"Lahat tayo ay makasalanan", baka tunog na nakakaawa at humble, pero sa totoo lang, it’s an insult to God and the redemptive work and precious blood of Jesus Christ and belongs to the many false doctrines that are preached. This false doctrine keeps people in bondage of sin and death and prevents them from living in freedom after the Spirit. Because this false doctrine doesn’t call the people to repentance and the removal of sin, but allows the people to persevere in sin and to tolerate and support the sins of others. Because of this teaching, people don’t have to change but can stay the way they are. And so the devil has seduced many Christians and keeps them in bondage through his lie and caused Christians to live in disobedience to God and His will. But what does the Bible say about the sinner and the saint? When are you a sinner and when are you a saint?
Everyone is born as a sinner
Tulad ng nasusulat, Walang matuwid na tao, wala na, wala ni isa: There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God. Lahat sila ay nawala sa daan, magkasama sila naging walang pakinabang; there is none that does good, wala na, wala ni isa (Mga Taga Roma 3:10)
Dahil dito ay, gaya ng sa pamamagitan ng isang tao ay pumasok ang kasalanan sa sanlibutan, at kamatayan sa pamamagitan ng kasalanan; at kaya ang kamatayan ay dumaan sa lahat ng tao, sapagkat na ang lahat ay nagkasala. For until the law sin was in the world (Mga Taga Roma 5:12-13)
The devil always uses half-truths instead of the whole truth. This should not be surprising, because the devil is a liar and the father of liars. He doesn’t speak the truth, but he always leaves a part of the whole truth away, so that people become suwail sa Diyos at ang Kanyang kalooban.
This is also the case with the teaching that man always remains a sinner. It’s correct that everyone, who is born on this earth in the flesh is a sinner. No one is born righteous. Everyone is born in unrighteousness (Mga Awit 51:5). That’s because of the fall of man, whereby the spirit of man died and came under the authority of the death, and man fell from his position and became a son of the devil. From that moment, evil was present in the seed of man. Lahat ng tao, sino ang ipanganak sa binhi ni Adan (man) would be born as a sinner (Basahin mo rin: ‘The battle in the garden‘)).
Man was trapped in the flesh, wherein sin and death reign and lived from the sinful nature of the flesh. By giving the law, God made His will known to the carnal man and the sacrificial laws were given to (pansamantalang) purify God’s people from their sins and iniquities.
Until the promise of God, Jesucristo, the Son of God and the Living Word, came to the earth and fulfilled the redemptive work for (nahulog na) man, and redeemed man from his state as a sinner. This last part is always left out by the devil.
Jesucristo, ang Anak ng Diyos, was born of the Seed of God
Jesus was not born of the seed of man but was born of the Seed of God. Therefore Jesus Christ was holy and righteous and not a sinner and unrighteous, just like Adam and Eve were holy and righteous before the fall of man.
Jesus became equal to man and was fully Human, therefore Jesus had the ability to sin and to leave the will of God through disobedience to God.
Because if this wouldn’t be possible, the devil would not have tried to tempt Jesus to sin, just like the devil tempted Adam and Eve to sin.
And so the devil approached Jesus and tried to tempt Jesus to sin by using the words of God for the lusts and desires of His flesh (Basahin mo rin: Ibibigay ko sa iyo ang kayamanan ng mundo’)
But Jesus knew the nature and will of God and He also was familiar with the nature and the will of the devil and therefore Jesus refuted the partial truth of the devil with the whole truth of God.
And so Jesus overcame the temptations of the devil in the flesh with the words of God.
This didn’t happen once in the wilderness, but this happened during His whole life on earth.
The devil continuously tried to tempt Jesus to sin directly and through the people around Him and caused Him to bow to him. But because Jesus walked in obedience to the Father in His will after the Spirit, Jesus discerned the hearts of the people and the temptations of the devil, and so the mission of the devil failed.
“Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto Me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men”
The devil even used the disciple Peter to tempt Jesus to sin and leave the will of God through disobedience and avoid the way of the cross.
