Love cannot sin.

God is love. Love cannot sin. Sin is the absence of love.

Love = Life. No love = no life.

No love = sin.

Love does not want for self. Love does not seek her own. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7 KJ)

Sin has a motive of self-gratification, self-getting, or a motive of getting, which is rooted in fear and believes the lie of lack. Eve was deceived. She doubted God and believed the lie that she wasn't good enough (that she lacked knowledge or wisdom). Thus she had the motive to get which caused her to put self-first and self-gratify versus put God first and gratify God. Love does not want for self or seek her own. Love has a motive of giving not a motive of getting. God said to Adam that if he ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil (a.k.a. chose not to love God) that he would die. Mankind went from being of love (goodness) to being absent of love (sin) which is evil.

Remember God created us to be of a single nature (let your eye be single).

Matthew 6:22 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Man was single vision, single motive, single nature, single minded...which is of Love. Love gives because that's Who God is. God's nature, motive, and actions are never in want for self. God does not self-gratify Himself. God the Father glorified His Son Jesus, and Jesus glorified his Father. Love takes two; Giving and Receiving, but never a motive of getting. Love has no fear. Love does not lie. Satan can't live in God. Sin can't live in Love. Love cannot sin.

This is why God sent His only begotten Son Jesus to save us (change us) back into the image of God.

Jesus died for our sins and rose again to life. Then God could send the Holy Spirit into our hearts when we believe in Jesus as our Lord and Savior. When we believe we receive God's Holy Spirit in us so that we are changed into God's nature (Christ in us, the hope of glory). We have died to sin, and are alive in Love (Christ). Love does not sin. God dwells in our heart, mind, will, and behavior.

A good tree cannot produce corrupt fruit.

Matthew 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

1 John 3:9 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.

1 John5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

Love is: an Identity,

a Spirit,

a Nature or Character,

a Motive a Choice,

an Action,

a Fruit or Result (and a feeling).

God is Love.

God’s Spirit is Love,

God’s nature or character is Love,

God’s motive is Love,

God’s Choice is Love,

God’s Actions are Love,

God’s Fruit or Results are Love.

God’s purpose is love. The Word is Love. God’s word is Love. God’s will is Love. God’s nature is Love. God’s culture is Love. God’s law is Love. The Light is Love. God’s Way is Love. God’s Truth is Love. Love is the way of life, and to Life. God’s Kingdom is Love. Living water is Love. The Tree of Life is Jesus (Love). God is Love.

Love is the only thing that transcends ALL of these

The self-gratification motive and actions of getting (sin) is also a Choice. If we say and believe we can’t stop sinning, we are saying we don’t love God or know His love.

My identity is my nature, thus my choices and actions reveal who I am and Whose I am.

1st John 3:9 seems to be the opposite of 1st John 1:8-10, but it’s not. Many misunderstand the flow and context of 1st John chapters 1,2,3,4, and 5. John starts off by talking to the people who may not know Jesus or believe in Jesus as their Lord and Savior, and then he moves on to those that do know him as their Lord and Savior (1st John 2:3-5). This happens from verses eight, nine, and ten in chapter one and then as you read in chapter two, verses three, four, and five it explains that we know him by keeping his commands (which means to love and not to sin).

1st John 1:8-10 is not saying to believers, that we cannot stop sinning, it’s speaking to those who may want to know Jesus and be born again. Therefore, it shows in 1st John 2:3-5, 3:9 and 5:18 that those who are born of God do not keep sinning, as his seed (Jesus) remains in us and the wicked one (satan) toucheth us not.

As well, many read Romans 7 as present tense. Yet, if you read carefully and in context with Romans 6 and 8, you’ll see it’s a flash back in time when Paul was under the law, yearning to be rescued. In Verses 7-13 Paul is saying “I was” (past tense). Then in verses 14 - 24 he switches to a present tense internal dialogue of “I do” and “I am”, which is describing how he couldn’t live up to the law when he was under the law. It’s not describing a dialogue he has with himself under his current identity in Christ, for he is transformed and sanctified. Therefore, you can stop falsely identifying with Paul’s struggle of sin when he was under the law.

Don’t buy the lie that you ‘re still a sinner. God’s love (grace) has changed you. It’s not what you do, it’s what He did for you and in you. Now you can put your new nature into practice and stop believing you’re a selfish sinner, or that you lack. You lack nothing and our Father provides all your needs. You are free, to love.

I’ve found many believers may not truly know God or His love for them. Many have a motive (heart) of self-gratifying ways, which is often manifested by one’s worrying about what others think of them (or what they think others think of them), or what they are lacking. This is self-focused and brings us down. It’s not of God. What others think, say, believe, or do towards me is not about me, it’s about their heart, beliefs, character, and behavior. However, what I think about others is very important. How I see them, talk to them, and my actions towards them shows the condition of my heart. Ask yourself this question, “Am I more caring for their interests and wellbeing, or am I focused on myself?” This is so subtle. We’re often focused on trying to feel better about ourselves and we can wind up being critical of the other person. This is destructive to our wellbeing, relationships, and moreover it’s not loving God or others.

It’s so important to know we have been changed by grace and transformed into the image of God (Born of God). The old nature is gone, and the new nature is who I am. I used to be the selfish rusted old pick-up truck, but now I’m the brand-new Denali with no rust and no miles, never to rust out or mile out again. I have a new heart. His amazing grace. His love lives in me. Christ in me. I am changed by grace.

Saved = Changed. Fear don’t live here, only love lives in me. I am thankful I don’t need or want to get anything from anyone. I have God, who is my everything and provides everything I need. I have freedom from wanting to get or trying to fill the lie of lack.

I have found that many believers believe they can’t stop sinning. Many believe they have this battle of two or three parts going on inside of them. They tend to misunderstand or be unaware that they are fully sanctified. 1 Thessalonians 5:23, In the King James Bible, says: “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” The NIV says: “May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (NASB says sanctify you entirely).

Incorrect understanding and teaching can mislead the reader away from the truth, that we are

“wholly” (completely) sanctified”. See 1 Corinthians 6:11, “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” The spirit, mind, and body are all sanctified and made new.

You don’t have this battle of sin and love going on between your spirit and soul or your heart and your mind. The word “flesh” has two meanings. One is the skin and bones of our body (the vessel). The other meaning of “flesh” means sinful nature (self gratification, self-first, or a self-getting motive rooted in fear of lack). The good news is you’re completely new (dead to sin or self-gratification). You no longer have a sin nature, identity, motive, choices, actions, or results.

Your skin and bones don’t have a sinful nature. Your skin and bones are not battling your heart or spirit. You are God’s son or daughter (perfect, holy, sanctified, blameless, sealed with His holy Spirit and Christ lives in you). Remember, as a man thinketh in his heart so is he. You can’t have two hearts, or be double minded, or have two wills. A house divided cannot stand. You can’t have two natures.

Love cannot sin. You are of God. You are born of God. You are of Christ (Christ-ian, of Christ).

You are born of Love. You were a sinner. Saved = Changed. That's the fullness of God's grace.

Believe who God says you are; Holy, Sanctified, Blameless, Perfect, 100% complete Love.

Believe, you are Whose you are. God's son or daughter.

Be who God says you are so you can Do who God says you are.

Who you BE is what you DO. Love casts out sin. Love lives in you. That's who you are and Whose you are.

Love wins and never sins. Your heart, mind, will, behavior are all love, because you are born of God and God dwells in you.

I am Whose I am.