Did you know that Frances Ridley Havergal the hymn composer of such loved hymns as "Like A River Glorious" and
"Take My Life, and Let It Be" and many others hymns, she came to this amazing truth as well. She spoke and was fluent in Hebrew and Greek and Latin if I remember the message correctly. And she was also a child prodigy. She struggled with this verse too and came to the same conclusions as our grace brethren. She read these verses in the different languages and as she pondered the how of it, she came to the amazing conclusion as the HolySpirit opened the truth of God's love and grace to her. Her song Like A River Glorious speaks of her rest and peace. I LOVE that song. To think we sang that song for years and never knew the struggles of the writer.
Her father was also a hymn writer and I think her mom?? not sure about her mom. But was so encouraged to read that even saints back then struggled with these questions about forgiveness from moment to moment as we see the ability in our natural man to sin even if we don't do it outwardly we know our thoughts.
How to deal with that knowledge and still be ok to go before the Father with a clear conscience??? Once we find out we are truly forgiven, made righteous by Christ we are able to go to God and again take the love and grace and the gift of no condemnation. It's like being forgiven for the first time all over again. And as the Bibles says... Grace teaches HOW to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts., how to live soberly, righteously and Godly in this present age...
The Bible makes more sense as precept upon precept line upon line comes together under the truth of God's redemptive graciousness hand. No longer under the covenant of law, but now under the covenant of grace. Rightly dividing the Word of God will be something we will be doing till the day we leave this earth.