The words of Peter sounded so loving, sincere, and compassionate, and may seem they came from God, but Jesus knew the will of the Father and recognized the words that derived from the feelings and emotions of the flesh. Therefore Jesus said to Peter: “Get thee behind Me, Satan: thou art an offence unto Me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men”
At that moment Peter was an adversary of God and didn’t speak according to a revelation of the Father, but Peter spoke from a carnal mind, since Peter tried to hinder the great work of redemption of mankind in history (Mateo 16:21-23).
Despite all the temptations of the devil through the spiritual leaders of God’s people and even His own disciples, Jesus stayed yielded to the Father and remained obedient to the will of the Father and the Holy Spirit and freely laid down His own life
He sent His Word and healed them
Sapagkat ginawa Niya Siyang kasalanan para sa atin, na walang alam na kasalanan; upang tayo'y gawing katuwiran ng Diyos sa Kanya (2 Mga Taga Corinto 5:21)
And so Jesus was wounded, bruised, and made sick (put Him to grief), because the Father laid the sins and iniquities of man and the punishment of sin, which is death, upon Jesus Christ.
And so Jesus Christ was made sin and became the Substitute for fallen man; the sinner and through His blood, kamatayan, at muling pagkabuhay, He would redeem many, who lived as sinners in the kingdom of darkness and were prisoners of death, and take them to heaven and by faith and regeneration in Him would give a place in the Heavenlies on His throne and become co-heirs with Him (Mga Awit 107:20, Isaias 45:12–13; 53, Zacarias 10:9-13, Mga Taga Efeso 4:7-11, Mga Taga Colosas 3:1)
Through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ and His blood everything is finished. Jesus restored what was broken and made man whole (gumaling na) and reconciled man with God.
Through the blood of Christ, the position of fallen man is restored and man doesn’t belong to the generation of fallen man (matanda na ba); the sinner, but belongs to the generation of the new man; the saint.
There is no condemnation in Christ
Kaya nga ngayon ay walang kahatulan sa kanila na nasa kay Cristo Jesus, na hindi lumalakad ayon sa laman, ngunit pagkatapos ng Espiritu. Sapagka't ang kautusan ng Espiritu ng buhay kay Cristo Jesus ay nagpalaya sa akin sa kautusan ng kasalanan at kamatayan. 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: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, na hindi lumalakad ayon sa laman, ngunit pagkatapos ng Espiritu.
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. Sapagkat ang maging makamundong pag iisip ay kamatayan; ngunit ang maging espirituwal na pag iisip ay buhay at kapayapaan.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Ngunit hindi kayo nasa laman, kundi sa Espiritu, kung mangyari na ang Espiritu ng Diyos ay nananahan sa inyo. Ngayon kung ang sinoman ay walang Espiritu ni Cristo, siya ay wala sa Kanyang.
At kung si Cristo ay nasa inyo, patay na ang katawan dahil sa kasalanan; ngunit ang Espiritu ay buhay dahil sa kabutihan.
Ngunit kung ang Espiritu Niya na bumuhay kay Jesus mula sa mga patay ay nananahan sa inyo, Siya na bumuhay kay Cristo mula sa mga patay ay bubuhayin din ang inyong mortal na katawan sa pamamagitan ng Kanyang Espiritu na nananahan sa inyo. (Mga Taga Roma 8:1-11.
Through faith and regeneration, man has laid down his flesh, in which the sin nature dwells, kay Cristo.
By the death of the flesh, man has been redeemed from the law of sin and death, which reigns in the flesh and man doesn’t live under the law, but under the grace of God (Basahin mo rin: ‘What is grace?’, ‘Lost in the sea of grace’, ‘The difference between the law and grace’)
Man has become a new creation; isang anak ng Diyos, a saint, through the identification with Christ and regeneration; the death of the flesh and the resurrection of the spirit from the dead in Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit
Can the Holy Spirit abide in a sinner?
There are many believers, who say they are na-save na and born again and have the Holy Spirit, while they keep saying that they are sinners. But that’s impossible! If you are a sinner, you don’t live in the will of God, but outside the will of God.
