David wrote: One stops sinning the moment they believe in Christ. If
they were to sin later, they are taking their eyes off Jesus and starting to
do their own thing again. So sanctification is something one jumps into as
an act of grace, and then grace continues the process of perfecting
holiness. The growth process is one whereby we grow just like Christ grew.
It is not a growth of learning not to sin. It is impossible to learn how
not to sin. Sanctification is a work of grace which is followed by a
process of learning to maintain holiness in a sinful world.
and David wrote:
Righteousness is a gift. Even if you found me to be free of theCaroline:
power of sin, that would not make me superior to you or anybody else because
it is only Christ working in me. Furthermore, sanctification is promised
not just to me, but to everyone who names the name of Christ. I am no more
superior to you than you are to the person who has not experienced the
forgiveness of his sins.
We (Lance, Debbie, John & I) are not that far apart from you in our thinking and doing. You should post your vision or at least, post what the three sides of the triangle were as revealed to you by God.
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