SINLESS SINNER?

It surely can be confusing to tell someone that you are sinless in Christ, yet that you still commit sins on a daily basis because of your humanity. The unbeliever will certainly think you are crazy, or perhaps addled, but the fact is that this an accurate attribute of a born again Christian! But to explain it, we must use correctly interpreted bible verses to convey this concept in a manner that laymen are able to understand.
"He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother." (1 John 3:8 - 10) Here is a passage that some may need explaining about. The first part of this passage means that those who have not accepted Christ and have not been born again are of the devil. Those not born again will not want to read the bible, they find their condemnation in it concerning what all behavior God calls sin, including a lack of faith, which is another term for belief. if one lacks belief, they likewise lack faith. If one doesn't believe in the bible, why would they read it, except out of curiosity, and probably wouldn't even finish it; it's a long book, and besides, they don't believe according to the hardness of their hearts. however, if one has had their heart circumcised by the Lord, and their eyes and hearts be opened, then they will accept Christ, accept what the bible says, and be born again, and then they will adapt their behavior to biblical precepts, instead of according to selfish lusts. A passage by James edifies this train of thought -

"From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The Spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But He giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded." (James 4:1 - 8) Be born again! If one's eyes be opened, James is explaining those who chose the world were enemies of God, and he encourages people to draw nigh unto God, or, in other words, choose God instead of the world, and this will eventually lead to elimination of asking God amiss, because one who draws nigh to God reads His word, and those who read His word to a level of understanding will learn how to ask God correctly, and not amiss, which is according to selfish lusts, even to anyone's hurt. Habitual sinners, those who have not accepted/believed on Christ, these are not sinless sinners, because they have refused or denied the promise of God through Jesus Christ. And what was that promise?

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." (John 3:16 - 21) I will say it again, that many pastors and preachers in many denominations do an injustice not preaching God's full promise. This is a loaded passage, because it's not just a promise, but it explains how God works. God requires a blood sacrifice for forgiveness of sins; therefore, He sent His Son, the only entity in existence capable of doing the task necessary to provide love to an entire human race, to provide blood sacrifice of His own Self, that we might all be saved on the sole condition of believing in Christ Jesus His Son. This being done more than 2,000 years ago, we now have the stage set for explaining the sinless sinner. First, a body accepts Christ and is born again, attaining salvation. The same body dies a saved soul, and now it's judgment time! "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:" (Heb. 9:27) There are two judgment seats, the bemis and the white throne. Those saved by Jesus' blood are judged from the bemis seat, and according to what they did for Christ. "Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire." (1 Cor. 3:12 - 15) But those who have rejected or denied God's gift through Jesus Christ, these are not sinless sinners, but sinners INDEED! They go to the white throne judgment seat! "And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." (Rev. 20:11 - 15) So this is how a saved soul is a sinless sinner. When God looks at a soul for judgment, those who are saved by the blood of Christ receive Jesus in the form of a filter, and although we have sinned sins of all sorts throughout our lifetime, Jesus' sacrifice acts as a filter so that God sees us in Jesus' sinless character, thereby we are saved by Jesus. It's like a red filter on a page in the bible where Jesus speaks in places, but not on the entire page. When you use a red filter over the entire page, you can't see what Jesus said in the red letter edition, because the filter blocks out His words written in red in the bible on that page. Likewise, our sins are as the red letters of Jesus' words, and Jesus' blood is the filter that God looks through to find sins. Since He sees no sin through the filter of Jesus' sacrifice, we are accepted into heaven, forgiven all blemish due to the fact we accepted the one condition of the gift of God, and that being the belief in Christ Jesus as Savior and the sacrificial Lamb, a gift from God our Father.

"If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death." (1 John 5:16 - 17) Believers can sin to the point where physical death results as judgment from God; "For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep." (1 Cor. 11:30) "Many sleep" means that many died. "Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to Me: for I will not hear thee." (Jer. 7:16) If a person willfully sins after repeated corrections by their family member in Christ, John is saying one doesn't need to pray about it, because God will handle it!

So here we have an explanation of a sinless sinner; "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)" (Eph. 2:5) By God's grace through Christ Jesus, we are saved to the uttermost; we are heavenly kingdom bound - "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." (Eph. 2:8 - 9) We who believe are God's children, and the law is no longer our schoolmaster, that we should be held accountable for our sins; we who are born again are under grace; sinless sinners! "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus." (Gal. 3:24 - 26)