Tempted No More: Breaking Free of Pornography By Walking in Grace by Eddie Snipes

Author:Eddie Snipes [Snipes, Eddie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Exchanged Life Discipleship
Published: 2015-11-10T17:00:00+00:00

One chapter earlier, John writes, “These things I write that you may not sin, but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.”

So how can John say that when we do sin, Jesus is our advocate, but then say that anyone born of God cannot sin? The book of Romans helps us to understand John’s words more clearly. In Romans 7, the Apostle Paul begins to explain that the war going on in his mind is between the sin in his flesh, and the life he now has in the Spirit.

He then explains that when he looks to himself, though he has the will to do what is good and righteous, how to perform good he doesn’t find. Instead, when he tries to be righteous by his own efforts, he ends up back in sin. Paul then explains, “In me, that is in my flesh, nothing good dwells.”

Since this is true, anytime we are using human effort to try to overcome sin or do godly things, instead of producing good, we end up back in sin. Even our good deeds are acts of pride, where the flesh is trying to make itself on par with God. When the flesh isn’t boosting itself in pride, it retreats back into blatant sins. Look at the words of Romans 7:17-18

17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.

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