#bahavior

"The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its own fortune. The fact that we can make disastrous decisions even as we foresee their consequences is the great, unsolved mystery of human behavior. When you hold your fate in your hands, why would you ever make a fist?"

-Daniel Gilbert

Unless we are dead to the condemnation of sin, the guilt of sin, we will never know freedom from sinfull actions and behavior. - Joseph Prince

This quote is from a teaching I listened to where Joseph Prince spoke a bout being dead to sin. It is awesome to see how we DIED with Christ and is now dead to sin (noun). He makes the clear distinction between sin the noun, and sin the verb. The translations we read does not make that distinction. So it is important to know that when the bible speaks about us being dead to sin, it does not mean sinful behavior. but the noun, meaning we no longer can taste death, meaning we no longer need to pay for sin.

The sinful behavior part however is still very much part of our lives, as most of us will know. This is our journey of renewing our minds, and because we are dead to sin, we are free to live apart from sinful behavior as well.

Romand 5 and 6 makes this topic very clear. You see, most of us still think sin is part of our lives, and it is a battle that cannot be won. So whenever we sin we feel a penalty needs to be paid. Meanwhile the penalty has already been paid by Jesus. And as He was so are we.

We need to realize that whenever we 'sin' or miss the mark, or do works of the flesh, we know that this does not come between our relationship with God.

As Joseph said, only after the realization that we are free from sin, that sin can no longer throw condemnation or guilt onto us, only then can we start to win the battle against sinful behavior.