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One of the biggest lies in Christianity is that we do not have to repent in order to be saved and that repentance is just a mere "changing one's mind about who Jesus is."
But yet, we have clear teachings in the Bible that cannot be ignored that those who are not Holy and who do not do what is Holy and righteous in a given situation are damned and never were/are children of God in the first place. God warns about peoples conduct multiple times in scripture. Paul also warns in several of his letters that those who remain in the sins that they have regularly practiced before will NOT inherit the kingdom of God. John even says in his letters that those who do not practice what is righteous are not children of God and that those who live like the world are of the world and are children of wrath. It just cannot all be ignored. You know where in the Bible it says all these things because you've been either twisting them or obeying them your entire life.
Because, I know what you're thinking but Paul said you were washed and that is who you once were. Exactly! Who you once WERE not who you are CONTINUING to become. Those who do not repent and do not seek to be Holy in all of their conduct will NOT see the kingdom of God. The Bible calls them false converts and it's a very serious matter.
By now you must be thinking, if i have to be completely Holy than i am doomed because ive sinned and i am definitely NOT holy. You're right, we are not Holy but that does not mean we insult the death of our Lord on the cross by living like our father the Devil does. You are part of the world but you are not OF the world. People who have truly been regenerated by the Holy Spirit know in their hearts that true repentance is an ongoing action and that without God true repentance is impossible because our hearts are so wicked and that our hearts are made of stone. It is God who takes our hearts of stone and turns them into hearts of flesh. When we sin it kills us inside because we know that we're falling short of God's perfect standard and we desire with all our hearts to please God and be the perfect beings that God wants us to be.
People who have been truly converted know that abortion is murder, that homosexuality is not blessed or approved of by God, that divorce is wrong except for on the natural grounds of sexual immorality, that to be angry with somebody makes them guilty as if they had killed the person. True Christians listen to the Bible and the words of God and love the God of the Bible. We know these things because God has said them ALL in the Bible and the Holy Spirit confirms them in our hearts. But the unsaved love to twist the very words of God to get people to believe whatever they want them to believe and draw them further and further away from God. If God has declared it is true than we must obey it. Otherwise we twist it and tell the God of the Bible that we want a different God than him. Otherwise known as the devil.
To live by the spirit means to live according to the promptings of the Holy Spirit within you. You know the Holy Spirit is within you because you will have an aching desire in your heart to please God. Something that could never happen without the Holy Spirit regenerating your heart. You will recognize just how far you are from God's perfect standard and that will cause you to truly repent because like i said it makes you feel like youre completely dead inside. Those who repent to God know they are saved because God promised to save all who truly come to him and that none of his sheep are lost. No! not ONE single one.
I do not say this to condemn but to educate the true children of God on things that they should know already. Following God and bring a Christian is not picking what parts of the meal you like and to completely ignore and tear out the rest of the meal. It's consuming the whole meal and savoring ALL of what the God of the Bible has said and declared to the world about himself. What I've had to say here should not be anything new and if it is new to you I plead with you to repent at the perfect time in which God has planned out for you. Call out to God in full and perfect repentance and he will not only declare you righteous, he will not only declare your feeble attempts at perfect holiness Holy, but he will be your God and you will be his child. Forever.
But yet, we have clear teachings in the Bible that cannot be ignored that those who are not Holy and who do not do what is Holy and righteous in a given situation are damned and never were/are children of God in the first place. God warns about peoples conduct multiple times in scripture. Paul also warns in several of his letters that those who remain in the sins that they have regularly practiced before will NOT inherit the kingdom of God. John even says in his letters that those who do not practice what is righteous are not children of God and that those who live like the world are of the world and are children of wrath. It just cannot all be ignored. You know where in the Bible it says all these things because you've been either twisting them or obeying them your entire life.
Because, I know what you're thinking but Paul said you were washed and that is who you once were. Exactly! Who you once WERE not who you are CONTINUING to become. Those who do not repent and do not seek to be Holy in all of their conduct will NOT see the kingdom of God. The Bible calls them false converts and it's a very serious matter.
By now you must be thinking, if i have to be completely Holy than i am doomed because ive sinned and i am definitely NOT holy. You're right, we are not Holy but that does not mean we insult the death of our Lord on the cross by living like our father the Devil does. You are part of the world but you are not OF the world. People who have truly been regenerated by the Holy Spirit know in their hearts that true repentance is an ongoing action and that without God true repentance is impossible because our hearts are so wicked and that our hearts are made of stone. It is God who takes our hearts of stone and turns them into hearts of flesh. When we sin it kills us inside because we know that we're falling short of God's perfect standard and we desire with all our hearts to please God and be the perfect beings that God wants us to be.
People who have been truly converted know that abortion is murder, that homosexuality is not blessed or approved of by God, that divorce is wrong except for on the natural grounds of sexual immorality, that to be angry with somebody makes them guilty as if they had killed the person. True Christians listen to the Bible and the words of God and love the God of the Bible. We know these things because God has said them ALL in the Bible and the Holy Spirit confirms them in our hearts. But the unsaved love to twist the very words of God to get people to believe whatever they want them to believe and draw them further and further away from God. If God has declared it is true than we must obey it. Otherwise we twist it and tell the God of the Bible that we want a different God than him. Otherwise known as the devil.
To live by the spirit means to live according to the promptings of the Holy Spirit within you. You know the Holy Spirit is within you because you will have an aching desire in your heart to please God. Something that could never happen without the Holy Spirit regenerating your heart. You will recognize just how far you are from God's perfect standard and that will cause you to truly repent because like i said it makes you feel like youre completely dead inside. Those who repent to God know they are saved because God promised to save all who truly come to him and that none of his sheep are lost. No! not ONE single one.
I do not say this to condemn but to educate the true children of God on things that they should know already. Following God and bring a Christian is not picking what parts of the meal you like and to completely ignore and tear out the rest of the meal. It's consuming the whole meal and savoring ALL of what the God of the Bible has said and declared to the world about himself. What I've had to say here should not be anything new and if it is new to you I plead with you to repent at the perfect time in which God has planned out for you. Call out to God in full and perfect repentance and he will not only declare you righteous, he will not only declare your feeble attempts at perfect holiness Holy, but he will be your God and you will be his child. Forever.
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