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Does the bible teach that a practice of sin is normal in
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If a believer
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The Lord’s warning about false prophets |
The Lord said in
Matthew 24:24 " For false Christs and false prophets will
arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible,
even the elect."
And again in Mark 13:22 " for false
Christs and false prophets will arise, and will show signs and wonders, in
order, if possible, to lead the elect astray.
It seems to me that
everyone reads this warning and simply believes that this warning is for the
"other denomination" and does not apply to them. Let me ask a
question, Do you remember your Roman numerals? "X = 10, VII = 7 and so
on". By adding only one stroke or letter how would you turn ’IX’ into the
number ‘6’ Difficult? Having trouble remembering your Roman numerals? I have
asked this question many times to demonstrate one of the devil’s tricks, which
is to get us to think in another direction, so that no matter how much we apply
ourselves to the problem, we will never come to the real answer or solution!
You see my question (do you remember your Roman numerals?) was to lead your
thinking off the path. My second question (How would you turn "IX"
into the number "6"?) asked nothing about "Roman numerals",
so to solve the second question (How would you turn "IX" into the
number "6"?) simply add "S" to make "SIX".
And so it is when we
are mislead by the devil in our thinking about the Gospel, We can read and
study God’s Word, "but never come to the knowledge of the truth".
Read the Bible as if you had not read it before, and learn to let God’s word
become your light instead of the "doctrines of men". Do you
understand that Matthew 24:24 is meant to be a warning to all of
us? " For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will
show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the
elect."
1 Timothy: 4:1 But
the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the
faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons.
The main, and the
most prevalent, and destructive Devil Doctrine is this; "Once saved always
saved no matter how much sin you practice." Here is another way of saying
this; "You Can’t Lose Your Salvation!"
The BIBLE
contradicts this type of thinking from Genesis to Revelation. First of all,
what does the Bible say that JESUS came to save us from? The Answer to this
question can be found in the first book of the New Testament in the
first chapter; Matthew 1:21 "And she will bear a Son; and you shall
call His name Jesus, for it is He who will save His people from their
sins." What does the Bible say
we are saved from? "Sin." The Bible does not say that Jesus came to save us from hell, (not
even once) but from sin! (Are you saved?) By saving us from sin, He saves us
from Hell, if we are not saved from sin, we are not saved from Hell!
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Does the Bible
teach that a practice of sin is normal in a believer? |
When discussing the
subject of Christian holiness, I have often been asked whether or not I believe
Christians have to sin, because of their nature. Let me respond by saying this
question of "bondage to sin" is the very crux of the Christian life,
it is the difference between the sanctified believer and the person who
has not been born of God’s Spirit, and sanctified! Read the following
scripture.
1John 3:5 - 10 And
you know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no
sin. No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. Little
children, let no one deceive you; the one who practices righteousness is
righteous, just as He is righteous; the one who practices sin is of the devil;
for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this
purpose, that He might destroy the works of the devil. No one who is born of
God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because
he is born of God. By this the children of God and the children of the devil
are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the
one who does not love his brother.
1John 2:1
tells us "My little children,
these things write I unto you, that you sin not. If anyone sins, we have an
advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ The Righteous".
Notice that it says
IF, not WHEN anyone sins.) A child of God might under extreme temptation sin,
but we have an advocate, The Lord Jesus Christ. If we have a practice of sin, a
bondage, we according to 1John 3:8 are not a child of God.
Now read 1John
5:18 We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born
of God keeps him and the evil one does not touch him.
. 2John
1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and
abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God . He that abideth in the doctrine
of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
3 John 1:11
Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that
does good is of God: but he that does evil has not seen God.
1John 2:3 - 4 And
by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. The
one who says, "I have come to know Him," and does not keep His
commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His
word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we
are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same
manner as He walked.
Romans 6:1 & 2 What
shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid.
How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old self was
crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we
should no longer be slaves to sin;
Romans 6:12 TO 6:15
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its
lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as
instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive
from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin
shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace. What
then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never
be!
Watch how
often the Bible uses past tense when referring to a believer and sin!
ROMANS 6:17 -18
But God be thanked, that you were
the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine
which was delivered to you. Being then made free from sin, you became the
servants of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 6:9 -
11 Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of
God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards,
nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were
some of you; but you were washed, but you were
sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in
the Spirit of our God.
EPHESIANS 2:1 - 10
And you were
dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly
walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the
power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of
disobedience. Among them we too all formerly
lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the
mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being
rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we
were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace
you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the
heavenly places, in Christ Jesus, in order that in the ages to come He might
show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it
is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast. For we
are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand, that we should walk in them.