You are either a sinner and belongs through your flesh to the devil and the kingdom of darkness (the kingdom of the earth) or you have become a saint through regeneration and belongs through your spirit to Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God (Kingdom of Heaven (a.o. Mga Taga Roma 8, Mga Taga Efeso 1:3-14, Mga Taga Colosas 1:12-14, 1 John 3:1-10)).
The Holy Spirit can’t abide in an unclean person; isang makasalanan. Kaya nga, if someone says that he or she is a sinner, then the person is not born again and is not redeemed from the power of sin and death and therefore the person is not saved. The person still lives in the kingdom of darkness and is blinded in his or her carnal mind and is still a prisoner of sin and death and walks after the flesh in disobedience to God and His will.
What is a sinner?
A sinner is a son of the devil and has the nature of the devil and lives in darkness without God (ungodly) and is prideful, mga mapanghimagsik na, and disobedient and refuses to submit to God and the law of the Kingdom of God that represents the will of God.
Therefore a sinner, who has a carnal mind can’t please God, because the sinner is not willing to submit to the law of God (Mga Taga Roma 8:6-8)
A sinner lives outside the will of God and is not saved. Therefore if you say, that you are a sinner and keep doing those things, which go against the will of God, you are not redeemed from the death, and sin and death still reign in your flesh. Since the fruit of death is sin.
If you can’t say that you are righteous and have become a saint, which means that through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ and by His blood you have been made righteous and have been separated from the world unto God, then you don’t have the Holy Spirit and don’t belong to Him.
Why do they preach that you always remain a sinner?
The problem is that many preachers who preach from the pulpit are carnal (natural man) and refuse to lay down their flesh. Therefore they adjust the words of God in such a subtle manner, so that it may seem that the pious doctrine, that they always remain sinners, is coming from God and make them look humble, pero sa totoo lang, it’s false humility and a prideful doctrine that leads to rebellion against God and disobedience to the will of God. And so they use this doctrine as an excuse, so that they can stay the way they are and keep living in lasciviousness after the flesh and persevere in sin.
And because believers don’t read and study the Word of God by themselves, but believe the words of preachers, the believers have become indifferent towards sin and have accepted sin, due to the fact that they think they are sinners and that they will always remain sinners.
Because of this mindset, they will not repent and remove the sins from their lives and walk after the will of God, but they keep walking after the flesh and persevere in sin.
Because how can you walk holy and righteous as a son of God if you believe that you are a sinner?
They also preach this doctrine to new visitors of the church. They are being told that it doesn’t matter how you live and that you don’t have to change, because God loves you just the way you are.
And so they live by faith in the humanistic love of the world in enmity with God as workers of iniquity. And although they believe they are saved through their humanistic way of life and works, they are not saved. Because the Word says, that the ungodly; mga makasalanan, are not saved but for them is the blackness of darkness forever reserved (Jude).
Although preachers say that you always remain a sinner and that it doesn’t matter how you live, God says something else in His Word, namely that it does matter how you live.
God loves people, but God doesn’t love the sin of people and therefore God gave His Son to redeem man from the power of sin and death and to justify man and reconcile man with Him, by faith and regeneration in Christ.
Makasalanan ka pa ba?
Kung sasabihin natin na wala tayong kasalanan, niloloko natin ang ating sarili, at ang katotohanan ay wala sa atin. Kung ipagtatapat natin ang ating mga kasalanan, Siya ay tapat at makatarungan upang patawarin tayo sa ating mga kasalanan, at upang linisin tayo sa lahat ng kasamaan. Kung sasabihin natin na hindi tayo nagkasala, ginagawa natin Siyang sinungaling, at ang Kanyang salita ay wala sa atin(1 John 1:8-10)
As long as a person doesn’t repent and become born again by faith in Jesus Christ and the conviction of sin, the person remains a sinner and lives separated from God.
Ang bawat tao, who is born on earth is born in sin and iniquity and is a sinner. No one is excluded. Not even when you are born of the seed of Israel or have been raised in a Christian home.
No one has been made righteous because of that. A person can only be made righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ and regeneration in Him. There is no other Way to God and eternal life than through Jesus Christ.
