"13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory."
When someone has been changed into a new creation by Christ, he is no longer the old anymore and will never get it back.
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."
When Christ saves us because we have confessed our sinfulness and believed in His sacrifice as counted to our sin, then we are born again. We can never go back to the old man again. Our Spirit is saved and counted as being in heaven with Christ. We are saved permanently.
God seals us with the Holy Spirit, we cannot become unsealed, we belong to Him.
We are not sinless: This was written to believers who are saved for eternity.
1 John 1:9 "9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
If we sin after we are born again it is the weakness of the sinful flesh not the Spirit Who lives in us. God deals with those He loves through discipline not in throwing them away.
Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, or lose heart when He rebukes you. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises everyone He receives as a son.” 7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…"
When we die our Spirit goes to heaven but our body cannot go because it is sinful.
If someone sins and is not sorry and even defends their sin they have never been born again. Those who have been born again grieve over their sin when they do it and eventually confess and stop because of the conviction of the Holy Spirit.
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 and the children of the devil can be distinguished: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother."
A born again believer is not sinless, they do sin less, because they hate sin and quickly confess and turn from it. They do not "practice" sin as a lifestyle.
Those who practice sin and have no guilt about it, even defending it have never been born again in the first place. They are pretenders and need to become born again for the first time.
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