No Believer is Sinless

NO believer is "totally free from sin." God continues to cleanse us until He comes for us. Our spiritual life is covered in the blood, but we still battle the flesh.

Hebrews 12:6 "FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES."

Anyone who thinks they are completely free of sin, is sinning by saying it. When God said that "no child of God keeps on sinning",


1 John 3:9 "No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God."

Christ was speaking to believers, if someone is born again, they hate their sin and eventually will be too convicted of it to continue in it.

1 Corinthians 3:15 "If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire."

Believers do sin and there is no scripture that say how big they sin. For a believer there should be fruits. The fruits are not works but character qualities within their spirit.

Galatians 5:22-23 "22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."

We are not "free to sin", there are spankings that come when we disobey our Father, but we remain His children.

The confusion comes when we see someone who defends their sin uses grace as an excuse and has no conscience about it. I would say these people are not born again based on Matthew 7:21-23 .

"21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"

2 Corinthians 13:5 "Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you-- unless indeed you fail the test?"