We do not Continue in Sin

1 John 3:4-9 

4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

Sin is having no standards of right and wrong, as if no law of moral religious standards or rules matter or need be followed.  When men reject God’s law of morality, they create a system of selective acceptability, or near total anarchy.  Either way, this rebellion against God and His word is sin.  This sin we have inherited at birth is incurable by our methods of medicine or psychiatric approaches or philosophical reasoning.  Our attempts to placate God’s wrath by philanthropy also fall miserably short of His required payment for our sin (Romans 3:23, 6:23).  Jesus Christ came to take away our sin by dying to cover us in His blood instead of ours as payment, a willing sacrifice of His life in place of each of ours whom He calls.  Therefore if we go on sinning as before with no change after claiming Him as our redeemer, we have not truly seen Him.  We don’t really know Him.  Anyone who offers such cheap grace of lawlessness is a deceiver, and whose reasoning we follow teaching that says we can sin freely because we imagine ourselves saved from the Hell of God’s anger on sin, that one is a liar.  We who are saved are saved from sin, not living to continue to practice it without remorse or true repentance.  We who are truly in Christ practice righteousness, though imperfectly, as our transformation wells up pleasing our Redeemer within us.  Those continuing in sin as before have not been changed by God but continue to follow the Deceiver.  The Son of God showed up to destroy the destroyer’s work of sin in our nature by making us new, and we then do not go on living continually in our sin, but turn in godly repentance (2 Corinthians 7:9-10) to live as we are called.  God Himself lives in us as Spirit, and this seed of righteousness keeps us from loving and continually pursuing sin any more.  We surely do fail and are not sinless in word or deed (but are perfect in our position within Christ and His righteousness), but our direction and desires are no longer bent on continually pursuing sin as before true conversion.