True..we can definitely sin by listening to the flesh and we can yield to the sin in the flesh..as Paul say..
Romans 7:17 (NASB)
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17 [/SUP] So now,
no longer am I the one doing it,
but sin which dwells in me.
Romans 7:20-24 (NASB)
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20 [/SUP] But if I am doing the very thing I do not want
, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
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21 [/SUP] I find then
the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
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22 [/SUP] For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,
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23 [/SUP] but
I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.
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24 [/SUP] Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
.but our inner man created in righteousness and true holiness in Christ...cannot sin.
1 John 3:9 (KJV)
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9 [/SUP] Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: a
nd he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1 John 5:18 (NASB)
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18 [/SUP] We know that no
one who is born of God sins; but
He who was born of God keeps him, and
the evil one does not touch him.
The new creation in Christ cannot sin..not 1 or 1,000of them because that is where Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit dwell.
This new inner man of the heart comes with the understanding of spiritual circumcision of the flesh and heart..Also called the circumcision of Christ. The Holy Spirit "seals" us .
Ephesians 1:13 (NASB)
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13 [/SUP] In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—
having also believed,
you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,
It's a fastening subject about what happened to us believers when we received Christ..check it out..it will bless you!
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.