Sinlessness.

So many folks question this idea of sinlessness in a body of believers. They say that you'll always be a sinner, until the day you die and you'll never actually stop sinning. We don't want to sin, but we keep on because Jesus died for us and forgives us, and speaks on our behalf, so we don't have to worry about it. But I say with Paul, "We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" (Romans 6:2)

The Lord shed a bit of light for me on it this morning, and this is how I (and others) can claim to no longer be a sinner --or a slave to sin (Romans 6:6). I was a sinner, and I repented of who I was. I asked the Lord to forgive me, and He did, and baptized me into the Holy Spirit. If I love Jesus, I will keep his commandments (John 14:15) and go and sin no more (John 8:11 KJV).

What about when I do things that do not please Jesus? I need to find out what pleases him. (Ephesians 5:10)-- because I am not perfect like Jesus yet, I am a new believer craving spiritual milk; I do things without knowing they displease Jesus. So it is not sin, because "sin is not taken into account when there is no law" Romans 5:13. But when I do find out that "oops! What I did was not fruitful...Recent example: I made mistake saving old manna from the day before, and bringing it forth... then I see it, acknowledge before the Lord that it is not something that pleases him and then (probably the most important part) repent of it, and I will never do it again, for "no one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him." (1 John 3:6) He has written his law on my heart (Jeremiah 31:33) about that specific thing. And he will continue to do it, again and again, for I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go. Isaiah 48:17.

And what an encouragement to hear that "He who has suffered in his body is done with sin. As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God." 1 Peter 4:1-2

John says again, " 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 3:9

Sin shall not be my master (Romans 6:14). I do not have to sin! I can be sin-less, but only by faith, because everything that does not come from faith is sin. (Romans 14:23)

Anyone who is living in sin, continually, knowing it is wrong but doing it anyway, does not know Jesus. That is why I had to repent.