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Titus, you nor I, do not have to strays from God to sin, we do a very good job of sinning, when we are doing our utmost to please him ~ sin is presence in all that we do, which keeps us for perfectly serving God the way our new man desires to do> Surely you do understand this to be so, if not, then "Houston, we have a serious problem" .
Paul added: "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:" Now we are ready to consider:
'for his seed remaineth in him"~ not the word of God, or the Gospel, though that is a seed which is sown by the ministers of it, and blessed by God, and by which he gives understanding his elect; and which having a place in their hearts, becomes the ingrafted word, and there abides, nor can it be rooted out; where it powerfully teaches to avoid sin, is an antidote against it, and a preservative from it: nor the Holy Spirit of God, though he is the author of the new birth, and the principle of all grace; and where he once is, he always abides; and through the power of his grace believers prevail against sin, and mortify the deeds of the body, and live: but rather the creation of the Spirit, the internal principle of grace in the soul, the new nature, or new man formed in the soul, is meant; which seminally contains all grace in it, and which, like seed, springs up and gradually increases, and always abides; and is pure and incorruptible, created after the very image of Jesus Christ, his sinless life, and neither sins itself, nor encourages sin, but opposes, checks, and prevents it:
and he cannot sin; not that it is impossible for such a man still having the old man, to do acts of sin, or that it is possible for him to live without sin; for the words are not to be understood in the sense of those who plead for perfection in this life; for though the saints have perfection in Christ, yet not in themselves; they are not impeccable, they are not free from sin, neither from the being nor acting's of it; sin is in them, (that is, in the flesh) lives in them, dwells in them, hinders all the good, and does all the mischief it can: or in such sense, as if the sins of believers were not sins; for though they are pardoned and expiated, and they are justified from them, yet they do not cease to be sins; they are equally contrary to the new nature, will, and law of God, as well as the sins of others; and are oftentimes attended with more aggravated circumstances, and which God in a fatherly way takes notice of, and chastises for, and on the account of which he hides his face from them:
and he cannot sin;
can only have reference to our new nature, the new man that has been created after the image of Jesus Christ, and that image is a sinless life, and that is what secured for us eternal life in the world to come. That's where the Spirit lives and that is the part of us that has eternal life both now, and the world to come. This truly proves that Saints cannot lose this life that has freely been given to us by grace through Jesus' redemption work for us.
because he is born of God: for that which is born of God in him, does, under the influence of the Spirit, power, and grace of God, preserve him totally from the temptations of Satan, the pollutions of the world, and the corruptions of his own heart; see 1st John 5:18
You said: "When he strays away from following the gospel then he does sin.Then 1John 1:8 applies to him."
Titus, you nor I, do not have to strays from God to sin, we do a very good job of sinning, when we are doing our utmost to please him ~ sin is presence in all that we do, which keeps us for perfectly serving God the way our new man desires to do> Surely you do understand this to be so, if not, then "Houston, we have a serious problem" .
Romans 7:14-16
“For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.”Paul added: "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:" Now we are ready to consider:
1st John 3:9
“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.”'for his seed remaineth in him"~ not the word of God, or the Gospel, though that is a seed which is sown by the ministers of it, and blessed by God, and by which he gives understanding his elect; and which having a place in their hearts, becomes the ingrafted word, and there abides, nor can it be rooted out; where it powerfully teaches to avoid sin, is an antidote against it, and a preservative from it: nor the Holy Spirit of God, though he is the author of the new birth, and the principle of all grace; and where he once is, he always abides; and through the power of his grace believers prevail against sin, and mortify the deeds of the body, and live: but rather the creation of the Spirit, the internal principle of grace in the soul, the new nature, or new man formed in the soul, is meant; which seminally contains all grace in it, and which, like seed, springs up and gradually increases, and always abides; and is pure and incorruptible, created after the very image of Jesus Christ, his sinless life, and neither sins itself, nor encourages sin, but opposes, checks, and prevents it:
and he cannot sin; not that it is impossible for such a man still having the old man, to do acts of sin, or that it is possible for him to live without sin; for the words are not to be understood in the sense of those who plead for perfection in this life; for though the saints have perfection in Christ, yet not in themselves; they are not impeccable, they are not free from sin, neither from the being nor acting's of it; sin is in them, (that is, in the flesh) lives in them, dwells in them, hinders all the good, and does all the mischief it can: or in such sense, as if the sins of believers were not sins; for though they are pardoned and expiated, and they are justified from them, yet they do not cease to be sins; they are equally contrary to the new nature, will, and law of God, as well as the sins of others; and are oftentimes attended with more aggravated circumstances, and which God in a fatherly way takes notice of, and chastises for, and on the account of which he hides his face from them:
and he cannot sin;
can only have reference to our new nature, the new man that has been created after the image of Jesus Christ, and that image is a sinless life, and that is what secured for us eternal life in the world to come. That's where the Spirit lives and that is the part of us that has eternal life both now, and the world to come. This truly proves that Saints cannot lose this life that has freely been given to us by grace through Jesus' redemption work for us.
because he is born of God: for that which is born of God in him, does, under the influence of the Spirit, power, and grace of God, preserve him totally from the temptations of Satan, the pollutions of the world, and the corruptions of his own heart; see 1st John 5:18
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