Cessation of Againstness

Can a Christian be Righteous and still be a Sinner? NO! Absolutely not! These two choices are
mutually exclusive; you can not be both. If you are a sinner you are not righteous and if you are not
righteous you are not a Christian.

Maybe a better question is, if a Christian sins is he a sinner? Again the answer is NO. If you were to
answer yes; then you would lose your salvation every time you fell short of God’s expectations and
your salvation would be based on your works, the ability not to sin, and not on God’s grace.

Can a Christian do something that will displease God? YES we certainly can and do.

So how do we explain or understand this dichotomy? How can a Righteous person sin and still be
sinless? Thee answer is simple; the same thing that Saved us is what sustains us. What saved us from
sin now keeps us from sin. The idea that man alone can save himself from God’s wrath is about as
absurd as the idea that once saved man can continue fellowship with God with no help from Him.

Matthew 7:13. ' Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide [is] the gate, and broad the way that is
leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;
14. how strait [is] the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those
finding it!
15. 'But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep' s clothing, and inwardly are
ravening wolves.
16. From their fruits ye shall know them; do [men] gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs?
17. so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits.
18. A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits.
19. Every tree not yielding good fruit is cut down and is cast to fire:
20. therefore from their fruits ye shall know them.
21. 'Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he
who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.
22. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, lord, have we not in thy name prophesied? and in thy
name cast out demons? and in thy name done many mighty things?
23. and then I will acknowledge to them, that - I never knew you, depart from me ye who are
working lawlessness.
24. 'Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a
wise man who built his house upon the rock;

Matthew 9:9. And Jesus passing by thence, saw a man sitting at the tax-office, named Matthew, and
saith to him, '
Be following me,'and he, having risen, did follow him.
10. And it came to pass, he reclining (at meat) in the house, that lo, many tax-gatherers and sinners
having come, were lying (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples,
11. and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, '
Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and
sinners doth your teacher eat?'
 12. And Jesus having heard, said to them, 'They who are whole have no need of a physician, but
they who are ill;
13. but having gone, learn ye what is, Kindness I will, and not sacrifice, for I did not come to call
righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

John 15:1. ' I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman;
2. every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth
cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
3. already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;
4. remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in
the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.
5. 'I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much
fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

1 John 3:1. See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called;
because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;
2. beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we
have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;
3. and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.
4. Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,
5. and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;
6. every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen
him, nor known him.
7. Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous,
even as he is righteous,
8. he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for
this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;
9. every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth
remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.