If You Love Them You Will Challenge Them

1 John 3:8-10 "…8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil. 9 Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10 By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.…"

No one who has been born of God lives a lifestyle of sin defending it. If they do sin they confess to be cleansed.

Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” 7Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…"

Have you noticed that God never mentions which sins could lose one salvation, or how big they had to be or how many times one had to sin. It is clear that once Christ changes us into a new creation and seals us with the Holy Spirit we can never go back and be the old creation again. We have been permanently changed by Christ. If we sin as His children He disciplines us until we confess to be cleansed. 1 John 1:9 was written to born-again believers, and so was 1 John 2:1.

1 John 1:9

"9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

1 John 2:1 "1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father— Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. "

There are many pretenders in the church who think they are going to heaven but they have never trusted Christ, they tried to come into the church in their flesh having never been transformed by Christ but claiming to be Christian.

God says this about those people:

Matthew 7:21-23 "

I Never Knew You

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"

There are many if not most people in church gatherings today who have joined the "Christian club" but have never trusted Christ, they confuse the new believers and even some seasoned believers who are reluctant to challenge these pretenders to ask God if they have been transformed.

Instead of challenging people to walk a holy path the church is coddling them leading them straight into hell as they believe they are saved. If we love these people we will ask them to go to God to see if they have ever been saved.