The sin problem is not seen as a problem. It is seen as humility. It is seen as worship to God. What it does not see is the real meaning of the presence of God with us in Jesus.
It is the mindset created by the churches. It is their nursed confession. It is nourished and maintained by the doctrines of men. The effect is that it defines man in the image of man and not in the image of God in Christ.
What do I mean by this? It is the mindset that establishes the sin problem which believes that the redeemed are (presently) “sinners saved by grace”. They are “worms”. They are “beset with sins”. They are “prone to always go astray”. If these statements ring a bell of reality, they should when they are properly understood. And that is the key that honors God. These statements (except for the worm) were true in their settings and with their proper meanings under the administration of God for their time periods. A common misinterpretation about worms even in its settings is that it speaks of a character of moral weakness or failure. That is incorrect. It spoke of the insignificance of man as man compared to God or of the evaluation of a person under very weighty affliction. The statements above deal with man under the administration of the Law, the prison house and definer of the weak human sinful nature. They do not regard redeemed people in the New Covenant of Jesus Christ, either in the last days of the Law, or especially in the Day Age of the Son of God, Who Himself is the Law of God.
When Paul assessed himself as bound to sin as to a corpse, that was an assessment of his existence under the Law of condemnation, before he was set free from his sins in Jesus Christ, Who abolished the Law at the same time that He filled it to its fullness in Himself!
When he dealt with sins taking advantage over the people of God and gaining the upper hand, he was addressing their weakness, a weakness that was alien to the very nature of the people he was helping, who were, in deed, a new creation of God in Christ! He declared, “How can we who are dead to sin live any longer therein?”
The mentality of the churches, which maintains and teaches the ongoing sinful and weak nature of Christians, is established on two fundamental errors. Both errors, which are platforms for church doctrine, are grounded in the Old Covenant. First, as properly understood, mankind needed daily sacrifice for sins as they awaited fulfillment of the prophecies and promises of God to establish a new covenant, wherein they would be set free from sin and know the Lord. That daily sacrifice for sins existence was true before the incarnation and ministry of Jesus but not so when He arrived. By not understanding the ramifications of life in Jesus concerning sins, the churches now operate under a dichotomy. They do believe that the New Covenant has come, but they operate as still subject to the old with its mindset of hope for future victory over sin. Secondly, they have not properly interpreted the entire spiritual setting of the writings of all of the New Covenant Scriptures, excluding the narrative of John which was written after the end of the Law. Those were the last days of the Law, wherein the struggle against the outside forces of sin was very real. Additionally, that struggle involved warfare against the flesh (the fighting opponent) which took occasion to defeat believers through the presence and power of the world as opposed to God. Furthermore, that struggle involved warfare against dark spiritual principalities and powers in heavenly places which were under the dominion of Satan, the Devil. He was activity searching out believers to destroy. When believers failed to believe and obey the teachings and commandments of Jesus and His apostles, they were temporarily defeated by the flesh, the world, and the Devil, that is, by sin. That was the setting of believers during the Old Covenant, whether in its strength of duration of time or during the last days of its existence.
When Jesus ascended on high to rule at Jahveh’s right hand, it was to subjugate everything to Himself. The last enemy to be defeated was death, that is, spiritual death operating through sin. He was absolutely victorious and returned in glory and power to fill all things. Sin is no more! The world is no more! Satan is no more! Death is no more! The faith of mature believers fully aligns with this reality. In this realm of God’s Kingdom, sin does not exist as ruling or contending power! There is no problem with sin. The faith of believers is great, it is mountain moving faith.
Who do you know who moves mountains by their faith? Who do you know who uproots sycamine trees and hurls them into the sea by their faith? Was Jesus exaggerating? Was Jesus wrong? Or, was Jesus teaching about victorious spiritual reality established in Himself in God’s Kingdom?
Have faith in God!
Walk in the power of the presence of Jesus Christ in the Kingdom of God!