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FAQ # 49
QUESTION
49 : How
is it we cannot sin, being regenerated. Don’t we sin in our thoughts?
One might say we sin in our thoughts (Matt 5:28). No. It’s
what comes out of a man that defiles the man (Mk 7:15-28). From within
comes covetousness, deceit, pride, backbiting and other evils. However,
it doesn’t defile you until it comes out and it usually does. Why?
Before the spirit baptism, we had no mechanism to deal with it.
When Christ says if we lust after a woman, we have already committed the sin, he didn’t mean we are charged with the sin or “have sinned”. It means that the sin did not originate in the flesh, but started within. In other words, if one has persistent thoughts of having unwed sex, one has already done it. Why? The only thing that is preventing us, is the opportunity; and the devil knows how to serve them up. In other words, whatsoever thoughts one receives and constantly builds upon, is eventually what one becomes or does, if there is no divine intervention from God (Holy Ghost).
Answer Notes: 1. Bishop Noel Jones has a tape in a six part series called “The power of the mind,” that thoroughly explains this. Visit: http://www.threeq.com/pages/bishopjones.html
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