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In our study of Romans we are between chapters 7 and 8 in a topical study of the old sin nature.
When we stopped last time we were noting that when fragmentation occurs in the believer's life the believer moves in the direction of the trend of his sin nature.
If the trend is toward self-righteous arrogance and legalism, the fragment of the spiritual life involves slander, gossip, maligning, judging, and Christian activism.
If the trend is toward lasciviousness and lawlessness, the fragmentation involves substance abuse, sexual perversion, criminality, and mob violence.
The trend toward self-righteousness and legalism produces such heresies as saying that you cannot commit certain sins and still be a Christian but that is wrong because a believer can commit any sin an unbeliever can commit.
This trend also results in several categories of heretical conclusions including salvation by works and spirituality by works that involve a misunderstanding of our Lord's teaching of "by their fruits you shall know them."
Self- righteous Christians misinterpret this verse and falsely conclude that a person is not really a Christian unless they overtly demonstrate what they think is a proper manifestation of "fruit."
The trend toward lasciviousness and lawlessness results in antinomianism that reacts against Bible doctrine because it falsely associates God's Word of Truth with the judgment and condemnation of self-righteous arrogance.
False assumptions result from arrogant ignorance. Examples of this include the arrogant believer who rejects the doctrine of eternal security because he thinks that he can do or not do something to lose his salvation.
He assumes that his sins and failures are greater than God's saving work through Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross and the thirty-nine irrevocable things every believer receives from God at salvation.
Other arrogant believers erroneously conclude that they must add something to faith in Christ for salvation. Other arrogant believers erroneously assume that the dead works of legalism and morality are greater than the omnipotence of the Holy Spirit inside God's spiritual power system. They also falsely assume that dead works are spiritual.
There is also the arrogant believer who succumbs to the pressures of discipline from suffering, adversity, and injustice who erroneously assumes that his sufferings are greater than God's provision of the portfolio of invisible assets and the problem solving devices of God's protocol plan so he thinks that his sufferings are greater what God provides.
There are also arrogant believers who depend on emotional activity, such as dedication ceremonies, tongues, inspirational speakers, and personal attention from the pastor or evangelist, erroneously assumes that his personal feelings and experiences are greater than the power of the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit and the PMA of God's Word of truth to experience through the problem solving devices.
The arrogant believer, who is involved in the demand syndrome from having unrealistic expectation and role model arrogance, assumes that people are more important than God and His Word of Truth.
The believer is arrogant when he listens to the teaching of Bible doctrine with preconceived ideas that distort the PMA of objective doctrine. The believer is arrogant when he uses epignosis doctrine that he has retained to serve himself rather than to lead him.
The believer is arrogant when he applies doctrine to justify himself or to establish himself in some system of self-righteousness.
This is all summarized in 1Tim 6:3-4. "If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not concur with sound doctrine, those doctrines from our Lord Jesus Christ, even the doctrines pertaining to godliness (life under the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit),
v4 he has received arrogance (fragmentation of the spiritual life), understanding nothing. Furthermore, he has a morbid obsessions about controversies and verbal conflicts, from which originate jealousy, discord, and evil speculations."
Free volition is the issue in committing personal sin because no one sins apart from their own decision to commit sin. Even if you don't know it's a sin if you do it you did it because you wanted to do it so are responsible.
The sin nature is a source of temptation but free human volition is the source of personal sin. Once you commit a personal sin, the sin nature controls your soul and from that position it is has a stronger power over you than it had when it was just residing in your biological body.
When the believer uses his volition to sin, he fragments his own life. The Bible describes this self-fragmentation as being carnal or fleshly because it results in being under the control of the genetically formed sin nature that results in the believer making bad choices from a position of weakness in the stages of reversionism inside of the devil's cosmic system.
The trend toward lascivious lawlessness and the trend toward self- righteous arrogance cause tremendous conflict among believers. People who participate in the conflict between these two opposite trends also become fragmented. This is why we have fragmentation and chaos in our country today.
Moral and immoral degeneracy are constantly at war so fragmentation is not only the source of personal sinning, but it also creates a state of confusion. Once a believer is in a state of perpetual fragmentation, they will be confused and unable to advance spiritually.
All personal sins in human history can be divided into two categories of pre-salvation and post-salvation sinning. God judged all personal sins in both categories in Jesus' body on the cross.
Prior to the creation of the world God's omniscience gathered all personal sins, past, present, and future that mankind would commit, and gathered them all together in the divine decree and during the 3 hours of darkness during Jesus' crucifixion, God the Father took all of those personal sins and imputed them and judged them all on Jesus Christ.
