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SIN! Do Christians sin? Why would they? Perhaps they feel they have no choice? Don’t they know who they are? How about you?
1 Cor 6:19 tells us a Christian is one spirit with the Lord; any Christian is as righteous and holy as Jesus. This is a MOUTHFUL! 1 Cor 3:16 tells us we are the TEMPLE of the God, and that temple IS holy, for GOD dwells in it, MAKING it holy. Another mouthful!
If you don’t know it, you’ll likely do unrighteous and unholy things. Rule based religion tells you to obey the rules, and then you will be holy. It’s the cart before the horse. And because the power to resist sin in rule based religion is in your flesh, you will fail. Repeatedly.
The Gospel truth is much better. As we found in 1 Cor, you are holy, you are one spirit with the Lord. The Lord in IN you, making your holy. The Lord is bigger than any sin of yours. So live holy. Instead of FIGHTING in the flesh to RESIST sin, REST in who you are: a righteous, holy, new creation united with Jesus. Remember, Paul was writing to those fleshly Corinthians, who were getting drunk at communion and leaving others to go hungry. Yet they were holy. Righteous. One spirit with the Lord. Think about it!
“…consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus… do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts… present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” If that sounds familiar, that’s because it’s Ro 6:11 and 14.
Here is the takeaway: sin might presently have dominion over you because you don’t know the truth of who you are. The solution? Confess the truth, that you are under grace, free from sin’s dominion. Soon the KINGDOM reality will become YOUR REALITY. You will have COME ALIVE!
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