Scripture References: Titus 2:11-12
Notice that the apostle Paul tells us that we are to live soberly,righteously, and godly, in this present world. This life is the lifethat born again confessing Christians will live, but is a righteous andgodly life being manifested in and through the multiplied millions ofconfessing Christians in the world today that claim to be born again?How can they be living this kind of life hearing them still confessingto be sinners and still possessing sin in their life? They boldlyconfess that they are born again, but still manifest sin in their life,which clearly proves that they absolutely are not living a righteousand godly life as we are told to do. Why do they still confess to besinners and at the same time confess to be born again? This would makethem to be a born again sinner, but a sinner has not been born again ifthey still live in and commit sin, because the apostle John tells usthese words stated in I John 3:9 that says, "Whosoever is born of Goddoth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin,because he is born of God." Is the apostle John telling us a lie inthis verse of scripture?
Can you not see that to live soberly,righteously, and godly, in this present world, as Paul tells us to asstated in Titus 2:12, is clearly proving that the millions ofconfessing Christians in the world today who yet call themselvessinners has not truly been born of God? Why is a righteous and godlylife not being manifested in and through their mortal body? Before Ianswer this question are you aware of the fact that a soberly, andrighteously, and godly life, is an exact description of the very lifethat Jesus Christ lived while on this earth as a man? Christ lived thislife, which was a life that was totally without sin whatsoever. Now letme say right here that no man other that Christ can live a sinless lifeas Christ did. It is totally impossible for us to live a sinless lifeand I would say that all confessing Christians agree totally with thisstatement. Since we as confessing Christians are clearly told by theapostle Paul as stated in Titus 2:12 that we are to live soberly,righteously, and godly, in this present world, then how can this kindof life be manifested in and through our mortal body?
I asked a question earlier in this article asking why is a righteousand godly life not being manifested in and through the life of all theconfessing Christians in the world today and I will show you why thatit is not. The reason why the multiplied millions of confessingChristians (with an exception of a very few) are not manifesting asinless life in and through their mortal body is simply because theyare trying in vain to live for Christ, which is totally impossible forthem to do. What you need to understand is that Christ must be the onethat lives for you instead of you trying to live for him. For Christ tolive for us means that it will be "HIS LIFE" that will be manifested inand through our daily lives. As you should know it's the very "LIFE OFCHRIST" that is the only sinless life that was manifested upon thisearth while all other people could only live a sinful life. We all,except Christ, lived a sinful life from our physical birth and thereason for this is simply because we all were born with a sinful naturethat was passed on to us because of Adam and that sinful nature led usall into a sinful and rebellious life against God. It was David inPsalms 51:5 that said, "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sindid my mother conceive me." This is why it's totally impossible for anyman "OUTSIDE OF CHRIST" to live a sinless life. So everybody is born insin and nobody was born into this world being in Christ where there isno sin.. So we all are either in one of the two places, which is eitherto be "dead in sin" or "in Christ" where there is no sin. So everybodyoutside of Christ is still in their dead in sin state, but if anybodybe in Christ there is no sin. So to be in Christ is the only place aperson can be in where there is no sin. Do you have a problem inbelieving that there is no sin in Christ? There was no sin in thephysical body of Christ and so therefore there will be no sin in thespiritual body of Christ, which is the church.
Christ was not born into this world possessing a sinful nature as weall were. The sinful nature could not pass on to Christ, because Josephwas not the father of Christ. If Joseph was the father of Christ, thenthe sinful nature would have automatically been passed on to Christ,but Joseph as we all know was not the father of Christ, but wasfathered by the Holy Ghost, as Luke 1:31 states saying, "And, behold,thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt callhis name JESUS." Then Mary answered and said to the angel as stated inLuke 1:34 that says, "Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be,seeing I know not a man?" And then the angel said to Mary in Luke 1:35these words saying, "And the angel answered and said unto her, The HolyGhost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shallovershadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born ofthee shall be called the Son of God.." So we know according to whatLuke tells us that Joseph was not the father of Christ. So Christ liveda sinless life because he was not born with a sinful nature that wouldhave led him into a sinful life, but was born possessing the divinenature of God that was a perfect, holy, and sinless life in everydetail.
I stated above that it's totally impossible for any man "OUTSIDE OFCHRIST" to live a sinless life and I will reveal to you why this is so.There is only one possible way that a sinless life can be manifested inand through our mortal body as we live our life upon this earth. It wasthe apostle Paul that tells us these words as stated in 2 Corinthians4:10-11 that says, "Always bearing about in the body the dying of theLord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in ourbody. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake,that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortalflesh." Notice how Paul tells us that the "LIFE OF JESUS" can bemanifested in and through our mortal body. I told you earlier in thisarticle that we cannot live for Christ, but rather Christ must live forus. For Christ to live our life for us can only be done by possessingthe very "LIFE OF CHRIST" within the very being of our mortal body. Itwas John 10:10 that tells us why Christ came to this earth which says,"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: Iam come that they might have life, and that they might have it moreabundantly." John reveals here that Christ came to give us life, andthis life that Christ gives us is his own life, which is both sinlessand eternal. This is the "ETERNAL LIFE" that we can have, but onlythose that truly possesses the Son has this eternal life. It was theapostle John that tells us in I John 5:12 these words saying, "He thathath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath notlife.." To have the Son means to posses the very life of Christ,because Jesus himself told us these words stated in John 14:6 thatsays, "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: noman cometh unto the Father, but by me." Christ is the very life of Godthat we can possess, which is a sinless and eternal life. In order tohave this life we must be what Paul calls "IN CHRIST" in his teachings.In 2 Corinthians 5:17 Paul tells us these words saying, "Therefore ifany man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away;behold, all things are become new." And the apostle John tells us thesewords stated in I John 3:5 that says, "And ye know that he wasmanifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin." Every personin the world today, as well as in times past, is either in one of twopositions, which is (1) to be in sin, and (2) to be in Christ. There isabsolutely no sin in Christ, as John tells us, but to be in Christmeans to be in his body, which is the one true church. So there is nosin in the church, which is the body of Christ, but millions of peopletoday claim to be a member of the church, which is the body of Christand still live in and commit sin, which of course is not true. Thesepeople only confess to be in Christ not realizing they are still in sinproven by the fact that they confess yet to be sinners living in andcommitting sin. No they are not in Christ where there is no sin, butare yet dead in their sin not realizing it. This is total deceptionbelieving lies to be damned. He that has an ear to hear, let him hearwhat the Spirit ia saying to the churches...amen