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Our Sins Are Not Greater Than God
Before we were born again, those sins we were doing were not greater than God.
Use the apostle Paul for an example:
Acts 9:2-6 ... And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him A LIGHT from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard A VOICE saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME?
And he said, WHO art THOU, Lord?
And the Lord said, I AM JESUS whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt THOU have me to do?
And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
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After we are born again, our sins are not greater than God.
The difference is this: After we are born again, we do not want to sin ... We care about that which we do and we do not want to do wrong... but if we should do wrong, our wrong is not greater than God.
Paul described it as follows:
Romans 5 & 6 ...
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of ONE (Jesus Christ) the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of ONE shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Chapter 6
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into HIS death?
4 Therefore we are buried with HIM by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
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And after we are born again, given the Spirit of God to dwell in us, we do walk in newness of life.
One circumstance after another is used to recreate us into the image of Christ over and over.
For we learn as we encounter life after we are born again.
We then turn to God with the issues and HE shows us what to do which is opposite to this world and we choose what God shows us in the matter and by believing what God shows us and doing that our righteousness is in God, just as Abraham's righteousness was in God as HE believed what God said.
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