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How does sin come about?

Sin is missing the demarcation of the law. Sin is not imputed when there is no law. A purged conscience does not have knowledge of the demarcation of the law. Now, grace, power, faith, hope and love empower and enable fulfillment of the law in us by His willingness. If the demarcation of the law is unknown then sin is dis-empowered.

Romans 8:15, “¹⁵ For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear”

If sin entices the flesh and comes to life it does so by the spirit of bondage to fear. Prior to Christ, sin is the manifestation of the spirit of bondage by fear. The knowledge of perfect love casts out fear. Now, we are in Christ and in the Spirit. If we are in Christ then we have the Spirit of power, love and a whole mind. With His love, faith, and grace in us we are unaware of the judgment, guilt, or penalty of the law or self-imposed law in our hearts.

Romans 8:7-11,” ⁷ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. ⁸ So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. ¹⁰ And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”

Paraphrase:

The carnal mind in its awareness of judgment of the self-imposed law in the heart, whose conscience is defiled, is not able to partake of the life of the Spirit. It is limited and blinded because of its ignorance of liberating truth and hardness of heart. Therefore, it is not in the Spirit by faith. In enmity, it separates itself from God’s life in His Son. It cannot please the Father by faith. God dwells, lives, resides, abides in us by the revelation of His Son according to hearing the Word of truth. If Christ is in me, the body is dead to the power of sin, but in the Spirit there is life because of His righteousness by faith and grace. If Christ dwells in me, the Father will also give life to my flesh and its members to exercise righteousness by His abiding Spirit in me.

Rom. 2:29, “But he [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.”

What is being removed from the heart in this spiritual circumcision?

Eze. 36:26 says, “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.”

1 Tim. 4:2 mentions “a conscience seared with a hot iron.” What is the hot iron? I think of when a cow gets branded. The brand leaves a hard callous scab. In Eph. 4:18, the word “blindness” means calloused. So, blindness is due to the hardening of the heart. The phrase, “Do not harden you heart to the voice of the Spirit” is mentioned several times in the letter to the Hebrews.

Eph. 4:18, “Having the understanding darkened (lit. “shadowed”), being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance (or lack of knowledge, lack of revelatory liberating truth) that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:”

I believe the “understanding” in question here in Eph. 4:18 is the understanding that we ultimately receive by faith, Heb. 11:3. If our spiritual understanding to Life, who is Christ, is being blocked off or alienated then we are spiritually dead in our spirit and soul.

What does Hebrew mean? Found a great answer here,

“Hebrew” is the anglicized form of the Hebrew word ‘ibri, which comes from the root word ayin-bet-resh, “to cross or pass over.” The word means something along the lines of “ones from the other side/beyond,” though the other side of what exactly isn’t clear — perhaps the Jordan River, or perhaps the Euphrates. The word is used in the Hebrew Bible primarily to differentiate the group of people who would come to be called Israelites from other people-groups, such as Egyptians or the Philistines. Since the word “Israelite” (in biblical Hebrew, ben yisrael) would be sufficient to denote ethnic difference, it may be the case that the term ‘ibri additionally signifies a class status, since it usually occurs in texts where the people so named are enslaved. When the people of Israel are not experiencing slavery in the Hebrew Bible, the most common term used is b’ney yisrael (literally, “sons/children of Israel”)

This reminds me of 1 Pet. 1:16, “Be ye holy; for I am holy.” Be set apart, separate. In this sanctification by the Holy Spirit one is set apart. As we are set apart, we grow into who we truly are in Christ. Our lives are hid in Him, Col. 3:3.

So, what is being removed from the heart in this spiritual circumcision?

I believe it is the cause of spiritual death, condemnation, separation from the Father, spiritual misidentification, curses, manifestations of the flesh, and so on.

So, what is the ’cause’ ? For Gentiles, like myself, it is the self-imposed law written on my heart, Rom. 2:15. This self-imposed law aliented me from the life of God in His Son Jesus.

Scripture reference:

Rom. 3:23-24, “²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus…”

Does this statement make sense? If I don’t tithe, go to church, fast, read my bible, love my neighbor, sing, speak in tongues then I won’t be justified freely by His grace.

My answer is, “NO, it does not make any sense.” Now, some brethren might conjure I am implying you have a license to ‘miss the mark.’ What they are telling me is they are tired of being under the law and I should be under the law or whatever law is it written in their hearts with them. No, thank you. If I do or don’t do the the above things I mentioned how much more justified or righteous am I? That makes no sense either. What I am saying is I can do the things mentioned above and more by grace and His willingness in me. The just or righteous shall live by His faith in them.

So, I can just sit back and do nothing. Yes, but my response is, “Then did you really receive the revelation of Christ insomuch that the effect is to sit and do nothing?” Paul mentions in his letters “another gospel.” He also mentions the good news of grace. This is the true gospel that will deposit and diffuse His will in us. If His will is in me to be and do then anything I could do or do not does not matter because His willingness makes me righteous. It is His faith in me. Once again, the just shall live by faith. This faith creates an enabling ability of obedience or adherence to truth, Rom. 1:5. This adherence manifests as righteousness, but is so much more.

12/31/08

In Hebrews 4:12, the Aramaic N.T. says, “The (revelatory and unveiled) Word (Christ) is able to distinct soul and spirit.”

Prior to salvation, my spirit was dead in trespasses and sin. There was no distinction, no separation between my soul and spirit because neither were whole or sanctified. Both were dead.

Prior to salvation, I was aware of my fleshly body and soul, but not my spirit.

I BECOME AWARE OF WHO I AM. I become aware of my triune being. I was created in the image of my CREATOR: SPIRIT SOUL BODY. I become aware of what I am, my essence.

