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Your age says you are 15, and I will try to give what I believe to be true about your question.
When you accept that Jesus was the Son of God and He died then rose from the dead as the perfect sacrifice, that is all you need. If you are truly born again, then you will change your ways, but you will still sin every day. The only way not to sin is to die. So almost everyone who dies will have sin in their lives that they have not asked forgiveness for.
The thing is, Jesus lived a perfect life, He was the perfect sacrifice. You only have to be born again 1 time, not every day. We will still sin, but if we are truly Christian then we will try our best to put Jesus in the forefront of our minds and try to make decisions based on what He would do.
Good luck on your journey, may you walk with God.
When you accept that Jesus was the Son of God and He died then rose from the dead as the perfect sacrifice, that is all you need. If you are truly born again, then you will change your ways, but you will still sin every day. The only way not to sin is to die. So almost everyone who dies will have sin in their lives that they have not asked forgiveness for.
The thing is, Jesus lived a perfect life, He was the perfect sacrifice. You only have to be born again 1 time, not every day. We will still sin, but if we are truly Christian then we will try our best to put Jesus in the forefront of our minds and try to make decisions based on what He would do.
Good luck on your journey, may you walk with God.
I pray that all come to know the Lord and invite Him into their hearts. Then all will be truly forgiven and all will die secure in the salvation comes from Jesus dying on the cross for our sins. The answer to your question is all three, as all will burn in a consuming fire. I will pray that it does not come to this because I would be sad in my heart if even one perishes.
Yes, that is correct in that the hay, wood and stubble are the works of the believer. The believer is saved but the works burn in the fire as they all fall short in the glory and magnification of the Lord. Our treasure in heaven is lasting because our work and service to the Lord was humble and pure. You are on the right track and the Lord is preparing you for a mighty work that you will do in His name.
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Jesus said repent or perish. Perish has nothing to do with rewards but has to do with being lost.
In Lk 13:3,5 the Greek word for "perish" is apollymi.
Apollymi is also found in the following verses:
2 Cor 4:3,4 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost (apollymi) In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Jn 17:12 "While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost (apollymi), but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
2 Pet 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish (apollymi), but that all should come to repentance.
Jn 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish (apollymi), neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Apollymi is contrasted to eternal life, to being saved.
In Lk 13:3,5 the Greek word for "perish" is apollymi.
Apollymi is also found in the following verses:
2 Cor 4:3,4 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost (apollymi) In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Jn 17:12 "While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost (apollymi), but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
2 Pet 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish (apollymi), but that all should come to repentance.
Jn 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish (apollymi), neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Apollymi is contrasted to eternal life, to being saved.
1 Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
If the Christian continues to walk in the light, then Christ's blood continues to wash away all sins. Notice the verse says ALL sins, not some sins. A continued walking in the light includes repenting and that repenting brings about cleansing away of ALL sin.
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But, if we repented every time we committed a sin, we would spend several hours a day on our knees, and some sins we commit, we don't even know we commit them.
A bad thought about someone's driving might be considered a sin in the eyes of God. Do we need to ask for forgiveness for that or just pray for forgiveness of all of our sins that we committed that day, to encompass everything? I believe it to be the later. I just ask for forgiveness of all my sins at night.
It is the condition of our heart that God judges, and once we are covered in the Blood, His Blood will always cover us in God's eyes.
A bad thought about someone's driving might be considered a sin in the eyes of God. Do we need to ask for forgiveness for that or just pray for forgiveness of all of our sins that we committed that day, to encompass everything? I believe it to be the later. I just ask for forgiveness of all my sins at night.
It is the condition of our heart that God judges, and once we are covered in the Blood, His Blood will always cover us in God's eyes.
Showing love to a person is to treat them as you want done to yourself, even to your enemies, So if you want someone to forgive you when you have done wrong, you should do the same as well to others. Your old self doesn't forgive, but when you learn to forgive from the heart, you had just repented from your old ways.
