Said the one who still sins as well.
Christ's atonement paid the penalty for all sin. What is left to pay for? Why do you insist one must strive to be sinless when the sin issue was dealt with at the cross? A believer in Christ is secure in his salvation because Jesus paid the penalty for every single sin. We are already, sinless.
So stop the "work, work, work, strive, strive, strive" garbage.
To a large degree, I would agree with you. However,anyone Born of God does not wish to stay in sin. Why would Jesus pay such an awesome price to forgive sins and want us to still be consumed by and destroyed by those same sins?
A man who claims to believe,yet has no wish to obey God's word, either has not heard the word or he has rejected it. If he has rejected it, he needs to closely examine himself and determine if he really is saved. A saved person has lain down their life to take up the life Jesus offers. Salvation is a surrender of will.
On the other hand a man who works and strives to rid himself of sin has fallen to a works mentality. That man is trying to work to please God. Letting go of sin is not work, it is rest! We are to rest in the finished work of salvation which Jesus has already completed. The labor we do is to enter into this rest. We are to enter in and
be the new man which is created in Christ Jesus.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. We do not strive against sin in the flesh. We are to put on the armour of God. In that armour we have our identity. We are able to pull down those thought strongholds that have kept us in bondage to sin by simply believing in who we are, and in who we belong to.