You cannot keep the law that says "Thou shalt love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind soul and strength and your neighbor as yourself."
It seems easy but we continually fail...that is where grace covers (not excuses) our shortcomings.
We are totally 100% dependent upon God's grace.
It seems easy but we continually fail...that is where grace covers (not excuses) our shortcomings.
We are totally 100% dependent upon God's grace.
But the believer who obeys what God's Word says plainly will never make an excuse for sin. They will repent and confess of their sin and forsake it with God's help. They do not hold onto their sin thinking it is forgiven them (Giving themselves and other people the impression that they are not sorrowful over their sin within their life --- making them no different than an unbeliever in time because sin can corrupt a person like a cancer). For the person who confesses and seeks to forsake sin is striving for the prize of Jesus Christ and seeking to be with Him and they are not making excuses to hold onto their sin. For a person cannot serve two masters. For they will hate the one and love the other. In other words, a person makes their life known by how they live. Are they living in a way that shows they love God? Or they living in such a way that shows they actually love their sin more? For Jesus said we will know a false prophet by their fruits. What are the fruits of the Spirit? Should they not be evident in a believer's life? They should be if they are sealed with the Holy Spirit. If not, then they need to examine whether or not Christ is within them or not.