“willfully practice a sin”
“Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”
Philippians 2:12-13 KJV
willful sin is different from someone struggling with sin and failing
Willful sin is when your able to overcome and willfully choose to continue in sin because you desire it more than righteousness
It is a willful act , it’s not the same as someone who is struggling with sin
This takes time alot of time and it’s capacity grows as we learn more from Jesus
“Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”
John 8:31-32, 34, 36 KJV
you have to first be set free in order to willfully sin is my point a free man who serves a slave master is doing it willfully , a servant or captive isn’t serving sin willfully they are in this boat
“in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.”
2 Timothy 2:25-26 KJV
I’ve known people in my life who struggles half thier life with particular sins eventually thoer faith led then to repentance those sins are now behind them though they had repeatedly continued in those things because they were not willing to don them but they were serving the human nature of lust as all of us have not understanding and truly not being capable
awe have to come to this place to be free and when your free your Will has been changed by the gospel from sin to righteousness
What I’m saying is
“But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin,( not willful but bondage )
but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.”
Romans 6:17-18, 20-22 KJV
say that point if a person returns back to those things God has freed them from it becomes willful they’ve been set free but are choosing freely to return tonthe bondage
awe have to let Jesus alone with each other when it comes to judgement and work on our own selves
as one know a little bit of the gospel some know a lot others know every word it is thier own undersrsnding they are held to not another persons
babes and adults aren’t the same and aren’t able to accomplish the same things nor live up to the accountability ofnthe other
a grown up can’t sit on mamas lap and be bottle fed , but a babe can’t be expected to go earn a living either the babes belong to God as well as the full grown people each has thoer own level of understsnding and therefore thier own standard of judgement based on what they understand themselves from the gospel
“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
James 4:17 KJV
Think of it this way of your beloved brother did something wrong would it matter if they knew it was wrong before they did it to you ? It matters if we are aware to God
willful sin is a free man who willfully chooses to live in opposition to Gods Will which is the gospel
The one that suffered and died gets to decide who’s saved and who’s not