Can the new creature sin?
It is foolish to believe that a comprehensive and radical change in us is held once when we prayed the sinner's prayer and all of a sudden we became a temple where the Holy Spirit dwells in fullness and no sin, curses or demons have power over us, they can not even touch us ...
However, the facts in our lives and in the lives of others repentant former sinners speak others. Moreover, if this was true, Paul would not have warned us to beware of sin and particularly of sexual sin:
"Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body." 1 Corinthians 6:16-20
So, it comes out, Christians can sin. Knowing that we are a temple of the Holy Spirit is to protect us, to motivate us not to want to sin, but it does not mean that when we fall into sin, we will continue to be His temple. If we join a "harlot we are one body with her", and if we join with the Lord, we are one Spirit with Him. The two things together can not exist as light and darkness can not be both at the same place. And when born again Christians fall into sin until they repent they are under the condemnation and curse of God:
"For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God: but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned." Hebrews 6:4-8
Exactly as, if we do not stay on the vine - the branches will be cut off and burned in fire.
If there was no need for continuous change until we reach the fullness of Christ, Paul wouldn't warn us, what would the consequences be if we do not look for sanctification:
"Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:" Hebrews 12:14
JURISDICTIONS
What occurs in reality - when we are born again we get another citizenship - our true citizenship, where we legally belong - in the Kingdom of God. We are legally declared as people of the Kingdom, and God sees us that way. But at the same time we are citizens of the world - yet our soul dwells in this earthly suit - the human body adapted to survive in the physical conditions of the physical, material world.
While we are in the embassy of our Homeland, the laws of the country in which the embassy is, do not apply to us. But when we get out of there to do our job, we're under the jurisdiction of that State. (Well, there is immunity, but it is produced under certain conditions and is not absolute and that is another matter.)
The problem is, that we do not understand that there are two jurisdictions - two codes, two sets of laws. One is of the world, the other is the Kingdom. In most cases - completely opposite to one another.
The Guidance of Holy Spirit
From there, follow the rest of our problems - when we try to apply the laws of the Kingdom, on the people and places that God has not given us the order to proceed, or in our zeal we are early, or we missed the time to act, or we are pushing to take a fortress with a sling and pushing on the doors without asking for the keys to the that doors by our Lord, for whom we know He took all the keys to Himself, defeating the enemy on the Cross.So this happens when we are trying to fight the enemy, separated, or by impaired communication with the Head Command.
We must have the legal authority to apply the laws of the Kingdom! Power of Attorney is to act in the name, with the power and то the account of the Principal!
Otherwise, in practice, this manifests itself in living and acting without the guidance of the Holy Spirit. You may be perfectly familiar with the laws of the Kingdom, you may even accidentally, or rather by God's mercy, sometimes hitting the right approach (to do the right thing the right way and with the right motive), but if we do not have the guidance, we act illegally and we will be facing enormously more failures than successes. This is because we are not called to act on our own, but to follow, this is the legal procedure.
Secular laws
On the other hand, we have big problems when we are trying to apply secular laws to draw from the resources of the Kingdom. It is like engaging local police and even the local army to help us get what we possess from the embassy of our Homeland, instead of using the rules and laws of the Kingdom and just enter the embassy. What we do is, in fact , that we provoke attacks against the Kingdom of which we are subjects. No matter how many parts of the Law of the Kingdom will be presented to us to "support" the legitimacy of this actions - those parts of the Law do not represent the Will of the Law-giver, or they are twisted and distorted to fit the deceitful strategy of the enemy.
In practice, it is expressed, for example, that we are trying with our human love to love our neighbor as Jesus requires of us; or to acquire faith, repeating till we drop, one and the same confession (even from the Word) like a mantra; or by "calling into existence not existing things" imagining them vividly by visualizing them in our minds until they appear in the material world ... You may get them, but not from the Kingdom. Enemy's government will gladly give them to you, to use you for subversion of the Kingdom, or at least to make you build your comfortable nest in this country and to forget your true nationality, to forget that you are an alien here...
And here is what is written in the Law of the Kingdom, for those who have succumbed to the temptations of the enemy government, and are used to deceive more people :
"But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed, suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; men that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you; having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing; forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing; but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man`s voice and stayed the madness of the prophet. These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved. For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error; promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage. For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first. For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them. It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire." 2 Peter 2:12-22
That is the picture describing preachers of the "prosperity gospel". Here is described also their condemnation.
"I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;. not at all meaning with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world: but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat. 1 Corinthians 5:9-11
If you want to avoid condemnation - run, run and save your life, because they teach the opposite of what Jesus taught - they say : "Save your life, make your comfortable nest here, have your best life here!" but Jesus said, "Whoever loses his life for my sake will win it!"
Who would you listen to - the cry of the flesh, or the voice of the Savior?
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