7299	Forums / Main Forum / Snare Of Sin	on: June 26, 2007, 12:23:41 PM
Not one person is exempt from a time in their regenerated lives in which they are losing to sin. In fact if you go to the confessions these are called times of discipline. The really hard repentant types do not like to think that there are people in their congregations that are losing the sin battle, and that Gods grace is exalted because of certain struggles with sinful habits. These dreamy views of people repenting in order to over come a besetting sin and then never returning to struggle again is just a false view of the whole counsel of God. Because God uses our weakness to manifest His strength, and to think that this process is all of purity and power is to putting the saints in an impossible position of self effort and they will hide and fail more and more with this kind of doctrinal approach. The fact is that most of the saints are in need of being propped up, under girded and supported by the stronger ones who have undergone this intense struggle with temptation and sin and have had dealings with the Spirit in the spirit of grace. If we are making a standard where our churches get past a certain point of victory over all habits then we are not really fully engaged in the battle for souls or have been in a dream world in our own struggle with the world the flesh and the devil. Those who are really concerned to fight will encounter the losing battles. Its part of the process of sanctification. Look in the wcf.