JESUS CAME TO SAVE PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS And death from the Grave!!
To the Saints in Jesus and all the family of the Kingdom

JESUS CAME TO SAVE PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS. And death from the Grave!!
ROMANS 6:12-14 (KJV)
12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should
obey it in the lusts thereof. 13. Neither yield ye your members as
instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto
God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as
instruments of righteousness unto God. 14. For sin shall not have
dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Question: "If I am saved and all of my sins are forgiven, why not continue to sin?"
Answer: The Apostle Paul answered a very similar question in Romans 6:1-2, "What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? (Abound) By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" The idea that a person could trust in Jesus Christ for salvation and then go on living just as he/she lived before - is absolutely foreign to the Bible. Believers in Christ are new creations (2 Corinthians 5:17). The Holy Spirit changes us from producing the acts of the flesh (Galatians 5:19-21), to producing the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). The Christian life is a changed life.
Galatians 5:19-21 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
What differentiates Christianity from every other world religion is this > Christianity is based on what God has done for us through Jesus Christ. Every other world religion is based on what we must do to earn God's favor and forgiveness.
Other world religion's teaches that we must do certain things, and stop doing certain things - in order to earn God's love and mercy. Christianity, faith in Christ, teaches that we do certain things and stop doing certain things BECAUSE of what Christ has done for us.
How could anyone, having been delivered from sin's penalty, death, go back to living the same life that had them on the path to death?
How could anyone, having been cleansed from the defilement of sin, desire to go back to the same cesspool of depravity?
How could anyone, knowing what Jesus Christ did on our behalf, go on living as if Jesus Christ is not important?
How could anyone, realizing how much Christ suffered for our sins, continue sinning as if Jesus' sufferings were meaningless?
Romans 6:11-18 declares, "In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey — whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness."
ROMANS 6:22-23 (NIV)
22. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become
slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result
is eternal life. 23. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God
is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Romans 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Romans 6:4 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Romans 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
ROMANS 6:22-23 (NASB)
22. But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you
derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome,
eternal life. 23. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of
God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
ROMANS 6:22-23 (KJV)
22. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God,
ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 23. For
the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 JOHN 3:7-9 (NIV)
7. Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does
what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8. He who does
what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from
the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy
the devil's work (SIN AND THAT WHICH CAUSES SIN =THE LAW!). 9. No one who is born of God will continue to sin,
because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning,
because he has been born of God.
1 JOHN 3:7-9 (NASB)
7. Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who
practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8. the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. (Was this a sinning angel?) The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.(WHICH IS SIN) 9. No one who is born of God practices sin, because His (Gods) seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. (Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
1 JOHN 3:7-9 (KJV)
7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth
righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8. He that
committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the
beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he
might destroy the works of the devil.(SIN) 9. Whosoever is born of God
doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot
sin, because he is born of God.
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