Back It Up. . .

I was left a comment on yesterdays study by an unknown source. In this study I talked about sin having no dominion over us. If you call yourself a sinner, you are a sinner. I know what I wrote is truth because it is backed up in the Word of God, and the Word of God is truth. Jesus died a horrible death so that we could be free. Free from what? Free from things such as sickness, disease, lack, poverty, and yes, sin. We have been made righteous!!! It is an insult to God when we say that we are still sinners. He has given us to opportunity to be free from sin. I agree, we will sin here and there. To accept this because we are human is a cop-out. This is what is known as cheap grace. Saying that your a sinner is not bringing glory to God. It is bringing glory to satan.

Romans 6:14 says, "For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under the law but under grace."

1 John 3:4-10 says, "Everyone who sins breaks God's law, because sin is the same as breaking God's law. You know that Christ came to take away sins. He isn't sinful, and people who stay one in their hearts with him won't keep sinning. If they do keep on sinning, they don't know Christ, and they have never seen Him. Children, don't be fooled. Anyone who does right is good, just like Christ Himself. Anyone who keeps on sinning belongs to the devil. He has sinned from the beginning, but the Son of God came to destroy all that he has done. God's children cannot keep on being sinful. His life giving power lives in them and makes them His children, so that they cannot keep on sinning. You can tell God's children from the devil's children, because those who belong to the devil refuse to do right or to love each other."

Bottom line, if you believe you are still a sinner, this means you are practicing sin. If you believe you are righteous, you are practicing righteousness. God has assured us in 1 John 1:9 that if we as the righteousness of God sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins.
It is so important to back what we preach with the Word of God. The Word of God speaks truth, and it is this truth which has set us free.
I didn't write this to fire back at whoever it was who left the comment. I wrote this to back up what I said yesterday. It's that we as Christians begin imitating the Father (Ephesians 5:1), and we all know that there is no sin in the Father. If we continue to practice sin and use the excuse that we "are only human", we will not see glory. We have been made righteous, and it is time for us to act that way.