Scripture References: II Corinthians 5:17
Ninety some percent of confessing Christians are totally void and ignorant of what it means to be in Christ and what the spiritual condition of a person is that is in Christ. If a person is truly ”in Christ” where there is no sin, can he continue to sin more or less as he is in Christ? Let me answer this question this way. To be in Christ simply means to become an entirely new creature, as the above scripture reveals. Are you aware of the fact that a new creature in Christ is a person that is totally different from a person that is not in Christ? If a person is not in Christ, then he can be referred to as being an old creature. We cannot become a new creature without being an old creature first can we? Now if we do become a new creature in Christ, then would it not be a fact that the old creature that we were in times past has become an entirely different person altogether? Let me explain it like this. Can God take an old creature that is dead in his sins and make a new creature in Christ out of him? What then would be the total difference between the old creature and the new creature? Can the new creature in Christ continue to sin like the old creature did when he was dead in his trespasses and sins? If so, then how can a person be a new creature in Christ if they still manifests the same life of sin that he did when he was the old creature dead in his sins?
Paul clearly reveals to us that if any man be in Christ he is a new creature; not the same creature he was before he became a new creature. Now let us listen to what the apostle Paul has to say in Romans 8: 35-39 that says, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Look if you will very carefully at all things that Paul mentions that is not able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Do you hear Paul saying that none of the things that he stated can separate the believer from the love of God? This is true simply because the believer and Christ has become one spirit. Listen to Paul verify this in what he said in I Corinthians 6:17 that says, “But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” Did not Jesus himself say that he and his Father are one? Can Jesus and the Father be separated? If so that would make two Gods , because Jesus was God manifest in the flesh. It was the Word that was made flesh and that Word was not only with God; it was God. Is God and the Word two separate beings? Paul tells us that he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit; so how can the believer that is joined to the Lord become separated? What could possibly tear asunder the joining of the believer from the Lord? The believer is to securely bound together with Christ for any of the things that Paul mentioned above to separate that bond between Christ and the believer. This reveals that the believer is totally secure in Christ and that security is for eternity. Its being taught today in Christianity that once a person has been saved that bond between them and Christ cannot be separated, but that is a truth that can be perverted, which means that certain teaching can be taught totally contrary to how Gods word teaches it. Its being taught that once they are saved, then they cannot possibly lose their salvation, which is true, but just because they believe that, this is no way proves they are truly saved. Can a person that is not saved believe there is a God? Of course they can, because the devils believe that and they certainly are not saved. So a person that is not saved can also believe that security in Christ is eternal. They believe in eternal security, not realizing they are still dead in their trespasses and sins. They are actually believing they are eternally secure in Christ as they are still sinners living in their sins and rebellion against God. They are not in Christ, but still in sin. A person is either in Christ or in sin and they cannot be in both positions. Satan’s ministers has caused millions of people not to believe in eternal security, which is a truth taught in Gods word. To teach against any truth revealed in Gods word is to take away from Gods word and those who are guilty of this will have their name taken out of the book of life, as Revelation 22:19 states that says, “And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” Why do many not believe in eternal security of the saints of God? It’s simply because they don’t understand how a person is saved or born again and just how secure Gods eternal salvation is. Gods eternal salvation spiritually conforms a believer into an entirely new creature that cannot sin, of which most do not believe. Did not God first make a creature (man) that could sin proven by the fact that he did sin? Man can sin because of different reasons. Adam sinned by choice; not because he was deceived into it like Eve was. But if Adam was ever born again, then he would become an entirely new creature (man) that could not sin, as I John 3:9 reveals, which is a truth only a few will believe.
Can God make a creature that cannot sin? According to most people the answer to that question is no, but the apostle John tells us otherwise does he not? Since God made a man that could sin, then why can he not make a man that cannot sin? We know that Jesus was a man that did not sin, but how many people realize that a true born again son of God will spiritually be conformed to the very image of Christ and be just like him possessing a life that cannot sin? Is not the life of Christ a life that cannot sin? Was not Christ the very manifestation of the life of God? Can God sin? Can God lie? Can God fail? All God has to do to make a creature (man) that cannot sin is to impart his eternal life to him. And is this not what Christ came to do? His life is the only sinless life in existence and is available to whosoever will receive it, but we cannot keep our sinful life and possess his at the same time. Before the life of Christ becomes our manifested life we must put our old carnal sinful nature to death, of which most will not be willing to do. Listen to Paul tell us about this in what he said in II Corinthians 4:10-11 that says, “Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.” Can your eyes see what Paul says here about the life of Jesus being manifest in our mortal flesh? Did not Paul say this about himself in Galations 2:20 that says, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” Do you hear Paul saying it was Christ living in him and it was no longer him living? And do you hear Paul telling us this in what he said in Colossians 3:3-4 that says, “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.” Is the sinless life of Christ being manifested in and through your mortal being, or are you still dead in your sins believing you are born again anyway like multiplied millions of confessing born again Christians today are saying? If so, then if you can then do as Paul said in I Corinthians 15:34 that says, “ Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.” This shame is the shame you will have when you stand before Christ unclothed without the robe of the righteousness of Christ on. “He that has an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.” AMEN