Without Holiness...?
“FREED FROM SIN”
The Good News & Bad News
By Trevor Davis
2-8-2020

The scripture states without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. Hebrews 12:14. This is one of many scriptures that people tend not to hear much among religious environments. Why do you think that is?

Regardless if it is something churchgoers hear or don't hear, the truth of this text is the same. You must be holy in Christ or you will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

But there is really good news. I wish to provide several other texts that also seem rarely proclaimed in institutionalized Churchianity.

I will give the good news. But there will also be BAD NEWS for those who do not embrace the truth of this good news.

I have noted today, at least 16 scriptures that say a believer is FREED FROM SIN.
I see about 9 texts in Romans 6.
About 5 in Romans 8.
Another in 1 John 3:9, stating that a believer Can Not Sin Because the seed of Christ is within them.

And, Jesus Himself testifies, “He who sins is the slave to sin...Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed”. John 8:34,36

Regardless of what you believe, or do not believe, or, what your own experience is this matter,
the Word of God testifies: Real Christian disciples are made free from sin.

Romans 6:
4. Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

6. knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

7. for he who has died is freed from sin. (by being crucified with Christ; being baptized into Jesus)

11. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts

14. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

18. and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

20. [For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.]

22. But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification*, and the outcome, eternal life.
*Sanctification/holiness/ without no one shall see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:4.

Romans 8: (freedom from sin about five times)
2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

4. so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

10. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

12. So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—

13. for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. See also Galatians 2:20.

14. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.


1 John
3:3 And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

3:9 No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.


This is an amazing study. Clearly, by being immersed into Jesus Christ by faith, the operation of God WORKS (energea) by the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus by the glory of God the Father, we are liberated as a new creation to walk in newness of life. This is described as the “Spirit” and not the flesh.

-The seed of Christ prevents such a person of faith and obedience to walk in sin.
-If Christ is in you, then your body is dead due to sin; but you are made alive after the Spirit.
-If the Spirit dwells in you, then you are putting the flesh to death, mortifying, and not controlled by it anymore.

We are also instructed repeatedly in Romans 6 that this victory over sin and death is through yielding to righteousness; and not the flesh unto death.

No one in Christ Jesus is obligated to walk after the flesh. Romans 8:12.

This is the good news.

The bad news is if you are walking in the flesh and sinning, you are dead and not truly born again. You may have religious ideologies, but the truth of the gospel has not born fruit in your life. If it had, you would be in harmony with the Word of God walking in liberty in Jesus.
If you recognize this information as bad news, realize it is better to find out now than later.
You must be born again. You must be born from above as Jesus instructs us. By the seed of the Word of God, the word of truth. Repent and believe the gospel. Completely surrender to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and have faith in the operation of God.

That is, being baptized in the death of Jesus, being spiritually buried with Him, then also risen with Him as a new creation. All the old things are passed away, and behold all things are made new.

By having the seed of Christ dwelling in you, and the very Spirit of God which is holy, you indeed can yield your own self to righteousness by faith as Romans 6 teaches.

God washes and regenerates us by the Holy Spirit. As we give ourselves completely to the Lord, and we turn from the world and its ways, we present our bodies as a living sacrifice which is our reasonable service.
Romans 12:1-2

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.


Jesus says that it is not those who say Lord Lord that have eternal life. It is for those who do the will of the Father which is in heaven. Matthew 7:21.

One can not do the will of the Father when they are conformed to the world. The world is His enemy.
One can not do the will of the Father when they are in sin.
One can not do the will of the Father when they live in the flesh.
One will never be able to do the will of the Father when they have a corrupted carnal worldly mind either.

And since there will be so many people rejected by the Lord standing on the outside of the closed door of eternity knocking, I have presented this message for your consideration.

Please do as if your life depended on it. Eternal life that is.

As Paul exhorted, every person ought to examine themselves whether they are truly in the faith.
1 Corinthians 13:5.

Give attention to your salvation as if it were the most important thing; not one of the items long down a list. You will be glad you did. Sorry if you don't.