Jesus ends Mathew chapter 5 with:
"Be ye therfore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."
The bible also called Job an "uprighy and perfect man" yet, I hear Christians all the time say we can not obtain perfection on Earth. Only Jesus did that or could ever do that.
But he tells us to be perfect. I know I have sinned thousands upon thousands of times before I was saved and since. It bothers me really bad but I have asked for forgiveness many times for the same sin. I inow once is enough but I still do it.
I know the bible also says "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" but I'd like to keep this after you accept Jesus and become saved.
So can we achieve perfection like Jesus said and Job? Or what does Jesus mean in chapter 5? This is a question I have thought about about many times.
Yes you can.
But not until you know by experience what it means to be “dead in Christ and alive unto God”.
Until this truth is know by experience you will have pouts of victory as well as pouts of defeat. But the victory will never abide or last. The fellowship you have with Jesus will be broken continually by sin and than repenting, sinning and repenting. This will continue you are so sick of it, the falling and repenting, the falling and repenting, that you would willfully die rather than continue to live this way. When this point is reached, when you hate sin more than you love life. When you would be willing to enter into death rather than to continue to live your life in this falling and sinning, falling and sinning. It is than that in this desperation of knowing that you must stop sinning, but see no earthly way to accomplished it, that you in your sinful state cry out to God to have Him do something in you, that you can not do for yourself. Than in simple faith you trust Him with your whole life. That you throw yourself on His altar of mercy by faith, and trust Him to do in you what you can not do for yourself. For until this point is reached man will say with the mouth they are trusting Christ with there whole heart and life, but the truth is they are doing their best to do so. But their best isn’t good enough, for their best is still the work of self or the flesh. It is when they loose all hope of ever succeeding they they stop trying to help God out, and simply take Him at His word, and believe what He said He has done for them by providing the salvation of the sinner.
Which is uniting them with Christ in His death, so they could be free from the power of sin in their life’s. For until one would rather die than sin, they will forever still be under the power of sin. For only death can free a man from themselves. And this is what is meant by being “united with Him in death” so one might walk in newness of life. For only though death to self, (all of self,) can one walk in newness of life, where they walk in constant victory over the world the flesh and the devil. Whereby their fellowship is unbroken with God by their particular chosen sins. They still sin but no longer “sins on death” they sin in ways, but their conscious deliberate sins they have victory over. Now it turns to cleaning up their “character flaws” as it were, where they are not as patient or loving as they should be. But their fellowship with God is unbroken but for those times when He brings this or that sin to one awareness and they quickly repent, the fellowship is restored instantly the joy of their salvation returns their fellowship with God is broken but for a moment. As they grow in this “walk of faith” they learn to so listen to God in their innermost being, that they can tell before they sin that what their planning is a sin and will repent or change course before they sin so their fellowship with God is even more unbroken.
So yes it is possible and yes all Christians are called to it. Loose not heart if you have not reached it yet, it is for all that search for it with all their hearts. Question is, are you willing to give up your life unto death so you can have such a freedom to walk in victory over the old man and his deeds. If you are, this truth is yours, just don’t stop pressing in to it. For it is for all that would be willing to die rather than sin.
Blessings,
Much love in Christ, Not me
