Consider This Analogy:
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When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of the difference between the evil one and the Good One, their souls were glued to their flesh, producing fear, guilt, and shame.
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“For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace” — (Romans 8:6, emphasis mine NASB95)
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Agent:Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?” — (Romans 6:3, emphasis mine NASB95)
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Goal:“What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?” — (Romans 6:1–2, emphasis mine NASB95)
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Action:“No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”—( 1 John 3:9 NASB95)
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Conclusion:We are not recreated to believe we are sinners or to doubt the Holy Spirit's ability to shine God's Son through us. We are saints, the holy ones who actively reconcile the world to God's love.
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“For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.” — (Romans 5:19–21, emphasis mine NASB95)
“My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;” — (1 John 2:1, NASB95) “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” — (1 John 3:9, KJV 1900) |
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