The problem is that you hold to some seriously flawed beliefs, and it does not matter how much others expose them, you continue to hang on to them. So it is not ignorance on the part of others, but stubbornness on your part. Which automatically cancels your sinlessness.
The Bible is crystal clear that while God imputes righteousness to the sinner through justification by grace through faith, that does not automatically make the sinner a sinless saint. And this is where the process of sanctification comes in. But you refuse to believe this by misinterpreting some verses.
I was always taught that the process we go through was called sanctification and was for the purpose of overcoming sin. But I searched the scriptures to see if that was true. It wasn't.
Let's look at Matthew 7:21-23 and reason it out with other scriptures.
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
1. They believe in Jesus calling Him Lord.
- 1 John 3:3 3 "And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure."
2. They have even received the Spirit, been born again, and been given gifts of the Spirit.
- Philippians 3:16 "Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind."
- 2 Peter 1:2-4 2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. (been sanctified).
- 2 Peter 1:5-7 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
3. But they didn't guard themselves. They were dead to sin, yet willfully kept sinning when sin had lost its power over them. They were
already sanctified, yet CHOSE to willfully sin outside their new nature, quenching the Spirit. Hebrews 10:29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has
trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
- Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? That is not because they had not been sanctified; it is because they quenched the Spirit.
- 1 John 5:18 "We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him." James 4:7 "Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
- 2 Peter 2:20-23 20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world (been sanctified) through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”
