Is it possible to be a Saint AND a Sinner?

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I want to expound just a little more on this subject if I could...

Father...Asking according to Ephesians 1:15-21 (17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, (18) the eyes of our understanding being enlightened: that we may know what is the hope of His calling what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, (19) and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power (20) which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places...

 

Before I was saved and changed and made brand new...My life was like a rotting onion...Then with salvation and being born again, God, and now that I had become willing, began to throw away all the bad to get to the good stuff...

 

I have been noticing that the Bible is written sometimes like it's happening now...It has happened in the past...or will happen in the future...Also I certainly know from experience I can't walk in some of the promises without dying to self...Really really walking like Jesus walked...Leaving my old life behind and not giving in to sin...Filling my new mind up with His Word...His Word is Life to me now...Wanting more than anything what God has for me...I can't have one foot in the world and expect "all" of God's "goodies"...I also, do not believe that we have to "wait" for many of the promises...of course the one that we will have a new body...look just like HIm...(we don't look like that now-and I know that) but our hearts can change while we are here...Alot of times verses are misconstrued by some in my humble opinion...or like me-which I have confessed to-all my life my sentences were finished by someone else...and I never finish all my thoughts all at once...Somebody will say something that spurs something else...Iron sharpening iron...anyway...

 

I'm trying to get better at articulating what is in my new heart and my new spirit...According to Ezekiel 36:25-27

 

For instance...An example of misconstruing to me would be not referencing the other verses with Romans 3:23...For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God...If I stay there, and never get past that place, I'm a goner...with No Hope to boot...I had to have Hope that my life would get better with God...or I might as well just do what my mind was telling me to do in the first place...leave this world without Him...instead, By HIs Grace, that I didn't deserve...He saved me that day...and I've come to Know Him...To have a personal relationship with Him...Have been changed by Him...Oh my...He is So Wonderful...His Name is Jesus...Whew...Just The Mention of His Name...ok ok...Goodness...Bring me back, Lord...No, don't...Hahaha...See Heaven on earth is possible...with Him it is...

 

I keep trying to get to this place: Hahaha...Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

 

We have died with Christ...some of us have...I no longer live but Christ in me...Asking every single day to walk in His Spirit and not my flesh...And the greatest miracle of all...No longer under condemnation...Jesus knows exactly what we have to go through here on this earth right now and He is praying for us too...And if I do sin...but just as Paul said...do I have a license now to sin...No, my heart and my mind have been made brand new...It's no longer in me to sin like it was...I was blind...now I can see more than I did...but if I do-I can still Go To Him and ask forgiveness...That's the miracle of it all...After salvation-I'm not separated from God-even if I sin -(it's a whole different story though if a person just continues and continues to sin-we have a choice now In Jesus) instead I don't choose to live that way...I go to My Father...Now I Can Through Jesus!!! Asking Forgiveness and am cleansed of all unrighteousness...Because I am not perfect but I'm not lost forever either...I Have My Hope In God...Who Loves me...

[Guest]

Even So

 

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12

 

Come Quickly LORD Jesus

 

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What do you believe makes us holy and righteous in God's eyes - our works and deeds, or the blood of Jesus over us?

 

 

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, 1 Peter 1:18-20

 

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Our Works

 

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Romans 3:23

 

God's Works

 

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23

 

Our Righteousness

 

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. Isaiah 64:6

 

God's Righteousness

 

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 2 Corinthians 5:21

 

So What Is The Hope Of The Called

 

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; Titus 1:2

 

And Why Oh Why Would A Holy Holy God

 

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11

 

Love Such A Knuckle Headed Sheep As I

 

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Psalms 23:3

 

And Beloved What Can I Do For Him

 

What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?  I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. Psalms 116:12-13

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amen~!