30 Days of Truth

Day 7 – sin is not counted

Sin is the transgression of the Law.

Where there is no Law, there is no imputing of sin.

We have no law, except for whatever law we make for ourselves that rejects faith in Christ.

People often confuse their individual sinful actions and behaviors with rejecting God, but they are two distinctly different things.

Jesus took care of all our individual sins at the cross, and they are both forgiven and forgotten.

Rejecting God isn’t a sin, it is just a seriously poor choice.

If our sins are taken care of, why do we continue to sin? Is it even considered “sin” if we aren’t under the law?

Paul talked about elsewhere in Romans that our flesh wars against our born-again spirit, and that sinful actions persist in the flesh, even though we delight in doing what is Godly and right in our spirit. This was not the image of a man that was perfect and holy in action, but a man that consistently failed to live up to the righteousness that longed to be expressed in him.

As long as we live, we will fail to be perfect.

Just because we are not under the law, doesn’t mean that transgressing the law is no longer considered sinful. Sin is anything that is not of faith. This means that our faith should always be in Christ and His once-for-all sacrifice for sin, no matter how we mess up. When we condemn ourselves and put guilt on ourselves, we are not placing our faith in Christ. Our flesh is not Holy and won’t be as long as we are on Earth. The sanctification of our flesh is a progressive experience.

The important thing to remember about anything that we call “sin”, is that God already forgave it and forgot it before we ever committed it.

Our individual sins are not counted against us.

God only asks that we accept the free gift of salvation through Christ Jesus, and He will gladly give us of His own Spirit to strengthen our resolve against the sinful tendencies within our flesh.