Repenting From Sins Will Not Save You....Unless It Is A Trick !

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Michiah-Imla

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.....Abandoning “ my” Performance and worshipping Him and “ His” Performance, Getting the Terrible Weight of “ Performance -Based” Salvation off of my shoulders....THAT is what True Christianity is all about....

No one is promoting a “Performance Based Salvation”.

Don’t you get it? In order to receive the gift of the new creation whereby your sins are taken away and are made holy and sanctified you need only to repent and believe the gospel. No performance or works can avail the sinner to this gift.

But once you are cleansed and made holy, the scriptures are abundantly clear that that sanctified saint is not to return to the former lusts as when he was in ignorance (1 Peter 1:14). Because he will be doomed if he so chooses to do so (Hebrews 10:26-28; 1 Thessalonians 3:5).

There are some very misguided people in this Forum at times ...DANGEROUS Tares and Spreaders Of Legalism.....religionists That love to spread their Leaven....Those people need to be driven out of here .....

So are you a spreader of lawlessness (Jude 1:4)?

And what’s wrong with religion in of its self?

James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
 

justbyfaith

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Christ took my “ judgement” on the Cross and I spend no time worrying about it....my Like is full of peace and joy....and I have a heart- felt desire to be obedient, and as men measure these things—- I “AM” obedient.....I don’t work at it much at all, if any ....since I received my “ New Heart, all the Big Things That God is concerned about, just seem to occur naturally.....I live my life, enjoy it immensely and bask in the rewards God gave me for obeying His biggest Command, this side of the Cross , which is to REST in His Gospel Of Grace .....Abandoning “ my” Performance and worshipping Him and “ His” Performance, Getting the Terrible Weight of “ Performance -Based” Salvation off of my shoulders....THAT is what True Christianity is all about.....it is my wish that you may you discover it someday.....

I say many things on here that are rather “outlandish”.....More often than not , when I act irreverent ,it’s to grab somebody's Attention .....I want other Believers to have the Assurance Of their Salvation as I do and enjoy the peace and Joy that I have been blessed with.
Many things I write here are extremely “ tongue-in-cheek”..... unfortunately , being a Wise- A** is something that comes naturally to me ( there are others here just like me) ....God and I Are Working on that , btw......Meanwhile , just like any other sins are in my life—- I Trust God to “ blow the whistle” and not let me cross “ too many” lines.....
I am a Playful Guy by Nature.....using this type of communication has many flaws—- Irony, kidding , speaking tongue- in - cheek do not translate well.....even bland statements come off as harsh....
There are some very misguided people in this Forum at times ...DANGEROUS Tares and Spreaders Of Legalism.....religionists That love to spread their Leaven....Those people need to be driven out of here ..... ( these types destroyed many of Paul’s churches in Asia Minor ). Just like Sarah did to Hagar.....” CAST OUT” the Bondwoman and her son( symbols of slaves to Works)
There is room for Mockery at times in these matters....Read 1 kings18:27 ......when the False God Baal was called upon to create a fire at an alter that had been set up......naturally he did not show up.......after hours of waiting , Elijah mocked the false Prophets Of Baal....” Where is your god? Did he have to leave and go take a “You-Know -What?” A nice dose of ridicule for the False Teachers Of his time. An Exasperated Paul told the Perverted Gospel Teachers in His day that insisted on circumcision for Salvation that he wished they would just get out and cut off the entire Thing!
False Teachers Of today should not be surprised if a little mockery gets thrown their way .Perhaos it will drive some of them away.....

Pro 15:21, Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
 

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True ....and “a pig returns to his wallow”...the “ wallow “ being Lucky Repentance.How’s “ That” for some Folly? Your “uprightness “ is a Joke.....That is the TRUE Folly in here.....
Repentance....Ezekiel 33:19, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Luke 13:1-5...

Lucky...1 Corinthians 15:37, Matthew 13:30.
 

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There is no "hatchet" to bury...unless you were wielding one against me.

If you are sincerely repentant about your attack on me, then you are most certainly forgiven...

But if you end up doing it again, I'm afraid that you will have to ask me to forgive you again.

Seventy times seven![1]
  1. Matthew 18:21-35
 
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Davy

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Apostle Paul said to work out one's salvation with fear and trembling, not by the believer going on about their own business as if they are already saved.

Phil 2:12
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

KJV

Moreover, Paul showed we are to be blameless and harmless in the midst of this crooked and perverse world. If we are busy thinking we are already saved, and then go and follow the world, then we will be no different than the world, and not an example of "lights in the world". This is the DANGER of man's once saved always saved no more repentance doctrine. It is a doctrine of devils because it teaches the believer to forget about sin, not check themselves, and in some Churches on that false doctrine they are even told they have stopped... sinning altogether! The devil has tricked those so that they no longer follow the commandments of Christ and His Apostles, but instead have become the followers of men.
 

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"working out your salvation with fear and trembling"....the Greek word in that verse refers to the working out of a math problem, so that the verse is clearly reiterated in the following.

2Pe 1:10, Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: