NO ONE IS PERFECT?

Ask The Pastor (Highlights) - June 7, 2020

People say:

"no one is perfect"

"no one can live without sin"

"you sin, I sin, everybody sins"

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your FATHER which is in heaven is perfect. (St. Matthew 5:48)

…which is CHRIST in you, the hope of glory (Col 1:27)

I in them, and THOU in ME, that they may be made perfect in one… (St. John 17:23)

GOD has all that man needs

Perfection:  would have to be CHRIST in us

If the first birth of man is imperfect,

the second birth would have to be perfect,

or there would be no need to be born again

If the second birth has sin in it,

there would be no need to be born again

Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again. (St. John 3:7)

How could the second birth be the same as the first birth?

It took the SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST to get us out of the predicament of sin

We have a SAVIOR who's freed us,

now we do good, living like JESUS would have us to live

If the first birth has sin in it (which is death),

Why would there be a need for a second birth

if we keep on sinning,

...still under the influence of satan?

…the wages of sin is death; but the gift of GOD is eternal life through JESUS CHRIST our LORD. (Romans 6:23)

…it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment (Hebrews 9:27)

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of GOD (Romans 3:23)

If when we're born again, all power of heaven is in us, if the Holy Ghost is in us,

and we fall short of the glory of GOD, then what type of Holy Ghost is in us?

(that is the fullness of GOD) the fulness of GOD is in CHRIST

And ye are complete in HIM…

If the second birth has sin in it, then what salvation do we claim?

for what purpose?

If a man can't move from death (wages of sin), there is no salvation in his life

If the gift of GOD is eternal life - 

that eternal life is in us NOW! 

Can eternal life have sin in it???

If the second birth does not take us out of sin

what is the purpose of our salvation in CHRIST?

what is the purpose of being born again,

if we still sin?

But CHRIST frees us totally from sin