charismaticlady
Active member
Hi Dwight,This is why you should not be teaching. John is writing to believers, not unbelievers. Yes, even believers are capable of lying to themselves - like you are, in saying that you no longer sin. In the same way, we are capable (even though we don't want to) of other sins as well.
Being spiritually immature is not a sin, unless you stay that way long after becoming a believer. And if you continue to believe that you cannot sin, you will not grow.
There were sins not unto death that I use to commit until Jesus, as the finisher of my faith as He promised, matured me over the last 47 years. But I do not commit any sins of the flesh as listed in Galatians 5:19-21. You say you still sin. By number, not naming sins, how many do you still commit? They will keep you out of heaven, so are you going to stop committing them?
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.