[/COLOR]Have I ever said that I have not sinned? I KNOW that in the flesh dwelleth no good thing - that is where we sin - in the flesh. That sin in the flesh cannot touch that "seed"; which is incorruptible - because it is INCORRUPTIBLE. I know I sin - I am honest enough to know that I sin but then I also know that I have an advocate with my Father - Jesus Christ the righteous: and HE IS THE SACRIFICE - He died so that I could live . . . . Where does is say "abide in unrepentant sin or sin habitually against God"? 1 John is speaking of our fellowship with the Father and the Son - fellowship is a relationship - will that relationship suffer when I sin - yes - Does God remove his Spirit from me when I sin?
Our standing in the family of God as sons/daughters is firm and fixed!!!! Our state - whether we are in fellowship or not fluctuates because of our behavior.
The bottom line is - I can't MAKE myself good enough . . . . neither can you.
You are a Gnostic. John refutes that kind of dualism in his first epistle.
The Gnostics taught that sin was in the flesh as opposed to being rooted in the soul. Thus they disconnected manifest behaviour from the condition of the heart. Basically they taught one could sin and not surely die because it was the spirit that was redeemed while the flesh remained sinful.
Gnosticism basically held the premise that matter was evil and entrapped the soul in a human body. A soul could be purified apart from sinful matter through gnosis.
John wrote this...
1Jn 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
1Jn 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1Jn 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1Jn 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
The children of God are made manifest by their deeds of righteousness. There is no disconnect between the flesh and the spirit. The flesh is but a vessel that we rule over. We can either yield our vessel to sin by giving into temptation or we can yield ourselves to righteousness by walking in the Spirit.
Being saved means we have been rescued from the state whereby we yielded our vessel to unrighteousness. Hence we obeyed sin unto death instead of obeying unto righteousness (Rom 6:16).
If Satan can convince people that sin is rooted in the flesh as opposed to being rooted in the will then people can be deceived into believing that sinning is inevitable thus neutralising any possibility of a genuine repentance.
So instead of repenting people like you approach God confessing a sinful state and trust in a provision. Your heart is never transformed due to this methodology. Yet you have come under a false assurance that you are saved because you view the death of Christ as effecting a provision which removes the condemnation for sinning. It is all a satanic deception which is leading millions of people into eternal ruin.
When one is deceived they do not know it, that is what deception is.
The Bible plainly states that the children of God keep themselves from the wicked one and do not sin. A Christian is no longer a rebel.
Rebellion = Death.
Rebellion must be repented from and forsaken. The forgiveness of sins is conditional upon the rebellion ceasing because the wages of sin is death. One cannot sin and not surely die. God said, "ye shall surely die" to Adam and Eve. Satan said, "ye shall surely not die." OSAS is premised on a false salvation within the framework that "you can rebel against God and not surely die."
The Bible is so very clear on these things.
Don't blow my words off. Think about them and seriously consider them. You are still breathing and thus you can repent and yield to the truth. When we stop breathing it is to late to change. Jesus warned of MANY people being rejected, people who "worked iniquity." He stated that FEW would be saved and that those FEW did the will of the Father. Ongoing sin is the opposite of doing the will of the Father. The sin has to stop or you'll perish.