Do you know why a Christian cannot willfully sin

1stcenturylady said:

Even though the Word emptied Himself to become man, the baby Jesus, the seed of the Father was in Him from the beginning of conception. Therefore, during His life even before He was baptized by the Spirit for ministry and miracles, He didn’t sin, though He was tempted by Satan, just as we are. And for us, God always makes a way of escape.

That same seed is in Christ’s followers who have been baptized with the Spirit. 1 John 3:says, 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

This is also why we must have that seed in us. Romans 8:9 "But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His."

If you still willfully sin (and don't be spiritually ignorant and say all sin is willful. There are also unknown (to us) sins that are not sins unto death in 1 John 5. Willful sins are rebellious against God - and without repentance will produce death.), do as Jesus said, "Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works." So what are the first works? Acts 2:38, I believe are those in a nutshell.

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1stcenturylady said:

Even though the Word emptied Himself to become man, the baby Jesus, the seed of the Father was in Him from the beginning of conception. Therefore, during His life even before He was baptized by the Spirit for ministry and miracles, He didn’t sin, though He was tempted by Satan, just as we are. And for us, God always makes a way of escape.

That same seed is in Christ’s followers who have been baptized with the Spirit. 1 John 3:says, 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

This is also why we must have that seed in us. Romans 8:9 "But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His."

If you still willfully sin (and don't be spiritually ignorant and say all sin is willful. There are also unknown (to us) sins that are not sins unto death in 1 John 5. Willful sins are rebellious against God - and without repentance will produce death.), do as Jesus said, "Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works." So what are the first works? Acts 2:38, I believe are those in a nutshell.

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1stcenturylady said:

If you claim Jesus as only your Savior, and not your Lord, don't be deceived. You must be born again of the Spirit, because...

1 John 3:8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning.

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1stcenturylady said:

Why trample on the blood of Jesus and the Spirit of Grace?

26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Was it a waste of time for Paul and John to give these warnings. Don't you know that we are dead to sin? So to continue in it once we have been given Christ's powerful Spirit to not sin, is willful rebellion.

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1stcenturylady said:

Of course. Look at the story again.

Where does it say that the one being crucified had NOT become a Christian before being caught and convicted by man?

And where does it say that he had never been baptized (another presumption).

Jesus wasn't teaching on the cross, so where had the thief learned of the Kingdom of God. Did he think he and Jesus would get down off the cross and physically become King of the Jews?

Obviously, you haven't thought this through. There are too many questions left erroneously answered by unwritten presumptions.

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1stcenturylady said:

When? When he denied Jesus? Thank God he did, so he could utterly see himself as the weak man he was and unmask to himself the prideful, arrogant self-righteous clod his was.

Don't you know that was prior to the resurrection of Jesus and prior to Jesus giving him the Holy Spirit. Without the Spirit, we are not really His.

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Tree of Life said:

I willfully sin. Does this mean I'm not a Christian?

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1stcenturylady said:

Already answered in 11, by another with the same common presumptuous belief.

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