Next time you hear a testimony about someone like this, remember what God said in His Word: That testimony is "I know that person is saved, but they have spent years in their old lifestyle and though nothing changed, but I know they are saved."
We can know the spirit of a person by how they choose to live every day. One slip-up does not tell us anything, but a lifestyle defending sin tells us a lot.
2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.'"
1 John 3:9 "No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God."
Matthew 7:16-17 "16By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.…"
Galatians 5:22-23 "22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law."
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