Consider This Analogy:
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Adam and Eve sinned one sin, and humanity went adrift in an ocean of sins. Christ’s blood separated us from having to distrust God like Adam and Eve. They ate the fruit, and their paradigm shifted to their flesh. Instantly, they knew they were naked. Jesus came and gave us His flesh and blood to consume, and those who do, their paradigm shifts to the Spirit.
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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:“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? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?” — (Romans 6:1–3, 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? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?” — (Romans 6:1–3, emphasis mine NASB95)
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Action:“No one who is born of God distrusts God’s love for them, because His seed abides within; and they cannot distrust the seed of God, by which they are born.” — (1 John 3:9, emphasis mine NASB95)
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Conclusion:We are not recreated to believe we are sinners or to doubt nor distrust 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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Key Verses:
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“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.” — (Genesis 1:1–2, NASB95)
“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. The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” — (Romans 5:19–21, emphasis mine NASB95) |
Questions:
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“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)
“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)