False Assertions About Sin Part 1.

"The believer cannot sin before God", anchored on another assertion that "God doesn't see the believer outside Christ, but in Christ".

When we merely postulate and express our reasoning, understanding and exegesis - which might seem very plausible and approximating to what the scripture actually says - as the final authority; we shut out the voice of scripture itself and embrace what we assume it says as the voice of truth. 

Sadly, our preaching, teaching, commentary, exegesis and interpretation is often so loud and verbose that it crowds out the voice of scripture. 

We speak and write volumes in whose echoes and pages, the voice and lines of truth in scripture, is hardly/faintly heard and read.

The assertion that "before God, the believer can't sin", anchored on another assertion that God doesn't see the believer outside Christ but in Christ, has no scriptural bearing whatsoever. 

There's absolutely no scripture that says or suggests that the believer cannot sin before God; Neither is there any that suggests that God doesn't see the believer outside Christ or as an individual apart from Christ. 

As much as God made Adam & Eve to become one flesh; yet their distinctive personalities and features remain so before God. "Two saith he, shall be one flesh"; it is two distinct persons before God, yet one flesh in the mystery of the union, and the mystery of the union cannot hold if it ceases to be two distinct persons, for there is no union in one, it takes two to unite and become one. 1 Corinthians 6:16-17.

Likewise the truth that says "he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit", does not mean that God no longer sees the believer in Christ as a distinct person apart from Christ. 

Take for example this scripture in 1 Corinthians 6:15

"Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid."

Under the eye and scrutiny of God who sees all things, the believer in such a situation has sinned and the implication of that sin as before God and best known to God, is that he has made the members of Christ, the members of a harlot.

The sins of the believer are not hid from God and Christ.

Hebrews 4:12-13 says "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do."

2 Corinthians 5:10 Says "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad."

In Jeremiah 17:10 we see God present himself as he that searches the heart and tries the reins, to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Also in Revelation 2:23 we see Christ who is the Son of God and one with the Father, Say to church saints/believers "I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works"

The sins of the churches from Ephesus to Laodicea were all pointed out by the Lord himself and exposed/laid before him whose eyes are as a flame of fire; who also warned them of the impending judgment if they fail to repent.

So where does the assertion that the believer cannot sin before God come from or the assertion that God doesn't see the believer outside Christ? 

Definitely not from the scriptures of truth.

The believer who is in Christ by spiritual placement/position, is also in the world by physical birth/placement. 

The grace that puts/places us in Christ through faith, is the same grace that teaches/exhorts us to deny ungodliness/worldly lusts and to live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world. Titus 2:11-12. 

God sees us both as seated in the heavenly places in Christ, and as strangers/pilgrims passing through this present evil world. 

John 17:15  "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil."

Romans 1:3-4  "Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father"

1 Peter 1:17  "And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear"

2:11  Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul"

Finally, in 1 John 2:1-2 we see that Jesus Christ is our advocate with the Father and the propitiation for our sins. He is the sacrifice for the once and for all atonement of our sins, yet when we sin, we are reminded that beyond being the propitiation for our sins, Jesus is our advocate with the Father, who is before the Father on our behalf and intercedes for us. If our sins are not real and grievous to the Father, why do we need an advocate with the Father?

If in the sight of God, the believer cannot sin/his sin does not exist, why then does he need an advocate with the Father, to intercede/speak on his behalf?

Why are we admonished to come boldly to the throne of Grace, to obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need? Hebrews 4:16

Why do we have the voice of sprinkling speaking better things than that of Abel, if our sins as believers are not real before God and such that can attract the wrath of God? Hebrews 12:24-25.

Why are the saints/believers in Christ warned thus: 

"But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them." Ephesians 5:3-7.

Let No Man Deceive You With Vain Words.