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Originally Posted by J-Roc
We never reach perfection on this side of eternity...that is why we need continual grace...and that is why we die daily.
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With all due respect, seeing I was in the same error for a time until I studied it out, I entirely disagree. I think you unintentionally propose a sacred cow that is popular but not correct teaching.
His daily dying was not regarding sin and self. The context does not allow it. It was regarding actual and physical threats to his life. The chapter is about bodily resurrection. So he spoke of bodily threats.
In the same spirit and language he wrote this:
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2Co 4:8-12 KJV We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; (9) Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; (10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. (11) For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. (12) So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
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Notice the DEATH he described as always being experienced by himself was
physical threats like persecutions and being cast down, etc. He was not speaking about dying every day so he would not sin.
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1Co 15:30-32 KJV And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? (31) I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. (32) If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
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The daily dying was the daily facing of threats to his physical life! That is exactly the language he used to describe his physical plights of ministry in
2 Cor 4.
Contrary to the entire error of thinking we must die ever day in relation to sin, Paul plainly taught that just as CHRIST DIED ONCE TO SIN, we are to reckon ourselves DEAD ONCE (INDEED) to sin.
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Rom 6:9-12 KJV Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. (10) For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. (11) Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. (12) Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
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Christ would never did again in relation to sin after He died ONCE. And Roma 6:11 says we must conisider ourselves dead to sin "
LIKEWISE". LIKEWISE means we must take the SINGLE DEATH -- NOT DAILY DEATH -- to sin and consider ourselves AS DEAD TO SIN AS JESUS IS. And this is the reason upon which verse 12 says we shoudl nto let sin reign in us.
Brother, please consider this carefully, as I really think it is a common error you propose, and robs us of truth and real victory.
The reason verse 12 gives for us to not let sin rule in our lives is given in verses 9 through 11. Christ DIED ONCE to sin. LIKEWISE we died ONCE to sin. Dying daily is not dying to SIN BUT is actually speaking about a life like Paul's that was constantly, everyday, physically threatened. He was not speaking about sinning or not sinning when he wrote that. Otherwise he contradicted the entire truth of
Romans 6:9-11.
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Not so... he did not say "I found this law at work"....he said "I FIND this law at work".....an ever present state....a continual battle in our mind...our Spirit versus our sinful nature.
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No. The law IS at work when we qualify for it to work. That is, when we MIND THE THINGS OF THE FLESH and seek to make ourselves do good by lawkeeping, THE LAW IS AT WORK. But when we INSTEAD rely on the Spirit,
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And the more we walk in the Spirit, naturally, the less we are dominated by the sinful nature....
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Not less. If we walk in the SPirit WE WILL NOT sin!
We won't. The problem is to get out of the HABIT of minding the flesh and trying in our own effort, since that stupid trend is ingrained within us.