Playing With Sin

Your inner self, that hidden inner man (inner woman, inner boy, inner girl… your inner self) is not AS private and secret as most imagine.  To people – it is private.  But to God – your inner self is an open book.

What you really are, inside and out, is known by God.  Jesus knows your innermost thoughts, your inner talk, your rationalizing, your true allegiances, what you love, all your beliefs.

THOSE FORGIVEN.  If you struggle with sin, that means you are not accepting of it.  You are rejecting sin but finding your flesh overwhelming.  Born-again followers do that.  There is a difference between being a sinner – versus living in sin.  All born-again believers are sinners, but they have rejected sin by turning to Christ.  They have been freed by God – from condemnation.

Therefore there is
now
no condemnation
for those who are in Christ Jesus.
– Romans 8: verse 1

THOSE UNDER CONDEMNATION.  Sinners who accept sin, who conform themselves to their flesh – in whatever form, remain under condemnation still:

⁵ For those who are according to the flesh
set their minds on the things of the flesh,
but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
⁶ For the mind set on the flesh is death,
but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,
⁷ because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God;
for it does not subject itself
to the law of God,
for it is not even able to do so,
⁸ and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
– Romans 8: verses 5-8

If you wallow in it, that means you have accepted sin.  And God will say to you in that day,

²³And then I will say to them openly (publicly),
I never knew you;
depart from Me,
you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands].
– Matthew 7:23