11/16/24 HE SAVES US FROM THE BODY OF THIS DEATH

11/16/24 HE SAVES US FROM THE BODY OF THIS DEATH

The Old Man, the Carnal Mind, the Double Mind, the Flesh, Sin (in the singular as a condition), The Law of Sin (also, The Law of Sin and Death), are different Biblical names given to the inherent, sin nature, with which we were born, as an inheritance from Adam. I prefer Biblical terms because they are more authoritatively defined and explained than human terms, such as, "sin nature". But, since I have equated the Biblical nomenclature with the popular term, I will use the term "sin nature," in this article.

The "sin nature" is not the "human nature." This is extremely important. Simply stated, the human nature is the nature to be human and the sin nature is the nature to sin.
Human nature includes physical (body) and non-physical (soul, mind spirit) qualities. God created man as a psycho (mind) physical (body) being. The three Biblical components of human nature are, Body (other consciousness), Soul (self consciousness) and Spirit (God consciousness).

The human race was created without sin. Adam's disobedience to God introduced an evil consciousness and propensity and corruption into the human equation (the sin nature). Adam's sin negatively affected the human condition, with sickness, death, weakness, infirmities, spiritual separation from God. The sin nature is a depraved view, attitude, tendency, which is sin oriented.

God created man with a flawless human nature, but Adam corrupted the human condition by bringing in the sin nature, infecting all of his descendants.

From the time of Adam's sin, God has revealed that His love, mercy, kindness, grace would provide the Atonement and Deliverer from sin and separation through the seed of the woman. This is why the virgin birth is essential to salvation.

As planned and promised, God sent His Son to save humans from sin and death. God's Son became a human by assuming a human nature, being born of a woman, but He did not inherit the sin nature, which is transmitted through Adam.

Human Nature and Sin Nature are inherent to all of Adam's children, but the Son of God was born without SIN. This made Jesus the perfect sacrifice for man's sin condition.

Our inherent sin nature eventuates in sinful behavior. Sinful behavior requires sacrifice (satisfaction, atonement, propitiation, expiation), forgiveness, cleansing.

At the time of our conversion, we are restored to a right relationship with God, taking away our sins. However, conversion (forgiveness, regeneration, justification, reconciliation) does not deliver us from our sin nature. You can only be forgiven of your own personal sins. The sin nature is not something for which we are accountable. However, it is a corruption that we have inherited, and therefore we are in need of cleansing and deliverance from its evil effect.

The sin nature continues to instigate rebellion against God, even after we are saved. The saved person, as long as he is following Christ, does not yield to his inner corruption, but he must fight against sin as an inward inclination. This robs the believer of joy, power, peace and it heightens the likelihood of spiritual failure. The saved person is able to follow and obey God, even though he is fighting an inner battle.
The Bible refers to this Divine act of deliverance from the sin nature as purification of the heart.

We see this as a work of God in early Christians, when God filled them with the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. The Old and New Testaments both refer to the idea of cleansing our hands (deliverance from sinful behavior) and purifying our hearts (deliverance from the sin nature). Every Christian comes to the realization that there is an inward battle after conversion.

Sadly, some people who claim to be teaching the Bible believe that God does not cleanse us from all sin and God does not purify the hearts of His faithful children. In fact, those who resist God's truth and reject God's revelation will tell us that Romans chapter seven is proof that we as Christians cannot be delivered from the "law of sin and death" (see Romans 7:23, 25 and 8:2), which continues in the believers heart. However, the end of Romans chapter seven makes it clear that God does deliver from that pollution, through the atoning work of Christ. If we continue to read into Romans eight we find a fuller and clearer declaration that God does save believers from that inward battle.
Romans 7:21-25
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 8:1-13
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Deliverance from all sin is God's work of salvation. He forgives and cleanses the penitent believers from their sins and He purifies the hearts of the totally surrendered believers. This is forgiveness and cleansing from sins committed and purification from inherent sin nature.

It is no small thing for a person to deny the salvation of God. This includes denying that God purifies the believer from all sin.
All saved people desire to be pure and to be filled with God's Spirit. (if you don't desire this, then you are not in a saved relationship with God. Don't let anyone mislead you and rob you of the full work of God's salvation. If you hunger and thirst after righteousness, you shall be filled. It is a blood bought reality.