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NASB | John 15:10 "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 15:10 "If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and remain in His love. |
Bible Question:
Could someone break one of the (serious) 10 commandments and really be a Christian or were they never really saved? How can you tell if you are truly saved or just think you have been saved? I know a lot of people who are totally convinced they are saved and I can almost tell you that they aren't. I feel in my heart that I am saved, but I committed adultery (and married the person). I know it was wrong and have asked for forgiveness, but my brother says I haven't truly repented since I am still married to my current husband and that I should divorce him. Any ideas? Special note for EdB: I have been conversing with you on this quite a bit. If you are out there, what do you think of what my brother has said? - dat |
Bible Answer: Greetings Data, I have read your post and it sounds like you are under a lot of emotional strain with your decisions! For starters we aren’t saved because we keep the Ten Commandments, we are saved because Jesus died for us and we trust in what he did. God said that if we will believe in his Son that he will save us. The word believe in the New Testament comes to us from the word PISTEUO and is doesn’t mean to feel a certain way or give mental assent to, it meant to rest in the fact, rely upon, trust in and adhere to the person of Jesus Christ. The way we feel has nothing to do with our salvation, it’s what God says and our believing it. You don’t even have to understand it all the way just trust Him that it is fact. I don’t under stand how a TV works but that doesn’t stop me from using it. Every time I push certain things it works for me because someone smarter then me designed it that way. God has designed our salvation to be centered on the person of his Son and he wants us to put all of our eggs in one basket and leave it up to Jesus. God says that when we do this he will give us eternal life as a gift: believe it because God says it! Now down to the sin problem and how we are forgiven. I will probably catch a lot of flack from some of the clan but I am going to tell you what God’s word says. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Read this verse through several times and then point out to me where it says to ask for forgiveness. To begin with, if you want to be obedient and do exactly what God says why would you ask him to do something that he already says that he will do? The truth contained in this verse is in the word confess. You don’t ask for something, you lay claim to the fact of something. Confess in the original language of the Koine Greek was the word HOMOLOGEO. It was used as in a courtroom when a specific situation was stated. God wants us to own up to what we did and not hid it but tell him straight out! When we do this he says he will do something in return. He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. He is faithful, that means he will do it every time. Your forgiveness is dependent on the work of Christ and what he did for that sin, not on how you feel about it. God is only impressed with what his Son did for sin, not some pitiful way that we feel. There are so many thing in our lives that we don’t take into consideration but to God they are still wrong. He says that if we confess the known sin he will even take care of the unknown. 1 John 1:9 B and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. There are none of us that are perfect but we have a perfect God. The fact that you sinned in a point of weakness doesn’t mean that you should compound your sin by getting rid of your opposite number! God knew in eternity past that you were going to do what you did and he still saved you, if you are trusting in Jesus. The fact that you are having a guilt trip over what you did means that you are chain sinning. You need to trust in I John 1:9 and get on with your life. If you are still alive God has a plain for you but you can’t get over the thing that shocks you. It didn’t shock God when you married so tell him and praise him for his Son and lets get on with life. If you a child of his and he wants to take you to the woodshed for getting out of line he will but just remember it is Jesus that pays for sins even those of a guilt complex. 1 John 5:10-13 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. [11] And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. [12] He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. [13] These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. Have a nice day, CDBJ |
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