Saved Pt. 1,2

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I greet you all in the name of Jesus.
This is new to me from the Lord. I just wanted to see
what the family has to say. It is a letter written to
those who preach "grace only."

I keep reading the same line over and over. "I am saved."
But what are you saved from? Most of you will answer "Hell."
Now the question still stands! 
Did Jesus save you in your sins, or from your sins?
If you answered "in your sins" then according to scripture,
"You are DEAD!

As far as God is concerned, our practice of sin places us in
a state in which we are dead to him!
 
"The wages of sin is death" [Ro 3:23].

Sin tries to take advantage of our desires, and if it does,
can lead to spiritual death-[see James 1:13-15].
In scriptures, death includes the idea of separation.
[e.g., physical death is the separation of body and
spirit]. [see James 2:26]

Eph 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were #dead in# trespasses and sins;

Eph 2:2 Wherein in #time past ye walked# according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; #and were by nature the children of wrath,# even as others.

All who are outside of the Lord Jesus Christ are "dead in sin."
Those who are "dead in sin" are separated from the Lord and
all the blessings that would otherwise come from union with
Him. [see Is 59:1,2]

That is how the gospel addresses the "result" of sin:
In every sense that that sin results in death. 
"Spiritual death," or separation from God. Such separation exists in this life, but even more so in the life to come! 
And the "second death." [see Re 21:8]

"His name shall be called Jesus for he shall save his people #from their sins"# [Matt 1:21].

If a person still practices sin after claiming salvation, from what do you think you have been saved from? Certainly not sin. Jesus did not come to save us in our sins but "FROM OUR SINS." When a person is saved, they will stop sinning. Jesus told the woman caught in adultery, "Go and sin no more." He did not say, "Go, sin a little bit every day." Nor did he say, "Of course I know you will sin, because my commandments are so hard and unreasonable, I don't really expect anyone to always obey."

SIN NO MORE! A Christian is one who has been saved from their sins. A Christian obeys the Lord. Listen to His word:
"And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepth not his commandments, is a lair, and the #truth# is not in him. But whoso keepth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected" [1 Jn 2:3-5].
A Christian walks in the light he has with a right intention of heart.

"Whatsoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed [God's word] remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God" [1 Jn 3:9], is another example of this truth.
The born again person "cannot sin." Studying the context of the verse above, we understand it to mean that the Christian is #able not to sin.# Not that they are unable to sin.

We are called Christians, children of God. We have the family name to consider. How can we call ourselves Christains and lie, steal, cheat, lust or be intemperate, etc. "God forbid" that we should sin! We refuse to sin. We hate sin. We love the Lord. We love His commandments.
Sin is the result of a lack of love for the Lord and our neighbors. It is choosing to put self ahead of the Lord and our fellows. Loving the Lord means doing what he tells us to do, and really, that isn't hard at all." Sin is the result of lack of faith in the Lord to deliever us from sin. 

I will post Pt. 3 later, Thanks.
In His service
frank w.