justbyfaith
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When you believe wrong, you live wrong. You will sin, and confess, and repent, and talk about "abiding" and talk about having "indwelling sin".
I don't know about you; but I know that I live right for the most part. My tendency is not to sin; because the element of indwelling sin is rendered dead within me (Romans 6:6, Galatians 5:24, Romans 7:8).
Let me make it simple.
A person is born again.
Who did that? Did "abiding".?
As for the doctrine of abiding, you seem to be fighting against it; and yet it is a doctrine that is taught to the genuine believer by the anointing of the Holy Ghost Himself. Notice:
1Jo 2:27, But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
1Jo 2:28, And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
Do you believe that you can go to heaven, and never keep any of the 10 commandments, or the 2 commandments that Jesus gave?
Or do you believe that you have to keep commandments to go to Heaven. ????
One of the ten commandments is "Thou shalt not kill."
Do you believe that there are murderers in heaven?
Adulterers? Thieves? Covetous?
The fact of the matter is, that the law defines for us, what is sin? (Romans 3:20, 1 John 3:4).
Since sin will not be allowed in heaven (it is sin that Jesus died to deal with so that we could be separated from sin and thus made worthy of heaven), it can be said that those who will continue to violate the ten commandments will not be in heaven.
Now, can a person be forgiven for violating any of the ten? Most certainly, they can.
But you must know that repentance is required; or that, if you are truly forgiven much, it will be evidenced by the fact that you love much (Luke 7:36-50). And love is the fulfilling of the law (Romans 13:8-10, Galatians 5:14, 1 John 5:3, 2 John 1:6, Romans 8:4); therefore, since sin is the transgression of the law, the one who loves will not be committing sin.
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