So then in your mind you are slave to sin -- slave to sinning .. .because you have a sinful nature and nothing God has provided in the Gospel frees you from that slavery??
Well, yes and no.
Sin is just like our DNA. It is a part of us that we will have to contend with all our lives.
Even scriptures tells us that we'll only be "perfect" when we are made just like Him.
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." -1 Jn. 3:2 (KJV)
Paul admits that he still struggled with sin in his great passage in Rom. 7.
And whoever the writer of Hebrews was, told us that there are some sin(s) that still trouble us and we could easily slip up and commit:
"let us lay aside every weight, and
the sin which doth so easily beset us," -Heb. 12:1 (KJV)
For some, like my wife, road rage is her sin "which doth so easily beset" her.
I am not saying we shouldn't sin at all. What I am saying is that since the Christ event in our lives, has that one single event so cleaned us, so sanctified us, that we cannot sin anymore? Are we so led by the Holy Spirit that we cannot err? Has the Christ event in our lives so changed us as to "erase" the sin nature we were born with? Since the Christ event in our lives, has any one of us walked perfectly and not sinned?
No?
Neither could Peter, nor Paul.
Before the Christ event in our lives, yes, we were in bondage to sin, slaves of it. But..
"Ye shall know the truth and the truth will set you free".
We sin because we are sinners by nature.
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Psalm 51:5 David said,
“Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.” He wasn’t just talking about himself there. From the moment of conception we all had a sin nature and sinful behavior would become one of the defining characteristics of our life. The phrase “sin nature” means it’s in our nature to sin, and that will be the case until we die or are raptured.
That means even after we’ve been saved and have the seal of the Holy Spirit we can’t completely stop sinning because being saved does not remove our sin nature. Christians who think they no longer sin don’t understand how pervasive our sin nature really is. They believe sin is just a type of behavior, when actually it’s a built in flaw in the system that controls way we think and feel. Therefore, it’s not what we do that makes us sinners, it’s who we are that makes us sinners."
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The only time when we (Christians) will not sin, that our "sin nature" will be completely eradicated, purged from us, is the day we see our Lord and are made "just like Him".
God Bless
Till all are one.