Jesus has done for us - he lived a life of perfect obedience to God, died to pay the penalty for our sinful nature, and byHis Resurrection, defeated sin, death, and the devil. By putting our trust and faith in Jesus, we receive forgiveness for our sins and the gift of eternal ...
and astonished by our unwillingness to climb out of the muck. It amazes them that men love the world, since they see it for what it is, and have some basis for comparison between it and the things of the spirit.
While actual sins are the wrongful deeds we commit, original sin is the root cause that makes us naturally prone to sin. However, through Christ’s sacrifice, we are offered redemption from both—the forgiveness of our actual sins and the renewal of our sinful nature through the transforming ...
25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature[f] a slave to the law of sin. Life Through the Spirit 8 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Je...
But there is a way to avoid God’s judgment on sinful humanity. That is to be hidden in Christ (Col. 3.3) because, as the book of Romans tells us, we have all sinned and fallen short of God’s glory.Rom. 3: 9What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we...
Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature[e] a slave to the law of sin. Life Through the Spirit 8 Therefore...
Due to the sinful nature of humanity as a result of Adam and Eve’s fall in the garden of Eden, it’s impossible for us to be “good enough” to be in the presence of God and forgiven for our sins. Jesus died to make the way for salvation. The Old Testament Law offered many sac...
In Colossians 3:1-10 Paul calls on those who, through repentance, have been baptized and have received the Holy Spirit to “put to death” the sinful ways of the “old man” and to “put on the new man.” In Romans 7:13-25 he vividly describes our battle to overcome our nature ...
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Since God’s goal for all His children is for us to be like Jesus (Romans 8:29), the Holy Spirit constantly works to rid our lives of the“acts of the sinful nature”(Gal 5:19) and displayHisfruit instead. Therefore, the presence of the “fruit of the Spirit” is evidence that ou...