You cannot overcome sin

You cannot overcome the sinning nature.
You will never be able on your own to overcome it.
Neither me.

Do you still have any hope in yourself?
The sooner you realize that you are HOPELESS the sooner you will stop wasting your life and time. That is if you open wide your heart that every part would be Christ's.

There IS one who can overcome - a Victor, a Conqueror. There is one in whom the evil forces of the cosmos has nothing in Him. This Person is the Son of God. And HE can overcome IN you on your behalf.

This is called the Gospel.

If you fall into some degrading and disgusting behavior and are disappointed in yourself, it is because you STILL have the foolish thought that you can overcome that power of sinning in you.

God knows what you are.
God is not surprised.

YOU may be surprised because you still have hope in yourself.
God made remedy for your failure before you were BORN.
God is not shocked or surprised at how low you have fallen.
You may be shocked and disappointed in yourself because YOU thought you had something. It is not a life powerful enough to overcome the sin nature.

Look, God knew how low you can fall BEFORE you were even born. And before you were born He sent Jesus Christ not only to clean and cleanse you from the guilt of sin but to liberate you from the power of it.

Christ rose from His death and became a divine life imparting, divine life infusing, divine life dispensing, invisible Holy Spirit.

"the last Adam [Christ] became a life giving Spirit" (1 Cor. 15:45)

That life giving Spirit is Jesus Christ in a form in which He can ACTUALLY be transmitted INTO your innermost spiritual being.

This is called the Gospel.

Don't listen to Jesus hating intellectuals like Dr. Richard Carrier. He complains that Paul never met Jesus.

Quite the CONTRARY. Paul met the resurrected Christ and became a pioneer in experiencing Christ as the divine life imparting Spirit living in him.

"the last Adam [Christ] became a life giving Spirit"

This man (and others) PIONEERED in the skill of living in union with Christ the available and living Conqueror over sin and death. Christ is the only Victor.

Paul, who authored some 13 of the 27 books of the New Testament was a pioneer in this skill of living in union, in organic interweaving with the available Jesus the Son of God.

He is our only hope to overcome the sin nature that was infected into fallen man from the fall of Adam and Eve. Even if you do not believe the Adam and Eve account you know something you cannot overcome crops ups in you like weeds, like crab grass, like thorns and thistles which you cannot quite ever eradicate.

There is One who overcomes. There is one who is totally victorious.
This One can BLEND into you.
This One is available and fits COMFORTABLY within your heart as a hand fits comfortably in a glove.

Taking Him into you is EATING Him. And He taught that the one who eats Him will live because of Him.

"As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father so he who eats Me shall live because of Me." (John 6:57) .

Eating Jesus is the way.

Eating Jesus is THE way.

EATING, taking Him IN, receiving Him IN, Welcoming Him in . . . EATING Him is the way. Eating Jesus we will become constituted with Jesus. You are what you eat.

@sonship said
You cannot overcome the sinning nature.
You will never be able on your own to overcome it.
Neither me.

@sonship said

Eating Jesus is the way.

Eating Jesus is THE way.

EATING, taking Him IN, receiving Him IN, Welcoming Him in . . . EATING Him is the way. Eating Jesus we will become constituted with Jesus. You are what you eat.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
This cannibalistic aspect of your faith is equally abhorrent and repellant. Indeed, if there is anything in existence that would deter me from Christianity it is the part of your post I have highlighted. It is the stuff of horror films.

If, by 'overcome', OP means that no one can be perfect, then yeah, duh, of course not.

But all one needs to do is rid oneself of the unattainable, defeatist delusion of attained perfection, and the problem is solved.

@BigDogg

Come back when you get desperate.
You're not desperate enough yet.

How your humanity is rotting because of sin has not hit you yet.
Those who are well have no need of a physician.

@sonship said
@BigDogg

Come back when you get desperate.
You're not desperate enough yet.

How your humanity is rotting because of sin has not hit you yet.
Those who are well have no need of a physician.

For all of you reading who have no realization that daily you are accumulating the wrath of God upon you, you need to be saved.

" . . . do you despise the riches of His kindness and forebearance and long-suffering, not knowing that God's kindness is leading you to repentance.

But, according to your hardness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of the wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God." (Rom. 2:4,5)

The unaware that you are accumulating and storing up the righteous anger of God about to be revealed.

Since you have a rendezvous with God you should give attention to the guilt of sin and to the power of sin. These are two problems that God has an answer to in His Son. If not you are just building up an accumulation of offenses, transgressions, and iniquities for which you will have to give an account to God.

And there is no creature that is not manifest before Him, but all things are naked and laid bare to the eyes of Him to whom we are to give our account." (Heb. 4:13)

@bigdogg said
If, by 'overcome', OP means that no one can be perfect, then yeah, duh, of course not.

But all one needs to do is rid oneself of the unattainable, defeatist delusion of attained perfection, and the problem is solved.

The title of this thread is negated by John 8:11 ' Go and sin no more.'

We can forgive all our enemies because Christ is able to save us and others to the uttermost.

"But to Him who is able to guard you from stumbling and to set you before His glory without blemish in exultation,

To the only God our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord be glory, majesty, might, and authority before all time and now and unto all eternity. Amen." (Jude 24,25)

These men who wrote these things saw something and knew something.

@sonship said
You cannot overcome the sinning nature.
You will never be able on your own to overcome it.
Neither me.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Jesus. - "Go and sin no more.'

Sonship. - "(Impossible) We cannot overcome our sinning nature."