COLOSSIANS
1:21-23 And although you were
formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged
in evil deeds, yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death,
in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach if indeed you continue in the faith firmly
established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that
you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which
I, Paul, was made a minister.
COLOSSIANS. 3:5-11
Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality,
impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. For it is
on account of these things that the wrath of God will come, and in them you
also once walked,
when you were
living in them. But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice,
slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since
you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new
self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One
who created him, a renewal in which
there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised,
barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.
TITUS 3:3 - 5
For we ourselves also were
sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures,
living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another. But after that
the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, Not by works of
righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy he saved us, by
the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.
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Other important Scriptures on this important
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EPHESIANS 5:1-6 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved
children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you, and gave Himself up for
us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. But do not let
immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among
saints; and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting,
which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know with
certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an
idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one
deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God
comes upon the sons of disobedience.
EPHESIANS 4:24 And
that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness
and true holiness.
COLOSSIANS. 2:11 And in Him you were also circumcised with a
circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the
circumcision of Christ;
1 Thessalonians 5:23–24 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify
you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete,
without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls
you, and He also will bring it to pass.
It
is in this age that God wants us to live Godly!
TITUS 2:12 Instructing us to deny ungodliness and
worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,
TITUS 2:14 Who
gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto
Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Once I was
challenged to point out a Scripture that would show that a believer was not to
have a practice of sin, but instead be obedient to the Lord. I told the man
that I could show him at least one hundred and fifty scripture verses that said
that in the New Testament. That night I began to search the scripture to find
the one hundred and fifty, but to my surprise when I had counted my scripture
list I had found over five hundred scripture verses!
Do you see by reading
God’s word, that God doesn’t want us to sin, this is the underlying message of
the Bible to mankind, this is the reason for Jesus’s death on the cross,
This is the message
of the Bible? Stop Sinning!
This question has
been turned over and over, argued and debated for years, each denomination has
it’s own answer, lets look at what the scripture has to say.
Hebrews 10:26-31
For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth,
there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain terrifying
expectation of judgment, and the fury of a fire which will consume the
adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on
the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much severer punishment do you
think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has
regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and
has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is
Mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge His
people." It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living
God.
Notice that this is not just a pew warmer here
spoken of, it is a “sanctified” believer. The Scripture teaches in this portion of
Scripture that we have “trampled under foot the Son of God and have has regarded as unclean the blood
of the covenant and Insulted the Spirit of grace”
It certainly sounds like doing these
things do not make God happy!
Hebrews 6:4-8 (This verse is describing a Christian) For
in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the
heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the
good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away,
it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to
themselves the Son of God, and put Him to open shame. For ground that drinks
the rain which often falls upon it and brings forth vegetation useful to those
for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God; but if it
yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it
ends up being burned.
This
seems clear enough, the answer is YES!
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Does God expect us to be holy (obedient) in this world (now)? |
1Peter 4:1-3
Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also
with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased
from sin, so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for
the lusts of men, but for the will of God. For the time already past is
sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having
pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousals, drinking parties
and abominable idolatries.
MATHEW 5:48 "Therefore you
are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Romans 8:29 For whom He did
foreknow, He also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of His Son,
that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
EPHESIANS 1:3-4 Blessed [be] the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ: According as He has chosen us in Him
before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame
before Him in love:
1Thessalonians 3:13 So
that He may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and
Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.
1Thessalonians 4:1 -
4 Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that,
as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God
(just as you actually do walk), that you may excel still more. For you know
what commandments we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. For this is
the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual
immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in
sanctification and honor,
1John 2:3 - 7 And
by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. The
one who says, "I have come to know Him," and does not keep His
commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His
word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we
are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same
manner as He walked. Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an
old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is
the word which you have heard.
A
Killer Verse!
1Timothy 5:20
Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest also
may be fearful of sinning.
If sin is normal in
a Christian's life why are we commanded to rebuke it?
1Peter 2:21-22 For you have been
called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an
example for you to follow in His steps,
who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth;
COLOSSIANS 2:6
As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him:
John 3:36 He who believes in
the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son shall not see
life, but the wrath of God abides on him."
This is an interesting Scripture, for, in it, we can see the parallel
of believing, and obeying.
*NOTE IN THE KING
JAMES BIBLE, THE WORD BELIEVE IS USED IN BOTH PLACES. THE SECOND TIME THE WORD
BELIEVE IS USED IT IS ACTUALLY A DIFFERENT GREEK WORD, AND THIS GREEK WORD
MEANS TO OBEY. Most of the newer translations have caught this error. The
translators apologized for the rush job they did in translating the King James
version of the Bible. In the original editions of the King James Bible, the
translators gave an admonition for us to read other versions of the Bible as
well, because of the hurried way that the King James Bible had been translated.
