Freedom from sin, by Andrew Schrock

The following is a Facebook post written by my husband, Andrew Schrock.

 Most preachers think they are right to be preaching all different methods and principals of how we can attack sin. Like it is a big monster that we, daily, are responsible to chop away at until, finally, WE conquer it by our own methods and strategies, with God's help. It is considered the "on fire" way of Christian church and life. The truth is, a few of the strategies that are being taught would be biblical, if they were taught as strategies we can use since we are free from sin, not to become free from sin. Folks the truth is there is a huge sin monster, whose ugly head rises every second of our life. We don't stand a chance against it for a second. There is not a thing, not one thing, we can do to be free from sin. Forget it! Stop fooling yourself, because you won't fool God. In fact, I don't think even God helps us overcome sin. He helps us to see and gives us wisdom to understand how to be free from sin, but I don't know that he is interested in dealing with sin again. In order to help us, or even look at it, he would have to be reminded of the terribleness of it, and the price he had to pay. But we constantly keep whining about our sin, like he hasn't dealt with it completely.                 
  My friend, if you have one sin that you are not totally free from, you will not make it to heaven. That is why we needed Jesus in the first place. I am glad he paid the price in full for all our sin! He did that, he did indeed, and he has imputed unto us his own righteousness. So he made us just as free and perfectly righteous as he himself is. 
  Friend, we will not get anymore forgiven or righteous than we already are. That is, if you are saved. Folks, most preachers dare not teach this truth, because of fear. Fear people will just want to sin, or that it gives people license to sin, or that it is "easy believism". Dude, if i'm going to want to sin I would feel better with license than without! Do you see how foolish that comment really is? And which is harder to believe? That we are free from sin? Or that we are not, but are trying to be? It is far more carnal and easy to believe that we are not holy, righteous or saved.  That we have to confess all of our sins, every day, to be forgiven. And that we are not dead, and that the old man is very much alive.
  But it is a lot harder for me to believe these words which are the words of God. In Romans chapter four, verses five and six: "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.  Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works".
  Or even just chapter six, verses five through twelve: "For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lust thereof."
  These are only a few of the mass of scriptures that teach the authority and freedom we have from sin, and that sin is not to be excepted, as a christian. Do you see the Devil loves it when we dont just believe what God says and act upon it? Even if we can't wrap our little minds around it, we can act upon what God said. We can practice and claim the righteousness, the authority, grace, power, and freedom from sin, that God gave and offers to us freely.
  The sad thing is if you want to learn the opposite of what God says about our position in Christ, and about how self and sin conscious you need to be, go to church. That is sad indeed.