Forsaking sin means you turn away from it and that you do not abide in that sin habitually. It means it does not control you every day but it does not mean that you may or may not stumble.
Exactly! There is a difference between do not abide in sin habitually (do not practice sin - 1 John 3:9) and live a sinless, without fault or defect, flawless perfect life 100% of the time. Only Jesus Christ accomplished the latter.
But I am not planning on doing any particular sin in the future and I am taking steps according to God's Word to keep myself in Him (According to His Word). Can you say the same?
This is what we are to strive to do as Christians. Yes, I can say the same.
For what does this really matter to you? Do you believe you are different? How is your standard of good better?
It matters because in certain posts, it sounds like you are demanding that people be sinless and perfect or else! I am not trying to place sinless, perfect standards on myself or anyone else. I do not practice sin and I am not sinless 100% of the time either.
Why do you not understand that if you give into saying that you will do something sinful in the future you are in fact siding with evil and condoning sin (When it happens)?
By me saying that I don't expect to live a sinless perfect life from this point on and can expect to stumble at times, I am siding with evil and condoning sin? I don't agree with that. Can you say with absolute confidence that you will NEVER stumble again in the future and live a sinless life from now on?
For I believe I may not sin again because I believe in 1 Peter 4:1 and Galatians 5:24.
Does Peter really believe that Christians can reach a state of sinless perfection? The Bible teaches that none of us will reach a state of sinless perfection this side of eternity. John writes,
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us” (1 John 1:8). James writes,
“For we all stumble in many ways” (James. 3:2), referring to Christian believers. Paul speaks of the flesh and Spirit battling one another in the life of the Christian (Galatians 5:17), and he himself experienced this personal struggle with sin (Romans 7:17). For this reason, Peter cannot be teaching sinless perfection.
When Peter writes that a Christian has “ceased” from sin, this could refer to the way in which suffering can grow us spiritually. In this way, Peter isn’t speaking absolutely about sinless perfection; instead, he is referring to experientially as we grow with Christ. Greek scholar AT Robertson comments -
Hath ceased from sin (pepautai amartia). Perfect middle indicative of pauw to make cease and the ablative singular amartia, but B reads the dative plural amartiai (Romans 6:1). Romans 6:1 - Shall we continue in sin? Present active deliberative subjunctive of epimenw, old verb to tarry with locative case.
The practice of sin as a habit (present tense) is here raised, not sinless perfection. We see the same in 1 John 3:9.
"Have crucified the flesh" is in the aorist tense, suggesting an action that took place in the past. A parallel passage may be found in Romans 6:6 and 11, which state, "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin...Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord".
Victory over the flesh with its passions and lusts has already been provided for us by Christ through His death. We appropriate this truth through faith instead of sinless perfection.
In other words, I believe I may not have to confess sin ever again. Do you believe that? My guess is that would be a no.
Christians continue to confess/acknowledge their sin before God. It's not about sin, lose salvation, confess, regain salvation like a continuous revolving door and if we forget a sin, we are toast! When you say, "do you believe that? My guess would be a no" I can see that your purpose is to point the fingers at other Christians and say they are somehow missing the boat and surely will not be saved, but of course that's not the case with you. As you mentioned in a previous post, and I quote -
"While I have not overcome all sin yet in my life, I believe one day soon with Christ that I will overcome. It could be today or tomorrow. However, I do not abide in unrepentant sin as a way of life and I seek to obey Him and do what is good and pleasing in His sight." So the implication is that YOU will overcome sin in your life soon and will surely be saved because of it (but the rest of us surely won't ever overcome all sin and will not be saved) and you do not abide in unrepentant sin as a way of life (but surely many other Christians do and will not be saved) and that you seek to obey Him and do what is good and pleasing in His sight and will surely be saved because of it (but many Christians do not seek to obey Him and do not do what is good and pleasing in His sight and surely won't be saved). You may not realize it but you sound self righteous.
For Jesus said..."sin no more." John said.... "sin not." Paul said "be ye angry and sin not."
Did you expect Jesus to say, "just go and sin a little bit?" He cannot compromise His perfect holy standard, so of course He is going to say, "go and sin no more," but does that mean we will never sin again at all and if we do then we are toast? NO. Sin not is the goal, what we strive for, but it does not mean we will live sinless, without fault or defect, flawless perfect lives 100% of the time.