Have you got the seal of God?

1.) Being a Christian is not easy, and the bible never says it would be.

To become a Christian you must first be born-again in Christ, are you willing to give up all your sinful habits? Drinking, smoking, eating unhealthy, masturbating, watching porn, lusting after women, adultery, fornication, homosexuality.
Being a Christian is more than just accepting Yeshua as your messiah, praying to God and reading the bible, it is a way of living, in order to inherit heaven, you must act like you are in it. Every time you sexualize a woman
or get drunk out of your mind you are just falling back into Satan's hands. This world is Satan's [2Cor 4:4] he has designed it to reward sin, to promote sin and to encourage it. Heaven is not a place for sinners so in order
to get there you must stop sinning and repent, ask the Lord to bless you with the Holy Spirit to strengthen you.

You must also accept the fact that you will be murdered for your faith [Rev 20:4]. If you are willing to die for Christ, give up all your earthly desires you will inherit the kingdom, but if you fear death for your faith,
or you do not give up sin you will burn in the hell fire in the end times. Jesus died for us, so we should not be cowards and refuse to die for him.

2.) Preach

Everywhere you go preach the word of God, the more people you can bless the better, but lead by example, if you are a sinner do not act perfect, people will see you as a hypocrite and speak out against you,
but you only need to tell them "I am not perfect, yet" let them know that you also are not 100% perfect, because no one is and you do not have to be. We can fall into sin many times, but what is important is how hard
you try to get out of sin, to repent from sin and how much you ask God for forgiveness, that's all that matters. But this is not an excuse to fall into sin, to have "cheat" days, or to justify sinning willingly.

Good luck with your new life.

God bless you all.

Good message, but just to re-iterate receiving the gift of salvation does not happen just by not sinning anymore. It happens when you accept Jesus Christ into your heart. The not sinning part is extremely important too however as James 2 says we must keep our faith alive.




We are saved already though so am confused about what you mean by "if you do not give up sin you will burn in hell fire"?

Your #2 points are great however

This post was edited by JohnMiller92 on Feb 5 2017 10:43am

[Rev 21:8] [Titus 1:16] [1John 13:15] [1Cor 6:9]

You can lose your salvation in a heartbeat brother, once saved always saved isn't how it works. In order to remain saved we need to live our life obeying God's laws.
God hates all sin and does not want sin in his kingdom, if you believe in Christ you have only taken the first step to gaining salvation, now you must climb the stairs of your faith by stepping over all the obstacles of earthly and fleshly desires.
Sin is falling down these stairs, when you sin you start from the beginning. If one truly believes in Christ then do not sin, believing in Christ is living in his glory, and sin is not glorious.

You are already saved if you accept Jesus Christ into your heart. You are not required to do "good deeds" to enter the kingdom of heaven. That's one of the major differentiators between Christianity and other religions. Doing good needs is required as I said earlier because of James 2, but not required to earn salvation. Blasphemy is the only way you could lose salvation IIRC.

This post was edited by JohnMiller92 on Feb 5 2017 12:01pm

I'm afraid that is not true brother "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." [Matthew 7:14] there are 1 billion+ Christians, do you think this number is few?
In the end times people will go to God, after living sinful lives of fornication, adultery and believe they will inherit the kingdom from faith in Christ alone and God will turn to them and say: "And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." [Matthew 7:24]

Please brother do not confuse people with false teachings, living a sinless life is as much important to salvation as faith in Christ for God hates all sin and will not corrupt the kingdom with sinners. If you currently sin I ask you to repent, turn to the Lord and ask him for forgiveness, masturbation, fornication and lust are sins and if you practice these sins the Lord will not let you pass the gates, so please brother if you do these, give it up if you prefer eternal life over sin for a season.

I understand where you are coming from and I agree about the sinning part and repentance.

What I am trying to convey is when you accept Jesus Christ into your heart you are given salvation for that, not by deeds. Here is a quote:



Eternal salvation is a gift from God, you don't earn it by works or ("deeds"). We earn it by letting him come into our heart and through repentance (you already know that lol just saying)

However, the bible does say we should continue to do good deeds to retain a healthy relationship with our heavenly father. Please try to not get that confused with that's how you earn salvation.

This post was edited by JohnMiller92 on Feb 5 2017 01:04pm

Have you not read the book of Revelation?

[Revelation 20:12-13] "[12] And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. [13] And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works."

What we do in our 1st life is very important in whether we gain the kingdom or not.

There are passages in scripture which could be interpreted either way, but the thing to understand is that if you are saved, that is if your eyes have been opened to God's saving grace, you will want to perform acts of service. So it's faith which leads naturally to works. The passages which talk about faith alone are really aimed at people trying to earn brownie points by doing good works to impress others but whose motives are ultimately self-serving -- they are not truly acting out of love and a desire to serve.

Also:


If you were judged by works, Luke 23:39's verse would have had a far different ending imho.

This post was edited by JohnMiller92 on Feb 5 2017 01:45pm

The thief repented for his sins, that's the important thing Jesus
"And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss." [Luke 32:41]

and I think the bible verse you were trying to quote is: "And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise." [Luke 23:43]
Which was a reply to the thief whom said to Jesus "And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom." [Luke 23:42]

The thief not only repented of his sin, but he also repented in front of Jesus, and this is what we have to do in our prayers, this is why Jesus teaches us how to pray, so we can ask him forgiveness for our sins, and to help us repent and life sinless lives.