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I just sit back and look at some people, even in an attempt to defend their GOSPEL they still tell lies.
Reason why the church keep "nursing" Christians and not Believers.
One thing is very crucial in anything you do and you must always put in place to communicate better.... That thing is SINCERITY.
Sincerity.
Many preachers lack this and it's "killing" the Gospel, brutalizing Christ's finished work.
Over time, I've met a lot of folks who have always antagonized the Gospel whenever it's taught RAW.
Like, nailed in the head.
They say,
"If he truly is a Believer, nothing will drive him to Fornication."
"If he truly is a Believer, he can't possibly lust... It's not possible!"
"He's a Believer it's not possible for him to steal, hence he's not saved at all."
That's a pure lie!
A PURE LIE.
I personally have seen it happen.
In the recently concluded exam in my school... Folks who have strongly disproved me here on Facebook were seen cheating in the exam all!
(I'll take a well-known antagonist of mine here on Facebook as an example.)
Come on!
She's a Believer!
By her Gospel, she's condemned already, she doesn't even know it!
She has always claimed good works is the power to keep Salvation.
Yet, Exam-MALPRACTISE is nothing to her.
Well, do I condemn them?
No! I don't...
The Gospel doesn't.
They may have issue with the School authority, but not the Gospel.
Other stuffs,
What about Misconducts, inordinate affection, stealing, lying...
They all happened in the early Church too.
Yes, they were Believers.
Believers!
What did Paul say to them?
Ephesians 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
They were corrected without having been CONDEMNED.
Did Paul say they would end in destruction because of that?
No!
Rather, he told them:
Ephesians 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Be transformed in your mind!
Be transformed!
Be changed in your thinking!
What about Fornication?
The one sin many people flare up against when mentioned.
They handle Fornication above the sin of unbelief that truly leads to death.
Okay...
The Corinthian Church enough proved that Fornication is incapable of separating God from man.
The Believer in Christ is one spirit with him.
1 Corinthians 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
See?
The were reported of Fornication and other stuffs that are ungodly.
They were corrected!
They were not CONDEMNED!
They were not scared off!
Rather, they were reminded of their place in God!
Who they truly are on the inside.
"Don't you know your Body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?"
They were scolded ACCORDING TO RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Telling a Believer he'll become UNSAVED because of a MISCONDUCT is to RIDICULE the sacrifice of Jesus Christ in the flesh.
So sad, that is what many call the Gospel.
Hebrews 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
The Believer in Christ is perfected without CONDUCT but only by Faith!
To the Ephesians:
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
To the Romans:
Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
It is first Faith!
To truly teach a man to live to a standard, he must be first taught HE IS what he's to live up to.
You can't possibly tell a commoner to live like a princess!
No!
A princess is firstly a Princess, then she'll be taught to live in that line.
If she misbehaves, like commits FORNICATION, does that make her lose her place as a princess?
No!
He's forever a Princess!
Regardless of conduct!
Now the Believer in Christ is a joint-heir with Christ!
He became THAT because of Faith, regardless of DEEDS.
Now, will deeds determine his oneness as a heir, his Salvation?
No!
Never!
Why?
Because of Christ, he's saved forever!
Hebrews 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
Forever!
Dear friend, if it is IMPOSSIBLE for a BELIEVER to fall into "sins", then he should be changed in his body as he becomes born again!
But it doesn't happen that way!
His phallus is still very active.
If disturbed beyond he can bear, he'll in fact rape the Pastor's daughter!
Yes!
Paul added...
We live, we mortify the deeds of the flesh by the Spirit.
We are transformed by the SPIRIT in the spirit of our mind.
Now if the mind is transformed.
He'll live well.
Act well.
Now is the transformation sudden?
Nope, gradual.
How does he get transformed?
Renewing his mind by the WORD!
Looking patiently on to the person of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
Being washed by the WORD.
Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
And not by CONDEMNATION!
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Instilling guilt will do him nothing!
Nothing good but fear!
The Believer in Christ will never again be called a sinner!
No man is a sinner because he sins, rather because of the nature of sin in him, he's not born again. That's why he's a sinner.
Jesus added, "The world's sin is UNBELIEF in me".
He by himself paid for SINS.
The Believer in Christ is Righteous not because he lives right, he's Righteous because the Righteousness of the Believer is his nature!
It's not in CONDUCT.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we MIGHT BE MADE the righteousness of God in him.
MADE RIGHTEOUSNESS.
MADE RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Righteousness is a NATURE, hence the Believer in Christ does not because of conduct lose his nature.
Just like the princess.
Same way an Unbeliever does not become Righteous because of good conduct.
It's by Faith alone.
There could be misconduct, deeds of the flesh...
Yes, the Believer in Christ is not defined by those things.
He's defined by CHRIST, His finished work over SINS.
Hope this helps someone.
Blessed.
Hagios Akins