justbyfaith
justified sinner
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In Psalms 51:3, it is a prayer that we even pray who are under the New Covenant.
Is not Psalms 51 the penitent's prayer that David prayed as an example to everyone thereafter who would fall into sin after having lived righteously for any period of time?
1 John 3:5-9 sets forth a standard that anyone who is truly honest with themselves will admit that they have not kept; and the more honest ones will admit they cannot keep.
It sets forth the law as a standard that is our schoolmaster to lead us to Christ, in the New Testament.
If I were to live up to those verses, I would be in a state where I "cannot sin". Nevertheless I still find myself capable of sinning.
Do you find yourself to be in a place where you are incapable of sinning? If not, then the testimony of 1 John 3:5-9 is that neither you nor I measures up to the standard set forth there; and therefore we are all in desperate need of Christ's redemption which He provided for us in dying on the Cross.
Because He lived that perfect life and then applied it to my account. And therefore when God looks down from heaven, He sees me incapable of sinning in His eyes, because all my sins, past, present, and future, are covered by the blood of the Lamb. I am not even under the law as a believer in Christ (Romans 6:14). How then can I sin in God's sight (1 John 3:4 (kjv) w/ Romans 4:15; Romans 5:13)? He does not impute my sin unto me any longer (Romans 4:7-8, Romans 5:13); and therefore it is impossible that I should sin in the sight of the Lord, even though I still sin in my own sight and the third Person of the Trinity (the Holy Ghost) still calls me out on it when I do sin; for sanctification's sake.
If I am hoping to enter in on the basis of my own righteousness, then I must be born of God in the sense that I don't commit sin and cannot sin. I do not find myself in such a state; and I don't think I have ever met anyone who is in such a state other than the Lord Himself.
But if I will enter in based on His righteousness, well, I cannot sin in His sight because God in looking at me does not see my sin but the righteousness and blood of my Lord and Saviour.
Is not Psalms 51 the penitent's prayer that David prayed as an example to everyone thereafter who would fall into sin after having lived righteously for any period of time?
1 John 3:5-9 sets forth a standard that anyone who is truly honest with themselves will admit that they have not kept; and the more honest ones will admit they cannot keep.
It sets forth the law as a standard that is our schoolmaster to lead us to Christ, in the New Testament.
If I were to live up to those verses, I would be in a state where I "cannot sin". Nevertheless I still find myself capable of sinning.
Do you find yourself to be in a place where you are incapable of sinning? If not, then the testimony of 1 John 3:5-9 is that neither you nor I measures up to the standard set forth there; and therefore we are all in desperate need of Christ's redemption which He provided for us in dying on the Cross.
Because He lived that perfect life and then applied it to my account. And therefore when God looks down from heaven, He sees me incapable of sinning in His eyes, because all my sins, past, present, and future, are covered by the blood of the Lamb. I am not even under the law as a believer in Christ (Romans 6:14). How then can I sin in God's sight (1 John 3:4 (kjv) w/ Romans 4:15; Romans 5:13)? He does not impute my sin unto me any longer (Romans 4:7-8, Romans 5:13); and therefore it is impossible that I should sin in the sight of the Lord, even though I still sin in my own sight and the third Person of the Trinity (the Holy Ghost) still calls me out on it when I do sin; for sanctification's sake.
If I am hoping to enter in on the basis of my own righteousness, then I must be born of God in the sense that I don't commit sin and cannot sin. I do not find myself in such a state; and I don't think I have ever met anyone who is in such a state other than the Lord Himself.
But if I will enter in based on His righteousness, well, I cannot sin in His sight because God in looking at me does not see my sin but the righteousness and blood of my Lord and Saviour.
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