Again, justifying a little bit of sin is no different than justifying lots of sin.
Telling others you are a sinner (present tense) saved by God’s grace shows that you have not really changed and it can lead others (even children) to treat God’s grace as a license to sin. In fact, that’s what your view of grace does actually. Your view of grace is not in line with Titus 2:11-12 that says God’s grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and that we should live righteously and godly in this present world. Your view of grace denies Paul’s words when he says, shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound? God forbid. (Romans 6:1-2). But I am sure you have clever ways to deny these verses in God’s Word because you don’t like what they say plainly. Therein is the problem that you will face come judgment day. God will ask you why you do not just believe His word.
Your wrong experience by a false preacher is not the Word of God. Your experience runs contrary to what that Bible verses he loosely referenced actually means.
That preacher no doubt was loosely referencing these verses.
Acts of the Apostles 5:30
“The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.”
Galatians 3:13
“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed
is every one that hangeth on a tree:”
1 Peter 3:18
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”
The problem this false preacher did not inform you of is that the Law that is being spoken about in Galatians 3:13 is the 613 laws of Moses. Remember, Galatians 4:10-11 says, “Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.” In Galatians 2:3, Paul says, “But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:” So Paul was referencing the Old Law and not the Laws of Christ. But why? Acts of the Apostles 15:1 says,
“And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren,
and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.” Acts of the Apostles 15:24 says, “Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying,
Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no
such commandment:”.
As for 1 Peter 3:18:
It’s talking about the Provisional Atonement (Whereby it is talking about what was taking place when Christ’s died for all men’s sins, and then when He was risen). For it talks about in verse 19-20 about how he went and preached to the spirits in prison.
1 Peter 3:15-20
15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
16 having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.
17 For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,
19 by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,
20 who formerly were disobedient,…”
Christ dying for the sins of the whole world (even while they were sinful)….
(a) Does not mean they are saved even if they reject Him as Savior (Which would be a sin - 1 John 3:23), and
(b) Does not mean they are saved if they believe in Jesus and continue in their sins in some way. For that would be turning God’s grace into a license for immorality (Jude 1:4).
So when that false preacher loosely quoted 1 Peter 3:18, he was quoting it out of context to what it was actually saying.
So I am sorry to inform you, but your coming to Christ (with your thinking that you can remain unjust in some way) is simply a false conversion. You did not truly come to the real Jesus Christ of the Bible if you started off thinking this way.
For when I first accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior back in 1992, justifying sin was not even remotely in my mindset. I was seeking forgiveness with the Lord Jesus over my past life of sin, and I wanted to do those things that pleased Him. The idea that I could remain unjust still did not even enter my mind as a possibility. Why? Because he that commits sin is of the devil (1 John 3:8).
Anyways, when I accepted Jesus as my Savior, it was like a light went on inside of me, and I had a love, joy, and peace that I had never known before. When I attended a prayer group, they could not help but to notice my passion and fire for the Lord.
You guys really have a fine art of ripping verses out of context.
If you were to read verses 13, and 14, Paul is speaking of his past life of sin.
“Who was
before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did
itignorantly in unbelief. And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. This
is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.” (1 Timothy 1:13-15).
For it is not uncommon for people today to even to talk about a past experience in the present tense.
Paul was the chief of sinners in the sense that he persecuted the church of God. It does not mean he is still continuing to do that sin after coming to Christ.
Even you will admit the words of the context, but you don’t really acknowledge what it actually means. That’s scary.
Why would it? Jesus paid for your future sin, and so you never have to worry about sin ever destroying your soul again. So you can just sin as much as you like or not worry about it all that much. Just live for yourself and your sin on occasion and Jesus is just a second thought in your life. You become the master and not Jesus.
It does not matter if you live perfectly. The fact that you teach that you can sin and still be saved disqualifies you to enter the Kingdom of God because you can lead children to be a two fold child of hell more than you are. Why? Because they got a license to sin. No sin can separate them from Christ and so that gives them a license to sin on some level.
Somehow you just don’t see yourself in abusing grace but that’s what your belief is doing. Justifying a little bit of sin under God’s grace is no different than justifying lots of sin. Your not dealing with sin properly by confessing and forsaking sin. You believe future sin is forgiven you and so there is no real need to treat sin as the Bible does in that it can destroy your soul or the souls of others. You ignore this truth and therein lies the deception or the strong delusion that is going on today.
At the end of the day we must accept the Bible for what it says. You simply don’t accept the words of Jesus on his warning against how sin can destroy your soul (Matthew 5:28-30) (Matthew 6:15) (Matthew 12:37) (Matthew 25:31-46) (Luke 9:62). You are ignore Paul’s warning on how sin can cause you to not inherit the Kingdom of God in Galatians 5:19-21, Ephesians 5:5-6, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, etcetera. You ignore Paul’s warning that to not provide for your own is to deny the faith, and to be worse than an infidel (unbeliever) (1 Timothy 5:8). But if your future sins are paid for by the deceptions of your Protestant teachers, then go ahead and believe their lies over believing the truth of God’s Word (if that gives you comfort). But just know: That comfort is a false hope. Just know. What you believe is not in line with the Bible.
