I am curious, and being sincere also when I ask you.
Are you living a perfect life everyday and you can say you never sin, slip up or make mistakes?
i do not knowingly or willingly do anything that will upset or disappoint my Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. i do all things to please Him. My life is no longer mine, my life belongs to Him. i am His slave. i don't do anything to upset Him or cause Him disappointment.
You listen to God's voice and obey every single time without hesitation no matter the cost to yourself?
What cost to myself. i am bought with a price. i do not own myself. i belong to Him and to Him only. As to hearing His voice. Starting to cry now. He has not spoken to me since 1994. crying now. be back in a minute.
Ok. The things i teach you now, are the very things that i refused to believe back then. i was not willing to give up sinning. i ran from God, did not want anything to do with Him, went to the bar every night after work, fornicated a lot, slept with married women, watched porn, etc. etc. etc... stopped praying. Two years later God sent an angel to get me back into the Light. The angel told me "You are a sheep in wolves clothing, it is time to take off the wolves clothing" then he left. So i got back into trying to walk in the light. if i was going to give up sinning, i wasn't going to do it all at once. So after 16 years of smoking a pack a day, i quit. After that, i gave up cursing, after that fornication, after that filthy talk (dirty jokes and such) after that sex, after that porn. So i don't lie, cheat, steal, hate, or anything that i think would upset Him. i am walking in the light today, who knows what tomorrow will hold, it is my hope that tomorrow i will still be in the light. But over time all things get easier. What i mean is when i first quit smoking satan would relentlessly attack me to start up again. But now, he doesn't bother with me concerning smoking because he knows i will never do it again. Sex is the same way. when i gave it up 10 years ago, that is when satan came at me with all his power, throwing women at my feet to get me to fall. But now, he rarely messes with me. Because i welcome his temptations. i know full well if satan comes and tempts me to commit sin, and i do not do it. that God will Bless me for that. So then the more satan tempts me and i do not fail, the more Blessing i get from God. so satan now realizes he will never get me with sex again. Oh every once in a great while he will come and tempt me, but all he does is gives me another blessing from God. So then it is easier to walk the walk i am walking now, because satan knows with Jesus in me, i am unmovable. i will die before i give satan the satisfaction of obeying him. Jesus is my Master, Savior and Lord. satan is His enemy. i will NOT obey my Master's enemy, will not. So then my point is, it is only at the first that it is difficult to cease from a particular sin, but after satan realizes that he can't tempt you with that sin, he will cease (not altogether) from tempting you to commit that sin. So that is why i say it gets easier and easier.
i will never have a sexual relationship again, ever, until Christ comes, or i die, or am killed. and i am 100% fine with it.
You can honestly say I never sin anymore since I started my walk with Jesus?
Heavens NO, i can't say that at all. i can't remember a time that i did not believe in Jesus Christ. my Mom was called to be a Nun, she met my Dad, and did not do what she was called to do. She felt so much conviction because of that, that she prayed to God that she would dedicate her first born son to the Lord. She was reading the Bible to me when i was in the womb. Bible stories is what i was read to sleep with. Anyways i knew Jesus, well i can't remember a time that i didn't. No i have sinned much. i have sinned plenty. i have been with over 50 women, 5 of them were married. i have done many sins, as i have said before probably more than everyone added together on these boards. As Paul once said "I am chief"
But after i ran, and even now to this day, He has not spoken to me since 1994. Crying again, hold on. i ll be back
Ok i'm better now. Anyways. i can't say i have not sinned since i got Saved. But i can say, that i no longer continue to live in sin. That is to say i no longer knowingly or willingly do anything that is sinful. When i am tempted to commit sin, i look to Jesus my Savior for help. The Word says with every temptation Jesus allows a path out of it, therefore one must look for that path in order to find that path out of it. For me, it was going immediately into prayer, or start reading the Bible. Do you know how much i have read the Bible. over 85 times front to back. i have found a pearl of Truth when i was a kid in church. it was less likely for me to sin in Church then out of Church, therefore the more i immersed myself in the Word of God the less satan had an opportunity to tempt me to commit sin. If i don't go to the bar, he can't tempt me to drink there.
There are many, many things that i did and still do to prevent myself from obeying satan. i think the biggest deterrent from me committing sin was that knowing that if i didn't do it. that God is going to Bless me, He is Faithful and He teaches He will. So then i would much rather receive a Blessing from him, then to experience His punishment.
You made quite a few assumptions about my posts when in reality I was explaining how trying to be perfect on my own in my understanding that I had at the time was killing me and my relationship with God and that it was God Himself who explained salvation to me.
i am sorry if i made an inaccurate assumption. i try to respond without any assumptions at all, but respond to what is said. Again if i have made an inaccurate assumption, i am sorry.
