How Much Can I Get Away With?
Response to comment [from a Christian]:
"Baby believers" are freshly delivered from the world....they have the simple faith of a child. Their thought is not how much sin they can get away with, but are rejoicing in how much sin has been forgiven them.
"Carnal believers" are still under the law...thus not believers at all. They aren't dead to sin, therefore they are still striving to enter into the rest by their own efforts.
Men don't
desire because God's grace is
irresistable?
They resist God's grace every day
(Jn 3:19). After enough of that God
withdraws from them (Ge 6:3, Ro
1:28-32). They will not believe the
truth or yield to God's law so they
will rightfully and poetically
believe a lie (2 Thess 2:9-12).
Men have
the seed of sin in them (Ps 51:5).
They must be born again (1 Pe 1:23).
Sometimes it takes time for the
sinner's sin to come to full
fruition (Jas 1:15) but it comes out
(1 Co 6:9-11).
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 (1 Jn 2:19).
For it is
impossible for those who were once
enlightened, and have tasted the
heavenly gift, and have become
partakers of the Holy Spirit, and
have tasted the good word of God and
the powers of the age to come, if
they fall away, to renew them again
to repentance, since they crucify
again for themselves the Son of God,
and put Him to an open shame (Heb
6:4–6).
For if we
sin willfully after we have received
the knowledge of the truth, there no
longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
but a certain fearful expectation of
judgment, and fiery indignation
which will devour the adversaries.
Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law
dies without mercy on the testimony
of two or three witnesses. Of how
much worse punishment, do you
suppose, will he be thought worthy
who has trampled the Son of God
underfoot (Heb 10:28-29).
See:
The Potter and the Clay
J Vernon McGee
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "His point is to show the absurdity of any doctrine that teaches that man can sin his way out of salvation."
It comes
down to men's desires (Ps 1:1-3). If
they desire what the devil desires,
they are his (Jn 8:44); If they
desire what God desires, they are
his (1 Jn 5:18).
Do you
love God and hate evil? Do you love
his people? Ps 26:5, 1 Jn 3:14.
Are you giving yoursself an excuse to sin?
Ro 6:15. Is there something you are trying to "get away with"?
Your sin can be uncovered by God (1 Kin. 21:17–26) or by man
(Josh. 9:3–22). You may be sure that your sin will find you out
(Ga 6:7, Nu 32:23, 2 Co 5:10, Mt 10:26).
"Sin will take you farther than you ever expected to go; it will keep you longer than you ever intended to stay, and it will cost you more than you ever expected to pay." ~ Deeper Still Event Series
