By the Blood of Christ not by Our Own Works!

Something that is hard for many believers to grasp is that the blood of Christ covers our sin, our sin was paid for by His blood. If He had not paid for our sin with His blood then we would have had to die, but we couldn't because we are not sinless. Only the blood of a perfect sinless lamb could cover the sin in mankind.

We are not sinless, but His blood shed on our behalf covers the sin of those who trust Christ.


After our sin has been covered by the blood of Christ, He begins to work His character in us. The cleansing that grows us is essential to the Christian walk. It goes to our testimony and our rewards in heaven.

If there is no change in someone after they became born again, then they have attempted to come to Christ on their own feeble merits, which is a form of blasphemy. Thinking that we can do good enough without the shedding of Christ's blood is the worst form of arrogance.

Man's blood is not worthy to cover their own sin, it must be the shed blood of the Perfect Lamb of God.

Hebrews 9:22 "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission."

Matthew 26:28 "For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."

Ephesians 1:7 ""...we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace""

1 Peter 1:18-19."Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold... But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:"

Rom. 5:9 "Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him."

Rev. 1:5 "Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood."

Ephesians. 2:13 "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ"

Hebrews 13:12 ""Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate"

Colossians 1:20 " "And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself"

1 John 1:7 ""If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin"

Hebrews 9:14 ""how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"

1 Corinthians 6:9-20 ""Ye are not your own? for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's"

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?"