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. . .how would you feel about your life? How 'bout living in not-so-open sin? Would you feel like everything was OK between you and Him?
. . .how would you feel about your life? How 'bout living in not-so-open sin? Would you feel like everything was OK between you and Him?
do you want scriptural references or just psychological/personal guesswork?
Neither. Let me try this:
If you were a Christian living in adultery and found out you were terminally ill and asked for prayer and God healed you, would it not say to you it is OK to stay in your adulterous affair?
Neither. Let me try this:
If you were a Christian living in adultery and found out you were terminally ill and asked for prayer and God healed you, would it not say to you it is OK to stay in your adulterous affair?
scripturally you see some healed by Jesus and followed him and others did not even go back to see Jesus after the healing.
I see the desire to ask for prayer as a (step) of repentance and acknowledging their fallen status. (in most cases)
I had one man that I was about to pray for ask me if we could trigger the time of back healing after he won his lawsuit and after he receives his disability status. LOL. No I didn't pray for him. and encouraged him to get his priorities in line. not loving mammon more than Gods involvement in his life.
so I personally seen both attitudes after a healing.
one of repentance and one of quickly going back to their sin.
But I also believe every bit of God's goodness and love puts another impact and drawing to the rebellious to draw them back to Him.
i don't see some of the commands to preach the gospel and heal the sick and cast out the demons as conditional on whether the sinner is willing to immediately repent.
many Jesus healed did not honor him afterwards.
Neither. Let me try this:
If you were a Christian living in adultery and found out you were terminally ill and asked for prayer and God healed you, would it not say to you it is OK to stay in your adulterous affair?
. . .how would you feel about your life? How 'bout living in not-so-open sin? Would you feel like everything was OK between you and Him?
To answer the OP (taking into consideration my first response on the thread), I would have to say that I hope I would feel pretty good - forgiven. Someone who is forgiven no longer carries around the weight of guilt and shame and all that goes with sin. But if I go back into sin...
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Luke 11:24-26
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
2 Peter 2:20-22
. . .how would you feel about your life? How 'bout living in not-so-open sin? Would you feel like everything was OK between you and Him?
. . .how would you feel about your life?
Since virtually no one even knows what sin (hamartia and hamartiai articular and anarthrous, hamartano, or hamartema) IS, this question is fallacious and irrelevant.
Most professing Believers are living in many kinds of "open sin" as their alleged pristine Judeo-Christian ethic, so singling out some egregious area of action is a distraction from all sin and its source... false beliefs from hearing, thinking, choosing, feeling, desiring, saying, doing, and being according to a false logos.
This thread topic is self-righteousness, presuming only the depth of sin is sin. The propped-up false appearances of most alleged Believers is the height of sin while harboring all manner of sin in the heart.
. . .how would you feel about your life? How 'bout living in not-so-open sin? Would you feel like everything was OK between you and Him?
life in Christ is not about feelings but about doing the right things...Christ always healed first and said go and sin no more afterward...everything is OK when we abide in Him and obey his word
He would not allow one of His regenerate children to continue in adultery.
By what means do you think He would use to prevent one, if he had allowed himself, lets say, to fall out love with his wife, fall in love and run off with the church organist? Many have, ya know and still function as mighty men of the cloth with people led to salvation in Christ.
By what means do you think He would use to prevent one, if he had allowed himself, lets say, to fall out love with his wife, fall in love and run off with the church organist? Many have, ya know and still function as mighty men of the cloth with people led to salvation in Christ.
You are making up situations.I'm talking from experience. The Eternal Father will not allow His regenerate child to remain in spiritual or physical adultery.