Hi seminole,
Yes Ray is just like the rest of us
But God is using him to discern the scripture in an exordinary way.
Even though we will be sinners until we are born into the kingdom. Those with Christ indwelling is no longer a slave to sin, and sin no longer reigns in your life.
Rom 6:13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
v. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
v. 15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
v. 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
v. 17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
v. 18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
v. 19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
mercy, peace, and love
Kat