Why did Jesus die for our sins, if we can not stop sinning?

If I cant be holy, why did God send His son to free us from sin?

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Permalink Reply by Tara Goodwin Twilley on June 10, 2009 at 8:49am

were sin is the Holy spirt is not. We are incontrol of what we allow to be in our lives even sin.
Jesus is our example , he lived a perfect life and if we are supose to mirror him than that means we can to.Stop choosing to allow the world to control us and take control. Our thinking pattern is also a path of we choose to allow negitive stinken thinken to be. A thought is a seed, that can harvest life or death.
Sin or righteousness. Over come the stinken thinken and seek to have a personal relationship with Christ. That is to want to know his heart.Not just about him, but his heart.I had a wonderful mentor tell me once that that if we could see everyone as if they were 3 years old than we would have a glimpse of how He sees and loves us. Love and work no matter what the world says. Judgement is just a modern way of thowing stones. Sin and be the same way if we allow it to be in our lives. We can choose to stay in constant worship. It is possible. Feel way away from God. THe word says he encamps our praise. Praise him and you will find him.

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Permalink Reply by Tara Goodwin Twilley on June 10, 2009 at 8:58am

We are righteous or holy because God called us to be. Not because of anything we do to pertain it. However we have to work to nourish and cherish this gift. We can choose to hold on to it . Water it(Water represents the Holy Spirt. )feed it( read our word daily)Wash it(soak in the presence of the Holy spirt daily)mend it. (Asking the Lord Jesus to expose anything that may be in between our relationship with him. This is the way we make modern sacrifices. It is not pleasant, but it has to be done. This is how me santify ourselves. By allow ourselves to be on the molding table.This will help us to throw the garment of sin away. )Sometimes we have sin in our path and we don't even relize it.

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Permalink Reply by Annette Jones on June 12, 2009 at 7:31pm

What do we do with 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sinfor us, who knew no sin; that we might e made the righteousness of God in him.

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Permalink Reply by jubilant jane on August 12, 2010 at 1:39pm

