Someone says to you:
Really? You’re saved, and all your sins are forgiven and there’s not the slightest chance that you could lose your salvation? If that’s the case, then you can go out and do whatever you want. You can commit as many sins as you like and at the end of the day, you’re still saved. That’s quite a deal!
What a warped and dark perspective on the amazing salvation that has forever changed our lives. A genuine Christian has already come to grips with the darkness and deadliness of their sins. They have no desire to live the rest of their lives in the quagmire of sin. Repentance is the 180-degree turn from sin to Christ.
An authentic believer is repulsed by sin. When a Christian sins, (and every Christian does) we experience deep sadness and a chill in the fellowship that we enjoyed with our Lord. (1John 1:8,9) We fall away from the rich enjoyment of our great salvation; but, we sure do not fall away from our salvation! Once the sin has been confessed, the intimate fellowship we enjoyed with our Heavenly Father is restored.
A genuine believer’s main thrust in life is to honour and please Christ their Saviour. They have no desire to continue to live a sinful life. Where did their new set of desires come from? That’s what the new birth is – they have received a new life with new desires. It’s called Divine life. (2Peter 1:4) The Holy Spirit takes up permanent residence in a believer immediately at conversion and that’s why very real lifestyle changes start to happen.
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ…” Titus 2:11-13
Are you a professing Christian? Is your life changing? There is a life-long training, educating or disciplining process going on in every genuine believer. The process causes us to abandon the ungodly things, unholy habits and worldly desires that were so evident in our former lives. The training process produces an increasing sensitivity to sin and a self-control we never had before, enabling us to live upright and godly lives that are pleasing to God.
The training process referred to in the verse is the outcome of the work of the Holy Spirit living and working inside me as I read my Bible and pray every day with a submissive spirit. The lifestyle changes are progressive and continual. Will there be stumbles, set-backs, failures and relapses along the way? Yes, and the regret will be evident – because, at the core of a Christian’s heart is the desire to please and honour Christ. Remember dear child of God – you are a work-in-progress.
Have you experienced any of the training mentioned in the verse above? A genuine believer has!
Walk carefully and closely with the Lord today.
Warmly in Christ
Peter Ramsay
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Wow!! After one gets saved there is no desire to sin? That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Should one take your word, or the Word of God. Paul who is a much better Christian then I or anyone today could ever dream of being struggled with sin. Why would he do the things he hates if he had no desire to do them? You wanna know who doesn’t desire to sin? THE INWARD MAN!! He is just like Christ, that is why we must leave our flesh here when we die, for sin cannot enter into heaven, Revelation-21. It is not our flesh that is born again it is our spirit, that is why Paul said in this same chapter, that before the law he knew no sin, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. He is saying that when he reached the age of understanding his spirit died. That is why the spirit has to regenerated.
You know what the problem is with the false gospel hall and why they are a false convert factory? They like to look at public sins, like drinking, smoking, drug use, cussing, and so on, saying you don’t lose your salvation……. you were never saved in the first place…. By doing this you are repacking works salvation and in turn teaching lordship salvation. Not trusting THE BLOOD OF JESUS (yes I’ve read on this site, that you believe His precious blood is just a metaphor for His death). But they are not focusing on their sins in private, of pornography, covetousness, gluttony, foolishness, lusting to know the same gender (gross that is reprobate) or the opposite, being effeminate and so on.
All that to say this, if you believe turning from your sins and trusting Christ (which is mixing works and faith) is what one must do to be saved, then Christ shall profit you nothing.
Romans 7:14-25 KJV
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. [15] For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. [16] If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. [17] Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. [18] For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. [19] For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. [20] Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. [21] I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. [22] For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: [23] But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. [24] O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? [25] I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.