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Before you begin your Bible study, as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, be sure you have named your sins privately to God the Father.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

(Known, Unknown and Forgotten sins) (1Jn 1:9)

 

 

You will then be in fellowship with God, Filled with the Holy Spirit and ready to learn Truth from the Word of God.

 

"God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and Truth," (John 4:24)

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*Isolation of Sin*

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*PREFACE*

 

Before you begin your Bible study, be sure that, as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, you have named your known sins privately to God. (1Jn 1:9) You will then be in fellowship with God, under the control of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and ready to learn Truth from the Word of God.

If you are an unbeliever, the issue is not naming your sins.

The issue is faith in Christ.

/    "He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him."/

(John 3:36)

 

*THE LAWS OF SPIRITUALITY AND CARNALITY*

 

When the Lord Jesus Christ said, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” (John 8:7) There were no rock throwers that day, even though the crowd was made up of many self-righteous and religious people!

It is quite obvious, even to the most unintelligent, that every member of the human race has sinned and failed the Lord.

(Rom 3:23)

 

Suppose the Lord were to say to us, “Let him who is without sin serve me in the Christian life.”

There would be no one qualified for service or production, and the Lord would have no ambassadors on earth.

Therefore, God in His grace has made provision for overcoming sin and the old sin nature --- which will dominate and control your life unless you understand the important Principle of isolating your sins.

This Principle is based on the Laws of Spirituality and Spiritual death.

(Rom 8:2)

 

/For the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the Law of sin and of death.

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The first Law is the Law of Spirituality, or “the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.”

“In Christ Jesus” is a reference to Positional Truth.

You must be IN CHRIST before this Law can become operative.

No one can be Spiritual until first of all; he is saved.

(Acts 16:31) The Law of Spirituality, which is the filling of God the Holy Spirit, (Eph 5:18) has set us free from another Law operating inside of the believer ‑-- the Law of carnality.

This Law blocks production, --- prevents bona fide service for the Lord, and creates misery any time it controls our lives.

This second Law is “the Law of sin” --‑ “the Law of the sin nature, and death.”

The sin nature has produced Spiritual death in the human race since the time of Adam.

(Rom 5:12) But when we are born again, (John 3:3-16) the production of the sin nature is limited to temporal death or carnality which means to be out of fellowship; and therefore renders the believer useless to the Lord.

This Law is called “men of flesh” in, (1Co 3:1).

In the state of Spirituality the believer is liberated from the domination of the old sin nature.

(Gal 5:16) The aorist active indicative of “has set you free” indicates that this occurs at the point of time when the believer is filled with the Spirit.

(Rom 8:2) Spirituality and carnality are mutually exclusive, and therefore they are absolutes in Phase Two.

When a believer is filled with God the Holy Spirit, he is Spiritual, and he walks in the light; (1Jn 1:7) when a believer sins, he is carnal and walks in darkness.

(1Jn 1:6) These two Laws are in constant conflict within every believer.

For the execution of the Christian way of life --- the Law of Spirituality must replace the Law of carnality.

(Rom 8:13-14)

 

In, (Rom 8:3) the Mosaic Law representing in this case: human old sin nature ability ‑-- trying to keep the Law in order to gain the approval of God.

(The old sin nature: WILL NEVER BE MADE HOLY)

 

For what the [Mosaic] Law could not do, weak as it was  through the flesh, [The old sin nature --‑ so God did something about the sin nature] God [The Father ‑-- Author of the Divine Plan sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh [True humanity] as an offering for sin [A sin offering; Exo 29:14] He condemned sin in the flesh, [Judged sin in Christ's human soul; Isa 53:10].

The Mosaic Law was holy, righteous and good, (Rom 7:12) and had a definite function under its three parts; (The Obedience, Spiritual and Social codes) but it, (The Mosaic Law performed in the old sin nature) could neither save nor provide Spirituality.

The Law was and is PERFECT because it is GOD'S THINKING; we are limited by the presence of the old sin nature.

(Rom 7:18)

 

Jesus Christ, sent by God the Father, not only paid the penalty for sin, but also destroyed the power of the old sin nature by His Spiritual death on the Cross.

