Not Series #3 I CanNOT Sin

“NOT” Series — #3  “I CanNOT Sin”

John 3:17-18

“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

John 1:17-18 “For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.”  Jesus Is God!!!

Are you going partner with Moses or Jesus as you confront sin?

Religion attempts to cancel people, we are here to reconcile.

Religion looks to disqualify people, we are here to qualify.

Romans 5:18-19 (Message)

“Here it is in a nutshell: Just as one person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin and death, another person did it right and got us out of it. But more than just getting us out of trouble, he got us into life! One man said no to God and put many people in the wrong; one man said yes to God and put many in the right.”

Romans 6:14

“For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”

Romans 6:17-18

“But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. “

1 John 2:1-2

“My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.”

When you act outside of the nature of God you are not behaving like your regenerated self.

That’s when your faith has to be activated. I am a child of God!!!

Jesus as your advocate completely backs you up. 

1 John 3:9

“Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.”

Two basic views of verse 9

1. Habitual — problem, sin is okay, its habitual sin that is bad 

NO NO NO!!!

2. Absolute — You are free form sin absolutely. Still It is never okay. Don’t do it. It is destructive.

“The provision for our salvation originated in the love of God. And since we have experienced the love of the Father, we have no desire to live in sin.”   Warren Wiersbe

“He could have hardly meant that Christ sins not at all and those who abide in Him sin but not a lot. John’s point is clearly that sin is never an expression of abiding in Christ. When we abide we do not sin at all.”

Bob Wilkin — (Do BornAgain People Sin)

“The fact that he has been begotten of God excludes the possibility of his committing sin as an expression of his true character, though actual sins may, and do, occur so far as he fails from weakness to realize his true character.”   A.E. Brooke

“All he thought about for three straight month prior was falling. It was the first time he ever thought about falling, alway before he thought about nothing but walking the tightrope.”

Helen Wallenda — wife of Karl Wallenda 

Hebrews 10:2 (b)

“For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.”

Freedom comes from your focus on His finished work and not on trying not to fail.

John 8:2-11 (NET)

“Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them. The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them …

Leviticus 20:10

“The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.”

… and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery. In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?” (Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger. …

…When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, “Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her.” Then he bent over again and wrote on the ground Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones …

vs. 9 NKJV “Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last.”    “presbyteros”:—  Elders Bishops Leaders

… until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. (until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. NLT) Jesus stood up straight and said to her, ‘Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?’

She replied, “No one, Lord (Koo’-ree-os) (Aramaic:— Yahweh).” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”

(“Then I certainly don’t condemn you either. Go, and from now on, be free from a life of sin.” TPT)

There are consequences for bad decisions but there is no condemnation or judgement from your Saviour JESUS!

Romans 5:8   “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

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