1 John 3:16


"By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren."

Sunday 28 February 2010

The Struggle

There is a struggle for believers. The world is against the truth and, therefore, it is also against those who stand with Christ. We are tempted. The enemy of our souls delights to bring us down. Our mind can take us away from God’s truth. In all these God gives us the victory. But there is not a continuing and daily battle with sin. Some say, “But we still have a struggle with sin. That which I would, I do not and that which I would not, that I do.”. The problems with this are:

1. It is not the gospel.
2. It robs us of the life of joy.
3. It gives us an excuse to sin.

There are two places where Paul speaks of a struggle with sin and neither of them is in relation to the gospel. First, in Romans 7, he speaks of his plight without the grace of Christ, under the power of the law. 1 Cor 15: 56 explains that law is the power of sin.

The second is Gal 5:17, when he said that the flesh struggles against the Spirit. Many have claimed that this is normal Christian life. Paul never spoke of a struggle with sin in his own life after salvation, even though he listed all his struggles in 2nd Corinthians 12, including false brethren, persecutions and cares.

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