A christian should always maintain a repentant attitude, keep on walking in the light for no sin will enter heaven, no one will carry a single sin with them into heaven.
Eph 1:4 says Christians are to be "holy and without blame". Eph 5:27 the Christian is to be "not having spot or wrinkle...but holy and without blemish" 2 Pet 3:14 the Christian is to be "without blemish and without spot"
So how can a Christian that occasionally sins ever be holy without spot, without blame, without blemish?
Again, 1 Jn 1:7 that continued walking in the light means Christ's blood continues to cleanse away all sins and that ongoing sustained cleansing is what keeps the Christian without spot, without blame, without blemish. God does not expect perfect sinlessness from a Christian but He does want a faithful obedience in a sustained walking in the light. And that continued cleansing of Christ's blood cleanses away all sin, even sin(s) a person may not realized they have committed.
No impenitent person can be saved, Lk 13:3,5; Rom 2:4,5
Eph 1:4 says Christians are to be "holy and without blame". Eph 5:27 the Christian is to be "not having spot or wrinkle...but holy and without blemish" 2 Pet 3:14 the Christian is to be "without blemish and without spot"
So how can a Christian that occasionally sins ever be holy without spot, without blame, without blemish?
Again, 1 Jn 1:7 that continued walking in the light means Christ's blood continues to cleanse away all sins and that ongoing sustained cleansing is what keeps the Christian without spot, without blame, without blemish. God does not expect perfect sinlessness from a Christian but He does want a faithful obedience in a sustained walking in the light. And that continued cleansing of Christ's blood cleanses away all sin, even sin(s) a person may not realized they have committed.
No impenitent person can be saved, Lk 13:3,5; Rom 2:4,5
there are probably a billion ways to sin.
do we need to set our hearts against a billion different things, one by one?
or do we set our hearts against sin itself, and then work this out as we are continually perfected until that day when Christ returns and completes us all?
do we confess a billion things before God, or confess "i have sin" before Him, and then not denying what the Spirit convicts specifically as we continue in the way?
to me, this is touching on how "love the Lord thy God with all your heart and all your soul and all your strength and all your mind" fulfills the whole law -- how that this one commandment fulfills hundreds of specific laws.
ultimately this is a thing that only God has authority to judge.
do we need to set our hearts against a billion different things, one by one?
or do we set our hearts against sin itself, and then work this out as we are continually perfected until that day when Christ returns and completes us all?
do we confess a billion things before God, or confess "i have sin" before Him, and then not denying what the Spirit convicts specifically as we continue in the way?
to me, this is touching on how "love the Lord thy God with all your heart and all your soul and all your strength and all your mind" fulfills the whole law -- how that this one commandment fulfills hundreds of specific laws.
ultimately this is a thing that only God has authority to judge.
1 Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us oursins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
The verse starts with the CONDITIONAL word "IF", the condition being "IF" the Christian confesses his sins he will be forgiven. "IF" the Christian does not confess his sins he will be unforgven/uncleansed/unrighteous...lost.
The verse starts with the CONDITIONAL word "IF", the condition being "IF" the Christian confesses his sins he will be forgiven. "IF" the Christian does not confess his sins he will be unforgven/uncleansed/unrighteous...lost.
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The only one who was ever perfect was Jesus. We will continue to sin every day. You might live a perfect life every day, but thinking that you are not sinning, is a sin, it is vain to think that, and vanity is a sin. Eating to much lunch can be a sin, if you overdo it. Committing a sin in your dreams is a sin.
We are all born of men, and men are sinful. That plague has spread farther along with every generation. The farther we get from the Garden of Eden the more sin grows.
If you can find no sin in your life, you need to re-evaluate your definition of sin, because if your brain is working, you are sinning.
We are all born of men, and men are sinful. That plague has spread farther along with every generation. The farther we get from the Garden of Eden the more sin grows.
If you can find no sin in your life, you need to re-evaluate your definition of sin, because if your brain is working, you are sinning.