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Originally Posted by Zezima
Believers who have been born again might fall, but it’s impossible for them to habitually live in sin because they have the holy spirit in them, the spirit will not let them. Can you clarify what about that statement is not true?
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The whole point of chap. 1 Cor. 5-6 is to describe a wicked brother who lived in the flesh and who was sinning in worse ways than unbelievers. It deals with his unrepentance, the church's inaction to remove the evil brother, and Paulīs intervention and warnings.
No, the Holy Spirit did not intervene as to "not let him" sin. But rather the evil brother disobeyed the Lordīs word and commandments, suppressed his own conscience, rejected the Holy Spirit within him and lived according to the flesh. He did not deny himself nor deal with his passions and lusts. This resulted in his sexually immoral behavior commiting fornication in an incestuous and adulterous way with his fatherīs wife.
His fleshy, unrepentant condition and the churchīs inaction caused Paul to intervene to deliver the wicked brother to Satan, judged to have his flesh destroyed so that his spirit may be saved.