Hi Stephen Any particular reason why all your posts seem to be threats about not making heaven and reminding us of our past sins? This is a pre-trib rapture forum board with born again brothers and sisters that fellowship here. You are pretty much preaching to the choir. Once we get saved our slate is wiped clean … God sees the blood of Jesus covering our sins … we are justified … “just as if we have never sinned” Praise the Lord 🙌. Please look carefully at verse 11 in this passage I Corinthians 6: 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. And its a given we are still going to sin in these mortal bodies until .. at the rapture event when we get our glorified bodies … so God’s promise to us is … I John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. 1 Jn 5 That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved. It is just as the Scripture says: Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame. Ro 10 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the un-circumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses. Col 2 We as Christians have been transferred from the kingdom of darkness in to the Kingdom of God's beloved Son Jesus. The Spirit of God dwells within us, from the moment we were saved. We don't live in the flesh but in the Spirit, because the Spirit of God dwells in us. Being born again and new creatures in Christ and His Spirit working within us, causes us to not choose or want to walk in the sins you mentioned Stephen. The Holy Spirit convicts us of sin if we should fall, and if that happens, the Spirit if God is always wooing us back in to His loving arms of forgiveness and continued walk with Him in the Name of Jesus. We are saints, not sinners. We are secure in Him. We don't need to fear those sins mentioned because we know to Whom we belong! In that, we choose to walk in accordance to His will, but again, if we fall in any area, the Lord is there to pick us up as we are convicted by the Holy Spirit, and ask for forgiveness. We are redeemed, restored and blessed; one with the Lord our God and Savior. We do not fear separation because we are bought by the Blood of the Lamb, once, for all and forever. See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God. Our "old man" has been crucified in Christ. We are a new creation. We are spiritually rooted and centered in Christ with the ongoing desire to be more like Him every day that He gives us breath. Knowing this that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin. Rom 6 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for (us) who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time...though you have not seen Him, you love Him. Though you do not now see Him, you believe in Him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 1 Peter 1 The defiled will not enter into God’s Kingdom, so we must be diligent with our lives to be real servants of Jesus Christ. We must look to the power in Jesus’ blood to set us free from anything that defiles us. The defiled are those who refuse to submit to Jesus as their Savior. Believes will still fall into sin. It is our very nature in the flesh. Jesus atoned for all of our sin but that does not mean we will be sinless in this earthly body. Lately I have read and heard a lot of people stating that if we still have a sin nature then we are not truly saved because those who are saved have been regenerated and their desire to sin has been removed. This is not true either. Regeneration is a life-long process that only ends once we have died. You're so right, Yohanan! Sin consciousness needs to be replaced by a Christ consciousness -- the Lord Jesus fully dealt with sin on the cross. It is finished! God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (1 Cor 5:21). When Father God looks at us, He sees Jesus -- because we are in Him. For those people who insist on being obsessive about sin, consider this: "...whatever is not of faith is sin" (Rom 14:23). Did you perform every single action out of faith today? Of course not! As Yohanan says, it's a gracious work in progress. In fact, grace teaches us by the Holy Spirit to deny sin (Titus 2:11-12). Again, it's a process! We have the glorious gift of no condemnation (Rom 8:1); we are the righteousness of God in Christ... so just chill out and rest in the knowledge of His finished work at the cross. It's done! It's over! Once you really believe/know this in your heart, you will steadily and progressively lose your desire to sin. It took me a while to get this head knowledge into my heart, but now nothing and no-one can take it away from me. It's real freedom... and it's all because of Him! Hello Geri9. The message is from the Word of God for all of us, including myself. We cannot knowingly walk in the works of the flesh and use Jesus as our defense. If we truly have Jesus, we no longer willfully walk in the works of the flesh that defile us. You are mistaken in your understanding of 1 Corinthians 6, as though one is justified in the name of the Lord Jesus even though he/she commits the same sins as those who God will judge. No, Jesus' blood does not cover willful acts of sin. That's why Jesus admonishes the Church to walk in holiness and righteousness in Revelation. "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still."
