new nature does not remove the presence of sin but the practice of sin when you
are born again you don't lose your ability to sin you lose your ability to
enjoy it you can still sin it's the same one you're just not going to be able to
enjoy your sin because the new nature doesn't sin what the sin happens is in
the soul and renewed mine and the new nature doesn't want to sin and as a
Christian Christians can commit sin but they don't practice sin because the
Bible says in 1st John chapter 2 verse 29 everyone who practice righteousness
is born of God first John 3:9 is says the following in NLT those who have been
born into God's family do not make a practice of sinning
because God's life is in them they can't keep on sinning because they are
children of God now don't let the word practice figure
out how many of you guys practice like certain sport basketball swimming golf
practice eating alright okay musical instruments practice what is
word practice practice simply means it's performing an activity or exercise a
skill repeatedly or regularly in order to improve or maintain one's proficiency
you only practice things you want to get better at true Christian will never do
that will never practice sin to get better at sinning true Christian will
never use God's grace as an excuse to sin because to them little bit of grace
gets me to heaven a lot of it makes me reign in life so using God's grace they
don't use God's grace as an excuse they use God's grace as a reason to overcome
sin true born-again Christian will fall seven times into the same sin he can
stay there why because he is not practicing something
into perfection he wants to practice righteousness so he will get up from
that sin and still be righteous so as a born-again Christian you still sin you
don't lose your ability to sin you just lose your ability to practice sin into
perfection what we practice is the perfect nature of Jesus that lives
within us and we practice that day in and day out not so that we can become
perfect it's because we are perfect in our spirit and in our heart through the
blood of Jesus can somebody say Amen Matthew chapter 7 verse 21 it uses this
verse not everyone who says to me Lord Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven
but he who does the will of my father in heaven I will be very honest with you
when I was younger and this verse was preached in the church I was getting
saved every time this verse was preached because the preachers usually preachers
are really good at taking scriptures out of the context and so they would take
this verse and right after that they would give a call to salvation if you
call on the name of the Lord but you don't do the will of the Father
unlike this week and there was one day I didn't do the will of the Father and
then it says over there you will not go into kingdom of heaven I was like man
that's me I didn't even wait for alter calls Jesus please forgive me I
didn't believe in this but I did it just in case please forgive me sanctify me
can I get saved again amen I got saved again and then they
would say even if you do miracles I'm like well doesn't that start I don't
even qualify that's for everybody who does the miracles that's for them
they're not even saved but you have to always read the Bible within the context
because later on Jesus says the real reason why those people are not going to
heaven it's not because they called on the name of the Lord and didn't do the
will of the Father I want you to see this in verse 23 it says then I will
declare to them I never knew you the real reason they never had a
relationship with Jesus they might exercise certain gifts in the community
of other leaders they might have even moved in miracles through the name of
Jesus not through their own name they might have called
the name of the Lord they may profess Jesus but as Christians we don't profess
salvation we possess salvation they might have known about Jesus as
Christians we know Jesus and he knows us the fact that Jesus tells these people
that I never knew you tells me they never had a relationship with the Lord
and the evidence of that is the next is the next part of that verse I never knew
you depart from me you who practice lawlessness what is the sign that they
were never born again they practiced not righteousness lawlessness they practice
to perfection sin lying stealing but the root wasn't the fact that they sinned
that's not the problem the problem is they never knew him and because they
never had a relationship they couldn't help but practice sin because when you
have a relationship when you're born of God you will fall into sin you will
struggle with sin you will commit sin you just don't practice sin because you
practice something else you practice righteousness because you have a new
nature and so you can't use this verse against believers because if you're born
again if you know Jesus Christ something will happen here there is a new nature
and that new nature causes you to practice righteousness will you always
get it right no but your practice that's how you
learn to ride a bike that's how you learn to speak that's how you learn to
walk you practiced it but you know why it was possible for you to practice and
learn it because it was within your nature my dog can practice to speak
English all his life he'll never speak English because it's not within his
nature but it's within your nature to live right and therefore when you
practice that why why do you practice that it was only because you know the
Lord it's not so you can know the Lord it's because you know the Lord and you
can hide behind the church and professed Lord Jesus is Lord say all of that the
same way you can walk around I can walk around and say I belong to Larry Smith's
family that doesn't make me part of that family because I said that
the Bible says demons believe in tremble and they're still going to hell
believing that God exists doesn't save you belonging to a circle of people that
believe in God doesn't save you I've been many times in the airport and
missed the airplane you can belong to a religious circle and still miss Christ
if you don't see Christ and those submit to Christ and receive his gift of
salvation and submit your life to him and know him not Christians but Christ
can somebody say Amen and so we see that as Christians we
don't practice sin we do struggle with sin in Hebrews it says this for you have
not yet resisted to bloodshed striving against sin so Christians in their
spirit their sinless they can't sin in their spirit that's why the Bible says
that if you're born again you can't sin returns like that's not me your spirit
is cannot sin your spirit cannot sin your soul oh yeah because it's unrenewed
it still needs to remain in Christ there's still certain strong holds
certain wounds that need to be pulled out and it's a process through which
we'll all go in as Christians salvation of our soul that's why there's verses in
the Bible it says to do things for salvation of the soul and people we'd
ever like so does that mean I'm not saying no you are saved your soul is
being saved and so dear believers we struggle with sin sometimes the struggle
is so severe the Bible says till bloodshed have you seen people struggle
with drugs who are born again till bloodshed is seen people struggle with
smoking sometimes the struggle is real hash tag and some people even die in
that struggle have you seen people struggle with depression who are
born-again believers yeah and so to say that just because you struggle with sin
you're not born again it's not against the Bible because he's writing to the
Christians and says there's some times in our soul we can struggle still and
that's okay that's why we have brothers and sisters that's why we have healing
deliverance that's why we have the teaching of God's Word so that we can
overcome sin we have abundance of grace so we can reign in life grace doesn't
give us the excuse to live in sin a born-again Christian
not look to grace to live in sin they will look for a reason to overcome their
sin