Hi Annette, I pray you have received revelation on this matter that your heart was seeking after. I hope this might help as well.
Lets start out with this question, would God send His only Son to bear our sin, becoming sin itself, and then judge Him without mercy for that sin if His sacrifice wasn’t enough? No! Yet, many Christians act as though it wasn’t enough and continue to believe God is withholding His blessing because of their sin. It’s time to learn the truth.
Most Christians won’t let the Bible get in the way of their theology. Religious traditions and widely-accepted teaching have become the basis of their beliefs, rather than the Bible. The results are obvious: Their relationship with Christ is profiting them little or at the very least less than God intended.
These are people who have accepted Jesus as their Savior. Yet, they can’t get healed, they’re unhappy, depressed, fearful, and full of unbelief. That shouldn’t be! I encourage you to allow the Bible, God’s Word, to get right in the middle of your theology.
If you’re conscious of sin, then you truly don’t understand the grace of your salvation through Jesus. I’m not saying this to hurt anybody, because I understand; I struggle with the same thing.
It’s different than what most of us have been told. But this is what God’s Word declares. God is not imputing, or laying to our account, our sin.
Second Corinthians 5:19 says,
“To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation,” Sin consciousness has been ground into us. Grace is not the way of the world. Your employer doesn’t hire you by grace and promise to pay no matter what you do; they have expectations of performance. In marriage, spouses don’t always love each other unconditionally. Even in most Christian families, children are either rewarded or punished based on their performance.
In this earth almost everything is based on performance, and because it is, it always forces us to focus on our weaknesses. That performance mentality then transfers into religion where we’re taught to focus on our sin. However, where God is concerned, it’s just the opposite. In fact, sin isn’t even an issue with God. Why? Because our sin is not being imputed, or charged, to our account. It’s being charged to Jesus’ account, and He already paid the bill.
This is what the what the Bible teaches. It’s time to let the Bible get in the way of wrong theology. Lets let Gods Word be true and not what we think is truth or what we have been taught. Lets test all things and hold fast to the truth in the WORD of God ok
Hebrews 9:11-12 says, “But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us,”
If words mean anything, think about these words: Jesus entered in once! Do you know what once means in the Greek? It means once. It means He doesn’t do it over and over again. Every time you sin, the Lord doesn’t have to wait until you repent and then get that sin under the blood.
Most Christians believe that when you’re born again, you get your sins forgiven up to that point. Then, every time you sin after becoming a Christian, you’ve got to run to the Lord with that sin and confess and repent, or you could be lost. If not lost and on your way to hell, then at the very least, God would not fellowship with you, and He certainly wouldn’t answer your prayers.
If that were true, then everybody would be on their way to hell. There isn’t a person on this earth who doesn’t have either a known or an unknown unconfessed sin. Or, if sin just means the loss of relationship with God and unanswered prayers, then God wouldn’t have a single person qualified to receive an answer to prayer or fellowship with Him. Was Jesus enough or not?
This is a huge issue. It’s the reason many believe God isn’t healing them or prospering them. They say out of one side of their mouths that He loves them and sacrificed His Son, Jesus, for their salvation, and then out of the other side, they say that He is still judging them for sin. Those are incompatible!
Hebrews 9: 13-15 goes on to say, “For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance,”
It isn’t God who is condemning us when we sin; it’s our own consciences. We haven’t purged our consciences with the truth of what Jesus has done with sin. Satan knows that and is using it to condemn us and destroy our faith and confidence in God by reminding us we don’t deserve God’s blessing.
Praise God, He isn’t giving you what you deserve; He is giving you what Jesus deserves. Jesus paid for sin one time, past, present, and even the sins you will commit in the future. How can that be, you ask? I don’t know exactly, but let me tell you this, Jesus only died one time for our sins two thousand years ago, so you better hope He can forgive your sins before you commit them.
Hebrews 9:25-28 says,
“Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with the blood of others; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many
God knows the end from the beginning and He knew all the sins of the whole world. Jesus paid for all those committed before His sacrifice and for all that had not yet been committed. He made the payment once and it will never be made again. The price for sin, all sin, has been paid!
We have received an eternal inheritance (Heb. 9:15) that cannot be taken away. Your inheritance is not temporary; it’s eternal. You aren’t disinherited and you don’t lose the benefits of being part of the family because of sin.
To understand this, you have to see yourself as God sees you. In your born-again spirit, you are as clean and holy and pure as Jesus is. Religion has you looking at your flesh. It has you searching the soulish realm of thoughts, attitudes, and feelings. But that is not what God is looking at. He is looking at your spirit, the part of you that’s become a new creation.
Second Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
And in John 4:24 we read,
“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
What part of you is new? It’s not the flesh and it’s not the soul; it’s your born-again spirit. When you go to God in prayer and say “O God, I’m so ungodly and so unworthy, please forgive me, please answer my prayer,” you are not in the spirit; you are in the flesh. Your spirit is righteous, holy, and pure. Sin does not affect your spirit.
Am I saying sin is okay? Absolutely not! When you sin, you give Satan an open door to the soul, your mind and emotions, as well as opportunity to destroy your physical body. It’s just stupid to open yourself up to the devil.
You might be thinking, Well, I know God died once for all men, but His sacrifice still must be applied whenever we sin. Let’s allow God’s Word to get in the way of this wrong theology again.
Hebrews 10:10-12, 14 says,
“By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified,” (emphasis mine).
This is not talking about your physical body or your soul; it’s talking about your born-again spirit. Your spirit is identical to the Lord Jesus Christ. It is sinless! Your soul and your body can be defiled by sin, but your spirit never can; it’s sealed forever.
Maturity in the Christian life isn’t about trying to grow your spirit up; it’s trying to educate, or renew, your mind to what you already have in your spirit. Your spirit is already perfect! You already have the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, long-suffering, and the rest. Your spirit is always happy, always rejoicing, and always healthy.
God loves you even though you’ve messed up, even though you aren’t perfect. He loves you not because of your performance but because of Jesus’ sacrifice and your acceptance of it.. If you can ever get a revelation of what I am saying, it will change the way you see God forever.
I pray your eyes of understanding are open to what the Lord is trying to do in you through these truths shared with you. Together in Him, in Love, God bless.
Andrew Wommack/ Jubilant

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Permalink Reply by Gloria Estefania Velasco on August 13, 2010 at 2:28am

Before Eve and Adam sinned , God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." genesis 1 :28 TO SUBDUE and HAVE DOMINION. why would He give us such an authority if the earth was for us?!?
He wanted to redeemed us , and save us, for the power that the man gave to the enemy. When Satan tempted Jesus, he told Him, if You worship me, i will give everything that was given to me.
if Jesus wouldve done that, maybe we would stop sinning and Jesus wouldnt have to died the way He did.
But Satan needs to be crushed by man otherwise God wouldve done it already. Of course, if we sin knowing that we are sinning, its a totally different stroy... If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left hebrews 10:26. But, we forgives our sins like a father forgives his childs mistakes, If my kid does something wrong, ill get mad and spank him, but never stop loving him and never i will condemn him.... Not everyone knows about Jesus, and still He died for them. So they can have salvation... Its our job to tell them about Christ.
well... thats what i believe... haha