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Actually, @Behold hates OSAS, because it has so often meant license to sin. So, he never uses that acronym. I prefer assurance or confidence in my salvation based on 1 John 3:21-22 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; 22 and whatever we ask we receive...

I was baptized three times before I was saved. After I was filled with the Spirit and born again of the Spirit, God spoke to me and said, "Now be baptized in water." So now that you've got Him inside, and you do, be baptized in water for the right reasons. I prefer full immersion because it is a...

You don't understand what lawlessness is? That is what Jesus is talking about. That should be easy for you seeing as you have reading comprehension.

It is a willful sin that is known, like a commandment of God. LAW. Therefore, lawlessness. In the Old Testament they stoned them to death for committing certain sins. Murder, adultery, picking up sticks on the Sabbath day Numbers 15:30-36, That is the category of sins that Jesus takes away out...

What are you, some kind of cessationist who doesn't believe in the New Covenant and are against the gifts of the Spirit in it? Look at the context. Jesus said, "YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS." Not gifts of the Spirit! You do know that nothing changes or ceases during the period of a covenant...

Come on. I think you would know if something was a miracle or not. This verse is NOT talking against the gifts of the Spirit, or Pentecostalism or Charismatics. It is talking about SIN. And not the mild kind of sin, but sins unto DEATH! Lawlessness!

Where did you address Matthew 7:21-23? In the last month? Could you repeat it? I really want to know because it has always bothered me. So I want to ask someone who believes we cannot lose our salvation.

Are you talking about me asking if you understand?

You know I don't believe that or teach that. I don't sin, or even believe in sinning "so grace may abound" so why accuse me of that? You do believe and teach you can't lose your salvation. That seems like OSAS to me! The person in Matthew 7:21-23 was obviously filled with the Spirit, thus born...

Hi Ritajanice and @Behold I know you both are believers in OSAS. But I can't logically get past Matthew 7:21-23. Only someone who has been born again and filled with the Spirit (they go together) can cast out demons, prophecy and do miracles. Matthew is not talking about "fake" miracles, so how...

I wish it was as simple as that. But there are those who "believe" that just accepting who Jesus is as the Son of God and accepting Him as their Savior and freed from condemnation is enough. No! We must follow Him. And we can't with a sin nature. So we must repent and want to be freed from sin...

I don't know why, He is not a respecter of persons. One of my friends was driving when he experienced it and had to pull over before he crashed!

The Ten Commandments are still valid, but for sinners. Jesus takes away our desire to commit willful lawless sin, so we no longer need the Law to point out sin that isn't there. Get it? What is written on our hearts are the laws of Jesus. Do them and you are not breaking any of the Ten...

There are two types of sin in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. Old Testament; Numbers 15:22-29 a sacrificed covered the sins NOT unto death that were committed unintentionally. In the New Testament in 1 John 5:16-17 those would be sins not unto death - immature fruit of the Spirit...

What I can relate to is the 180 degree about face in my desires to sin instantly. It is dead, I know it, and I know who I am in Christ. He also gave me the gift of hearing His voice that night. He also answers all my prayers. For the 30 years before that not one prayer was answered. But I had...

John 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. There are commandments of the Father, the Old Covenant, the Ten Commandments And there are commandments of Jesus. They are not the same, 1 John 3:23-24 23 And...

What was the sobering thought for me was the realization that I had already gone to church for 30 years! But not until 1977 was I born again. That means that most people in today's church may not be saved. Recently one forum member in the Calvinist group said that we are not saved by works of...

I agree, but watch your wording. There is a false doctrine out there that says "God does not see our sin anymore because it is covered by the blood of Jesus WHILE WE COMMIT THEM. YIKES!

A Christian who has eternal life in them, no, they are the only ones who go straight to the presence of God. Their bodies are in the ground. The unsaved, would probably be asleep until the judgment. They are not aware of anything until then. If they were aware as if soul sleep was error they...

A practicing homosexual is not a Christian. Jesus takes away our sins unto death out of our nature. Paul talks of those who used to be homosexuals but no more in that congregation. God loved them enough to cleanse them. But God will not go against our own free-will if they want to still...