Of course, I'm not ungodly. If I was ungodly how could I be a believer in Jesus and born again?
And I already said multiple times that I'm a saint who still sins.
What's the time limit between a sin committed and repenting from that sin before God cuts you off? What if you don't remember that you had a bad thought and you don't repent? Personally, I think everyone sins multiple times a day. What some people who believe in entire sanctification do is move the goalposts, so they can keep their inner sins, but not call them sin. Others just claim they live above sin, not acknowledging that their ever imperfection is in fact, sin.
Do you know who God says he hears? Those who are poor in spirit, the needy ones who know they sin and need Jesus to give them grace every minute of every day.
Thank you. I like your boldness. Perhaps we can come to an understanding of Scripture.
In not being ungodly, do you mean Christians cannot be judged as ungodly, or that as a Christian you do not live ungodly? You are not an ungodly sinner, because you are delivered from living as such?
And I already said multiple times that I'm a saint who still sins.
As in, having sinned since being born again? And it is possible to still do so again, so that
if we sin, we have an advocate for grace to repent and being forgiven and
once again cleansed of all ungodliness?
Or as OSAS, you
will sin, and your sin is already forgiven?
What's the time limit between a sin committed and repenting from that sin before God cuts you off?
The time to repent is so soon as the Spirit of grace convicts our heart and convinces us of lust needing to be purified from the heart.
Being cut off is only for them that despise the Spirit of grace, and repent not, mocking God as not being a righteous judge of all souls.
Those cut off do not worship and obey God as Lord and Judge, but only give lip service to Him as unconditional Saviour.
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts.
Personally, I think everyone sins multiple times a day.
Personally, I think there is a difference between sinning against God, for all sin is unrighteousness disobedience against God, and
making mistakes: I forgot an appointment with the vet. I tripped over my feet entering the office. I didn't remember a person's name I met before: imperfection in this life.
What some people who believe in entire sanctification do is move the goalposts.
1. 'Entire' sanctification is double-speak with God: His sanctification is entire and complete, and there is none other with Him than His own:
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
2. The goal post moved most clearly by OSAS is from
the possibility of ungodly sinning to the certitude of it, and equating living 'entirely' sanctified and unblameable as being unattainable perfection in this life.
so they can keep their inner sins, but not call them sin.
Sanctification begins in the heart and the mind: obedience to the faith begins with casting down every vain imagination and thought for sin in the mind.
The judgment of the Lord is that we sin in the mind with lust in the heart, before ever commit sin in the body:
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Christians must learn the obedience of Christ in the fear of the Lord: They must learn not to allow thought for sin to reign in my mind, and so to plant lust in my heart, so that they will not allow sin to reign over their mortal body:
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
This is the great failing of modern Christian teaching: the great discipline of grace for the disciple of Christ, is to rule over our minds without vain imagination and thought for sin, so as not to be lured by them to lust and disobedience to God.
We love God with all our heart and mind
by first obeying His faith in our heart and mind. True professionals of this life learn to rule their minds and emotions over the body for a corruptible crown, but saints ought be doing so for an incorruptible.
Others just claim they live above sin, not acknowledging that their ever imperfection is in fact, sin.
As I said, ever mistakes abide with us in this life, not ever sinning in unrighteousness and ungodliness: Sins are not mistakes. Every sin is committed
by being committed to from the heart, because all sin is by lust of the heart:
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Those who are poor in spirit, the needy ones who know they sin and need Jesus to give them grace every minute of every day.
That is the mind of the double minded seeking grace to help repent of their unrepented sins.
The poor in spirit of the overcomer and the mind of Christ is knowing they must endure temptation and overcome sin unto the end, and need the same grace of Jesus that they overcome sin by, in order to continue overcoming unto the end.
It is one thing for the double minded to know they
commit sins of the flesh, and it is another thing for the overcomer to know they
have sins in the flesh to continue overcoming: We still have sins in the mortal body to fight and overcome daily unto the end.
The wretched double minded seek deliverance from their continued sins and double mindedness, so as to become overcomers in the faith, the overcoming saints seek the day of resurrection, where there will be no more fight to overcome sins in the glorified resurrected body of Christ.
OSAS teaches the double minded to give up the fight to become overcomers, and just lay down and accept it as inevitable for life.
OSAS seduces the double minded unto destruction, while hating the overcoming saint for convicting their conscience, even as Cain with righteous Abel.
