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AmateurExpert, none of us can put away our sin because the Bible teaches us that we are still sinners until the day we die. But because of God's grace, through Jesus Christ, anyone can be saved from an eternal death, separated from God. Anyone can know for certain that they are part of the harvest, as you said. Ephesians 2:8-9 "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-- and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- not by works, so that no one can boast." Romans 10:9- says, "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 it is with your heart that you belive and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved...... verse 13 "for ' Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'"
Can't agree more, we all sin. People always will sin, myself included. The only time we will be sin free is other the other side of this life. And only if we are washed in the blood of Jesus Christ.
The difference is, do we repent, hand it to God, and get back on track with the mission Christ gave us in (Matthew 4:19 follow me and I will make you fishers of men.)
Follow Christ's teachings (follow me)
Be changed by Christ (I will make you)
And on mission to make disciples who make disciples. (Fishers of men)
Doesn't mean we won't slip into old ways of the flesh but that we know to look up and crawl out. Or avoid the hole when possible. If that makes since.
I prefer to live and motivate myself as though it was possible and trying to help the refiner hammer out the dross impurities, while praying that grace is sufficient for my astrayances. Lord knows I’ll need plenty.
Matthew 7:21-23
Those people cast out devils and did many wonderful works greater than these, and they did not enter!!
Psalm 111:10
There’s no harm in fearing Elohim.
The only acceptable fear is fear of the Lord. Any other fear is, inherently, blasphemy. For anything else involving sin, I highly recommend listening to this, or reading the transcript. Someone linked it earlier today, and man, it was exactly what I needed to hear today, regarding the nature of sin and forgiveness: https://stone-choir.com/all-sins-are-not-equal/
I’m not quite sure where your comment was placing my statements at, as that was the exact thing I said I feared, but they have a link to “Antinomianism” there, and that’s likely a much better term for what I’ve been referring to with “Dispensationalism”.
I have been trying to wake Christians up to that, and slowly, because as we have seen, people do not like waking up.
Will listen to the podcast before commenting any further.
Edit:
They hit on something that I was writing before deciding to listen to the podcast (actually, it was the entire response). I’ll go ahead and add that:
I believe in forgiveness of sin, and that sin must be repented of, and as I noted, mine has not been put away. Without repentance, there cannot be “forgiveness” of sin, only “tolerance”.
There are differences in scripture between intentional and unintentional sins. Unintentional sins were what was atoned for through the sacrificial system at the temples and synagogues. They were imperfect, and thus had to be repeated constantly for any unintentional sins. These sacrifices seem to be what were fulfilled on the cross, as well as an exemplar of how the law was to be followed, which had been strayed from as significantly as we have strayed from the constitution.
There was no sacrificial system for intentional sins, which we today treat quite casually, to what may eventually be our great dismay.
Every one of us should behave with appropriate fear that we show up and find out that Matthew 8:11-12 was talking about ME.
What do I fear? I fear that, and I pray that my intentional sins might also find some degree of grace before the throne.
Modern pastors should be HORRIFIED.
Hebrews 10:26-29
(Edit: ha! They cited that one)