Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
What a strange thing for the Word of God to teach us to do, if it is not possible to do. Scriptures teach it is possible through Jesus Christ. The world teaches it is not possible.
I grew up knowing I was lost because I tried and tried not to sin and I could never stop sinning it seemed so when my other friends would say they were saved I thought well good for you because I'm lost. This perfect, sinless teaching without explanation is harmful to young and older minds....
Harmful, How so? How is teaching stop obeying satan, start obeying ONLY God, is harmful?
I was in and out of church because of feeling like a sinning hypocrite cause I couldn't get it right and kept on sinning.
So you could not get rid of the sin that so easily besets you.
Heb_12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
So since you came to the conclusion you were not going to give it up, and were tired of feeling convicted by it, you had to come up with something else to make it OK? correct? So the false teaching that tickled your ears was what you now believe correct? That you can continue to commit sin without ceasing from them and still go to Heaven? Is that the doctrine you now believe in?
So as I cried out to God at the age of 56 I said I'm not good enough and I will never be good enough - His answer was you're right Darlene you will never be good enough. That's why My Son Jesus died for your sins - so that when you ask for forgiveness and repent I no longer look at the wrongs you have committed but I look at the perfect life of My Son as His blood covers your sins. I said it is that simple and the answer was Yes.... I started bawling like a baby because I was saved.
Tell me, if a man beats his wife and repents of it, then again beats his wife and repents of it, and he beats his wife every night, and again he repents of it. How sorry is he for beating his wife? A person is Truly repentant, when they repent and CEASE to ever do it again, else they are not sorry for it. A person who fornicates but afterwards he repents of it, but he continues to fornicate and continues to repent, he never ceases to fornicate, but after each time he repents of it. Now Scriptures plainly teach no fornicator will enter into the Kingdom of God, is this man judged a fornicator on Judgement Day? Are you saying he is not a fornicator even though he continually fornicated?
If a person commits a sin and the TRULY repent of it, they will cease to ever do that sin again, ONLY then is forgiveness granted to that person, because as long that they continue to commit that sin, they are NOT sorry, even though they repent with their mouths, they are not sorry and it is evident they are not sorry because they continue to do the very thing they ask forgiveness for. True repentance is given for a sin, when a person repents of it and CEASES from doing it again. If a person repents of a particular sin, KNOWING full well they will continue to do it again, does not receive forgiveness, because they are not Truly sorry, they have not Truly repented of that sin.
What can wash away my sins.... Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Scriptures are CLEAR who are washed by His Blood.
1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
When? When do we have fellowship with Him and He cleanseth us from all sin, When we walk in the light NOT in darkness.
All things are possible through Christ which Strengthens us. There is no sin that you do that you can't possibly cease from. If you think there is a sin that is impossible to cease from then name it here.
Narrow and difficult is the path that leads to life everlasting. If that path you think is easy and not difficult, i assure you that you are on the broad and wide path that leads to destruction.
Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
What a strange thing for the Word of God to teach us to do, if it is not possible to do. Scriptures teach it is possible through Jesus Christ. The world teaches it is not possible. Believe Scriptures which teach it is possible. Those who are lost will remain lost. Those who try to cease from sinning through their own power and their own strength will never be able to do so, that is impossible, as you can testify to. But with the Power and Strength of Jesus Christ there is no sin so powerful that you can't overcome it, not one. There is NO sin that a person does that they can't possibly cease from if they look to Jesus for help with it.
Every single message to the 7 Churches in revelations was to the Saints that OVERCAME. this generation better start overcoming certain things in their life or their will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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††† In His Holy and Precious Name, Jesus Christ †††
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