Fact is my life has changed in many ways since I have been walking with Jesus/God/Holy Spirit. But I cannot say that I am a perfect human being on my own - the only way God can see me as perfect is through His Son Jesus
The Father does not see us at all. The Son is the only one who can stand in the presence of the Father. The Son reveals to the Father our petitions. We are all here on this planet to be tested to find out what is Truly in our hearts. If you wake up in the morning and think to yourself "What can i do for me today?" i would question who is in your heart. But if you wake up in the morning and think to yourself "What can i do for others today?" Then it is Christ in your heart.
i can't stress it enough. Start Loving One Another today.
the only way God can see me as perfect is through His Son Jesus who did come and live the perfect life I have been unable to live and now that I know Him we walk together with the Holy Spirit showing me the way prompting me to make changes which have not come overnight but I continue to walk with Him allowing Him to correct me and help me improve. Jesus blood is sufficient to cover my past, present and future sins even though I am not plotting a sinful course my heart and desire is to please God not hurt Him. But I still fall not wanting to but it happens...
This is what is written concerning the past, present and future sins.
Rom_3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
That are Past. This generation would do well to study the Word of God. Christ only paid for your sins ONCE. He was sacrificed for you only ONCE. He does not continually go to the cross and be sacrificed every time you commit a sin and ask for forgiveness.
Here is how it works and this generation will absolutely refuse to believe the TRUTH of it, yet it does not contradict even one verse in Scriptures.
When a person accepts Jesus as their Savior and Lord. All their past sins are immediately forgiven to them, Jesus took the punishment for their sins, He pays the debt of them, and all the sins they committed are forgotten entirely, forgiven. That person is immediately washed clean. Pure, White as snow. SINLESS, Did not deserve it, it was a gift to them, it was free. Jesus did that for them, because they Believed in Him. That person is SAVED, written in the Book of Life the moment they received Him as their Lord and Savior. AFTER that moment if that person willingly commits sin. it will be that person who pays for the penalty of that particular Sin. Jesus already paid the price for their PAST sins. He does not continually go to the cross for that person time and time again to be sacrificed over and over and over again, read Hebrews. Jesus pays for that persons sins ONCE. After a person gets Saved, they will pay for their own sins that they choose to commit.
Scriptures teach this in many places. it is written you reap what you sow. If then you do evil you shall be repaid for the evil that you have done. The wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient children of God. notice they are called children of God, not referring to the unsaved, which are not children of God but children of the devil. You commit sin, it is you that will pay the consequences of those sins. People need to wake up to this Truth, because the more they continue to sin, the more wrath they are adding to be put on themselves when the Hour of Temptation will begin.
Here is where it gets a little bit harder to understand. Even though a person commits sin and they will pay the consequences for their own actions, does not mean they are unsaved or not forgiven.
If i walk into the bank and rob it, and later i repent and return the money, and ask God to forgive me. God does, but i will still have to pay the consequences of my actions, and God may decide that prison is where i will go, even though He has forgiven me, the Word can't be broken. He has to fulfill "You reap what you sow" or He is found to be a liar, and He is no liar.
For example i have sinned much after i was forgiven of my past sins. After i was white as snow, and i freely chose to get dirty again. Even though right now i am forgiven of the sins that i committed after i was Saved, i will still pay the consequences of my own actions. i may contract a disease, or get maimed in a car accident, or when the Hour of Temptation starts, i may have boils all over me. my point is i will not escape the punishment for the things that i have done that were against Jesus Christ. Here is why it is called the Hour of Temptation.
Because when His Wrath comes upon the whole Earth, and people everywhere are effected by it, some more than others, and there will be much suffering, for all will be paying the consequences of their own sinning during this time. People have stored up wrath for themselves for this particular time. Many and i say many will not understand they are being punished for their own sins, they have blindly believed a doctrine that taught all their sins past, present, and future, have been paid for, something that is NOT taught in all of Scriptures. So when it is time to pay the consequences of their own sinning during that time, they will not understand, and this is when the Great Falling Away will happen, many will not repent of their sins, and realize they deserved the punishment that God dished out to them, because of their own sinning. So then the Hour of Temptation is when you will be tempted to turn away from God, to fall away from the Faith, even though terrible things has come upon you and your family. So no matter what wrath comes upon me in the end, i will know, i deserved it, and will not turn away from God. He is a Just God, and during the Hour of Temptation, the world will reap what they have sown.
All those who continue to live in sin, all they are doing is storing up wrath for their own selves when it comes upon the whole Earth. All of you have been warned of this, and it is the TRUTH, and does not contradict any Scriptures. Howbeit it most certainly contradicts the false doctrine that is being taught today.
Paul said he had problems doing what he didn't want to do and not doing what he should do.
Yes and he testifies he was in a miserable way, but in the end who was able to help him? Jesus Christ was able to help him.
Please answer my questions as I would really like to know your input on these questions. Thanks.
i always try to answer every question that is asked of me. Even though that is rarely what i receive in return. What i mean is, i ask questions that people generation don't want to answer, because if they did answer it, then they would have to realize they were wrong in what they believed, therefore it is easier to NOT ANSWER and attack the person and not what is being said.
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††† In His Holy and Precious Name, Jesus Christ †††
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