A believer can habitually sin. Grace is Grace. They are going to have a miserable life,lose rewards,reign, rank,possibly die the sin unto physical death and a host of eternal blessings. But they are still saved.
And we have to keep in mind that the vast majority of believers are living in RELIGION/EVIL habitually. An even worse state than habitual sin. Why is this never added as a qualifier to His Grace?
To go off your quote, why don't we see the majority of believers saying this?........
So the new birth has made us saints who sometimes live in religion(because they can't and won't live in habitual religion if they are really saved)but we are born again and our life is hidden in Christ.
Believers can and do live in habitual sin and are still saved. Believers who live in the worst possible thing in Gods eyes.....habitual religion are still saved.
Nobody BUT YOU, consistently make these discussions about personal salvation....Not one thing mentioned in any posts is or are related or directly talk about personal salvation...not one...
A believer can SIN, but will they? Many believers know committing SIN breaks the heart of Father, so why would we want to to do break Fathers heart and put Jesus to shame? Committing Habitual Sin and abiding in Jesus[not talking about salvation here] are clearly refuted in the Bible....In Christ you are either a slave of righteousness or slave to sin, but not both....light cannot fellowship with darkness...
It is next to impossible for a believer to commit and live in Habitual sin....Wanna know why?
Because empowering grace will not let you live that way....
You seem to be saying this:
Before Johnny got saved he was single and fornicating with any woman he could find....married, divorced or single women, prostitutes it did not matter...when Johnny needed that itch scratched, it got it scratched....furthermore when Johnny could not find a woman, he relied porn to satisfy his Sin of fornication......
One night Johnny went to church , heard a message that his fornication did not matter to God, because God's grace would save him and not send him to hell, Johnny felt a little bit sorry for his fornication and he raised his hand and got saved....in the next few weeks, Johnny was continually told that God's Grace kept him from going to hell....Johnny told his grace preacher that another Christian told him, that he should keep porn off his computer and stop sleeping around with women, because it is a SIN and he has been trying in all his physical might and mental strength to keep from fornicating and looking at porn.....the grace preacher told him to stop listening to the religion pushing fruit inspector, because he was questioning your salvation and its OK for believers to live in habitual sin and be saved, because that is how grace works...
Johnny was sooooo relieved that he went out and hired 3 prostitutes and made up for lost time.
Through the following years Johnny still went to church, but avoided the religion pushing fruit inspector people, because he had grace and was still saved......His grace pastor had to "step down" for 2 weeks and then started preaching again, after people found out he was having an affair on his wife....So Johnny's SIN accelerated and was unstoppable, because hey, if my Pastor can do it and he has grace and is saved, then its ok for me too....even though there were times in the quiet places he never talked to anyone about, he heard a small still voice telling him to stop his SIN....
Johnny no longer was satisfied with just women and many women at the same time, so he started dabbling into bi-sexual encounters...Once every week Johnny still heard everything was alright because grace was on his side and he was still saved.....Johnny noticed that the still small voice stopped talking to him...he did not think much about it....when the bi-sexual encounters did not fulfill him, he began homosexual encounters....and full out orgies.....nothing could scratch that itch good enough.....Johnny was also taking copious amounts of drugs and drinking heavily during this entire cycle....every Sunday Johnny was in church hearing about how grace saved him and that nobody should judge him or question the way he lived, because Grace is grace and he was saved.....
One night after drugging and drinking himself sober, unable to perform sexually and at his wits end he heard a voice...the voice told him the answer to his ultimate itch was to be found by taking a nice hot bath....Johnny climbed into the tub and the voice told him....don't forget the razor blade....when Johnny's physical and spiritual states began to collide and he suddenly understood he was dying...he had a very real chill run down his back, because the voice now, was not the voice then.....
But hey gr8grace....we don't need no stinkin fruit, we don't need no stinkin religion and we don't need know stinkin qualifiers....cuz we have grace....