It's Go and Sin No More, Not Go and Sin Some More
It's sickening at how some preachers today preach the damnable heresy of changeless Christianity. Changeless Christianity teaches that you can get saved and remain the same. I have read the Bible cover to cover several times and I don't read even one verse that says you can get saved and stay the way they are. I've read Romans 4:5 but that's not the entire message. True it says to him that worketh not but did they read the last part? It says God counts said person to righteousness. Counted to righteousness! What a wonderful truth about it that even a changed lifestyle is by God's grace!
One could go back to the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery. John 8:1-11 shows us several lessons. If one lesson has that you have no right to take the Law into your hands (and that's what the Pharisees were doing in this situation) then the other is about, "Go and sin no more." Although sinless perfection is impossible in this life yet we know that this is a change of lifestyle. Go and sin no more means no longer living a lifestyle of sin.
It's stupid to quote 1 Corinthians 6:11 to justify changeless Christianity. The verse tells us the simple truth that "And such were some of you." Remember 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 shows the lifestyles of the unsaved yet what succeeded is the truth of redemption in the Bible. The truth is no one can enter the Kingdom of God because no one is righteous (Romans 3:10-19). Then comes the redeeming truth that salvation means deliverance from a lifestyle of sin. Praise the Lord!
No one should ever use Romans 7:14-25 to justify changeless Christianity. You can read Paul has a struggle but it doesn't mean he's enslaved by sin. Christians will struggle with sin. But we don't read that Paul was enjoying his sin. How can one claim to be a Christian and love your sin that so separated one from God? It's absurd and such people can only be false converts. True converts would want to live a new life and obey God's demand for a changed lifestyle in gratitude.
What did Jesus come to die for and save people from? In their sins or from their sins? Matthew 1:21 says that Jesus came to save people from their sins and not in their sins. There's no sense of Jesus paying the full price that couldn't be paid by man's own efforts if that sacrifice wouldn't destroy the power of sin. Hebrews 9:14 says that Jesus' own blood is to redeem people from their dead works to serve Him. That's right - you are saved to serve and not to sin. Anybody who thinks that they are saved to sin and to enjoy its pleasures is as lost as anyone who believes that they can make it on their own to Heaven.
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One could go back to the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery. John 8:1-11 shows us several lessons. If one lesson has that you have no right to take the Law into your hands (and that's what the Pharisees were doing in this situation) then the other is about, "Go and sin no more." Although sinless perfection is impossible in this life yet we know that this is a change of lifestyle. Go and sin no more means no longer living a lifestyle of sin.
It's stupid to quote 1 Corinthians 6:11 to justify changeless Christianity. The verse tells us the simple truth that "And such were some of you." Remember 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 shows the lifestyles of the unsaved yet what succeeded is the truth of redemption in the Bible. The truth is no one can enter the Kingdom of God because no one is righteous (Romans 3:10-19). Then comes the redeeming truth that salvation means deliverance from a lifestyle of sin. Praise the Lord!
No one should ever use Romans 7:14-25 to justify changeless Christianity. You can read Paul has a struggle but it doesn't mean he's enslaved by sin. Christians will struggle with sin. But we don't read that Paul was enjoying his sin. How can one claim to be a Christian and love your sin that so separated one from God? It's absurd and such people can only be false converts. True converts would want to live a new life and obey God's demand for a changed lifestyle in gratitude.
What did Jesus come to die for and save people from? In their sins or from their sins? Matthew 1:21 says that Jesus came to save people from their sins and not in their sins. There's no sense of Jesus paying the full price that couldn't be paid by man's own efforts if that sacrifice wouldn't destroy the power of sin. Hebrews 9:14 says that Jesus' own blood is to redeem people from their dead works to serve Him. That's right - you are saved to serve and not to sin. Anybody who thinks that they are saved to sin and to enjoy its pleasures is as lost as anyone who believes that they can make it on their own to Heaven.
See also:
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- Declare a Spiritual War Against the Heresy of Teaching the Possibility of a Fruitless Christianity!
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- Jesus' Resurrection is Proof That You Can't Be Saved and Still Remain the Same
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- Playing With Sin is Dangerous!
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- The Church Is a Hospital for REPENTANT Sinners and NOT a Haven for Unrepentant Sinners!
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- The Church Is a Hospital for REPENTANT Sinners and NOT a Haven for Unrepentant Sinners!
- The Closet Antinomians Are Exposing Themselves
- The Dangerous Heresy That You Can Be Saved From Hell But Not From Sin
- The Dangers of A Watered Down Repentance
- The Foolishness of People Who Want Jesus as Their Savior but Not as Their Lord
- The Immature Christian Struggling in Sin vs. The False Convert Reveling in Sin
- The Jesus of "Easy Christianity" is ANOTHER JESUS!
- The Modern Gospel is One Gospel Which is Not Another
- The Widespread Growing Plague of Popularity Driven Churches
- The War Against Drunkards Who Claim to be Christians!
- Watered Down Preaching Against Sin Is An Insult to the Cross of Jesus Christ!