Sin is missing the mark by our not doing according to the His standard, or failing to do according to His standard by our neglect. And in our understanding of justification by faith which is the cause of our acceptance before our being regenerated, we must think rite by that grace in order for us to live with a rest that is required in our ongoing trust in His faithfulness. In approaching God through prayer we do not offer any goodness to Him, as He displays His mercy to us as being unable to please Him by any thing of our selves. This is why it is so important to understand the imputation of His righteousness as our only goodness.
If sin is missing the mark, then the teaching of our conscience by the law is going to lead us astray as the means to obtaining righteousness. Since temptation by the world, flesh and the devil does not only involve the attraction of the beauty of the object, but the law of the flesh in order to obtain victory over that sin as well. The world tries to convince the believer of the way of the flesh in order to obtain acceptance by God by a pride in thinking that God will reward us apart from Christ or that we bring goodness in our corrupted state.
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