SIN IS DUE TO FALSE VALUES IN THE MIND. THIS IS THE ONLY CAUSE OF SINFUL PASSIONS IN THE BODY OR SINFUL ACTIONS WITH OUR MEMBERS.
"Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions (Eccl.7:29)" These inventions are simply vain imaginations that are not true, not factual, not reality in their implicative knowledge in claiming to be God with God. God originally give intelligent creation the ability to imagine but God is not responsible for what they imagine. It is the fallen creation that creates the sin in their mind. The plan of salvation restores the reality or the truth to the mind that God is God alone. Man was created with the ability to value or esteem what he wishes to esteem, or what he wishes to value or glory.
Man has esteemed creation above God, so God in saving man sends the faith of the gospel in prevenient grace to rightify the mind of fallen man in renewing grace once he repents and believes, as it is written "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to pulling down of strong holds. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" (2 Cor.10:4,5). This is the resetting of the values aright and is justification through the faith of Jesus. So in this we see that God in the points of Glory is truly CREATOR, and furthermore that God is truly the SAVIOUR of fallen man from sin. What man must do after is simply maintain the proper estimation of God in the mind in cooperating with God’s Holy Spirit as he works in them to will and to do his good pleasure (Phil.2:12,13).
Once there is a rightifying of values which is the born again transformative miracle done by God through the word or through the gospel, the converted person is then for the first time able to truly do good works that can be approved by God. Man must be made good that he may do good. As it is written “For every tree is known by his fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. A good man out the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil; for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.(Luke 6:43-45)”.
Sinful passions in the body is also dealt with by the rightifing of values in the mind by the miracle of being born from above by the word. It is written “For they that are after the flesh do mind (value) the things of the Flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. (Rom.8:5)” “for when we WERE in the flesh the motions (passions) of sins, which were by the law (identified by the law), did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death” So due to a the moral change in the values in the mind the emotions or passions are put away. This is due to being born again when we are born of the Spirit, which allows us to belong to Christ as sons God (John3:5, Rom.8:9,14). And as concerning they that belong to Christ the scripture says “And they that are Christ’s (belong to) have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us walk in the Spirit. Gal.3:24,25.
“This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. (Gal.3:16)” Thus it is seen how by the power of God through the gospel, we can be born again and made Sinfree in Christ, in thought, in emotion, in word, and in actions.
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