Do We Still Sin?
Written by: Delbert Magusara Haim
February 20, 2013
"Understanding Christian sin"
It is always be a reason to anyone that because we are just human we always do evil things. Well, when the Bible says; "Abstain from all appearance of evil.1 Thessalonians 5:22", it gives us a clue that we can walk away from these evil deeds or sin.
In this discussion, I would like to show you first the difference between flesh and spirit that we may know the image of man.
That passage of Romans shows that a Christian soul is living with two distinctive bodies; the body of flesh and the body of spirit. Probably, the spirit is called the inner man inserted in the body of flesh that can be possibly manipulated by the flesh alone or by the mind of God. The inner man here has unique ability with compare to the instinct of other living creatures because it is able to judge like God. When God form a man in the beginning, it became a "living soul" or a "breathing creature" according to the strong Bible dictionary.
It emphasized that the flesh is a man of dust or the outward body, and the spirit is the inner man or the inward body. Accordingly, the inner man causes the outward man to breath and likewise the outward man causes the inner man to do the fleshly desires. In this case, there is no warring yet and both are conforming each other. But when God put his mind to man in the manner of instruction or law, the spirit or the inner man was then guided and commanded to follow His commandments in order to be perfect before God.
To Adam:
To Abraham:
To the Saints:
Surely, they became perfect indeed but because of the outward man that is prone to sin and corruptible as it came from dust, they oppose each other and make war.
That is why if the inner man will conform the law of sin in the flesh he cannot please God.
But if the inner man will conform to the law of God, he can possibly stop the evil deeds of the flesh.
Therefore, Christian people are prone to sin but they can be saved through the mind/words of God. However there are professing Christians whose evil deeds are increasing, and I don't think so that the spirit of Christ is in them.
February 20, 2013
"Understanding Christian sin"
It is always be a reason to anyone that because we are just human we always do evil things. Well, when the Bible says; "Abstain from all appearance of evil.1 Thessalonians 5:22", it gives us a clue that we can walk away from these evil deeds or sin.
In this discussion, I would like to show you first the difference between flesh and spirit that we may know the image of man.
- Romans 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
That passage of Romans shows that a Christian soul is living with two distinctive bodies; the body of flesh and the body of spirit. Probably, the spirit is called the inner man inserted in the body of flesh that can be possibly manipulated by the flesh alone or by the mind of God. The inner man here has unique ability with compare to the instinct of other living creatures because it is able to judge like God. When God form a man in the beginning, it became a "living soul" or a "breathing creature" according to the strong Bible dictionary.
- Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
It emphasized that the flesh is a man of dust or the outward body, and the spirit is the inner man or the inward body. Accordingly, the inner man causes the outward man to breath and likewise the outward man causes the inner man to do the fleshly desires. In this case, there is no warring yet and both are conforming each other. But when God put his mind to man in the manner of instruction or law, the spirit or the inner man was then guided and commanded to follow His commandments in order to be perfect before God.
To Adam:
- Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
To Abraham:
- Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
To the Saints:
- Eph 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Surely, they became perfect indeed but because of the outward man that is prone to sin and corruptible as it came from dust, they oppose each other and make war.
- Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
That is why if the inner man will conform the law of sin in the flesh he cannot please God.
- Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
But if the inner man will conform to the law of God, he can possibly stop the evil deeds of the flesh.
- Rom 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Therefore, Christian people are prone to sin but they can be saved through the mind/words of God. However there are professing Christians whose evil deeds are increasing, and I don't think so that the spirit of Christ is in them.