JOHN MACARTHUR ABOUT ASSURANCE

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And i believe your ideas belong to your desire to use the grace of Jesus as a license to sin..
Having admitted you are not sinless, you claim I am sinful. As if you no more need His grace. That's funny.
 
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And i believe your ideas belong to your desire to use the grace of Jesus as a license to sin..
Being under grace, having died to the law, sin is dead. So the actions under grace cannot be sinful. So who uses grace as a license to sin? Those who hold on to the moral law in order to be justified but gratify their desires claiming grace, do indeed use grace as a license to sin.
 

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#83
According to John MacArthur & Phil Johnson...
1) what should a christian do if he sins?
2) What is the meaning of repentance?
3) How to gain assurance of salvation?
4) Can a person be saved but lose assurance?

I would like to know the above.
Confess and HE is faithful and just to forgive us of all unrighteousness

1 John 1
 

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#84
The purpose of law is to lead to faith in atonement. But even after coming to faith you are yet under the law.
You haven't yet died to the law (Romans 7:4).
The law will not pass until all has been accomplished, sir...this is true.
Because well...some do not handle the law rightly...they do not combine the inward workings of THE SPIRIT with the written letter of the law...
and as well, there are still enemies of the cross...which is why, until all has been accomplished (until HE has put the last of HIS enemies under HIM) the written law will remain...
 

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#85
CHRIST came to magnify the law...based on love and accountability to GOD and one another...But some do not believe in CHRIST so...until all has been accomplished, the written law remains...
 
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#86
Confess and HE is faithful and just to forgive us of all unrighteousness

1 John 1
Isn't it grace which forgives? Why then do christians trust in their good deeds for assurance?
 

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#87
According to John MacArthur & Phil Johnson...
1) what should a christian do if he sins?
2) What is the meaning of repentance?
3) How to gain assurance of salvation?
4) Can a person be saved but lose assurance?

I would like to know the above.
A person who is saved, who has believed and confesses CHRIST can not lose assurance because their HOPE is IN HIM...and we know that anyone who HOPES in HIM purifies themselves even as HE is PURE
 
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#88
CHRIST came to magnify the law...based on love and accountability to GOD and one another...But some do not believe in CHRIST so...until all has been accomplished, the written law remains...
Jesus abolished the law by His death.
 
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A person who is saved, who has believed and confesses CHRIST can not lose assurance because their HOPE is IN HIM...and we know that anyone who HOPES in HIM purifies themselves even as HE is PURE
Purifies from what?
 

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Isn't it grace which forgives? Why then do christians trust in their good deeds for assurance?
Who trusts in their good deeds, sir...who

Do you understand Paul had to come to an end in himself...that he couldn´t even look at himself, but left himself to THE LORD who would judge him...

Which is why he said that people should stop judging, that he himself no longer judged himself, NOR DID he CARE if he was judged by men...he left himself to the LORD who would judge...and he even understood that though he no longer judged himself, it did not make him innocent, but he would leave all to his LORD who would judge.
 

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#91
Jesus abolished the law by His death.
DO NOT THINK I CAME TO ABOLISH THE LAW...BUT TO FULFILL IT
(Do you remember that verse from THE WORD of GOD?) Why would you say the opposite of what HE said?


HE FULFILLED IT...HE became OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS by fulfilling all the dead righteous requirements of the written law...as long as we hold to the confidence which we had from the beginning...for even John says in his letters...be careful that what you began in remains in you...

Some wander away from the faith...but those who do, by their going out...it is made manifest that they never were IN sir...
 

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How can one who is born of HIS SEED....leave???????
 

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Purifies from what?
Sin and unrighteousness sir...don´t you know the written word, sir...I didn´t write my own opinion sir..

Please google if you need to and you will find the chapter which I am referring to
You, more importantly regarding that verse should have asked....hopes in what

1 John 3 is where you can look
 

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1 John 3 will also confirm my post # 92
 
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#96
Who trusts in their good deeds, sir...who

Do you understand Paul had to come to an end in himself...that he couldn´t even look at himself, but left himself to THE LORD who would judge him...

Which is why he said that people should stop judging, that he himself no longer judged himself, NOR DID he CARE if he was judged by men...he left himself to the LORD who would judge...and he even understood that though he no longer judged himself, it did not make him innocent, but he would leave all to his LORD who would judge.
"purifies themselves even as HE is PUR"
What does this mean?
 
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Sin and unrighteousness sir...don´t you know the written word, sir...I didn´t write my own opinion sir..

Please google if you need to and you will find the chapter which I am referring to
You, more importantly regarding that verse should have asked....hopes in what

1 John 3 is where you can look
Acts 15:9 tells purification is by faith not works.
 
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DO NOT THINK I CAME TO ABOLISH THE LAW...BUT TO FULFILL IT
(Do you remember that verse from THE WORD of GOD?) Why would you say the opposite of what HE said?


HE FULFILLED IT...HE became OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS by fulfilling all the dead righteous requirements of the written law...as long as we hold to the confidence which we had from the beginning...for even John says in his letters...be careful that what you began in remains in you...

Some wander away from the faith...but those who do, by their going out...it is made manifest that they never were IN sir...
Mathew 5:18: "till all be fulfilled".