“You CanNOT Sin”

Living the Sinless life, “GO and SIN no More”

John 8:2-11 (NET)
“Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them. The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them …
Leviticus 20:10 THE LAW OF MOSES
“The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.”
… and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery. In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?” (Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger. …
…When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, “Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her.” Then he bent over again and wrote on the ground Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones …
vs. 9 NKJV “Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last.”    “presbyteros”:—  Elders Bishops Leaders
… until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. (until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. NLT) Jesus stood up straight and said to her, ‘Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?’
She replied, “No one, Lord (Koo’-ree-os) (Aramaic:— Yahweh).” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”
(“Then I certainly don’t condemn you either. Go, and from now on, be free from a life of sin.” TPT)
There are consequences for bad decisions but there is no condemnation or judgment from your Saviour JESUS!
Romans 5:8   “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

John 3:17-18
“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

When Adam fell condemnation entered the world. Racially we are connected with Adam but redemptively we are a complete co-heir with Jesus.
You are condemned when you wilfully reject redemption. When you purposely choose, on your own to have more faith in yourself and your works than what Jesus did for you.

John 1:17-18 “For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.”  Jesus Is God!!!

Are you going to partner with Moses or Jesus as you confront sin? The law condemns you but grace crowns you.
Religion attempts to cancel people; we are here to reconcile.
Religion looks to disqualify people; we are here to qualify.

Romans 5:18-19 (Message)
“Here it is in a nutshell: Just as one person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin and death, another person did it right and got us out of it. But more than just getting us out of trouble, he got us into life! One man said no to God and put many people in the wrong; one man said yes to God and put many in the right.”

1 John 3:6-9 New International Version

6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. 7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? Is living a sinless life even possible? As I studied this subject this week I became convinced that many have had an experiment with church but not an encounter with Jesus.

CHAT: We have more experiences with experiments than experiences with encounters.

Definition of Experiment: Any test of trial to find out something. A controlled procedure carried out to discover, test or demonstrate.

Correct me if I am wrong but isn’t that the case when/if people come to church? TO test it out, to try it out, to see if it fits into their controlled environment?
For many if this experiment begins to examine themselves they all too often look for an exit.
However, an encounter with Jesus is the gateway to an expedition.( A journey to achieve a purpose)
I’m excited and my expectations are elevated because this encounter no longer permits me to be enticed by sin.

My walk with God doesn’t have to be on eggshells filled with performance anxiety knowing every move, every decision, every act is being watched. Living under the law was a controlled environment.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. (1 John 4:15, NKJV) This is where the real transformation begins, when a heart transplant takes place.

Paul Ellis said regarding “No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.” (1 John 3:9)

“It should not be read as a threat but promise. He is describing the new life that we have in Christ. Jesus didn’t sin and he never will. If you let him live his life through you, then without any conscious effort on your part you’re going to start talking and walking just like sinless Jesus. It’s inevitable. Live with someone long enough and you begin to resemble that person in manner and thought.
I am not saying your behaviour will attain a level of sinless perfection this side of eternity. I am saying that living in fellowship with the sinless Son produces desires in us that are informed by his righteous nature. You are Sonful not sinful.
This is not about your performance but your pedigree. Look at the verse again. Three times John refers to your parentage; born of God, God’s seed, born of God. John is trying to tell us that while Adam breeds sinners, God does not. This comes out clearly in the Message Bible:
People conceived and brought into life by God don’t make a practice of sin. How could they? God’s seed is deep within them, making them who they are. It’s not in the nature of the God-begotten to practice and parade sin. (1 John 3:9, MSG)
Origin determines destination. In your old life you followed in the faithless footsteps of your father Adam. You walked after the desires of the flesh because they were the only desires you had.” Paul Ellis from escapetoreality.org

Paul told the church in Colossae, “giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” (Colossians 1:11-14)

Marci Ferrell wrote in an article called : The thankful homemaker
5 Benefits We Have in Christ – {Colossians 1:12-14}
1. We Share in His Inheritance:
Colossians 1:12 – giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
These verses are part of Paul’s prayer for the church starting in Colossians 1:9 where he tells them “we have not ceased to pray for you.” The term used for giving thanks in verse 12 is eucharisteo.  It’s in the present tense here so it implies that thanksgiving should be the continual lifestyle of the believer.
Verse 12 continues to let us know we are “qualified” to share in the inheritance of the saints. In other words, you are qualified long before you started training, striving, working to obtain qualification. What a great deal!
21 For God made  the only to become sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God through our union with him one who did not know sin 2 Corinthians 5:21

