So, after you received Christ you never committed any sins? That's rhetorical, because I know the answer.
No you don't, Only God knows. But so as not to go off on a tangent yes to my (our) shame I (we) have. But that does not mean we or I will continue.
God says through Paul,
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Phil 3:12-14
Those under the Law given to Moses, were required to keep the whole law. If you broke in one place, you broke all of it. Still want to be under the law? I thank God through my Lord Jesus that He rescued me from the curse of the law. I am free in Christ and so is every other believer. One of the big problems and false teachings are those who continue to try and put believers back under the law. Remain under the works of the law as a way of salvation is why Israel has not attained God's righteousness, which is by faith, not works.
Under the Law? How can we be under that to which has become part of us in Christ.
We are dead nevertheless we live yet not us but Christ liveth in us and the life we now live in the flesh
we live by the FAITH OF the son of God.
W
e live by the FAITH OF the son of God who gave Himself for us not by Being under the Law.
Know you not that as many of us that were baptized into Christ have
PUT ON CHRIST. That the BODY OF SIN BE DESTROYED. That hence forth we should not serve sin.
FOR HE THAT IS DEAD IS FREE FROM SIN. For he that sins is a slave to sin,
AND the SLAVE to sin shall not abide in the
HOUSE forever. Who's House we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
FOR the SON has set us free, and free we are INDEED.
For the Just shall live by Faith, the Faith of the Son of God who Gave himself for us. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that
we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
The righteousness which is of faith.
SO Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above. Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; For Christ (
through which the word is in the heart and mouth, which is true faith; the faith in which we preach) is the end of the law (on tables of stone and parchment) for righteousness for everyone that believeth.
For HE has perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost (GOD) also is a witness to us: FOR Thus saith the Lord,
I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them.
For the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. The circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. For this commandment which I command thee this day (
TO hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law) , it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word (Through Christ
TO hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law) is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. THE CIRCUMCISION MADE WITHOUT HANDS, THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST IN THE PUTTING OF THE SINS OF THE FLESH.
FOR IT IS GOD THAT WORKED IN THEM AND US BOTH TO WILL AND DO HIS GOOD PLEASURE. AS JESUS SAID. HE DOETH THE WORK.
HE is the Truth and the Life and In Him is life, therefore choose life, That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
(Deu 30:10-16,19-20; Heb 10:14-16; Rom 10:4-8; Gal 2:20,3:17; Col 2:11; Phil:2:13)
"What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it,
a righteousness that is by faith;
31but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal.
32Why not?
Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone."
The righteousness which is of faith
SPEAKETH ON THIS WISE, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ (the word, God's Law )down from above. Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The word (GOD'S LAW THROUGH CHRIST) is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; For Christ (
through which the word; GOD'S LAW is in the heart, mind and mouth; true faith, the faith in which we preach) is the end of the law (on tables of stone and parchment) for righteousness for everyone that believeth.
As much as this little detour is helpful to some, OP topic please.
It is all important and connected my friend. We Just continue in Patience and prayer as you have and let our LORD and Father GOD work the work that only He can do in Christ.
