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dennis62
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If a person can keep the same dysfunctional friends, go to the same sinful places, and participate in the same sinful lifestyle activities that they did before they repeated the sinner's prayer, chances are they did not receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior. A child of God just can not go to those places and do those sinful things with out feeling like they are turning their back on Jesus. God will allow us to go through some bad things in our New walk to teach us Christian Discipline. When True Christians do bad things, they feel bad until they repent and make things right.
5 Indeed, you seem to have forgotten the proverb directed to you as children:
My child, do not ignore the instruction that comes from the Lord,
or lose heart when He steps in to correct you;
6 For the Lord disciplines those He loves,
and He corrects each one He takes as His own.
7 Endure hardship as God’s discipline and rejoice that He is treating you as His children, for what child doesn't experience discipline from a parent? 8 But if you are not experiencing the correction that all true children receive, then it may be that you are not His children after all. 9 Remember, when our human parents disciplined us, we respected them. If that was true, shouldn't we respect and live under the correction of the Father of all spirits even more? 10 Our parents corrected us for a time as seemed good to them, but God only corrects us to our good so that we may share in His holiness.
Hebrews 12: 5-10 The Voice Bible.
5 Indeed, you seem to have forgotten the proverb directed to you as children:
My child, do not ignore the instruction that comes from the Lord,
or lose heart when He steps in to correct you;
6 For the Lord disciplines those He loves,
and He corrects each one He takes as His own.
7 Endure hardship as God’s discipline and rejoice that He is treating you as His children, for what child doesn't experience discipline from a parent? 8 But if you are not experiencing the correction that all true children receive, then it may be that you are not His children after all. 9 Remember, when our human parents disciplined us, we respected them. If that was true, shouldn't we respect and live under the correction of the Father of all spirits even more? 10 Our parents corrected us for a time as seemed good to them, but God only corrects us to our good so that we may share in His holiness.
Hebrews 12: 5-10 The Voice Bible.