If you believe in Christ, you are free from sin.
Sin is like a virus that runs through the blood of every
single person that is born upon this earth.
None of us can escape it or get rid of it on our own. The sin living in each of us will bring death
to our natural bodies. Because God loved
us, he made a way for us to escape being judged for our sins. Our bodies will still die, because of the
corruption of sin in them, but our souls can be delivered.
When Christ presented his blood upon the alter in heaven,
God decreed that every person that would from that time forth believe in
Christ, would be saved.
Hebrews 10: 15–19 Whereof the Holy
Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the
covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will
put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their
sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is,
there is no more offering for sin. Having therefore, bretheren, boldness to
enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.
Through the power of the Holy Spirit Jesus was raised from
the dead, so he could return to heaven and present his own sinless perfect
self, as a sacrifice for sin once and for all.
All you have to do is believe, but unfortunately we also have an
adversary doing everything in his power to keep us from believing: II Corinthians 4:3-4 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost (perishing):
In whom the god
of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light
of the glorious gospel of Christ who is the image of God, should shine unto
them.
To those who will seek God out, and plead before him, he has
made a way to deliver those from sin. In Romans 8:3 the Holy Spirit tells us
that God condemned sin for those who believe.
The word condemned as used in this verse is from the Greek word
“katakrino” which comes from the Greek word “krino” It means to judge against,
or distinguish.
Romans 8:3-11 For what the law
could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in
the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; That the
righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the
things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the
Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is
life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not
subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that
the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if
any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but
the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead
dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken (make
alive) your
mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
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