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Thanks for the question! Lutherans believe we are "saints and sinners." We can and should resist the sinful temptations within us, but we are not truly free from our sin until death. As we read in Scripture, "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us (1 John 1:8)." That said, even now, we are truly God's saints, those purified by Christ's death and resurrection that we might walk in newness of life. This is a tension of the Christian life that we do not resolve as Lutherans, because we believe that Scripture is clear that both are true: saint and sinner.

@@immanuel.murray Yes, but Jesus said to the woman, "Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more” He also did something similar with the man at the pool. "Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you." In the first case, he may have meant she should only stop committing adultery. In the second, it is a little more straight forward. Just before your quote, "6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all[b] sin." I think the only difference between Lutherans and Weslyans (Not Methodists. They have a great many problems) is one believes we can reach a point where we can behave like Jesus if our heart truly desires it His spirit will enable us. Thanks for commenting back so soon. I will be watching more videos.

Right! We don’t want people to persist in sin. We also don’t want to only speak law to the world. We proclaim Jesus Christ, crucified and risen, law *and* gospel! If our message is missing either, it is insufficient.