Jesus Christ commanded His Body; the Church to be His witness on earth. He commanded those, who belong to Him and follow Him to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and the call to repentance to those, кто принадлежит миру, so that many souls shall be redeemed from the power of darkness and shall be saved by faith and regeneration in Christ and enter the Kingdom of God and be reconciled with God and become sons of God and inherit eternal life. But if Christians live like the world, what should the world repent off?
How can souls be saved, if Christians live like the world?
Many Christians say they believe in Jesus Christ and believe that they belong to Him, but meanwhile, they live the same life as the world and do the same works as the world. There is hardly any difference between Christians and unbelievers, кто принадлежит миру.
Instead of Christians converting the world, the world has converted many Christians (Читайте также: ‘Обращают ли христиане мир или мир обращает христиан??').
Instead of making peace between the old man and God, by preaching the gospel of Christ and the call to repentance, and reconcile man back to God, верой и возрождением во Христе, they have made peace and reconciled themselves with the world, other religions, (Восточный) философия, идолопоклонство, occultism и наука and have defiled the truth of God with the lies of the world and have made the gospel powerless.
Many churches have not removed sin and iniquity, but have accepted and allowed sin and iniquity, by saying that they will always remain sinners and sins and iniquities will always be part of their lives (Читайте также: ‘Ты всегда остаешься грешником? и ‘Можете ли вы использовать разрушенный мир в качестве оправдания??')
Ofcourse there are churches, who have removed the sin and iniquity and don’t approve and tolerate them, and don’t compromise, but walk after the Spirit as sons of God in obedience to Jesus Christ; слово, and be doers of the Word. But they are rare.
Living like the world but rewarded with eternal life
Что мы скажем тогда? Будем ли мы продолжать грешить?, что благодать может изобиловать? Боже упаси (римляне 6:1).
Ибо грех не будет иметь над тобой власти: ибо вы не под законом, but under grace. What then? будем ли мы грешить, потому что мы не под законом, но под благодатью? Боже упаси (римляне 6:14-15).
Most people want to have the same life as the world and do the same (unrighteous) works and things, and because of that genuine repentances and regenerations in Christ don’t take place anymore and the flesh is not put off, but stays alive. Instead of отстраниться от старика и облачаясь в нового мужчину, they persevere in sin.
But if those, who say they are Christians persevere in sin, what does the call to repentance contain? What message do Christians have for unbelievers?
Because if someone leads an unclean life and watches porn and/or commits fornication, how can that person approach an unbeliever, who lives an unclean life and watches porn and/or commit fornication, and confront the unbeliever and call the unbeliever to repentance and the removal of sin?
How can someone, who keeps lying, be a witness of Jesus Christ and call liars to repentance?
How can someone, who steals witness and call thieves to repentance?
How can someone, who commits adultery witness and call adulterers to repentance?
How can someone, who is unmarried and has a sexual relationship(с) and/or live together with someone, who isn’t his or her spouse, witness and call to repentance?
How can someone, who practices йога and bows down and worships other gods, witness and call to repentance?
Это невозможно! Therefore many churches have lost their credibility and even have become laughable for the world. Because the same works, which the Word calls sin and the Word has condemned, and which are practiced by the world, are also practiced in many churches.
The new man has been made free from sin and has become a servant to God
Ибо когда вы были рабами греха, вы были свободны от праведности. Какой плод вы имели тогда в том, чего теперь стыдитесь?? ибо конец всему этому смерть. Но теперь, освободившись от греха, и стать слугами Бога, вы имеете плоды святости, и конец вечной жизни. Ибо плата за грех – смерть; но дар Божий – жизнь вечная через Иисуса Христа, Господа нашего. (римляне 6:20-22)
If you are born again in Christ, you have become a new creation and you’ve been made free from sin. Через регенерацию, твоя природа изменилась. You no longer belong to the devil and no longer serve him as a слуга греха and persevere in sin, but you have become a servant to God and shall serve Him as a servant of righteousness and have your fruit unto holiness.
But if you persevere in sin and are still a slave of sin, where have you been made free from? How can you go into the world and preach freedom in Christ, if you haven’t been made free yourself, but live in the bondage of sin and death in darkness?
Каждый, who by faith in Jesus Christ repent and become born again in Christ, shall enter the process of sanctification. The Word and the Holy Spirit, who abides in the new man will teach, правильный, and confront the person with his or her sin and then it’s up to the person to obey the Word and the Holy Spirit and submit to God or not.
The Word shall judge everyone
Иисус заплакал и сказал, Тот, кто верит в Меня, не верь Мне, но на Пославшего Меня. И видящий Меня видит Пославшего Меня. Я пришел светом в мир, that whosoever believes on Me should not abide in darkness. И если кто услышит Мои слова, и не верь, я его не осуждаю: ибо Я пришел не судить мир, но спасти мир. He that rejects Me, и не принимает Моих слов, есть тот, кто его судит: слово, которое я произнес, тот же будет судить его в последний день.
Ибо Я говорил не о Себе; но Отец, пославший Меня, Он дал Мне заповедь, что я должен сказать, и что мне следует говорить. И я знаю, что Его заповедь – жизнь вечная: что бы я ни говорил, поэтому, как сказал Мне Отец, так что я говорю (Джон 12:44-50)
People can say all kinds of things and make others believe that it doesn’t matter how you live and that God is merciful and tolerates, approves, and accepts everything, включая грех. But the Word says something else and eventually, it’s not the people who will decide, who will enter eternal life and who will be thrown in the eternal pool of fire, but the Word (a.o. Matthew 12:36-37, Джон 12:48, Откровение 20:11-15).
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