"sin" from eBible.com Bookmarks made by paulwhelms

Did you mean: sin

Results for "sin"

10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

Paul has just finished writing about the fallen human state after the sin of Adam and Eve -- how their disobedience brought spiritual and physical death. Although it was such a terrible fall that humans could no longer please God at all (v. 8), Jesus did please God through His obedient and sinless life and atoning sacrifice on the Cross of Calvary. And the wonder is that through our receiving of Christ by faith, we have actually received His very presence in our hearts and bodies. He abides with us, even as we abide in Him. Even though the Fall completely toppled and paralyzed us so that sin will always be possible and sometimes deceitfully appealing this side of heaven, we now have a much more powerful presence abiding in our hearts through the Holy Spirit. And it is through the Spirit that we are intimately connected with Christ who is the head of the Church. So then, the Spirit is the source of our experience of eternal life in Jesus. Through Him we are brought into union with Christ so that we may share in His righteousness, thereby putting to death the passions of our sinful desires as we behold and are powerfully held and led by the Lord Jesus Himself.

Bookmarked 9 months ago.

Topics
alive christ_in_you death holy_spirit righteousness sin

Romans 8:13

study

13For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live,

We know that Christians, being born of God, become people who worship God in Spirit and Truth, and that worship should get brighter and brighter as we walk in the light of Christ. But if we continue to walk in darkness, seeking to please not the Lord but our own flesh, we have no guarantee of salvation because we have lived without the power of our guarantee -- the Holy Spirit (see 2 Corinthians 1:22, 5:5; and also Ephesians 1:13-14).

Bookmarked 10 months ago.

Topics
eternal_life holy_spirit mortification sin

Reminder

Romans 8:7

study

7the sinful mindOr the mind set on the flesh is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.

At least one commentary suggests that the believer, born of the Holy Spirit, can be 'in the flesh', but this doesn't seem to be at all what Paul is suggesting. The tension that Paul is working with is found all over the New Testament, and it is this--that not all of those who claim to be in Christ are truly born of the Spirit. Those who are truly born of the Spirit will undoubtedly exhibit a Spirit-led life of holiness. All who are born of the Spirit joyfully submit to the Law's demand of pure love to God and neighbor because the Law is holy and Spirit-inspired; the unspiritual person, devoid of the Spirit of God and in the flesh, is not only unable but also unwilling to submit to God who demands obedience from His creatures (the mind is 'hostile' to God). This does not mean that someone who is Spirit-filled will not disobey God and go astray from time to time, but that his or her life (having now been renewed in Christ) is not characterized by hostility to the Law's demand for real spirituality and holiness.

Bookmarked 11 months ago.

Topics
flesh holy_spirit human_nature law rebellion sin spiritual unspiritual

Subscribe to paulwhelms's Bookmarks on sin