Sin doesn't live here anymore

The hearts of angels cry, “Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty”. The hearts of believers in Christ can cry, “Sin doesn’t live here anymore”. Why? God remembers a believer’s past sins no more. All the sins from the past life are thrown away as far as the east is from the west. Salvation and Redemption of the human soul is the picture here. Forgiveness granted from the shed blood of a Savior is found, touched, and experienced by the believing heart. A new creation in Christ is made by God! With an attitude and character that can proclaim with gladness, “Sin doesn’t live here anymore”.

The precious blood of Christ was shed so fallen man could be delivered from all his past sins. The precious blood of Christ is what makes the heart of a believer in Christ clean and holy in the present life. Sin stains from the past are washed away. Clean enough that a believer in Christ can gladly say, “Sin doesn’t live here anymore”. Holy enough that a believer in Christ knows that Salvation of the human soul is God breathed, God made, and God created in the believing heart. God made the new creation in Christ so the believer could “quit” his meanness and wrongdoing. This believing heart and character (that experiences the power of God) can boldly say, “Sin doesn’t live here anymore”.

This type of confession is made from the Holy Spirit’s witness placed in the heart of a believer in Christ. This type of profession is made because the unholy heart of a sinful man is made holy by the power of God’s Grace. The believer in Christ is no longer a sinful man but holy in the eyes of God. The holy confession and holy profession of a believer in Christ are experienced and lived outwardly in this present life. The believer in Christ is led by the Holy Spirit of God, not the unholy sinful nature. Sensuality and dirty living are no longer in control since Christ came in! The lusts of the flesh are not longer in control since Christ came in. The lusts of the eyes are no longer in control since Christ came in. The pride of life no longer rules the believing heart since Christ came in. God takes over His children who are born of the Spirit of God. It’s called Redemption! It’s called Salvation of the human soul! Simple as that!

Jesus Christ came into the believing heart to take away the sins of fallen man and He does just that. Jesus takes away the past sins of the unbeliever so much that holiness of heart and character are produced in the present life of a believer. So much that a believer can thankfully shout, “Sin doesn’t live here anymore”. The precious blood of Christ was shed at Calvary to cleanse and wash away fallen man’s personal sin stains. Every sin from the past life where sin and disobedience ruled that unbelieving heart. The precious blood of Christ restores the believing heart to a holy state of being in this present life. Glory! So great is Salvation and Redemption of the human soul through the person of Christ. Salvation, not to be taken lightly! Redemption, not to be used as an excuse to sin! Salvation and Redemption not to be considered as covering for future sins! Christianity is a present tense walk with God in the Spirit and in holiness of conduct because sin doesn’t live there anymore.

Remember the words of some unknown holiness preacher in Williamsburg, Ohio. Who gladly and joyfully proclaims this message around the globe for Jesus, “By the shed blood of Jesus Christ my personal Lord and Savior, sin doesn’t live here anymore”.

In Christ is when the old becomes new

When Jesus becomes real to your heart and thinking...a moral change occurs within the human soul. The old is made new and the new becomes a way of life. It is written and can be lived - only by the faithful in Christ.

How does the believer in Christ get a new nature?

The new nature is a morally right nature produced by the Grace of God in the blessing of Salvation. In redemption the heart of fallen man is cleansed from all past sin. Fallen man (a natural enemy to God) can thus be reconciled to God through the redemptive work of a crucified Christ. Human depravity is the nature of fallen man that taints humanity with a natural inclination to do wrong in the eyes of God. Unbelievers are by nature, "out of harmony with God" because of inherited human depravity.

Believers in Christ have the marvelous privilege to escape inherited depravity.  Believers in Christ through the power of Divine Grace - can receive a new nature from Christ - the source of regeneration of the human soul. A new and divine nature offers a greater power for the believing heart to do right. A power greater than human depravity. A power greater than the carnal nature of a natural man out of harmony with God. A divine nature is a nature given to the believing heart from God Almighty in the Throneroom.  The new nature is birthed of God and offers the greater power of holiness and right living. Greater is the God given divine  nature that contains from eternity enough power to raise Christ from the grave; enough power to allow man to escape the corruption that's in the world; and enough power to overcome carnality.

The new nature comes from God. The new nature is not earned or achieved. The new nature is divine and greater than the carnal. The new nature is the down payment given from God - in Salvation of the human soul. The reason Christians do right, live right, and act right is because of the divine nature received in the new birth. Only children of God have a divine nature. Without the divine nature its impossible to please God. All that have a divine nature have God's seal of approval. The divine nature allows the believing heart eligibility to make it to Heaven. Holiness of heart and conduct are fruit produced by the divine nature. All Christians by the power of God are partakers of the divine nature.

2 Peter 1:3-4...According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Eternal Life or Eternal Damnation?

The clean heart (made clean by the redemptive work of Christ) makes man eligible to receive Eternal Life. The clean heart is proven in the life of obedience to God. Man’s act of faith brings in the Grace of God which thus enacts holiness of character; the divine nature; and the new birth that are found after every sin is forgiven by the Grace and Mercy of God found in a Saviour. The biblical term for this Divine Operation is termed Justification by Grace. Holiness of heart begins when the human soul is made clean by Justification found in the Grace of God. Only the clean and holy heart makes man eligible to receive “Eternal Life”. Eternal Life does begin in this life as long as the heart of man remains clean and holy. The Bible says, “Without holiness no man shall see the Lord”. Eternal Death (damnation upon the human soul in this life) is God’s Judgment for those whose die in sin and unholiness of heart. The condition of the sinner’s heart is not clean or holy and thus not entitled to Eternal Life with God Almighty…in this life or on the other side in Heaven.

No formula. No twelve step program. No progression. No maturing process.

Man’s ways and God’s ways differ. That’s why sinful men need Salvation of the human soul. When the Spirit of God comes in, man does right. Why? The unholy heart is cleansed. Every sin is forgiven. A godly nature is given from above. Children of God become the righteousness of God in Christ. No formula. No twelve step program. No progression. No maturing process. Simply put, believers in Christ are, “Born into the family of God by the work of the Holy Spirit that converts the human soul”.

The Adamic Nature and Justification

Justification/the new birth makes man an over-comer of the Adamic Nature on the inside; and an over-comer of temptation on the outside.

Justification channels God's Grace into the heart of a believer. The heart of a believer is made clean and holy.

Justification enables the believer in Christ to have victory over the Adamic Nature. How? The empowerment of God's Grace is greater than the inherited carnal nature. The divine nature is not equal to the carnal nature but greater according to God. God's Word confirms such truth in Saint John's Epistle...greater is He in you, than he that's in the world. Peter also confirmed such truth in his Second Epistle in chapter 1 stating how man escapes the corruption in the world when he is made a partaker of the divine nature.
 
Justification by Grace converts sinful men and makes them, over-comers to the Adamic Nature. Justification empowers the believer with enough of Christ to over-come temptations that are encountered in life.
 
Justification rids man from the guilt of the past and brings holiness into the human soul.
 
Justification makes the believer in Christ (not the sinner) eligible to be sanctified from the conflict caused from the still existing Adamic Nature. Sanctification rids man from the Adamic Nature.