It doesn’t matter what people say, the Word is very clear about this matter. And eventually, the Word decides where you will spend eternity.
God is light and in Him is no darkness
This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin (1 John 1:5-7)
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Hindi ba ninyo alam, na napakarami sa atin na nabinyagan kay Jesucristo ang nabinyagan sa Kanyang kamatayan? Kaya't tayo'y inilibing na kasama Niya sa pamamagitan ng bautismo sa kamatayan: na tulad ni Cristo na binuhay mula sa mga patay sa pamamagitan ng kaluwalhatian ng Ama, kahit ganoon dapat din tayong lumakad sa pagiging bago ng buhay.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection: Alam na alam ito, that our old man is crucified with him, upang ang katawan ng kasalanan ay mapahamak, upang mula ngayon ay hindi na tayo maglingkod sa kasalanan. Sapagkat ang patay ay napalaya sa kasalanan (Mga Taga Roma 6:1-7)
If you are convicted of your sins and repent and become born again in Christ, then from that moment you have been made righteous and no longer belong to the devil and the world, but you belong to God and the Kingdom of Heaven.
Hindi ka na makasalanan, who is blinded in his mind and lives in the lie in darkness in bondage to sin and death, but through the power of the blood of Christ and the death of the flesh and resurrection of the spirit, you have been made righteous and have become a saint, who is enlightened in his mind and lives in the truth in the Light in the freedom of the Spirit and the Life and reigns over sin and death.
What happened in the spiritual realm, namely the justification of man and the reconciliation between man and God, shall become visible in the natural realm, through the immediate change in the life of the person and by putting off the old man at putting on the new man.
The process of sanctification
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He that saith, I know Him, and keeps not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in Him. He that saith he abides in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked (1 John 2:1-6).
Ngunit ngayon ay napapalaya sa kasalanan, at maging lingkod ng Diyos, nasa inyo ang inyong bunga tungo sa kabanalan, at ang wakas buhay na walang hanggan. Sapagkat ang kabayaran ng kasalanan ay kamatayan; ngunit ang kaloob ng Diyos ay buhay na walang hanggan sa pamamagitan ni Jesucristo na ating Panginoon (Mga Taga Roma 6:22-23)
During the process of sanctification and spiritual maturity, when you grow up into the image of Christ and walk as He walked, you can (unconsciously) make a mistake. But the Holy Spirit shall immediately confront you and correct you, whereby you have the ability to ask forgiveness and repent
This doesn’t mean that you consciously keep making mistakes and use the grace of God and the blood of Jesus Christ as a permit for the flesh to live a lascivious life and give yourself to idolatry and (sekswal na) uncleanness and the lusts of the flesh.
Because if you want to live a lascivious life and love the things you do and want to persevere in sin and don’t want to yield to Jesus Christ; the Word and keep His commandments, then you are not born again in Christ and don’t have the Spirit of God dwelling in you and don’t walk in the love of God, but you have the spirit of the world and walk in the love of man and the world (a.o. Mga Taga Roma 6:1-7, 1 John 3:6-10).
A sinner or a saint
Sapagkat kung paanong sa pamamagitan ng pagsuway ng isang tao ay marami ang naging makasalanan, kaya sa pagsunod ng Isa ay marami ang magiging matuwid (Mga Taga Roma 5:19)
You are born as a sinner and if you are not born again in Christ, you are still a sinner and live separated from God and belongs to the world, and sin and death still reign in your life.
But if you are born again in Christ and the Holy Spirit dwells in you, then you are no longer a sinner, but you have been made righteous in Jesus Christ through His blood and have become the righteousness of God; a saint, who is devoted to God.
Makasalanan ka pa ba? If you say that you are a sinner, a son of the devil, who has the nature of the devil and live outside the will of God and don’t belong to Him, then it’s time to repent, so that you will be made righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ and become a new creation through regeneration and be reconciled with God and receive Gods nature and walk as a son of God after the Spirit in His will and inherit eternal life
Because a sinner is not saved and as long as the mindset in the church will be that man is a sinner and will always remain a sinner, people shall live as sinners and walk after the flesh and persevere in sin and live in rebellion against God.
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