible battle causes the person
to experience the inability of his soul to realize the Divine Ideal.
The desire to do good is met with a vigorous opponent or principal that
Paul called THE LAW because of its
regularity in opposing good actions; it’s a POWERFUL
FORCE. As Christians we walk around with these two
natures; but there is GOOD NEWS. The Law
of the Holy
Spirit is at work within our
spirit, prompting our actions, inspiring our purposes and molding
our character, and giving us VICTORY over the DOWN DRAFT of The Law of Sin.
There are ACCUSATIONS leveled against us, but for those who are
in Christ Jesus there is NO
CONDEMNATION.[5] SELAH
There is tension “between” the Old Nature passing away and the New Nature being
renewed every day. We are between the natures as one dies and the other renews and interestingly enough, we are also between the
first and the second coming of Christ.
We are given a lifetime to find Christ.
Marriage Advice from J. Vernon McGee
The reason a Christian ought not to marry
a non-Christian is that if you marry into the family of the Devil, you are
going to have trouble with your Father-In-Law.
CHUCKLE,
CHUCKLE
Convicting or Grieving
When we sin, the Holy Spirit
sure lets us know it. That’s a
true statement; the Holy Spirit convicts the WORLD of Sin;[6]
however we are IN the world, but
not OF the world.[7]
The Holy Spirit is NOT convicting the
Believer of sin, He is GRIEVING over their sin.[8] There is a WAR going on in our
Spirit, it’s the OLD YOU that grieves the Holy Spirit. It’s the unwholesome talk coming from your mouth; it’s the slander along with every form of malice, lies, cheating, bitterness, anger, rage and
brawling.[9]
There is nothing
good that lives in the OLD SINFUL
NATURE;[10] there
is a WAR going on between your mind and the
members of your body. You
The
Did
you see it?
Our body is a SLAVE to
the old Sin nature, but our mind is a SERVANT to God.[12]
Make
Believers
I dislike anything that smacks
of doubt in the Bible. I want to KNOW
FOR SURE,
I don’t want to be blown about by every wave of theology or new thought,[13] so
some things need to be settled and the big one is, are you a child of God or
not; IN or OUT. The Bible is a handbook for Believers only.
J. Vernon McGee says he
believes in The
Security of the Believer; they are saved; period. He also believes in The Insecurity of
the Make Believers; those who wonder if they’re saved. He says that you might just want to take
inventory of your life; are the things of God important to you? There are really only TWO QUESTIONS that come from the commandments of Jesus.
1)
Do
you love the Lord your God with all your heart; all your soul and with all your
mind?[14]
2)
Do
you love your neighbor as Christ has loved you?[15]
The TEST
is examining the fruit from your garden; what kind of fruit can people see on
your tree? We are not to judge others,
but we are encouraged to be fruit inspectors. A good tree cannot bear bad
fruit. You will know them by their fruits.[16]
Sinless
TWO ELEMENTS: The Believer
must abide or live in Christ and Christ must abide or live in the Believer. THE TEST: Love others as Christ has loved you, there
is NO excuse, NO substitute, NO compromise,
NO grey area and
NO other possibility;
LOVE YOUR BROTHER!
Love manifests itself in conduct; it is
the evidence of a Christian passing from Spiritual Death into
Spiritual
Life; the specific form of doing
right is obeying the command to Love. The
OLD Covenant Law told you that you OUGHT to do good and the
When we accept Christ we are a new
creation; the OLD nature has gone
and the
We have been given a new heart and a new spirit
plus the spirit of God now lives within us.[20] The sin of a person is not counted against him
where the bent and frame of his mind and spirit is against the sin. The magnetic needle of a compass can be
distracted, but it will always return to seek true North.
FORGIVEN: Either we have
been forgiven or we still need to be forgiven. One or
the Other.
WHAT? Yes, it’s in the Book. The
Renewing Grace is an abiding
principal;
forgiveness is
an accomplished fact.
SO THEN, A
BELIEVER CAN STILL SIN: A Homosexual that is a child of God will give
up that SIN. Whoever is born of God will not LIVE in sin, they will not
PRACTICE sin. The old nature
can have an act of sin, but not deliberate or consciously or presumptuously,
nor habitually,
but SINS involuntary and
it is forgiven,
erased, never again to be remembered. [23]
The Take Away
The
Bible sounds like foolishness to the un-believer,[24]
it is written to and for Believers only.
Using the litmus test of the two
commandments; a person that has given themselves to God CANNOT SIN; the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross was
for the forgiveness of sins Past, Present and Future…
A regenerated man cannot live in Sin, he cannot practice sin.
If he stumbles he will return to
NOTE: If in your Belief System of the word you embrace the RAPTURE of the Saints, then nothing else in scripture has to be
fulfilled before the second coming of Christ; He can come today.
[2] Romans 7:14-25 – It’s not me that SINS; it’s SOMEBODY else. I do not understand what I do. For what I
want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but
it is sin living in me that does it.
What a wretched man I am! Who
will rescue me from this body of death?
Thanks be to God-through Jesus Christ our Lord!
[4] Romans 3:23 – All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
-- 1 John 1:8 – We deceive ourselves If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in us. -- 1 John 1:10 – We make Him a liar If
we say that we have not sinned
IT’S NOT ME THAT
SINS
[4] Romans 7:20 – Now if I do
what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in
me that does it. It is sin living in me
-- Acts 26:24 – Paul, you have gone CRAZY, you are OUT OF YOUR MIND, "Your great learning
is driving you insane”
GOOD NEWS
[5] Romans 8:9 – You,
however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit (of God), if the Spirit of God
lives -- Romans 8:16 – The Spirit of God
testifies to our Spirit -- Romans 8:1-2 – There is
no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus
[6] John 16:7-9 – The Holy Spirit CONVICTS those of the world of
guilt in regard to sin
[7] John 15:18-19 – The
Christian is not of this world because I have chosen you out of the world.
[8] Ephesians 4:30-32 – The Holy Spirit GRIEVES when we have bitterness,
rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice; get rid of all it
[9] Ephesians 4:25-29 – Watch
what you say; Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only
what is helpful for building others up
[10] Romans 7:18 – Nothing good lives in my OLD NATURE
[11] Romans 7:24-25 – Paul is
tormented by the Battle of the mind. -- Romans 7:23 – There is a WAR going on in my flesh
against the law of my mind
[12] Romans 7:25 – Our Body serves law of Sin, but
our Mind serves the law of God
[13] James 1:5-8 – Doubting
makes you unstable
[14] Mathew 22:37-40 – The TEST: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all
your soul and with all your mind and Love your neighbor as yourself
[15] John 13:34 – Love one another as JESUS LOVED YOU
[16] Matthew 7:16-20 – You
will know a Believer by their FRUITS
[18] 1 John 3:9 – If we are a True Believer we cannot continue to remain in sin
[19] Romans 8:16 – The Spirit
himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children
[20] Ezekiel 36:26 – We have
been given a new heart and a new spirit -- 1 Corenthians 3:16 – Don't you know
that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's
Spirit lives in you?
[21] Hebrews 10:14 – Jesus’ ONE sacrifice made us perfect
forever.
[22] Hebrews 7:27 – His
sacrifice was ONCE
[23] Colossians 2:13 –
[24] 1 Corenthians 2:14 – The
Bible is foolishness to the unbeliever -- 1 Corenthians 1:18-19 – The Bible is
foolishness to those that are dying; the unbeliever
[25] Matthew 7:19-20 – You will know them by their fruits; Are you a MAKE BELIEVER
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