Paul witnessed to his own personal sin throughout his ministry. There is no reason to pretend we don't sin. Our message is, God forgives and we all struggle with our human nature. We seek freedom and deliverance in the near future in the physical resurrection of all the Saints of God.
You have a choice to make, you either believe what other people say and think of you or you believe what God says you are as a believer and His child. And as long as you disbelieve what God as said of you as a believe and believe the lie; that you are a sinner, then sin is still imputed to you. That's why some believers have such a hard time with sin.
I don't believe sin is imputed to me. I am still a sinner because I sin.
If you still believe you are a sinner, even after God said He washes away a believer's sin, then you are still a sinner. And you still sin because you believe you are a sinner and are still imputing sin to yourself.
I must claim the Grace of God and the reckoning of righteousness afford me through Jesus Christ. It is not MY OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS.
If you are claiming "the Grace of God and the reckoning of righteousness afford" to you "through Jesus Christ" and it is His RIGHTEOUSNESS that is being imparted to you, then why do you still believe the lie that you are a sinner still?
You're being petty. I wasn't talking about anything I did here. I was talking about my own personal experience in living day to day. I get angry. I get sad. I experience emotions that I can not always control. I don't pretend to be something that I'm not.
No, you just see my disagreeing with you as offensive, because you have no way to refute it.
But it certainly was spilling over into your posts here.
Php 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Php 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
Php 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Php 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Php 3:11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
You speak of yourself. I do not. I speak of Jesus Christ.
The message of the Gospel is often lost in such rhetoric as you chose to employ. This world don't need another pope with fickle affections on full display.
Wherefore. Let him that thinks he stands.... take heed, lest he fall.
1Co 10:12 Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.
Strawman and projection, as I am speaking of what God does through Christ for believers; of which I am one.
And what you say about me is meaningless, because it isn't what man says or thinks about a believer that counts, but it is only what God says and thinks of me as a believer that counts.
. And He says about me as a believer:
But to all who have received him--those who believe in his name--he has given the right to become God's children … (John 1:12).
• I am a child of God.
But to all who have received him--those who believe in his name--he has given the right to become God's children … (John 1:12).
• I am a branch of the true vine, and a conduit of Christ’s life.
I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener. I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me--and I in him--bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing (John 15:1, 5).
• I am a friend of Jesus.
I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father (John 15:15).
• I have been justified and redeemed.
But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus (Romans 3:24).
• My old self was crucified with Christ, and I am no longer a slave to sin.
We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin (Romans 6:6).
• I will not be condemned by God.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1).
• I have been set free from the law of sin and death.
For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2).
• As a child of God, I am a fellow heir with Christ.
And if children, then heirs (namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ)--if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him (Romans 8:17).
• I have been accepted by Christ.
Receive one another, then, just as Christ also received you, to God's glory (Romans 15:7).
• I have been called to be a saint.
… To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours (1 Corinthians 1:2). (See also Ephesians 1:1, Philippians 1:1, and Colossians 1:2.)
• In Christ Jesus, I have wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption … (1 Corinthians 1:30).
• My body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who dwells in me.
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you (1 Corinthians 6:19)?
• I am joined to the Lord and am one spirit with Him.
But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him (1 Corinthians 6:17).
• God leads me in the triumph and knowledge of Christ.
But thanks be to God who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and who makes known through us the fragrance that consists of the knowledge of him in every place (2 Corinthians 2:14).
• The hardening of my mind has been removed in Christ.
But their minds were closed. For to this very day, the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away (2 Corinthians 3:14).
• I am a new creature in Christ.
So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away--look, what is new has come (2 Corinthians 5:17)!
• I have become the righteousness of God in Christ.
God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21).
• I have been made one with all who are in Christ Jesus.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female--for all of you are one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28).
• I am no longer a slave, but a child and an heir.
So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God (Galatians 4:7).
• I have been set free in Christ.
For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery (Galatians 5:1).
• I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ (Ephesians 1:3).
• I am chosen, holy, and blameless before God.
For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love (Ephesians 1:4).
• I am redeemed and forgiven by the grace of Christ.
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace (Ephesians 1:7).
