Christian Fellowship Community Group
A safe place for Christians who Love Jesus Christ to meet and ask for prayer and share scriptures from the bible. We value the posting of Christian music, poems, stories and also personal testimonies. Please let us know your needs, concerns and have some fun getting to know each other. We treat each other with respect.
SHALL WE GO ON SINNINING ?
Pauls whole being recoils at the very suggestion. "God forbid" he exclaims. How could a holy God be satisfied to have unholy, sin-fettered children? (Rom 6.1-2) "How can we live in it any longer?"
God has surely made adequate provision that we should be set free from sin's dominion.
But here is our problem. We were born sinners; how then can we cut off our sinful heredity? Seeing that we are born in Adam, how can we get out of Adam? Let me say at once, the blood of Christ cannot take us out of Adam. There is only one way. To do away with our sinfulness we must do away with our life. Bondage to sin came by birth; deliverance from sin comes by death - and it is just this way God has provided. Death is the secret to emancipation. "We died to sin".
But how can we die? Some of us have tried very hard to get rid of this sinful life, but we have found it most tenacious. What is the way out?
It is not by killing ourselves, but by recognising that God has dealt with us in Christ. This is summed up in the Apostles next statement: "All of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into His death" (Rom. 6.3)
But if God has dealt with us "in Christ Jesus" then we got to be in Him for this to be effective, and that now seems just as big a problem. How are we to "get into Christ"? Here again comes God to our help. We have in fact no way of getting in, but, what is more important we need not try to get in, for we are in. What we could not do for ourselves, God has done for us. He has put us into Christ. Let me remind you of 1. Corinthians 1.30."You are in Christ".
How? "of Him (that is, "of God") you are in Christ". Praise God! It is not left to us either to devise a way of entry or work it out. We do not plan how to get in. God has planned it; and He has not only planned it but He has also performed it. We are in; therefore we need not try to get in. It is a divine act and it is accomplished.
When the Lord was on the Cross all of us died - not individually, for we had not yet been born - but, being in Him, we died in Him. "One died for all, therefore all died".
(2.Cor. 5.14) Just as no man could ever commit suicide by crucifixion, for it is a physical impossibility to do so, so also in spiritual terms. God does not require us to crucify ourselves. We were crucified when Christ was crucified, for God put us there in Him. That we have died in Christ is not merely a doctrinal position, it is an eternal and indisputable fact. (by Watchman Nee)
Pauls whole being recoils at the very suggestion. "God forbid" he exclaims. How could a holy God be satisfied to have unholy, sin-fettered children? (Rom 6.1-2) "How can we live in it any longer?"
God has surely made adequate provision that we should be set free from sin's dominion.
But here is our problem. We were born sinners; how then can we cut off our sinful heredity? Seeing that we are born in Adam, how can we get out of Adam? Let me say at once, the blood of Christ cannot take us out of Adam. There is only one way. To do away with our sinfulness we must do away with our life. Bondage to sin came by birth; deliverance from sin comes by death - and it is just this way God has provided. Death is the secret to emancipation. "We died to sin".
But how can we die? Some of us have tried very hard to get rid of this sinful life, but we have found it most tenacious. What is the way out?
It is not by killing ourselves, but by recognising that God has dealt with us in Christ. This is summed up in the Apostles next statement: "All of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into His death" (Rom. 6.3)
But if God has dealt with us "in Christ Jesus" then we got to be in Him for this to be effective, and that now seems just as big a problem. How are we to "get into Christ"? Here again comes God to our help. We have in fact no way of getting in, but, what is more important we need not try to get in, for we are in. What we could not do for ourselves, God has done for us. He has put us into Christ. Let me remind you of 1. Corinthians 1.30."You are in Christ".
How? "of Him (that is, "of God") you are in Christ". Praise God! It is not left to us either to devise a way of entry or work it out. We do not plan how to get in. God has planned it; and He has not only planned it but He has also performed it. We are in; therefore we need not try to get in. It is a divine act and it is accomplished.
When the Lord was on the Cross all of us died - not individually, for we had not yet been born - but, being in Him, we died in Him. "One died for all, therefore all died".
(2.Cor. 5.14) Just as no man could ever commit suicide by crucifixion, for it is a physical impossibility to do so, so also in spiritual terms. God does not require us to crucify ourselves. We were crucified when Christ was crucified, for God put us there in Him. That we have died in Christ is not merely a doctrinal position, it is an eternal and indisputable fact. (by Watchman Nee)
Adam was in charge of the garden.
But Adam had perfect knowledge about the ramifications of him eating of the fruit ... He ate from the fruit with out being tempted, he had perfect knowledge of his actions
As far as humans being with out sin, I believe that is impossible while we live in the flesh. Thank God the Father , see's us through the shed blood of Jesus , and there, our redemption is secure