A believer is not sinless., A believer is guiltless...

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Grace777x70

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Amen!....And the really good liberating news is that even if we do crash..He still has us! We can live or die in confidence in Him alone and His love and grace towards us.

eternally-gratefull said:
it is a lifelong thing we must always be focused on.. We have to continually trust in God and Christ to strengthen us,, or we will crash and burn.. in whatever area of our life we are struggling in..
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seed_time_harvest

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blue_ladybug said:
If a believer is NOT sinless, or without sin, then HOW can they be guiltless, or without guilt? That would require having no conscience at all. Even believers DO sin, and most DO feel guilt.
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Hello blue_ladybug
The spirit was made perfect and sealed,therefore we are perfect In the spirit but we need to renew our minds which Is our reasonable service.

Our bodies have not yet been glorified and thats where we sin because of the weakness of our flesh.:)
 
seed_time_harvest

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Grace777x70 said:
Doing righteous deeds by themselves does not make one righteous. This is having the cart before the horse.

Doing righteous deeds because Christ has made us righteous is what 1 John chapter 3 is talking about. This shows the difference between the devil and those that belong to Christ. John was describing a believer and an unbeliever.

I know there have been "good" people doing "righteous deeds " but they were not belonging to God. Many religions have moral living people in them - all doing "righteous deeds".

Here is how righteousness comes to a believer....we need to be righteousness conscious...not sin-conscious...we have a new creation in Christ now! This "righteousness " will manifest outwardly in doing righteous deeds - but we need the "horse" in front first.

The "horse" being Christ's righteousness in us because of our being in Christ in our inner man..our new creation in Christ.

Awake to who you are in Christ!..Awake to righteousness and sin not..when you see who you are in Him in your new man..you become like Him outwardly.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18 (NASB)
[SUP]17 [/SUP] Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
[SUP]18 [/SUP] But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.


Hebrews 5:13 (NASB)
[SUP]13 [/SUP] For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.

Romans 5:17 (NASB)
[SUP]17 [/SUP] For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 54:14 (NASB)
[SUP]14 [/SUP] "In righteousness you will be established; You will be far from oppression, for you will not fear; And from terror, for it will not come near you.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NASB)
[SUP]21 [/SUP] He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

When you see who you are in Christ because of His finished work...you become outwardly in behavior what you are truly like in your new inner man where Christ dwells..
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Well said:)
 
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PeterJens said:
Interesting about repent

in Hebrew and the old testemant, repentance was always to turn from sinful behaviour to righteousness.
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Is It possible to use will-power to turn from sinful behavior to righteousness?
 
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eternally-gratefull said:
it is a lifelong thing we must always be focused on.. We have to continually trust in God and Christ to strengthen us,, or we will crash and burn.. in whatever area of our life we are struggling in..
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YAY!! Praise God for crashing and burning and not being able to rely on your own will power anymore!! Only when you are out of the way, only then will you see Jesus come in great power & glory and know with all your heart that He is able to keep you from falling.

Even when we are faithless, the Lord remains faithful because He can't deny His own nature. Jesus = Faithful
 
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