JESUS CAME TO DESTROY THE SIN NATURE AMONG THE PEOPLE
This is another important verse in the Bible that must be explained.
1John 3:8 He who practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this reason the Son of God appeared that He might destroy the works of the devil.
Jesus came to restore or establish the Kingdom of God among men, by being the complete Sacrifice for their past sins, allowing the people to receive the Holy Spirit and to destroy the sin nature among the people. To the people still living with their old sin nature this message sounds impossible to believe, but to those who received the Holy Spirit it is faith and testimony of the righteousness given to them by God through their faith in Jesus.
Romans 3:31 Do we destroy the Law by our faith? Not at all! We make it even more powerful.
Romans 8:3 The law was without power because it was made weak by our sinful selves. But God did what the law could not do: He sent his own Son to earth with the same human life that everyone else uses for sin. God sent him to be an offering to pay for sin. So God used a human life to destroy sin.4 He did this so that we could be right just as the law said we must be. Now we don't live following our sinful selves. We live following the Spirit.5 People who live following their sinful selves think only about what they want. But those who live following the Spirit are thinking about what the Spirit wants them to do.6 If your thinking is controlled by your sinful self, there is spiritual death. But if your thinking is controlled by the Spirit, there is life and peace.7 Why is this true? Because anyone whose thinking is controlled by their sinful self is against God. They refuse to obey God's law. And really they are not able to obey it. 8 Those who are ruled by their sinful selves cannot please God.9 But you are not ruled by your sinful selves. You are ruled by the Spirit, if that Spirit of God really lives in you. But whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Christ.
These verses above clearly explain that a person must be born a second time in their lifetime. The first birth was as flesh and the second time with the Holy Spirit within. But let us look at another related bible verse that are terribly misunderstood.
1John 2:1 My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. And if someone should sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
This verse is very important to be understood correctly. First of all John was writing to the people not living in sin anymore, that is, those who were already born again by faith in Jesus Christ, who lived the new righteous life in Christ, guided by the Holy Spirit living within them.
Here it is very important to know that John was not talking to people still living with their old sin nature. John did not tell sinners that if one of them should go on sinning, that Jesus would be their Advocate or Excuse. John spoke to the children of God living their new life in the Holy Spirit. John did not teach to sinners that even if their sin continues it will fall under grace, and this is exactly not what he meant or said, but John was saying that if one of them who are no longer a slave to sin, accidentally might sin again, then Jesus would be the Advocate before the Father, for that person He already cleaned. This is exactly the same as Paul wrote to the people who were saved and no longer slaves to sin anymore in Romans:
Romans 6:11 Likewise you also, consider yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts,13 nor present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to whom you obey, whether of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?17 But thanks be to God, that though you used to be slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from your heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. 18 And having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms on account of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawlessness resulting in more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness resulting in sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 So what fruit did you have then of which things you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now having been freed from sin, and having become enslaved to God, you have your fruit resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.
The Holy Spirit is given by God the Father to all people who comes to faith in His beloved Son as their Sacrifice and Savior. Because of Jesus we are enabling to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, to become children of God the Father, brothers and sisters of Christ.