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The Christian is not a sinner


  For he hath made him to be sin for, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him (2 Corinthian 5:21)
  Jesus didn’t die to make us sinners; He died to make us saints of God. We’re His holy and sanctified ones; born with His nature of righteousness. The opening scripture shows us the reason He died and was made sin: that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him… Praise God!
The sinner is not just someone who has committed sin. For example, the fact that someone lied doesn’t make him a liar; he only becomes a liar when it’s his nature to tell lies. In the same way, though it’s wrong to sin, you can’t call a man a sinner just because he sinned. One can only be a sinner by nature, because sin is a nature.
  

  
  Sin is the nature of the devil which is passed to every man that’s born into this world. It’s beyond the mere acts of lying, stealing, fornication etc. that exist in the world today. Thus, for someone to be called a sinner means such person has the evil destructive nature of sin functioning in him.

What’s the cure for that? Righteousness! For the one who is born again, the nature of sin with which he was born by his biological parents has been supplanted with the nature of God that produces righteousness. He can no longer be called a sinner even if does something wrong. All he needs for doing anything wrong is to ask and receive forgiveness from the Father. What the sinner needs is a new nature, which only occurs when he makes Jesus Christ Lord of his life.
   As you grow in Christ and learn to live in the word your become perfected in your walk in righteousness. It’s like a baby who is learning to walk and then stumbles an falls; would that in any sense suggest that the baby isn’t human, since every human person is supposed to be able to walk normally? Of course not! That baby is as human as the adult who can walk and run perfectly without stumbling. In the same way, a Christian who does something wrong is still as righteous as the one who never committed any sin. Therefore don’t let anyone call you a sinner, for you’re the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

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