Featured "If You Are Doing This ONE Thing, You May Not Be Saved"

To me it hinges to a great extent on how that person actually views their sinful behavior, do they agree with God is sinning, and seek to confess it to Him, and trying to deal with the issue, and those who see no problem and just accept that as being normal and right!

 

and how many Christians do you know, who have "dethroned" sin?

 

so the "elect" can turn away from following the Lord, as some do; and live worldly lives, as some do, and YET, because they are "elect", they are saved and going to heaven?

This is what Jesus Christ says to this:

“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. 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?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’" (Matthew 7:21-23)

 

The saved can live as a pig in the slop and muck for a season, but will not remain there and will come back to get cleaned off!

 

That is a moment by moment decision, none of us ever get to where sin issues ever fully dealt t with, no state of sinless perfection!

 

None. And Spurgeon isn't saying they do - God does it when He regenerates a lost soul and now Christ is their King.

 

1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

 

The pig can put on fine clothes, learn the terminology and actions, but in the end, sow returns to its own vomit!

 

There is not a single Christian that has died without a number of unrepentant sins.
Sins are much more than fornication and gluttony.

 

And how do you know that?

There are many very godly Christians who do not have unrepentant sins because they walk very closely with the Lord

 

Yeah, if you only define sin as "smoke, chew, and hang with those that do".
But if you bear in mind that sin involves fully yielding to the will of God in our lives, including those things he allowed which we are bitter about, forgiving our worst offenders from the heart, thankfulness, praise, faith, humility, non-bitterness, etc.
then no way.

I will die with unrepentant sins, and so will you [rude comment snipped]

 

What you describe above is someone who has not been saved and any clergyman that gives such a person assurance is doing malpractice as a clergyman. But I do agree totally with George's post above also, in regards to our present state. I see a difference between what George said and your OP.

 

I am talking about Christians who do not "sin", and live holy and blameless lives. Are you suggesting that Enoch in the Old Testament is not one of these?

Genesis 5:24, "And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him"

I have no doubt that there are MANY like Enoch, as I have personally met some, whom we could call SAINTS!

 

please speak for yourself, and you know ZERO about me!

 

Sinless perfection is a toxic and false teaching. The only point at which a Christian is totally free from indwelling sin is upon entering into heaven.
I wouldn't use that very small text as proof that Enoch was sinless, otherwise he entered heaven based upon his own merit, there are plenty of texts that mention people in passing, I hardly think you would make the case that they too were sinless.
1 John 1:8-10 would also be a text that disproves your claim to know sinless Christians.

 

Since all we know (usually) about other posters is based on our interpretation of their posts, can we draw any conclusions about their obvious sinful practices found in their posts? I think yes, for we know them by their fruits. We can compare what they claim about scripture with what scripture actually says (or at least our understanding of what it actually says.) I think the most common sinful practice found on this board is a lack of candor, a lack of integrity when it comes to truth telling. Posting a person is mean spirited, then posting it was not a personal attack. Believing all 5 points of the TULIP but claiming not to be a Calvinist.

 

Amen!

 

Sinless perfection of God's elect is found only in having all of their sins imputed to Christ and the perfect righteousness of Christ imputed to them.

As long as we live in this flesh, we all should agree with the Apostle Paul - "O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!" - Romans 7:24-25