Escaping the "pollutions of this world" isn't a reference to salvation.
For instance a person derived from drugs through faith in Jesus...then returns to drugs has a great chance of ending up worse than when they were first delivered.
If the person was truly saved despite returning to drugs they are still saved...as we are saved by grace and held in salvation by grace.
9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was
cleansed from his
old sins.
What you've probably never been taught and still don't know is that what is cleansed in us is our nature that many in the Church call our sin nature. Paul calls it the "old man" in Romans 6:5-7 that in a born again of the Spirit person is DEAD. That frees us from willful sins unto death, and because of the indwelling Spirit, we are no longer "in the flesh," Romans 7:5-6 and Romans 8:9. Our new imputed righteousness eventually becomes true righteousness, 1 John 3:7, and the continuing abiding in Jesus lets Him Finish His work to where we "never stumble." That is true holiness, the goal of Jesus for His people. Not the demonic tale of the blood of Jesus blinding the Father's eyes to the sins we keep repeating in the present and future.
God has on occasion hardened someones heart...Pharaoh is an example.
Actually Pharaoh's heart was already hard from his own will. God just hardened his choice to finally free His people.
The plan began prior to the earth even being created.
Touche! Yes, before the foundation of the earth.
When you die will you still be willfully sinning do you suppose?
Yes ALL of our sins, past, present and future were nailed to the cross. At the moment of salvation our sins were imputed to Christ and His righteousness was imputed to us
But Scripture only says
past. Show me where it is actually written "past, present and future sins." You won't find it because it is not true, and the Spirit is Truth.
In a sense yes..but I believe some sins will earn you a deeper place in hell.
So you are answering my question on SIN, that you've been taught, yes, that
"sin is sin." Nope, there are levels. There are two. It is interesting that Revelation 22:11 says, " He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”
Two levels. And two works of Jesus in us - Author and Finisher. Jesus starts with the worst of
two types of sin that John mentions in 1 John 5:16-17,
"sins unto death" and
"sins not unto death." Scripture also uses another two words regarding the same thing,
"unintentional" and
"willful." This is where the Roman Catholic Church was still more knowledgeable than the following church age, the Reformation, calling them by two different names,
"mortal" and
"venial." To the Church of Sardis (Reformation) which is the next church age following Thyatira (RCC) Jesus scolded Sardis saying about those at the beginning of the Reformation,
"you have a name (reputation) that you are alive, but you are dead." However, Jesus also said, "You have a few names even in Sardis who have not
defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. If you know church history, that is obviously John Wesley who started the holiness movement. In Christ's letter to the Reformation He tells them at the beginning "Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die." I believe the only doctrine the Reformation messed up totally was on the two types of sin that Jesus takes away, starting with the worst in one swell swipe, willful sins unto death. Then as the Finisher, Jesus matures the fruit of the Spirit, one fruit at a time until in 2 Peter 1:5-11, particularly verse 10 "you will never stumble."
We are actually righteous, not just imputed with Christ's righteousness, 1 John 3;7, when He cleanses our sin nature, making it clean. John 15:3. But after Jesus has finished what He started we are actually holy. What does your denomination say about when you are holy, not just imputed righteousness, that many of today's teachers tell us that we will never be righteous ourselves because of our sin nature, only showing imputed righteousness to the Father's eyes?
Do I sometimes willfully sin? Like every christian..that answer is an absolute yes. If you disagree then I could easily say you are guilty of pride.
That makes me really feel sorry for you. It is Jesus who takes away our sin. I just abide IN Him. You can call it pride if you want, I call it grateful.
You just willfully sinned when you in an arrogant pious manner told me to turn up my hearing aid. In your pride you will argue that you didn't.
That was a joke. If you can't tell, you might be older than me! By misquoting me, that was a lie, that I could have instead called you out on, so don't point fingers.
My reasons are not flippant. Once again you show your prideful arrogance when you make such statements.
My belief is based upon scripture that says no one can snatch you from Jesus or the Fathers hand....or nothing can separate us from the love of God...or you're saved by grace and maintained in salvation by grace. I see NONE of this as flippant. Once again your pride is sneaking in.
This opens up a whole new lesson, that I doubt that you are capable of believing or even wanting to learn. The verse about "snatching" is about those "
given to Jesus by the Father". If you really study the gospels, you would know that was only applying to the Apostles.
That verse can easily be understood as ...Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, (That is us christians) who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. ...In this verse Paul is explaining the position of a christian not a condition of a christian,
You must first be born again of the Spirit in order to not walk according to the flesh, but be able to walk according to the Spirit. Many people in the Church, especially those in denominations that were started from the
beginning of the Reformation, and not 200 years later, know little about the Spirit. I was raised in a denomination even later, but wasn't saved, because I could still willfully break commandments. Now I can't, because on 2/9/77 when about 30, I was finally born again of the Spirit and I even felt a heaviness lift out of my body, and the knowledge it was the filth from my nature. I also saw a vision, and heard God speak 8 sentences directly to me that seared right through me that I will never forget. Up until that time not one prayer in my whole church life was ever answered. Now because He has given me ears to hear, I wait until He tells me what to pray, and 100% of those prayers are answered.
