Scripture Reference: James 1:21-22
There are multiplied millions of people in the worldtoday confessing to be saved and born again children of God, but they don’t have a clue what it means to besaved and how to be saved, but yet they all claim to be. To be saved means tobe saved from sin, which means you will no longer be in bondage to it and canlive without sin in your life. The deceived people that Gods word speaks aboutare those who only confess they are saved, but they are not saved proven by thefact that they still live in and commit sin. Would you believe that a drugaddict was free from his addiction of drugs and no longer took drugs if theycontinued right on taking the drugs that he claimed to be free from? If not,then how can a person that claims to be saved from sin be truly saved from it,if they still continue to live in and commit sin? Would you believe that acigarette smoker is free from the habit of smoking and they smoke no more ifthey kept right on smoking?
Most people are being deceived into believing theyare saved from sin, based on a doctrine that teaches that Christ’s death on the cross paid thepenalty for all their sins they commit as long as they live, but this is notthe truth of the matter. Christ’sdeath paid the penalty for all our sins up to the point and time when wecome to him asking forgiveness of all the sins we have committed against God inthe past. God will forgive all our past sins, but to think we can continue oncommitting sin believing those sins were included by his death is believing oneof the many doctrines of devils that Paul tells us about. In I Timothy 4:1-2Paul tells us these words saying, “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times someshall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines ofdevils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hotiron;”
They speak lies in hypocrisy every time they confessto be saved or born again, because I John 3:9 tells us these words saying. “Whosoever is born of God dothnot commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he isborn of God.” Those born ofGod do not sin and further more it says that they cannot sin,because they are born of God, but listen to the millions confess to be bornagain and still living in sin. They are deceived and they don’t even know it, and totell them the truth of matter as Gods word teaches it, they will blaspheme itto high heaven. To be saved means to be saved from sin and not in your sinslike millions are believing today.
Why would God save a person leaving them in sin,which is down right rebellion against God? Proverbs 14:34 says, “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is areproach to any people.” If sin is a reproach to people, then what do youbelieve God thinks about it? Did not sin separate Adam from God in the gardenand for that very reason God put Adam and Eve out of the garden? Why then doyou believe that God saved you in your sins, which is rebellion against him? Ifthe death of Christ paid the penalty for all your sins as long as you live,then why did Jesus tell the woman taken in adultery to go and sin no more? Ifthe death of Christ paid the penalty for all your sins as long as you may live,then please tell me why Paul told his Corinthian converts in I Corinthians15:34 these words saying, “Awaketo righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speakthis to your shame.”
If Christ’s death paid the penalty for all your sins for as long as you live,then why did Paul say these words in Romans 6:1-2 that says, “What shall we say then?Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, thatare dead to sin, live any longer therein?” You better take heed to Gods word and wake to righteousness and sinnot, as Paul tells us, but if you had rather go to a devils hell and suffer theconsequences of the second death then more power to you...