Proud Sinners and Their False Conversions

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It's indeed a cause to be outraged if anybody can say that repentance of sin equals salvation, that repentance doesn't save anyone and that you can be saved and still remain the same. It should be a ground to warn the person of the possibility of a false conversion. Such people who want Christ and their sinful pleasures, covetousness and immorality are misled by this deadly heresy. Except people repent they will all likewise perish.

Even in the announcement of Jesus' birth, Matthew 1:21 says that Jesus came to save people from their sins and not in their sins. It's a horrible heresy to each that Jesus saves people in their sins and not from their sins and that sinners may remain the same after conversion. Its' the doctrine of the perpetually carnal Christian today that has already sent a lot of people to Hell today. Many today just "pray a prayer" and they never understood the Gospel. While I have nothing against sinner's prayer evangelism because some people got saved in spite of it, it was because the pastor wasn't a wishy washy preacher who preached a washed up version of the Gospel.

It would make no sense if God in His holiness and righteousness would not cleanse sinners from their sin and make them grow in grace. 1 John 1:9 teaches this truth that sin isn't only forgiven but it's also cleansed in the process of sanctification. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 shows the difference between the unsaved and the saved. Romans 3:31 shows that the Law is not made void by faith but it's established by faith. Titus 2:11-14 teaches that God's grace defeats ungodliness. If you're truly saved then that salvation is not merely salvation for the sake of it. It's salvation from sin itself that the person is being saved daily from the power of sin and will one day be completely saved from it.

In the Bible, every sinner saved is a repentant sinner. It's so easy to take Acts 16:31 out of context without knowing the whole story. The jailer there was a repentant sinner. He saw his sinfulness that he trembled in repentance. When he asked what must he to do be saved, he was at the state of seeing himself as only a sinner deserving eternal Hell. There's no way to accept the proud sinner as a true convert. Every Christian is the broken sinner saved to become righteous saints by the grace of God. Only false converts dare to imagine they have God's permission to sin. Nobody has God's permission to sin and anybody who says so is teaching a soul damning heresy.


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