THE GLORY OF GOD ( PART 34 )
Pastor Christopher Choo
Lesson 3332
THE GLORY OF GOD ( PART 34 )
From Glory to Glory ( Study 13 )
Can we reach sinless perfection in our lifetime?
Who was ever sinless throughout his or her lifetime?
The only person the Bible describes as sinless is Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15; 1 Peter 2:22).
Every other major character in the Bible is flawed.
True spiritual maturity is being cognizant of the subtle sins in our lives. True progress in the Christian life is honestly and humbly recognizing how much further we must go.
Until we are glorified in God’s presence in heaven, though, we will still inhabit a sin-infected body. The struggle against our flesh is constant, even for the most mature Christian like Paul (Romans 7:15–24).
In the Christian life, we should progressively achieve greater and greater victory over sin, but our battle against sin will not end this side of eternity.
Abba Father, You are a holy God and You demand that Your people be holy.
Regeneration does not remove all indwelling sin from the heart and life of the believer.
He or she will not attain absolute Christlikeness in this life. We will never reach the goal until the sinful body is laid to rest, but when we see Jesus we will be like Him.
Let us humbly accept this with good grace mindful of Paul's cogent advice:
"Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace” (Romans 6:12-14, NASB ).
