End time Bible! Ezekiel 33:6 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword comes and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
I read an article on a supposed-to-be-Christian site today that stated three responses to the sins of Christians. In the article, they supposed that if you went to church you were a Christian.
They are from one of those churches that teach if you’re a Christian you sin daily and if you say you’re saved then you are.
Many people go to church but going to church doesn’t save you. These false teachers are playing church and are worldly.
Many of America’s Church’s teaching of Christianity is far from the truth of the Bible. It’s a watered-down version of going to church an hour a week and then back living in the world until next Sunday.
They don’t teach against the ways of the world but bring those ways into the church by saying that person is a Christian who participates in that worldly activity. Once again it takes more than just saying you’re a Christian.
The Bible teaches to overcome the world not be a part of it.
1 John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
1 John 5:5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
The Bible teaches love not the world or the things in it and if you do love the world the love of the Father is not in you. In the other words, you’re not saved neither are those people doing those worldly ways who say they are saved.
1 John 2:15 love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
God doesn’t even hear your prayers if you are sinning unless it’s to repent. Repent means to change your ways.
John 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man is a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
So if you sin daily then you are a sinner, not a Christian and God does not hear your prayers.
They teach you can’t overcome sin and they use what Paul was saying in Romans 7 to excuse their sinful ways. What Paul was teaching was before he becomes a Christian. He starts out in the 6th chapter of Romans and says:
Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Romans 6:2 “God forbid“. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
God forbids? That surely doesn’t mean to go on and sin or sin daily, but not to sin. Is Paul telling you that God expects something out of you that you can’t achieve? No!
Romans 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Romans 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Romans 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. So it’s obvious by reading the whole chapter of 6 that Paul is talking about before he was saved he was in the flesh and he was later saved by Jesus.
Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Romans 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Romans 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
So the Bible teaches we are free from the bondage of sin.
Paul says in Romans 7 that he is a wretched man and who will save him?
Romans 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
The answer is Jesus’s way, Jesus’s truth, and Jesus’s life as our example to live after.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
And the very next chapter he tells you how not to sin.
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
I think anyone who has been taught this-worldly doctrine should read Romans chapter 6&7. Many who go to these lukewarm churches who are sinners are not looking for a way to get out of sin but a license to sin so they can go on and be worldly and confess they are Christians.
John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
So as you can read Jesus came to set us free from sin and we can do that by getting out of the flesh and live in the Spirit.
If you are sinning then you have a go-between with God who is Jesus and you can confess to him your sins and he will forgive you.
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
John’s writings as well as Paul are telling you not to sin. It’s worldly false teachers in lukewarm churches that are teaching people the opposite of what the Bible teaches.
The Bible warns in the last days there will be false teachers who will twist the truth and speak evil of the way of truth.
2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 Peter 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Who will follow their false teachings that are heresies? Many will follow those evil ways. People go to churches that teach that way because it is easy and little is required.
Christianity is not just going to the altar and getting saved and going to church on Sunday for an hour.
Repenting and going to church is just the first step to a life of learning and changing unto that mature person in Christ.
That why we are born again by the word by studying it and growing by the ways the Bible teaches.
1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
We are to be transformed daily unto a new creature in Christ.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
An article you can read is on this website is called transformed by the renewing of your mind which will give you insight on how to grow in Christ.
Remember what Jesus taught in Matthew 7 about those who go to church at the end of the world and Jesus never knew.
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work sin.
Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
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