Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities - Acts 3:26
(Note what God gives in blessing man, he gave His Son to bless us by turning us away from sinning)
Every time you sin you build back the old man which was destroyed (Gal.2:17-18, Rom.6:6-7 quoted below). The old man being the old carnal way of thinking as it is written in Prov.23:7 as a man thinketh so is He.
And every time you repent you are converted and restored in perfect holiness (Acts 3:19, Psalms 51:7,10 quoted below). Thus you become a new creation as it is written in 2 Cor.5:17-18 the person in Christ is a new creation, old things are passed away, all things have become new and all things are of God. This is by God's indwelling power - see Phil.2:12-13 quoted below - by which also we are to maintain obedience with fear and trembling.
This brings us to a further explanation of why Jesus was sent to us, which is for us to live through Him - See 1 John 4:9, for when we live in Him He also lives in us working in us to will and to do of His good pleasure, in this way blessing us in turning us away from our iniquities.
Galatians 2:17-18
"But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
Romans 6:6-7
6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. (Conversion means replacement, thus to be converted is to replace the old man with the new man see also Col.3:9-10 & Eph.4:22-24).
Note: The bible does not teach a saved born again experience is two men fighting in you or two natures fighting in you - a carnal sin nature and a divine nature contending in a person. The bible teach you either have the old man alive in you or the new man alive in you.
Psalms 51:7,10
7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Philippians 2:12 -13
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Note: the experience of sinfreeness or the experience of salvation is something to be worked out with fear and trembling this means salvation cannot be the idea of righteousness being placed on an account in heaven, cause we can't work out a salvation ideology that is not an experience. The experience of salvation is an experience of God as Righteousness in us (Jer.23:5-6) in the same way we are told to have an experience of Love is to have God Himself dwelling in us. He offers to dwell in us in our thoughts if we repent and believe - to make us holy and to keep us holy.
Thus Sinfreeness or Holiness or Sinfree perfection or Righteousness within is only a repentance away. And remember unless you are made pure by being born from above you shall not enter the Kingdom (John 3:3,5 & 1John 4:7, 1John 3:7 & 1 John 2:29). And except we endure in the experience of salvation to the end we shall not be saved in the investigative judgement - Matt.24:13.
So my dear Facebook friends God hath sent His Son to bless us in turning everyone of us away from our sins (Acts 3:26) so repent and believe the word of the gospel and be made sinfree. And maintain the gift of a sinfree experience with earnest and reverential diligence, by keeping God in your thoughts moment by moment.
A Blessed and Sinfree New Year to you through the indwelling of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.
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