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By God's grace, still presenting the same old message from the same old Book...

In this present life, no, I do not believe the saint will achieve sinless perfection.

Being a Christian and walking with the Lord in this present life should not be taken by any to be construed as meaning experientially, complete freedom from sin or even near freedom in this present life has been discovered. The believer’s purity is in Christ. A Christian is the subject of sin, as well as of holiness, of flesh, as well as of Spirit. While the saint is not sinless, they sin less. (1John 1:8; Romans 6:14)

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

The law is spiritual, yet even as we are in Christ, after the flesh we are carnal, so that with the flesh we serve the law of sin and so are subject to die physically (2Co 10:13; Rom 7:14-25). Those regenerated have the new inner man, born of God, that is spiritual and is impeccable (1Joh 3:6; 5:18; Eph 3:16), and is subject to the law of God (Rom 7:22). We wait for the redemption of the flesh, for then the carnal will be put off, completely (1Joh 2:28; 3:2). Being born again, unlike the first man Adam, our inner man cannot sin and is not subject to death. After the flesh, we still are subject to sin and death.

My life reflects less sin, yes, I sin less than before I was saved. My life is not now what it was, and is not yet what it shall be, but I know when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His Coming, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. (1Joh 3:2; 2:28)

After the flesh, I am subject to sin. Jesus Christ is my righteousness. Jesus Christ is my mediator, and Jesus Christ makes intersession for me. Salvation is of the Lord.

Even as I have been shown my sin, so have I received Christ the Lord, my Saviour. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. At the redemption of the body, sin will be put off. (Eph 1:4-7, 13-14; 4:30; 1Joh 1:8-2:1; Tit 2:13; 1Cor 15:48-57)

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A message of comfort from the Scriptures,
that we through patience and comfort
of the scriptures might have hope.

Come and hear, all ye that fear God,
and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Psalms 66:16

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