This note placed in the King James Bible by the translators has been removed! I
wonder who it was that made the decision to remove such an important note from
the very men that did the translation of the King James Bible, also, what could
have been their motive for removing a note made by the translators?
Peter 1:15-16 But like the Holy One who called you, be
holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, "You
shall be holy, for I am holy."
2Peter 3:11-14 Since all these things are to be destroyed in
this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, on account of which the
heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense
heat! But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new
earth, in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, since you look for these
things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless,
2Corinthians 5:14-17 For the love
of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore
all died; and He died for all, that they who live should no longer live for
themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. Therefore from
now on we recognize no man according to the flesh; even though we have known
Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. Therefore if
any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold,
new things have come.
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If a believer doesn’t obey the Lord will the believer lose out? |
This is the
Scripture that showed me (as a minister of God’s word) that l wasn’t converted!
MATHEW 7:17-27
"Even so, every good tree bears good fruit; but the bad tree bears bad
fruit. "A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce
good fruit. "Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire. "So then, you will know them by their fruits.
"Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of
heaven; but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. "Many will
say to Me on that day, `Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in
Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' "And
then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from Me, you who
practice lawlessness.' "Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine,
and acts upon them, may be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon the
rock. "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew,
and burst against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded
upon the rock. "And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not
act upon them, will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.
"And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew,
and burst against that house; and it fell, and great was its fall."
1Corinthians 10:1-13 For
I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the
cloud, and all passed through the sea; and all were baptized into Moses in the
cloud and in the sea; and all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the
same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which
followed them; and the rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was
not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness. Now these things
happened as examples for us, that we should not crave evil things, as they also
craved. And do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written,
"The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play." Nor let
us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
Nor let us try the Lord, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the
serpents. Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the
destroyer. Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were
written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation
has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will
not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation
will provide the way of escape also, that you may be able to endure it.
HEBREWS 2:1-3 For this reason we
must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from
it. For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every
transgression and disobedience received a just recompense, how shall we escape
if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through
the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard,
2Peter 1:10 Therefore, brethren,
be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you;
for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;
2Peter 2:4 -9 For if God did
not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them
to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient
world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when
He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; and if He condemned the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having
made them an example to those who would live ungodly thereafter; and if He
rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men
(for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt
his righteous soul tormented day after day with their lawless deeds), then the
Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous
under punishment for the day of judgment,
Acts 5:32 And
we are His witnesses of these things; and [so is] also the Holy Ghost, whom God
hath given to them that obey Him. Hebrews 5:9 And being made perfect, He became
the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him; John 14:15-17 If ye love Me, keep my
commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another
Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; [Even] the Spirit of truth;
whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him:
but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. JOHN 14:21-24 He that hath My commandments,
and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved
of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him. Judas saith
unto Him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest Thyself unto
us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love Me,
he will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him,
and make Our abode with him. He that loveth Me not keepeth not My sayings: and
the word which ye hear is not Mine, but the Father’s which sent Me. Acts 10:35 But in every nation he that
feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him. 1John 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive
of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing
in His sight. 1John 3:24 And he that keepeth His commandments
dwelleth in Him, and He in him. And hereby we know that He abideth in us, by
the Spirit which He hath given us. 1John 5:2-3 By this we know that we love the children of God,
when we love God, and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God, that
we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not grievous.
John 15:1-14
"I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. "Every branch
in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears
fruit, He prunes it, that it may bear more fruit. "You are already clean because
of the word which I have spoken to you. "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the
branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither
can you, unless you abide in Me. "I am the vine, you are the branches; he
who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can
do nothing. "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a
branch, and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and
they are burned. "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask
whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you. "By this is My Father
glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.
"Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.
"If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have
kept My Father's commandments, and abide in His love. "These things I have
spoken to you, that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made
full. "This is My commandment,
that you love one another, just as I have loved you. "Greater love has no
one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. "You are My
friends, if you do what I command you.
Romans 8:1-4 There is therefore now no condemnation
for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could
not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the
flesh, in order that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who
do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:12-4 So
then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to
the flesh for if you are living
according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to
death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are being led by the
Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
ROMANS 13:14 .
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard
to its lusts.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from
all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons
of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of
strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth
itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought
to the obedience of Christ;
Galations 5:16 - 24
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the
flesh. For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against
the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do
the things that you please. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under
the Law. Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality,
impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts
of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and
things like these, of which I forewarn you just as I have forewarned you that
those who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions
and desires.
