I will try to explain how I understand this. You can take it for what its worth. Think of gravity. Everything is affected by it. A plane however can overcome gravity because of thrust and lift. Without those the plane will fall.
As long as we are focused on Christ, we are soaring the heavens or walking on water. That is what living the true Christian life is like. It is walking on water; it is impossible, but all things are possible with God. Peter did it for a short time.
Like someone said on the forum "it is not about the perfection of our walk; it is about the direction..." When David committed adultery and murder, he was still considered a man after God's heart. We are not called saints because we are perfect; we are called saints because we are forgiven. That doesn't mean we are no longer saints when we sin. God's Grace by faith gives us the thrust and lift to overcome the gravitational pull of sin, but like Peter, when we take our eyes off Christ we sink.
I hope you can understand where I am coming from. God's mercy and Grace is not a license to live in sin; It is the power to live right, but we have to deal with our old nature till we die. That is the gravity pull of sin, but we have God's grace to overcome that, but do I always overcome sin? No, like Paul said, "What I want to do I don't, and what I don't want to do, I do." The unsaved want and love the sin they do; the saints hate and don't want the sin they do. That is the big difference between the saved (Saints) and the lost (wicked)!
As long as we are focused on Christ, we are soaring the heavens or walking on water. That is what living the true Christian life is like. It is walking on water; it is impossible, but all things are possible with God. Peter did it for a short time.
Like someone said on the forum "it is not about the perfection of our walk; it is about the direction..." When David committed adultery and murder, he was still considered a man after God's heart. We are not called saints because we are perfect; we are called saints because we are forgiven. That doesn't mean we are no longer saints when we sin. God's Grace by faith gives us the thrust and lift to overcome the gravitational pull of sin, but like Peter, when we take our eyes off Christ we sink.
I hope you can understand where I am coming from. God's mercy and Grace is not a license to live in sin; It is the power to live right, but we have to deal with our old nature till we die. That is the gravity pull of sin, but we have God's grace to overcome that, but do I always overcome sin? No, like Paul said, "What I want to do I don't, and what I don't want to do, I do." The unsaved want and love the sin they do; the saints hate and don't want the sin they do. That is the big difference between the saved (Saints) and the lost (wicked)!