{"id":35870,"date":"2022-09-13T12:31:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/if-i-had-been-a-faithful-christian-and-understood-the-whole-truth-but-continued-doing-evil-will-i-be-given-second-chance-in-the-final-judgement-for-the-rest-of-mankind-eswatini\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:31:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:31:34","slug":"if-i-had-been-a-faithful-christian-and-understood-the-whole-truth-but-continued-doing-evil-will-i-be-given-second-chance-in-the-final-judgement-for-the-rest-of-mankind-eswatini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/if-i-had-been-a-faithful-christian-and-understood-the-whole-truth-but-continued-doing-evil-will-i-be-given-second-chance-in-the-final-judgement-for-the-rest-of-mankind-eswatini\/","title":{"rendered":"If I had been a faithful christian and understood the whole truth but continued doing evil will I be given second chance in the final judgement for the rest of mankind? (Eswatini)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A person cannot be both faithful<\/strong> and<\/strong> continue to practice evil<\/strong>. Romans 6:16 (NLT), “Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death<\/strong>, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.”<\/p>\n

We are still living in our fallen, human bodies, so we will sin.  Romans 7:18, 25 (ESV), 18 “For I (Paul<\/em>) know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. … 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God (love) with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.”<\/p>\n

However, we do not continue to practice sin or evil. 1 John 3:9-10 (NIV), 9 “No one who is born (Greek word is “begotten”<\/em>) of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born <\/strong>(begotten)<\/em> of God<\/strong>. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God's child<\/strong>…”<\/p>\n

As Christians daily walk with God, sin will actually grieve our hearts. We will have a guilty conscience and feel a separation from our loving, Heavenly Father. We immediately seek to remedy our problem with 1 John 1:9 (NIV), “If we (believers<\/em>) confess our sins<\/strong>, he is faithful and just and will forgive us<\/strong> our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

The purifying will come with disciplines. Hebrews 12:5-6 (CSB), 5 “And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: My son, do not take the Lord's discipline lightly or lose heart when you are reproved by him,  6 for the Lord disciplines the one he loves and punishes every son he receives<\/strong>.” <\/p>\n

If a spirit-begotten, true Christian does not submit to God’s disciplines, he hardens his heart to sin. He will go into second death at the end of his present earthly life.<\/p>\n

However, most believers practice righteousness but have not made a covenant<\/strong> with God to do only God’s will. Romans 12:1-2 (NKJV), 1 “I beseech you therefore, brethren (believers in Jesus)<\/em><\/strong>, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice<\/strong>, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed<\/strong> by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”<\/p>\n

These dear believers, who belong to the household of faith, have not been spirit-begotten. Consequently, they will receive a human resurrection and will be taught righteousness. They will be on trial for everlasting life during Christ’s 1,000 year reign.<\/p>\n

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A person cannot be both faithful and continue to practice evil. Romans 6:16 (NLT), “Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.” We are still living … Continue reading “If I had been a faithful christian and understood the whole truth but continued doing evil will I be given second chance in the final judgement for the rest of mankind? (Eswatini)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}