Reference: Romans 6:1-2, and Romans 6:12-14
You no doubt have heard it said many timesby many preachers and confessing christians that nobody can live withoutcommitting sin in their life, but reading the above verses of scriptures foundwritten in God's holy word, this statement is directly opposed to the truth ofthe matter. The apostle Paul asks a very distinct question when he asked if wecan continue in sin and of course he answers with a loud sounding NO!
Paul tells us that we as christians aredead to sin and are forbidden to continue on in it, but we have millions ofpeople saying today that the christian can't help but commit sin and manifestit in their daily lives. Now if it were not possible for a believer to ceasefrom sin why then do you think the apostle Paul said it is forbidden tocontinue on in sin? Friend you are either a believer of the word of God or elseyou are not. The word of God makes it very plain that true children of Godpossess within their being the power to cease from committing sin, but thistruth the average confessing christian will absolutely not accept and believe.The reason why they do not accept this as truth is simply because of the factthat they are yet prone to it's powerful influence.
The scriptures can very easily be made tosay that sin will yet be manifested in the life of the children of God, butdoing this only proves that the scriptures are not being rightly divided asthey can only be rightly divided by the leading of the Holy Ghost. If a personaccepts and believes the word of God as it is revealed by the Holy Spirit, theaverage person will be very quick to ask you if you commit sin in your life andif you say that you do not, then you will be looked at as if you are some kindof a freak.
The word of God plainly teaches that sinwill not have dominion over the true child of God, but hardly anybody willaccept the fact that a child of God can live above sin and not commit sin. Itis very plain to see and understand that if the child of God will possess apower over sin that they can use that power to abstain from sin, but how many peopleare there today that will accept this as true Bible teaching?
To say and believe that a child of Godcannot cease from sin is in reality denying the power of Almighty God. Manypeople will say and believe that God can do anything and that nothing isimpossible with him, but when it comes to the sin question in the life of thechild of God, this is where the line is drawn thus proving who really is a truebeliever in God.
What people are failing to understand isthat God gives the power of the Holy Ghost to the true child of God and theythrough this power can completely cease from sin if they are obedient to theleading of the Spirit. We are told time after time in God's word that we are toabstain from sin and mortify the deeds of our fleshly bodies, but if we fail tobe obedient then God has no alternative but to turn us over to the lusts anddesires of our own flesh to be destroyed. The true child of God can cease fromsin because they possess the power to do so. Today's confessing christiansadmit that they commit sin, but they also admit the fact that they commit sinnot being able to abstain from it completely. They say that they do notwillfully commit sin, but rather they do it not being able to cease from itentirely. This may be true, which only proves that they do not possess thepower of the Holy Ghost in their lives to cease from sin completely.
The average confessing christian todaywill not accept the fact that they do not possess the Holy Spirit if they arenot able to completely cease from sin simply because they have been led astrayfrom the truth of God's word concerning sin in the life of the true born againchild of God. The word of God makes statements about sin that most people willuse as an excuse for their sins, but they are not being told the truth aboutthe subject as the word of God teaches it.
The false teacher and preacher takes whatthe apostle John says about sin in his epistle and twists its meaning causingmost people to think that sin will yet be manifested in the life of the bornagain children of God. These scriptures are found in I John 1:8-10 that says if wesay that we have no sin, we would be deceiving ourselves and the truth wouldnot be in us, but if we confess our sins, he will forgive us and cleanse usfrom sin.... And then John goes on tosay that if we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word isnot in us....
From these scriptures the false teacherwill attempt to prove his sin-you-must-doctrine, but these scriptures do notteach nor say that the children of God will yet live in and commit sin notbeing able to cease from it. These scriptures do not tell us to confess sinsthat we will yet commit being born again children of God, but rather we aretold to confess that we have sin within us that needs to be removed and killedout. To confess that we have sin does not mean nor prove that we obey that sinthat's within our mortal body, but rather we possess the power of God, which isthe Holy Ghost, and we can with this power cease from obeying sin's influence.
To obey God's word and use the power thathe gave to us, we can absolutely abstain from sin and cease to obey it in ourlusts thereof. Paul plainly tells us in Romans6:12 not to let sin reign in ourmortal body, that we should obey it in the lusts thereof, but we are told toyield our members of our body as instruments of righteousness and not asmemebers of unrighteousness.
We can yield ourselves unto God and ceasefrom sin "if" we possess the power of the Holy Ghost in ourhearts, but if we are yet prone to sin's power then it's an evident fact thatwe do not possess the power of the Holy Spirit within us. There are millions ofpeople today confessing to be born again Spirit filled children of God that yetconfess that they commit sin not being able to completely cease from it and thefalse teachers are telling them false and misleading doctrine concerning thisvery important subject.
The sin question is exactly the pointwhere millions are going to be deceived and lose out with God and be eternallylost. There are utterly thousands of people who will not come to the light ofthe truth concerning the sin question in the life of the believer just as Jesussaid they would not in his word of the gospel. Jesus said that man lovesdarkness more than the light and they won't come to the light simply becausethey would have to make a drastic change in the way they are living.
The reason why people cannot cease fromsin is simply because they are being deceived concerning the truth as to how toreceive the Holy Ghost and other doctrinal subjects of the gospel. Sin mostcertainly can be overcome, but you must receive the Holy Spirit and allow himto lead and guide you into all truth that will set you free.....