SIN IS THEIR STATEMENT OF FAITH
The world (even the church world) loves sin and hates righteousness. I know this is true because I meet so many people who readily argue for
the right to sin,
the need to sin,
the Divine mandate to sin,
the Divine failure to conquer sin;
so many who argue
against the right to live righteously,
against the need to live righteously,
against the power to live righteously,
against the option to live righteously,
against the power of God to enable us to live righteously.
In fact, people bring this principle up to me in a conversation (out of the clear blue), in spite of the fact that we may have been talking about Pickleball.
You see, this thing of promoting the lie that we must sin is Satan's old war cry.
Those who mock the idea
of being holy,
of living holy,
of having perfect love,
of having a perfect heart toward God,
of having the mind of Christ,
of being faithful,
of obeying God,
are mocking Biblical Christianity,
are spokespersons for sin and Satan.
People will point to a portion of Romans seven as if that small portion, taken out of context actually nullifies the ending of seven and beginning of eight (as well as the entire Holy Bible).
When Paul
addressed the problem of a divided allegiance,
when he declared his inner struggle with the sin nature,
HE WAS NOT BOASTING, HE WAS BEWAILING HIS CONDITION.
However, when people raise the Romans seven argument, they are not crying out with Paul,
Romans 7:24
(24) O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
NOR ARE THEY PRAISING GOD FOR DELIVERANCE, as Paul did,
Romans 7:25-8:14
(25) I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 8
(1) There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
(3) For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
(4) That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(5) For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
(6) For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
(7) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
(8) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
(9) But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
(10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
(11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
(12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
(13) For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
(14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
If people put half the enthusiasm and energy into believing Christ to deliver them from sin, as they do in celebrating their sin orientation, their sinning and their Divine right to sin,
THEY WOULD BE DELIVERED FROM SIN.
