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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Believing God
52-0224 §37
You get what I mean? Then in there is a spirit, and from there is your immortal life. Then, "A man that's born of the Spirit of God does not commit sin." You get the Scripture straightened out then. If he, if ... "The worshiper once purged has no more desire of sin, or no more conscience of it." In the Old Testament, the worshiper come in and offered his sacrifice, went back out with the same desire to sin. But here, here it is, get it, Hebrews said, "When the worshiper, in this case, who puts his hands on the Son...
Life
57-0602 §19
Then sin and suffering and everything must come to a place where it has no existence, because it had a beginning. There was a time when there was no sickness, no sin, no sorrow, no death. And then it come by perversion. So all the perversion must end back, and all that was ... had a beginning has to end so that the eternal can ever exist. Do you see what I mean? That's the reason it's totally impossible for any persons to ever be saved outside of the new birth, because men are borned again of the Spirit of God and...
The unpardonable sin
54-1024 §46
If you know what is the Gospel truth, and it's laid out to you, and God has revealed it to you, and you know it's the truth; but just to satisfy some congregation or some petty preacher, or to be popular, that you want to hold onto the things that you want to hold onto instead of taking God's Word; Paul said, "He that sins, or disbelieves willfully after he has received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin." There is your unpardonable sin, is to know what is the truth and refuse to...
The unpardonable sin
54-1024 §12
No reason at all why this little place here couldn't be a beehive of the power of God, buzzing with the glory of God flying from everywhere. This little old hole in the wall here, almost, is known throughout the entire world---this little spot you're sitting in tonight ---because ... not of William Branham, but because of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and the Gospel that they've contended for. No sir, I had nothing to do with it, not at all. It was Him who did it, and made the place known throughout the world when...
Possessing all things
62-0506 §38
When a sinner can see that you don't have to sin! Lot of people, they sin because they have to sin. That's a pitiful shape when you say you have to sin. But when you realize you don't have to sin anymore! There's people that just stand up and curse and laugh in your face, and call you an "idiot" and everything else, they are willfully sinners. See, then there's no hope for them. But that man who does something constantly ... they don't want to do it. He steals, he don't want to. And he lies, he don't want to. He do...