What does it mean for the Christian who willingly sins(adultery) and says they are ready to stand before God to give an account(not repentance) for their action?
When a christian willingly sins and says they are ready to stand before God
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A Christian man left his wife willingly placing himself on a dating site to meet other women.
Met a woman and was intimate with her. Told his wife(they were still legally married) that he was ready and willing to stand before God for what he was doing.(without repentance) and happy to continue the affair with the woman and other women. Happy to tell God that what he was doing was the right thing and he was at peace with it.
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If I was that man, I would fear hearing the words from Matthew 7:23: "I never knew you: depart from me."
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I believe that faith in Christ involves repentance of our sins and a lifelong commitment to following Him. It is the honesty and integrity of that commitment that truly matters.
When a couple exchange their wedding vows, they make a promise to be faithful, honest and loving for the rest of their lives, for richer or poorer, and in sickness and health. In many cases, they declare that they are making this vow in the presence of God.
When we believe and are baptised,, we make a promise that we will follow Christ and remain faithful to Him forever. Baptism is the sign and seal of this new birth. We accept Jesus as Saviour. We renounce the sins that separate us from God and neighbour. We reject the devil and renounce evil.
We are called to take up our cross daily and follow Jesus.
Life is never guaranteed to be easy. There will be sorrow and there will be pain.
During life, we will face temptation of all kinds, but we are called to resist.
People will hurt us and say all kinds of bad things about us, but we are called to turn the other cheek and forgive.
Our life is no longer our own, but belongs to Christ. We are no longer our own, but were bought with a price.
As human beings, none of us are perfect, and from time to time we will fall into sin, sometimes grieviously. Wilful sin can damage our relationship with God, but He knows our hearts and when we repent, He will abundantly forgive.
When a couple exchange their wedding vows, they make a promise to be faithful, honest and loving for the rest of their lives, for richer or poorer, and in sickness and health. In many cases, they declare that they are making this vow in the presence of God.
When we believe and are baptised,, we make a promise that we will follow Christ and remain faithful to Him forever. Baptism is the sign and seal of this new birth. We accept Jesus as Saviour. We renounce the sins that separate us from God and neighbour. We reject the devil and renounce evil.
We are called to take up our cross daily and follow Jesus.
Life is never guaranteed to be easy. There will be sorrow and there will be pain.
During life, we will face temptation of all kinds, but we are called to resist.
People will hurt us and say all kinds of bad things about us, but we are called to turn the other cheek and forgive.
Our life is no longer our own, but belongs to Christ. We are no longer our own, but were bought with a price.
As human beings, none of us are perfect, and from time to time we will fall into sin, sometimes grieviously. Wilful sin can damage our relationship with God, but He knows our hearts and when we repent, He will abundantly forgive.
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Peter J Barban
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That man has what the Bible calls a seared conscience.
1 Timothy 4:1–2
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
Even atheists know that such action is unchristian!
At a minimum, he has been demonically deceived. At worse, he is leading the deception of others.
1 Timothy 4:1–2
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
Even atheists know that such action is unchristian!
At a minimum, he has been demonically deceived. At worse, he is leading the deception of others.
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Honestly? That's weird.
either 1.) He was never intimate with the other woman and just wanted to hurt the wife
or 2.) isn't a Christian and doesn't believe in God.
either way he's given the wife grounds for divorce with the admission of adultery coupled with the singles ad looking for women to date.
either 1.) He was never intimate with the other woman and just wanted to hurt the wife
or 2.) isn't a Christian and doesn't believe in God.
either way he's given the wife grounds for divorce with the admission of adultery coupled with the singles ad looking for women to date.
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Peter J Barban
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Sometimes we really want to do something that we know is wrong. Evil spirits either directly or through other people convince us that what we want is not wrong, it's actually right.
This is a lie, but it is a lie that we want to believe. So we make a choice to believe the lie, just as Adam and Eve did in the Garden.
In the beginning, people don't recognize the demonic source of this lie. After a while, they may know the source, but it's almost too late, they would rather burn than repent. Only God can break through this later stage, but usually, he lets them live in the lie they have chosen, as Paul says in Romans 1.
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Peter J Barban
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I know a false teacher personally and professionally. I can't tell if he is merely deceived and passing on the deception, or he is intentionally deceiving others. But he is fully committed to his lies and refuses to speak with me about them.
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Peter J Barban
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I recommend that the man's church (if he has a church) confront and expel him from fellowship. I would support his wife and children moving out until he repents. In this situation, a divorce would be righteous, but choosing to stay and suffer in a broken marriage would also be righteous.
You cannot reason with this man because his choice is not based on reason. It is based on desire and later defended by reason. Until he repents of his wrong desire, he will not change.
You cannot reason with this man because his choice is not based on reason. It is based on desire and later defended by reason. Until he repents of his wrong desire, he will not change.
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we can never know a man’s heart, only God can.
Matt 10:22 and John 15:6 are harsh verses that draw some clear lines about the difference between a person who confesses with their mouth Jesus is Lord but does not follow that up with obedience.
I believe in certain situations regarding this topic of remarriage the scripture is not clear. Some God fearing and Bible believing Christians fall on both sides about remarriage.
However, in this case the Bible is clear. The circumstances you have described appear to reflect unrepentant and flagrant sin, and are not consistent in my opinion with the behavior and mentality of someone who is in dwelt by the Holy Spirit.
after 10 years living a regular Christian life and starting a Christian family, my wife got caught up in acting and I got distracted with sports and ignored my family. She found another guy, walked away from God and decided she wasn’t a Christian and left me, even though I didn’t cheat and wanted to do counseling, still love her (to this day!).
I share because if you are going
Through suffering right now, and feel betrayed, please know that your pain is not wasted. All of this suffering is for a PURPOSE, and it is to draw you near to Jesus. It is in my greatest suffering that I found my sweetest joy. Not from some new woman in my life or my circumstances—which remain painful even now—but joy from my savior, walking through the pain and carrying me home.
I now truly hope for being with him in heaven where no thieves can break in and no moth can destroy. Unfortunately due to my age I probably have 30 or 40 more years on this crap planet before eternity
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aiki
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This is why I hate it when Christians use the "I feel at peace" standard to determine whether or not they should do a thing. People can feel at peace while engaged in terrible evil. What matters isn't what a person feels but what God has said. And He has said adultery is sin and those who engage in such behaviour without experiencing the convicting work of the Spirit are not saved and bound for an eternity in hell (1 Corinthians 6:9). Those who do feel the Spirit's conviction but ignore it cut themselves off from intimate communion with God (Isaiah 59:2), grieve the Spirit (Ephesians 4:30), sear their own conscience (1 Timothy 4:2), and will find themselves without reward on Judgment Day, entering heaven "as if by fire." (1 Corinthians 3:15)
It is delusion to think one can stand before God and justify sin. No one will be offering the I-am-at-peace-and-happy-with-my-sin defense to God. They'll be far too busy dreading their soon-to-come punishment in eternal hell.
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