Many passages of scripture describe this event.
Rev 13:8; "... the Lamb who was slaughtered from the foundation of the world."
1Pet 2:24, "He carried our sins in His own body on the cross."
2Cor 5:21, "He who did not know sin was made sin as a substitute for us."
Rom 5:8, "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died as a substitute for us."
1Pet 3:18, "Because Christ died once for our sins, the righteous One as a substitute for the unrighteous ones, that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh (humanity of Christ), but made alive by means of the Spirit."
Gal 3:13, "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law by having become a curse as a substitute for us, for it stands written, `Cursed is everyone who hangs on a cross.'"
God's solution for the personal sins of the unbeliever is for the unbeliever to become saved by believing in Jesus Christ.
Gal 3:26; "For you are all the sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus."
Gal 2:16; "Knowing that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no person will be justified."
Rom 5:1; "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Eph 2:8, "For by grace you have been saved in the past with the result that you stand saved forever through faith, and this (salvation) is not from yourselves; it is a gift from God, not of works lest anyone should boast."
Rom 3:22, "Even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, for all those who believe."
Rom 3:28, "For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law."
John 20:31, "But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing, you may have eternal life through His person."
John 3:15, "That everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life."
John 3:16, "For God loved the world so much that He gave His Son, the unique One, in order that anyone who believes in Him shall never perish but have eternal life."
John 3:18, "He who believes in Him is not judged, but he who does not believe has been judged already because he has not believed in the person of the unique Son of God."
John 3:36, "He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who does not believe in the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him."
John 11:25, "Jesus said to her (Martha), `I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me shall live even if he dies.'"
1John 5:11-13, "This is the deposition: God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has this (eternal) life; He who does not have the Son does not have this (eternal) life. These things I have written to you who believe in the person of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have (eternal) life."
The problem of pre-salvation sinning is solved by personal faith in Jesus Christ because at the very moment that anyone believes in Jesus Christ, all his pre-salvation sins are blotted out.
Isa 43:25, "I, even I, am the One who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
Col 1:14, "In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."
Faith plus anything does not secure salvation. If you add anything to faith, the Holy Spirit cannot make it effective for salvation under His ministry of efficacious grace.
Faith plus "commitment" does not secure salvation.
Faith plus "lordship" does not secure salvation. Jesus Christ is your Lord at the moment of salvation no matter what you do after salvation. You cannot make Christ "Lord" by anything you do.
Faith plus morality does not secure salvation.
Faith plus water baptism or any other church ritual does not secure salvation.
Faith plus "repentance" does not secure salvation. "Repent" actually means to change your mind about Jesus Christ repent does not mean to feel sorry for sins.
Faith plus emotion does not secure salvation.
Faith plus psychological works does not secure salvation.
Reverse invitations also exclude faith because in salvation, God invites us to Him.
Therefore, we cannot reverse that and invite Christ into our hearts or lives. Inviting God excludes faith altogether. Inviting Christ into your heart is the equivalent of inviting Christ into a garbage dump because Jer 17:9; tells us that when under the sin nature's control "the heart is desperately wicked."
Inviting Christ into your life is equivalent to inviting Christ into life in a spiritual tomb, because the unbeliever's life is spiritually dead.
Salvation functions under the ministry of God the Holy Spirit. In the doctrine of common grace, the spiritually dead unbeliever has spiritual brain death.
That means that when the Gospel is presented, the Holy Spirit acts as a human spirit so that the Gospel information that is spiritual phenomena, that the unbeliever cannot understand without help from God can be properly understood.
When accurate Gospel information is provided the Holy Spirit helps the unbeliever to properly understand it in the heart or left lobe of their soul.
Even when the person understands that salvation is through faith alone in Jesus Christ and believes in Jesus Christ, he is still spiritually dead until God the Holy Spirit through His ministry of efficacious grace takes that faith and faith alone in Jesus Christ and makes it effective for eternal life.
If anything is added to faith and faith alone it does not work because God the Holy Spirit cannot take faith that is corrupted by any kind of human activity or works and make it effective for salvation.
John 16:8-9, "And He (Holy Spirit), when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin; concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me." Sin is really not an issue in your life as an unbeliever; the issue is Jesus Christ because on the cross Jesus Christ was judged for everyone's personal sins.
Rom 1:16, "I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile."
So the solution for pre-salvation personal sins is for a person to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and God will forgive their sins and give them His righteousness and they will be saved.