It’s amazing how ignorance destroys! Out of ignorance some people have misinterpreted the Scripture in 1 John 3:9 and read it upside down. The Greek word translated ‘commit’ here is ‘prasso’ which means ‘to make practice of.’ That’s why a better rendering says, “The person who has been born into God’s family does not make practice of sinning because now God’s life is in him; so he can’t keep on sinning, for this new life has been born into him and controls him- he has been born again” (1 John 3:9 TLB).
Somebody says, “Well, no one is perfect, we all sin at one time or the other.” That’s not true because you’re not supposed to sin. The reason you’re not supposed to sin is that you’re born of God. You have the life of God in you. It’s unnatural for a Christian to sin. That’s why if you do sin your spirit condemns you. The life and light of God are in your spirit, so you’re able to tell when you do wrong. Those in the world can’t tell when they do wrong as they’re still in the wrong. So, it would take the Holy Spirit to convict them of their sin (John 16:8).
You’re born of the incorruptible seed and this seed remains in you so you can’t sin habitually. That seed (Gk. sperma), which is the Word of God, is the life-carrying faculty of God. That very essence of divinity is in you now.
As Christians, we must be conscious of our righteousness in Christ, otherwise we would be willing preys for the devil. The life inside you is divine and this isn’t an assumption but a fact. 1 John 3:1 says, “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God…” Another rendering says “children of God.” Now are we the sons of God, not tomorrow, not next year, not when we get to heaven, but now! Hallelujah!
