A friend of mine is saying well know ministers teach that all future sins have already been forgiven even before they are ever committed.
Is this actually true? If it is then what is stopping christians from doing sinful things knowing they are already foriven ahead of time?
Also if someone never confesses their sins after being saved does that mean those sins are not forgiven. I heard a preacher say once that we have to confess our sins if we expect to be cleansed from all unrighteousness and he said 1 john 1-9 makes that clear
A person that commits a sin in the future has to be sincerely sorry for doing so and have the attitude that they do not want to do the sin again.
Or else it is not true repentance for that means you do not want to do the sin anymore.
To sin intentionally with the attitude that it is forgiven is not repentance for you are not turning from sin.
Also God is not mocked for whatever a person sows that shall they reap.
Will you sin with the attitude you are forgiven and not take the initiative to stop sinning.
Who twisted your arm to sin.
If you sin you could of made the choice not to sin so what is the excuse.
Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
If a person sins intentionally, holds on to sin, then the blood of Christ cannot wash away their sins.
A person with the attitude they will sin because they are forgiven before they do it is holding on to sin.
Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
If a person hates sin, and does not want sin, and allows the Spirit to lead them to help them accomplish that they can abstain from sin.
But some people like to make an excuse so they can enjoy sin but there is no excuse.
You cannot abstain from sin is not a valid thing to say for the Bible says you can abstain from sin.
That does not mean you might not sin for we are in the flesh but if do sin you have to repent not wanting the sin and allow the Spirit to lead you.
God knows the heart whether you are holding on to sin or not.
You cannot repent when you do the act but hold on to the sin for that is not repentance.
Every time we sin we forfeit repentance until we correct it.
1 Timothy 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
2Ti 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
Some people do not allow the Spirit to lead them and love sin more than God which they will not let go of the flesh.
Which they are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Which Jesus said He never knew them because they were workers of iniquity.
People that say they cannot abstain from sin fall in to this category holding on to sin which they are not allowing the Spirit to lead them.
Php 2:12 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.
They say Jesus does it all and nothing is required of them but the Bible says work out your own salvation for we have a responsibility to allow the Spirit to lead us to be Christlike.
Confessing Jesus is a work, and repenting of our sins is a work.
1Co 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Gal 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Charity, love in action, is greater than faith.
And faith works by love.
No love then no faith.
1Co 13:5 thinketh no evil;
1Co 13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth.
Love does not think an evil thought, and does not sin.
Any person who says they cannot abstain which they are holding on to sin that is not love then their faith is no good.
1Jn 3:17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
1Jn 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Love is only valid in deeds, works.
Jas 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Jas 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
Jas 2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
Jas 2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Jas 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
James said that a person is justified by works and not faith alone.
Because works of love is greater than faith.
1Co 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
Paul said he could have all faith so that he could remove mountains but if he did not have charity, works of love, then he is nothing.
Which Paul agrees with James.
We are saved by faith, and not by works when we first confess Christ for that is all we can do.
But when we allow the Spirit to lead us then we have to have works of love by the Spirit to have valid faith.
1Ti 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
1Ti 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Rev 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Mat 22:13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mat 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
God wants all people to be saved and He does the calling and choosing on earth.
Rom 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
God calls things that have not happened yet as though they already happened.
Predestination means God had the plan of salvation to give to mankind before the foundation of the world but this salvation is to whoever wants it because He wants all people to be saved.
The OSAS people should understand what the Bible is saying.
