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If we were capable of doing that on our own, the law would never have been given to show us we couldn't keep it, the old sacrifice system would never have been instituted, and Jesus would not have come to die. We would simply have been given the ability to live perfectly right from the start.
And we still don't have that ability. I see your sinning on this forum almost every day, and you see mine. I honestly don't think God allowed Jesus to go through a lifetime of living among us, then to be brutally murdered by us just because it was, perhaps, a slow, boring period in Heaven, and they needed something to keep them entertained.
No, you may like to think you are continuing to do the work that only Jesus could do... and did... but you are really only satisfying your own need to believe you don't really need Jesus anymore, now that He gave you that first initial push on your bicycle of self-sufficiency 2,000 years ago.
And we still don't have that ability. I see your sinning on this forum almost every day, and you see mine. I honestly don't think God allowed Jesus to go through a lifetime of living among us, then to be brutally murdered by us just because it was, perhaps, a slow, boring period in Heaven, and they needed something to keep them entertained.
No, you may like to think you are continuing to do the work that only Jesus could do... and did... but you are really only satisfying your own need to believe you don't really need Jesus anymore, now that He gave you that first initial push on your bicycle of self-sufficiency 2,000 years ago.
There you go as you identified the problem right here, those who doubt or call works done in Christ as self-effort still think we are on our own.
That is a faulty understanding as this is one of the main reasons the Holy Spirit was sent to us, to strengthen us and guide us into that obedience to Christ. We don't do it on our own !!!
Yes believers still sin but the difference is we don't live in habitual deliberate sinning...........
Who says work only Jesus could do, that is what other men in false teaching tell you, not what the Word of God says. Jesus said believers in Him will do the works He did and even greater works then He did !!!....John 14:12
Apostle Paul says, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" not that it is impossible so why try !!!