The revelation, light and truth of the Word or Logos is behind the veil, His Body, into the Holiest of Holies. And Paul said, “To reveal His Son in me” in Gal. 1:16. This revealing or revelation is inside of us beyond our intellect and understanding. This same Word, by revelation, sanctifies my conscience of dead works. My conscience is almost like a conduit between soul and spirit.

When Adam and his wife ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil their conscience was no longer unconscious of the knowledge of good and evil. Contrarily, it was conscious or aware of good and evil. Adam was unable to redeem himself or his wife from this condemnation from his conscience because he was not the Son of God. He was the first Adam. A living soul. The Last Adam, Christ, is a quickening Spirit able to enliven or impart His life by revelation. This life (His Life) is not aware or does not possess knowledge of the guilt and penalty of sin. He is righteousness and unable to be aware of such judgment. He was created in the likeness of sinful flesh, but was yet without sin. He is the judge. He is the Great Shepherd of our souls.

Hearing and hearing of the Word of faith by grace creates and sanctifies this conduit. He is the new man or Adam created in us again, Eph. 2:15. Part of the new man is his conscience. I believe the conscience is like a conduit to the highway to holiness mentioned in Isaiah. 35:8.

The dividing of the joints and marrow as Levitical priests performed on sacrifices reflects the power of the Word to expose, penetrate, and sanctify every part of our being.

Gen. 2:7, “And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

God breathed, or rather imparted Himself spiritually into the man. God does not breathe. He is spirit. He is the Father of our spirits, Heb. 12:9. God and man are spirit. God speaks by spirit to our hearts, John 6:63, John 12:49. Now, He speaks through His Son, Heb. 1:2. The Son speaks what He hears from the Father to our hearts. Christ is the Word. The Word became flesh. I receive revelation and or quickened Word by spiritually hearing first and hearing His word in me according to primer of the word or bible.

Prior to salvation, sin separated me from His Life which is life and my spirit and soul were dead, Eph. 2:1, Col. 2:13, Rom. 8:6, but the word of God, the Son of God, is able to distinct both soul and spirit, Heb. 4:12.

In and at salvation, Jesus reveals to me He is. My spirit man was rebirthed. I was begotten again from above, or born again. My spirit man was rebirthed because it was already birthed. When was it already birthed? I am reminded of John 1:1, Eph. 1:4-5. If my identity is hid in Christ, Col. 3:3, then I have always been who I am in Him.

On 06/13/09, I went to the Scott B. Mentzer Pool community pool with my sons. We had a lot fun. After we left the pool, I was reminded of what the Lord told me ~8 months ago in October of  ’08, “My willingness makes you righteous.” This word expanded in me to take deeper root and I discovered that His willingness also does not bring condemnation. The particles of unregeneration in me are nullified. His willingness is incapable of self-condemnation. His willingness places me under grace all the time. It acquires me, apprehends me and pulls me away from “the old” or pushes me towards truth, holiness and who I really am in Him.

He is a real person. Sometimes I think due to unregenerate thinking I have objectified Christ into a symbol and extremely remote idea. Today, 05/05/09, He showed me He is a person as much as, but far more than I am. For example, if I remember my mother who is in heaven now I remember her as a person I had experiences with, talked to. There is a revelation that He is a person as well as all-powerful God. Hebrews 1 and Colossians 1.

In Judges chapter 6, Gideon is talking to the angel of the Lord and realizes it is the Lord Himself. Gideon even says, “I have seen the Lord face to face.” Prior to realizing this, Gideon has a relatively long conversation with the Lord concerning saving Israel from the hand of Midian. Then in Judges 6:22 he realizes he is talking to Adonai Jehovah or “Lord God.” Gideon was talking to a man, Judges 6:13 says “sir.” Galatians 4:4 says He was born of woman. He became a man. So, how could Gideon have seen the Lord God if He wasn’t born yet? Rev. 13:8. God does not dwell in time. The bible says that God sent His son. From where? From eternity into time or this creation.

Heb. 13:18, ” ¹⁸ Pray for us; for we are confident that we have a good conscience, in all things desiring to live honorably.”

I believe a conscience is good or functioning as designed when it is purged from dead works. Adam and Eve’s consciences were “good” prior to the Fall. Now, in Christ, ours should be as well by grace.

When our conscience is purged from sin and dead works an awareness emerges of His will or even willingness. Our thinking is no longer clouded with the thoughts of, “I ought to. I should. If I do not or else. WWJD” and so on. Instead, we grow and into an understanding of His will and then begin to do things because of the understanding of His will. This is a total contrast to the Old Covenant. It is spiritually supernatural. In my opinion, it is true or real spirituality.

So essentially, this or rather His willingness is being created in us again by revelation of Christ in us according to His purpose and the hearing of His word.

I lift my arms in praise to Him because I want to. His willingness enables me.

Heb. 13:15-16,” ¹⁵ Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. ¹⁶ But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.” We please God by faith, Heb. 11:6.

How do were offer a sacrifice of praise if no more sacrifice for sin is left? We serve according to His willingness in our hearts by revelation. Hebrews 10 says God did not desire sacrifice and burnt offerings, but the willingness of His son. This willingness of Christ in us is accomplished through the finished work of the cross. This finished work purged my conscience from the knowledge of sin, its judgment, guilt and penalty!

What does Romans 12:1-2 says ” ¹ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ² And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

I present the members of my body and my body as a living sacrifice according the renewing of my mind which is by hearing and hearing the word of truth.

I believe this is serving in a new way of the Spirit, Rom. 7:6 (NIV).