Hello everybody, it's me, Mr. Call 23, back in their video.
This is another video on misunderstood, misused, twisted, and misinterpreted verses in the
Bible.
Today I'm going to be talking about 1 John chapter 3 verse 6, which says,
Whosoever bideth in him sitteth not, whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
And then a few verses later, it says in 1 John 3, 9,
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot
sin because he is born of God.
Now this passage, of course, which you can probably tell just by reading it at first
glance without any other knowledge of scripture, it's used by a lot of false teachers to teach
a variety of false doctrine.
And one of these false doctrines is the concept that if you're truly born again, you'll eventually
repent of all your sins, or perseverance of the saints, or the idea that Christians who
do sin are Christians who fall back into their error are themselves not saved, and they were
never saved.
Or another teaching is just flat out work salvation.
Some people might use this verse to teach that if you don't repent of your sins and
follow the word of God perfectly, you will go to hell, you won't be saved.
I've heard this before, but it's not true.
This is a false teaching.
This is not what this verse is saying or this chapter.
We must go back to Romans 7 and read this in the context of the entire Bible in order
to understand this doctrine.
As Paul says in Romans 7 verse 13 to 25, Wasn't that which is good made death unto me?
God forbid, but sin that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is
good, that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, soul under sin.
For that which I do, I allow not.
For what I would, that do I not, but what I hate, that do I.
If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that is good.
Now these last two verses are a tongue twister, but to explain it simply, let's break down
what Paul says.
So in verse 15, For that which I allow not.
So meaning something he doesn't wish to allow, he doesn't allow it.
For what I would, that's what he wills to do, what he wants to do, that I do not.
So he doesn't do what he wills.
He doesn't do what he wants to do.
But what I hate, and that would be sin, the bad things that he hates in his inward man,
that do I, so he does the sin.
If then I do that which I would not, so he would not do the sin, he doesn't want to do
the sin, but he does anyway, I consent unto the law that is good.
And moving on, verse 17 says, Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth
in me.
So Paul says it's not I that do the sin, but it's the sin that dwells in him.
It's not him doing the sin, according to the inner man.
This will get clearer as I go on, but in verse 18 it says, For I know that in me, that is,
in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing.
For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not.
For the good that I would, I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
So there we have again, Paul says, it's no more I that do it, but sin is that dwelleth
in me.
Okay?
So it says in verse 21, I find then in law that when I would do good, evil is present
with me, for I delight in the law of God after the inward man.
But I see another law in my members, meaning the body, that's what members means, warring
against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is
in my members.
So Paul is agreeing with John in this passage, he, according to the inward man, delights
in the law of God.
That's the person that wishes and wills to obey God, that actually does not commit sin.
The part of us which is good, the part of us which is true and righteous.
Okay?
Now verse 24 it says, a wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of
this death?
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
So there's a war, as it says in verse 23, between the mind and the flesh, between the
inward man and the corrupt flesh, the outward man.
So it's clear that if we're saved, when we're born again, it is our spirit that's born again.
Because Jesus said in John 3 5, Jesus answered, verily, verily, I say unto thee, except the
man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
So when we're born of God, when we're born again, it's of the spirit, it's not of the
flesh.
Okay?
When we get saved, nothing changes in our body.
We still have the same old body, the same flesh.
Okay?
It still remains here until our death.
So our incorruptible spirit, which cannot commit sin, inhabits the corruptible body,
the corruptible flesh, which still has sin dwelling in it.
Okay?
So there's a conflict within us that can only end at the resurrection, when we're given
an incorruptible body.
Paul also writes about the spirit and the flesh in Galatians 5 16 to 18, where he says,
this I say then, walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh, for
the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary
the one to the other.
So you cannot do the things that you would, okay, the things that you will to do, as Paul,
just as Paul said in Romans 7.
And then Ephesians, concerning the old man and the new man, says in chapter 4 verse 22,
that ye put off concerning the former conversation of the old man, which is corrupt according
to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, that ye put on the
new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
So we see that in order to walk in the spirit, in order to resist sin, we need to put off
the flesh, put off the old man, and focus on the spirit, and focus on the thing which
has been reborn inside of us, which was created in holiness.
So yes, the spirit is holy, but this is the inward man.
Okay?
This man still exists as long as we're here on the earth.
There's no change to our outward man.
There's no change to our flesh.
So did John teach that a Christian will always just not sin, will never sin for the rest
of their life as soon as they're born again, no matter what?
Did he teach that in order to be saved, you need to repent of all your sins?
No, he didn't.
Because in fact, John said in the same epistle that he wrote, 1 John chapter 1 verse 8, if
we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
So we're all sinners, and we all have the capability of falling back into sin.
So what we need to do is walk in the spirit, focus on spiritual things, and pray that God
will guide us to resist temptation.
It's still possible for a Christian to do sin because we still have the corruptible
flesh, although it is our spirit that is born again, it is our spirit that wills to do what
God has told us to do, but we can't because of our flesh.
So that's what 1 John 3 is teaching.
So thank you everybody for watching, and goodbye.