GALATIANS 6:7 - 8 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for
whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own
flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit
shall from the Spirit reap eternal life.
1Peter 4:1–3 Therefore,
since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same
purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to
live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for
the will of God. For the time already past is sufficient for you to have
carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality,
lusts, drunkenness, carousals, drinking parties and abominable idolatries.
EPHESIANS
2:1-10 And you were dead in your
trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of
this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that
is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly
lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the
mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being
rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we
were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace
you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the
heavenly places, in Christ Jesus, in order that in the ages to come He might
show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it
is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.. For we
are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand, that we should walk in them.
2Peter 2:17-22
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom
the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. For when they speak great swelling
[words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness,
those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise
them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man
is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have
escaped the pollution’s of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter
end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not
to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to
turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto
them according to the true proverb, The dog [is] turned to his own vomit again;
and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
1 Corinthians
6:19-20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
[which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are
bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit,
which are God’s.
ROMANS 12:1-2 I
beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your
reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed
by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and
acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Jude 1:24 Now unto Him that is
able to keep you from falling, and to present [you] faultless before the
presence of His glory with exceeding joy, 1Peter 2:24 Who His own self
bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should
live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. 2Peter 1:3-4
According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that [pertain] unto
life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory
and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust.
Matthew 10:22 And
ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the
end shall be saved. Hebrews 3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ,
if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; 1John 2:24 Let that therefore abide in you,
which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the
beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the
Father. 1 Corinthians 15:1 -
2 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached
unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye
are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have
believed in vain. John 5:29
And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life;
and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation 1Peter 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God
through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 1 Peter 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith,
[even] the salvation of [your] souls. Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in
white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I
will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
1John 2:29 If
ye know that He is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is
born of Him. 1John 2:3
And By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep HIS commandments.
This is the fruit of a believer when the Spirit of the living God dwells in
them: Galatians 5:22 - 23 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law."
John
1:17 For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ. 1 Corinthians 1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace
of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by
grace ye are saved;) Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: Acts 15:11 But we believe that
through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. 2
Timothy 1:9 Who hath saved us, and called [us] with an holy calling, not
according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was
given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, Titus 2:11 For the grace of
God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men
Romans 3:24
Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus:
Romans 6:14 For sin shall not
have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Romans 6:15 What then?
shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Romans 12:6
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether
prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith
2Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of
God I am what I am: and His grace which [was bestowed] upon me was not in vain;
but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God
which was with me.
2Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing
is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly
sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our
conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2Corinthians 6:1
We then, [as] workers together [with Him], beseech [you] also that ye receive
not the grace of God in vain. Hebrews
10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy,
who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the
covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite
unto the Spirit of grace? Hebrews
12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any
root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled; Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in
unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men,
turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord
God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Corinthians 8:9 For ye know the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He
became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.
2Corinthians 9:8 And God [is] able
to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in
all [things], may abound to every good work:
2Corinthians 12:9 And He said unto
me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in
weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the
power of Christ may rest upon me.
Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate
the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead
in vain.
Ephesians 3:8 Unto me, who am less
than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among
the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
Ephesians 6:24 Grace
[be] with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
Colossians 4:6 Let your speech
[be] always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to
answer every man.
1 Timothy 1:14 And the grace of
our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:1 Thou therefore, my
son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering
of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the grace of God should
taste death for every man. 1Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath
called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a
while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you].
Hebrews 4:15 For we have not an
high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but
was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. Hebrews 4:16 Let us
therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and
find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 12:28 Wherefore we
receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may
serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
James 4:6 But He giveth more
grace. Wherefore He saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
humble. 1Peter 5:5
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be
subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the
proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
1Peter 4:10 As every man hath
received the gift, [even so] minister the same one to another, as good stewards
of the manifold grace of God.
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We should grow in grace
2Peter 3:18 But grow in grace,
and [in] the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him [be] glory
both now and for ever. Amen
Matthew 19:17
And He said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one,
[that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Luke 8:15 But that on
the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the
word, keep [it], and bring forth fruit with patience. Luke 11:28 But He said, Yea rather, blessed
[are] they that hear the word of God, and keep it. John 8:51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If
a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him,
If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him,
and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. John 15:10 If you keep my commandments,
you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and
abide in His love. John 14:15
If you love me, keep my commandments.
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Sanctification, what the Bible has to say about it |
According to the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance the word sanctifieth (Hagiazo) {hag-ee-ad’-zo} means to: 1) make holy 2) purify or consecrate 3) to be Holy