Is It Possible to Ever Be Completely Free of Sin in This Life and Become Perfectly Sinless?
1) Direct Answer
- Not in the fleshly sense. In this life you will not reach a state where your body and human faculties never fail. But in Christ you can be truly free from the dominion of sin, and before God you stand perfectly sinless by the blood. The born‑again life does not practice sin.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- The Bible says, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves” (1 John 1:8). That shuts the door on fleshly perfectionism.
- Yet it also says, “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin… and he cannot sin, because he is born of God” (1 John 3:9), and “Sin shall not have dominion over you” (Romans 6:14). That shows the new birth brings a life that does not live in sin.
- “By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified” (Hebrews 10:14). In Christ, God sees you perfect.
- “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus… who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Romans 8:1,4).
- “If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 John 2:1). We are kept clean by His intercession as we walk in the light (1 John 1:7,9).
- Paul said, “Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect… but I press toward the mark” (Philippians 3:12‑14). We are pressing, overcoming, not boasting of flawless flesh.
- Christ “loved the church… that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle” (Ephesians 5:25‑27). That is our standing and our aim.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Now notice: the new birth plants God’s seed in the soul. Sin, at its root, is unbelief. The inner man born of God believes and cannot sin; he will not live in willful disobedience. But you still carry mortal flesh with weaknesses. So a believer may stumble, but he does not practice sin or stay in it. He confesses, is cleansed, and walks on.
- You see, it’s not fleshly perfection; it’s spiritual victory. Not sinless flesh, but sin not imputed because of the blood (2 Corinthians 5:21). Not bondage to sin, but freedom indeed (John 8:36). Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh (Galatians 5:16).
4) Reinforcing Statement
- So, no to boasting of sinless flesh; yes to a holy life where sin’s rule is broken, failures are confessed, and Christ’s perfect righteousness keeps you without condemnation as you walk in the light. That’s the mystery of perfection: perfect in Christ, overcoming in daily life, until this mortal puts on immortality.
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An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 8:E-33
But the Jews back there in the time of Jesus did not want to accept that sacrifice. The blood of bulls and goats made nothing perfect. It was once God's ordained method. But now Christ having appeared in the flesh, and by the shedding of His own blood has put away sin and by that offering of Himself has made us perfect. The Jews would not take that. But what about that Philadelphian Age, and, yes, the other ages, too? Did they really accept this reality in Christ? No sir. Even though Luther brought the truth of jus...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 3:E-95
Some have an idea that the two trees in the garden were just two more trees like unto the rest of those that God had placed there. But careful students know that this is not so. When John the Baptist cried that the axe was laid to the root of all trees, he was not talking of simply natural trees, but of spiritual principles. Now in I John 5:11 it says, "And this is the RECORD, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son." Jesus said in John 5:40, "And ye will not come to Me, that ye might ha...
Hebrews, Chapters 5 and 6, part 1
57-0908M §54
Listen. Let's read just a little further here, please. ...what could never ... make the comer unto perfect. For [second verse, the tenth chapter] For then they would not have ceased to be offered? If that could make the person perfect, and God requires perfection... If keeping the laws and doing all the commandments would make you perfect, then there's no need of having anything else; you're already made perfect. Because when you're perfect, you're eternal; because God's the only one that's eternal, and God's the o...
The Queen of Sheba
60-0401E §1
[Pastor introduces Brother Lamsa.] ... he speaks the language and can read the language and read the original documents in which the New Testament was written. So with him, it is so wonderful that he can read directly from the original script the very words that Jesus and the disciples spoke and wrote. He felt that these translations that we have are not always correct and true. And that's where the criticism comes in, because he criticizes the King James version, and some people think that St. Paul preached from t...
Faith in the Son of God
52-0715 §20
The devil won't judge by the good things; he will judge by the worst things. He throws it all over on the Word. The same thing he will do by Christians. He will say, "Look at there. Look at that guy, supposed to be a Christian, out there living with this other man's wife, drinking liquor, doing these things there. Well, I'm as good as he is." Sure, you're better than he is. But brother, that guy has nothing to do with the man who's really--really living a real Christian life and loves Christ. If he loves Christ, he...