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Yes..for the rest of our lives.
Who does that?
Yeah ok .umm so believe you or believe Jesus who said repentance for the forgiveness of sin will be preached.
While it is true that those who are genuinely saved will indeed persevere and remain faithful, it does not necessarily follow that all who are genuinely saved will indeed persevere. Some were never saved to begin with, but others were indeed saved but did not endure in the faith to fight the good fight and finish the race set before us. The scriptures refer to those who apostatized and fell away from the faith. Apostasy only applies to believers as it is impossible for unbelievers to apostatize from the faith since they never belonged to or were a part of the faith to begin with. Thus those of saving faith will not all remain faithful.
Doesn't that statement contradict itself?
This is Old Testament understanding. The "Now Testament" is about how we receive the reality of grace and mercy. Forgiveness is not something we ask for it is the gospel of "the cross", as we know very well,
It is how we deal with our conviction of our sin as it relates to judgement of our actions weather good or evil
The book of James as well as the rest of the epistles are written to believers only, otherwise referred to as the church, saints, brethren etc. In writing to the saints James stated that we are justified by works and not by faith alone and faith without works is dead. In other words, a Christian's inner faith is made manifest and proved to be genuine by one's outward works. James cannot be referring to unbelievers as they possess no saving faith to begin with and their works done in the flesh cannot save them.
Faithful to what? Answer: faithful to Jesus and obedience to his commands (Heb 5:9). Everyone including Christians sin according to 1 John 1. Jesus forgives when we sin occasionally. In particular, notice that 1 Jn 1:7 states that Jesus' cleansing blood only applies to those who are "walking in the light." Those Christians who are walking in the light are those believers whose lifestyles are characterized by obedient and holy lives but when they do sin on occasion, Jesus' blood cleanses. This is in contrast to believers who practice sin; engage in habitual sin - for such as those there is no assurance that Jesus' blood cleanses as his blood is only reserved for those who walk in the light (v.7). Believers who practice sin are instead characterized as walking in darkness, lie and do not even have fellowship with God (v.6).
Yes, furthermore consider that if future sins are automatically forgiven then Christians should have no problem in the future if they choose to take the mark of the beast. Obviously, that presumption of automatic forgiveness of future sin is contrary to the stern warning of Rev 14:9-11.
Repentance is just not a popular topic.
Sinning accidently is a myth people tell themselves to appease thier conscience. Because it's mostly a particular sin they keep on so called accidentally doing ...and therein is that lie exposed.
