Daily Rhema: SPIRITUAL SIN SUBSTANCE

Psalms 38:3, 18 (KJV)
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

It is very important that every Christian understands the nature of the renewed man and the forces coming against him.

The nature of man in general is threefold. Man is a spirit, because God is a Spirit, and we were created in His image (John 4:24; Gen. 1:26). Man possesses a soul, which is that part of the spirit that gives each man his individual personality. Man (spirit and soul) lives inside a physical body, which is his habitation while living in this physical world (1Thess. 5:23).

Sin Nature
When man was created in the garden of Eden, there was no sin in him until the day he disobeyed God. We need to understand the difference between sin as an act of disobedience to God, and sin, the spiritual substance that affects human nature.

It is the spiritual substance called sin that causes men to habitually disobey God by nature. In other words sin, the spiritual substance, causes habitual acts of sin.

Adam’s initial disobedience to God in the garden of Eden was not because he was compelled by the sin substance in him, because he initially had none, but was by choice because he had a free will.

After he had disobeyed, however, he was cut off from the eternal life of God, and the spiritual sin substance came into his spirit, soul and body. In other words, Adam became a sinner by nature.

A sinner, therefore, is simply a man who has the spiritual sin substance in his spirit, soul and body and is compelled to live his life in habitual disobedience to God. This is the state of all men who are not born-again, because they inherited it from Adam.

The Born-Again Man
When the Lord Jesus rose from the dead, the price had been paid for the redemption of Man and the total removal of the spiritual sin substance which contaminated man’s spirit, soul and body on the day of Adam’s disobedience. In other words, the price had been paid to restore man back to eternal life.

It is very important that Christians understand the true meaning of eternal life. It is translated from the Greek word Zoë, which refers to the spiritual substance inside God that makes Him God (Jn. 5:26, 4:10, 13, 14).

When a man gets born-again, the spiritual sin substance inside the man’s human spirit is instantaneously destroyed and expelled by the blood of Jesus, and is replaced by this eternal life, or living water, making him a completely new being (2Cor. 5:17).

However, the sin substance still resides in the soul of the new believer, which must undergo a gradual renewing process (sanctification) (Rom. 12:2).

God’s purpose for the end-time Christian while on earth, therefore, is the total cleansing of the spiritual sin substance, and eradication of its effects from the soul and the body.

For Christians who lived and died before the end-time, the total cleansing of the spiritual sin substance was not available, because God sovereignly reserved it for the end-time. However, the total domination of the spiritual sin substance has always been available to Christians of all generations.

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