Anyone who claims they can sin all they want after salvation was never changed into a new creation by Christ. We only become born again by coming to Christ in shame over our sinful nature wanting Him to change us. Anyone who "decides" to become a Christian is doing it in the flesh and will not be thinking like someone who has been changed by Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17 "
"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."
Ephesians 2:10
"10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
Those who have been changed by Christ have the Holy Spirit living in them to convict them of sin so that if they do fall they have an advocate and they desire to be cleansed of that sin.
When we become born again we hate our sin and want to be cleansed.
1 John 1:9 "9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
1 John 2:1 "My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;"
We have many pretenders in the church who may even say a lot of right things but who have never been born again.
Matthew 7:21-23 "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.’"
My heart becomes agitated every time I hear a person claiming to be a Christian, say that sin doesn't matter anymore, because we are under the blood.
This is such a lie, if sin didn't matter then why would Christ go to the cross and endure a terrible death for something that was no big deal?
Christ didn't die on that cross to allow us to be comfortable with sin, even flaunting it. He died on the cross to free us from sin and make us righteous.
Romans 6:18 in the Bible states, "You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness".
Feel free to rebuke sharply anyone who would bring the false gospel of "freedom to sin" after salvation. This is exactly what the devil would teach to remove the witnesses of Christ from the culture.
When we became born again we were completely changed by Christ, this is a witness to the world around us that He has the power to change anyone who wants to be changed by Him.
Never remain silent when a "pretender" attempts to convince you it is alright to sin after salvation. They are lying against God and denying His power to change people.
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