11/08/22 SINS AND SIN

11/08/22 SINS AND SIN

God saves us from our SINS (our thoughts, words and deeds, which are willfully disobedient to God). We are accountable for our SINS, since we chose to rebel, disobey, transgress.

God also saves us from our SIN (our inherited inward inclination to commit sin.) This inward corruption is called, the Old Man, the Carnal Mind, Double Mindedness, Sin (in the singular). We are not guilty for inheriting a inclination to sin, but as we become aware of its presence in our lives, we become accountable for choosing to continue with and inward love of the flesh, the world, self.

Remember, God is willing and able to save us from our SINS, which includes the penalty or our SINS, the pollution of our SINS and the power of our SINS. In our conversion we are forgiven, regenerated, cleansed from our guilty conscience and imparted with God's Holy Spirit.

God is also willing and able to save us from our SIN. Deliverance from the Old Man is included in the atonement, though it is a separate and subsequent work of grace in the life of the believer. Remember, SIN as a nature was inherited, without our consent. We can no more choose our inherited spiritual condition than we can change our physical nature (race, gender). Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away our SIN. This cleansing from ALL SIN takes place at the time we call on God to deliver us from the SIN attitude. At that time our heart is purified, even as Christ is pure and we are able to love God with our whole heart, mind, soul and strength and to love our neighbor as we love ourselves.

God not only forgives us our our sins, He saves, cleanses us from all sin.

Titus 2:14 Redeem and Purify
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

James 4:8 Cleanse and Purify
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

1 Peter 1:22-23 Purified Souls and Born Again
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

1 John 1:7 Cleanse From All Sin
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1 John 1:9 Forgive Our Sins and Cleanse From All Unrighteousness
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

God provides salvation from sins and salvation from the sin nature.
We must believe God for both of these works of grace in our lives.