Can you avoid sinning for 5 seconds?

[other one]

48 minutes ago, HarvestLabourer said:

Thank you. I don't see it like that, Other One.

Before I turned to Jesus, I could not do one second of life right,
because I was facing the wrong way.
It is like saying how can one do shoveling wrong. Shoveling is too easy. And not realizing that you are holding the blade and trying to dig with the handle. I don't know if that's best analogy. But it is what happens when we work from our own righteousness, thinking we can do no wrong, when we don't understand God's righteousness yet.

And even when I converted,  there was the momentum of a lifetime of habit to change. 
I had to strive hard to change that. To lose my life for His sake.

Rejoice
Paul

 

Well, the title of the thread just asks if you can go five seconds without sinning.....   I would really hope you would answer that as yes of course I can now.

[hmbld]

I need Jesus for every 5 second span of life. Only through Him am I clean. 

[Neighbor]

2 hours ago, other one said:

Well, the title of the thread just asks if you can go five seconds without sinning.....   I would really hope you would answer that as yes of course I can now.

Perhaps, at the extreme, I might go five seconds without a sinful thought, but certainly not if cable tv news is on.    

[brakelite]

The just shall live by faith....If you believe that you cannot stop sinning, then you don't believe the following scriptures....

KJV Ephesians 3
Paul's Prayer 
14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
 

[other one]

2 hours ago, Neighbor said:

Perhaps, at the extreme, I might go five seconds without a sinful thought, but certainly not if cable tv news is on.    

if that's the case you should never watch the news.....   most of the time when I watch the news I end up praying for people...   God knows they need it.

[Neighbor]

On 11/26/2017 at 12:47 PM, GandalfTheWise said:

This is a serious question, not a joke.   Is it possible for you (as a Christian) to go for 5 seconds without committing a sin?   I'm not just looking for yes or no (or I'd have made this a poll).  I'm curious as to why you think it is or is not possible for you to do this.  I think it would be worthwhile explaining what you consider "committing a sin" to mean when you answer.

Thank you.  

(Of course, the ramifications of the possible answers are profound.  If it's possible to go 5 seconds without committing a sin, why not 10 seconds? or 1 minute? or 5 minutes? or an hour or more? or a day or more?  for the rest of our life?   Or are all Christians in a state of continually committing sins such that at each and every second of our life we are committing some sin?  Or in other words, in spite of being new creations in Christ, having the Holy Spirit inside of us, and growing spiritually to manifest the fruit of the Spirit in our lives, are we still constantly committing sins continually with no break each and every second of every day?)  

But let's focus on the single concrete question, is it possible for you to go for 5 seconds without committing a sin? Why or why not?

 

 

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’  But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’  I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

[other one]

5 seconds?    

[HarvestLabourer]

18 hours ago, other one said:

Well, the title of the thread just asks if you can go five seconds without sinning.....   I would really hope you would answer that as yes of course I can now.

Thank you, Other One.

Just have a little think about it.
We are told never to claim to be sin free.
I am not that sure adding a "five second" clause permits us to then make that claim.
But you did make me wonder, how clean is clean.

I don't believe it is up to us to judge our own cleanliness.
The Lord will judge that when we are before Him. Wont He?

But certainly, I feel much cleaner than before believing in Jesus 
Paul

If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar,
and His word is not in us.
1 John 1:10

[other one]

 I never said I was sin free........    but 5 seconds.  

 

Sit back in your favorite chair clear your mind of things and concentrate on one thing....   count to ten rather slow.....   that should give you ten seconds of no sin....     if you can't do that, I would worry about your relationship with the Holy Spirit...      

When we expect people to go around sinning all the time all day, we will never really approach the sanctification that Jesus seems to say we should....   I would agree with you that we should never say that we are sin free, for that just isn't going to happen

but....     5 seconds....    that is atrocious.  

[HarvestLabourer]

7 hours ago, other one said:

 I never said I was sin free........    but 5 seconds.  

 

Sit back in your favorite chair clear your mind of things and concentrate on one thing....   count to ten rather slow.....   that should give you ten seconds of no sin....     if you can't do that, I would worry about your relationship with the Holy Spirit...      

When we expect people to go around sinning all the time all day, we will never really approach the sanctification that Jesus seems to say we should....   I would agree with you that we should never say that we are sin free, for that just isn't going to happen

but....     5 seconds....    that is atrocious.  

I see it more like a child coming out of the bath and saying to Mum, I'm clean now. See, no dirt on me.
(Only until I go outside and play in the dirt again) <--- that's your time clause.

But Mum says, did you clean behind your ears? oops, I forgot. 
How about between your toes? eek forgot there too.
And did your brush your teeth? ummm.

My Lord, He seems to keep pointing out sins in my heart that I didn't even know were there.
Sometimes burdens I carried for years.
Sometimes transgression of a law I was still misinterpreting.

We aren't sin free for a second while we are still dressed in filthy rags.

In fact, many of us are more like drunks, saying, I'll be right to drive.
Saying, I can 'not sin' for a whole 5 seconds, therefore the Lord will accept me into His kingdom how I am.
Paul

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten:
be zealous therefore, and repent.
Revelation 3:19

Edited December 1, 2017 by HarvestLabourer
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