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NASB | 1 John 5:13 ¶ These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 5:13 ¶ These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God [which represents all that Jesus Christ is and does], so that you will know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that you [already] have eternal life. |
Bible Question: Is it impossible for a Christian who has fallen away from God to renew themselves again to a relationship with Him after they have known his power and turned from Him? What do the Scriptures mean to each of you who care to answer. Support your answers with other Scriptures for me to review please. |
Bible Answer: You ask,can a spirit filled believer repent. My understanding is that if they are Spirit filled, capital S, they have already used I John 1:9 and don't need to repent. 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. When this is done God is back in control of our lives. i.e. we are filled. We can lose this filling by grieving, or quenching the Spirit; the direct result of sin or the old sin nature controlling our lives instead of God. Ephes. 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 1 Thes. 5:19 Quench not the Spirit. God promises us that he will never leave us or forsake us. Hebrews 13:5 B I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. God is always in the believer but not always in control. Thus when God is put back in control, by the believer confessing all known sin, the believer is automatically filled by the spirit. A believer can do nothing that is pleasing to God when that believer is operating under the power of the flesh or the old sin nature, that is why Jesus said that we must abide in him. Every thing that a believer does that will count for anything must be done in the power of the Spirit. The filling of the Spirit is an absolute, you are either 100 percent filled with the Spirit or your old sin nature is in control, it is one or the other; not a little bit of both. Either God is controlling the believer's life or their old sin nature is. John 15:1-5 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. It doesn't pay to be out of fellowship too long. A believer should keep short account by the use of I John 1:9 |