Unconditional love and the church's approach to homosexuality
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That really isn't what it says. I mean, the purpose of repentance was clearly to keep your candlestick in Revelation 2:1-7. Yes, God does command people to repent, but if you want eternal life then overcome the world through faith. That's what I get from a variety of scriptures, including Revelation 2:1-7.
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No. I'm not sinless. Far from it. However, my sin is covered by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Only when I abide in Him am I viewed sinless because He is sinless, and it is not me that God sees, it is the Son, Jesus Christ, whose perfect righteousness covers me. But don't let your anger and animus toward me cloud your responses. 🙏
Who among all that ever lived is not a sinner?
I don't advertise my sins here on an anonymous internet chat board, nor do I celebrate my sins or anyone else's. If someone posts a message specifying their sins, I am going to approach that as that person looking for help. I am not condemning anyone, that is exclusively God's purview. I will respond truthfully, and not affirm or approve their sins like some on this site, because affirming or approving of sin is completely unloving.
I don't advertise my sins here on an anonymous internet chat board, nor do I celebrate my sins or anyone else's. If someone posts a message specifying their sins, I am going to approach that as that person looking for help. I am not condemning anyone, that is exclusively God's purview. I will respond truthfully, and not affirm or approve their sins like some on this site, because affirming or approving of sin is completely unloving.
Thank you for sharing. One day you will see just how powerful the blood of Christ is to cleanse away your sin. It's wonderful freedom to to wake up and realise that God has wiped your sins, not matter how many and how bad, from your record. The word Tedeleski, translated "it is finished", was used to indicate that a debt had been paid in full. You are free now, not to use freedom as license to sin but to walk in the new life that Jesus gives you through the power of the resurrection.
As you consecrate your life to Christ, accepting His Lordship, He will lead and guide you. He will also empower you to do what He asks of you. You know that life can be tough. Satan hates to lose those who were his slaves, so you will need to stay close to Jesus. Don't worry, He has been to hell and back and nothing is too hard for Him. Just don't try and work it out yourself.
I used to be pretty good at English. It was the only school subject that interested me. Your account is as good or better than most from that point of view. And what you have to say is more important than how you say it.
As you consecrate your life to Christ, accepting His Lordship, He will lead and guide you. He will also empower you to do what He asks of you. You know that life can be tough. Satan hates to lose those who were his slaves, so you will need to stay close to Jesus. Don't worry, He has been to hell and back and nothing is too hard for Him. Just don't try and work it out yourself.
I used to be pretty good at English. It was the only school subject that interested me. Your account is as good or better than most from that point of view. And what you have to say is more important than how you say it.
Yes, Jesus made it clear in Matthew 7:21-23: "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
Peter also tells us in 2 Peter 2:20-22: "For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
Hebrews 10:26-28: "For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses."
1 John 3:6-9: "No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God."
All of the foregoing are reasons why we who are Christ's must be always praying for strength to overcome temptation to sin, and if and when we do sin, to readily confess our sin.
James 5:19-20 is instructive: "My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins."
Peter also tells us in 2 Peter 2:20-22: "For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
Hebrews 10:26-28: "For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses."
1 John 3:6-9: "No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God."
All of the foregoing are reasons why we who are Christ's must be always praying for strength to overcome temptation to sin, and if and when we do sin, to readily confess our sin.
James 5:19-20 is instructive: "My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins."
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Some (including you) who have visited us here yammer on as if you are safe to sin because your sins are covered by the blood of Christ, while others are in peril if they sin because they could lose their salvation. Perhaps hoping you see the hypocritical double standard in this is expecting too much.
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