At the moment of our conversion, we are given His righteousness. The exchange is His righteousness for our sin.
2. Delivered from the Domain of Darkness and Adopted as His Children:
Colossians 1:13 –  He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
The term for delivered here means literally to snatch/rescue from an enemy. The Amplified Version says, “The Father has delivered and drawn us to Himself.” God delivered us from sin and death when Jesus died in our place and took the punishment for our sin. We couldn’t save ourselves only God could. This should cause us to give thanks!
I don’t have authority over the darkness apart from Jesus working and living in me. Jesus has the authority over it, and as we walk in the light, we will see power over the darkness as He works in and through us.
What is our new position? Peter states it so perfectly:
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. ~ 1 Peter 2:9
We are saints, and we are always going to be in the world but we must find ourselves to be different from the world. The world’s standards are no longer are standards. We have a new home, and we are part of a new family. We are “in the world” but not “of the world” (Romans 12:2.
Steve Lawson: “We are in the world, but not of the world. We are to have our boat in the water, but no water in the boat.”
As saints, we have been transferred from darkness to light, slavery to freedom, from guilt to forgiveness.
3. We are Part of His Eternal Kingdom:
Colossians 1:13b –  and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
When I think of being part of His eternal Kingdom the term location, location, location comes to my mind. Jesus didn’t just save us to abandon us on the earth. He transported us into His Heavenly Kingdom. He transferred us/transplanted us into his kingdom
The excerpt below is from Warren Wiersbe’s commentary on Colossians called, Be Complete (Colossians): Become the Whole Person God Intends You to Be
The phrase “his beloved Son” can be translated “the Son of His love.” At the baptism and transfiguration of Jesus Christ, the Father declared that Jesus was His “beloved Son” (Matthew 3:17; 17:5). This fact reminds us of the price the Father paid when He gave his Son for us. It also reminds us that His kingdom is a kingdom of love as well as a kingdom of light. The experience of Israel in the Old Testament is an illustration of this spiritual experience; for God delivered them from the bondage of Egypt and took them into the Promised Land of their inheritance. God brings us out that He might bring us in.“~ Warren Wiersbe
There is the future Kingdom of God we have to look forward to when all will be restored, and there will be a new heaven and a new earth. But the Kingdom of God is more than the future. We entered this kingdom by the new birth (John 3:5).
Romans 14:7 -For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
When we became believers, Jesus became our King, here and now. He rules our hearts and lives, and He will come one day again to rule this earth. We are His subjects; He is our King. We have been placed out of the darkness of Satan’s kingdom to the light of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

4. We Have Been Redeemed:
Colossians 1:14a: in whom we have redemption,
We have been redeemed. It means “to let one go free upon payment of a ransom price. ” Jesus’s death met the demands of God’s holy law.
The Greek’s used the term redemption when money was paid to buy back and set prisoners of war free or to free slaves from their masters.

5. He Has Forgiven All Our Sin:
Colossians 1:14b: the forgiveness of sins.
The Greek Word here for forgiveness is aphesis and means to forgive or pardon of sins as if they have never been committed.
Forgiveness, when linked with redemption as it is here, includes more than cancelling the guilt of sins. Thinking of forgiveness only in a narrow judicial sense (of removing penalty) blocks an appreciation for deeper meaning. Forgiveness includes breaking the hold and power of sin (Col 2:13–15). In John 8:11, Jesus’ words to the woman, “Go your way, and from now on do not sin again,” imply that she could do just that because she was forgiven.
Romans 6:14“For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”
Romans 6:17-18
“But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.”
Paul systematically taught and trained on the truths of grace that transformed mindsets and cultures.

Choices changed people. You went from slaves of sinning to slaves of righteousness by a change of heart

1 John 2:1-2
“My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate (a person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy.) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.”
When you act outside of the nature of God you are not behaving like your regenerated self. Keep activating, reinforcing, rehashing truth in your spirit what you are. I am a child of God!!!
Jesus as your advocate completely backs you up.
1 John 3:9
“Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.”
He will never leave you, forsake you, forget you, turn his back on you, abandon you.
When you are forgetful-He is faithful
Seeds are always full of bounty. His unlimited, untapped reserves are ready to released in the righteous!!! You are good soil!

How many of you have ever felt guilty with no where and no one to turn to? Who told you that?

“The provision for our salvation originated in the love of God. And since we have experienced the love of the Father, we have no desire to live in sin.”   Warren Wiersbe

We do believe that behaviour follows identity. When you know who you are you will know whose you are.

Reality Check: I have painstakingly pampered my soil, rototillered it, planted seed and watered it religiously. I still find weeds popping up. Why? By nature weeds will fly into my soil and seed. You will be hard pressed to find even sod without a weed popping up. We live in a sin filled world that will do its best to contaminate the garden of our soul.
I base my walk on the word, not by my experience but from the encounter.
“All he thought about for three straight months prior was falling. It was the first time he ever thought about falling, always before he thought about nothing but walking the tightrope.” Helen Wallenda — wife of Karl Wallenda
He fell because all he thought about was falling.
Focus on the father not the falling. Focus on the finished work of the cross. If sin has missed the mark, it’s because you shifted your focus.
Hard to serve God with blinders.
Freedom comes from your focus on His finished work and not on trying not to fail.