So that the requirement of the Law [Perfect standard demanded by the Law] might be fulfilled IN US, who do not walk according to the flesh [As carnal believers] but according to the Spirit.

(In Spirituality; in fellowship, filled with God the Holy Spirit) (Rom 8:4)

 

The believer may have victory over the sin nature as long as he lives under “the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.”

(Stays in fellowship)

 

*OPERATING UNDER THE LAW OF SPIRITUALITY*

 

To operate under this Law of Spirituality, there are four things you must always do when you sin:

 

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Rebound.

2. Isolate past sins.

3. Forget what is behind.

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And keep moving.

*Rebound*

 

/IF// we confess [Acknowledge] our sins [to God] He [God] is faithful [He always does the same thing, (Forgives us) because His essence is immutable] and righteous [On the basis of  Christ being judged in our place for our sins --- and no one can be judged for the same crime twice] to forgive us [To blot out completely] our sins, [the personal sins that come from our free will] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, [Sins we commit of which we are not even aware]/ (1Jn 1:9) cf.

(1Co 11:31).

Now, let's go back to the point of Salvation.

Salvation begins at the Cross.

The moment you believe in Jesus Christ, you are given a new position “in Christ” (2Co 5:17) a place of family relationship, (Rom 8:38-39) represented by the “top circle.”

At the same time, you are also entered into the “bottom circle.”

(Temporal fellowship) As long as there is no un-confessed sin in your life, you remain in temporal fellowship with God, and you are filled with the Spirit.

However, at the moment you sin, you are carnal and under the control of the old sin nature.

When you confess your sins, God forgives you immediately, He blots out your sins, and you are not only back in fellowship, but as of that moment --‑ for one second, at least ‑-- you are filled with God the Holy Spirit.

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If you were under discipline for that sin, whatever suffering was involved is converted into blessing.

But before you can take another breath, you may be out of fellowship again because of failure in the second step.

/Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; (Finishing God's will for his life) but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead./

(Php 3:13)

 

What are those things which are behind?

SATANIC --- HUMAN THINKING AND SINS!

As soon as you confess a sin, you are Commanded to forget it.

But suppose you do not.

All right, look at the “bottom circle.”

You are in the bottom circle when you confess that sin; but the very moment you start thinking about that sin again ‑-- talking about it, worrying about it, playing with it like a dog with a bone ‑-- out of fellowship you go!

That is why some people say rebound doesn't work.

They are never in the bottom circle long enough to know whether it works or not!

 

Did you ever observe a “chain smoker”?

He lights one cigarette from the other ‑-- never uses a match.

That is the condition of many believers; they are CHAIN SINNERS ‑-- carnal believers ‑-- those who say that rebound doesn't work!

Well, of course it doesn't ‑-- for them!

They sin, confess the sin, and then start worrying about that sin as though God had not forgiven them.

The old sin lights up a new sin, and they never advance in their Christian life.

They jump in and jump out, in and out of the bottom circle, and never move ahead.

If you get out of fellowship because of a sin already forgiven, you start chain sinning --‑ building one sin on another.

This keeps you continually under discipline --‑ not from the original sin, but from some current sin which grew out of failure to isolate the first sin.

(Heb 12:15)

 

“Forgetting” denotes both forgetting and disregarding ‑-- in other words, “to assign to oblivion.”

Once you have rebounded, you should assign that sin to oblivion.

This can be accomplished only by believing, (1Jn 1:9) and understanding the Principle of, (1Jn 1:7) “...The blood of Jesus Christ his Son, [Keeps on] cleansing us from all sin.”

The blood of Christ refers to the Spiritual death of Christ on the Cross.’

The work of the “blood,” or His Spiritual death, is twofold: judicial cleansing at the moment of Salvation, and experiential cleansing of the carnal believer after Salvation at the point of rebound.

How can a righteous God forgive unrighteousness?

Because His righteousness was satisfied when the penalty of sin was paid at the Cross.

This is the link between, (1Jn 1:7) and (1Jn 1:9).

When you simply name your sin, you are citing a sin which has already been judged.

So, because of the work of Christ on the Cross, God is absolutely just and fair in forgiving our sins.