God Sees A Believers Faith Not Their Sins – Michael Edwards In the New Covenant of grace and truth, Jesus brought to replace the Old Covenant of law, God promises over and over He is not remembering, counting or imputing our sins.
"for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." Jer 31:34 NAS
When a person comes to a saving knowledge of Christ, they are forgiven of all their sins and placed under grace where Sin (noun – inherited Sin nature) is no longer their master with dominion over them, and their acts of sin are not being counted.
For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Rom 6:14 NAS
When we are born again, we are given a new Spirit that is holy, sanctified righteous and perfected. Our Spirit is sealed in Christ by the Holy Spirit. This seal protects our Spirit from any contamination.
Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us and gave [us] the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge. 2 Cor 1:21-22 NAS
Our eternal God-given, born-again and sealed Spirit never has a desire to sin and struggles with our flesh our entire life as we see with Paul in Romans 7.
We are a like a sealed letter to the King with the words written in Christ's blood. The letter is sealed by the Holy Spirit, the guarantee of our redemption to our King and to us.
…you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. 2 Cor 3:3 NAS
But our flesh remains unredeemed. Our flesh is still of this world and houses the inherited Sin nature with which we were born and must die.
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