Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 6No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. 1 John 3:4-6
Sin is lawlessness. Sin is so ugly. What do you think or feel when you think about lawlessness? A bad neighborhood? A corrupt region where the weak are victimized? Lawlessness comes from the human heart, and we all have the potential for lawlessness in us. The law keeps us under control to the extent that we obey the law. When we do not obey the law, lawlessness exists and we are out of control. The ugliness we see in bad neighborhoods and corrupt regions of the world is present in every human heart.
Jesus came to take this sin and lawlessness away from us. He came that we might become self-controlled. Self-control is one of the fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:23).
So, once we know the sinless one who took away our sins, we will not keep on sinning. We know from context that this means a lifestyle and direction of sin, not that we will never commit a single sin the rest of our lives. It only makes sense that if we live in the sinless one that we will not keep on sinning.
It also makes sense that those who continue in a life of sin have never truly seen Christ or know him. It is impossible to meet Christ and not be changed.
He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. 1 John 3:8
The work of the devil is sin, and the Son of God appeared to destroy sin. Sin and all its consequences are the devil's glory. It's all he wants to do. He wants to sin and increase sin in mankind. Jesus destroys this work in his followers.
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