Our new desires are to serve the Lord; our heart being renewed and minds day by day to be conformed into His image. A truly saved person doesn't live for their emotions or for some experience but they do know they have and are continuing to experience something new; that is fundamentally changing them forever. The new and true believer is able to stop obsessing on themselves 24 hours a day; and in fact realizes that was their nature and mindset. They realize that even the best intentions and what they thought was love was tainted by sin. Most fundamentally there finally is no interest in all the things of the world that formerly consumed their time; minds; bodies and souls. It's just BORING!
These characterizations of course are not discovered instantly and all of us have weaknesses and periodically will sin in some capacity. In theory we never should sin again if we continue until the end of our natural lives to trust in Him 24/7. No one can say they are sinless; but we should be making progress and we should sense when grieving the Spirit.
One of the best arguments for eternal security is that we are the "purchased possession"; God can't resell us the blood of the cross bought are redemption ( Eph. 1:14). We are of course sealed by the Spirit and there are many other assurances of like manner. Of course there are many verses which seem to counter this in terms of warnings. I suppose at this late hour I had better retire. I could get into a lengthy discussion of many of these verses but thought I would leave it open for others to ask about some of them. I will say that a Christian still sins and has to ask forgiveness; and there are results in this life that are detrimental and perhaps deadly as Paul warned to the Corinthians taking communion unworthily. God in His mercy will take us out if needed; and we risk getting into heaven without rewards as through the fire IF we are truly saved if not careful.
Our new desires are to serve the Lord; our heart being renewed and minds day by day to be conformed into His image. A truly saved person doesn't live for their emotions or for some experience but they do know they have and are continuing to experience something new; that is fundamentally changing them forever. The new and true believer is able to stop obsessing on themselves 24 hours a day; and in fact realizes that was their nature and mindset. They realize that even the best intentions and what they thought was love was tainted by sin. Most fundamentally there finally is no interest in all the things of the world that formerly consumed their time; minds; bodies and souls. It's just BORING!
These characterizations of course are not discovered instantly and all of us have weaknesses and periodically will sin in some capacity. In theory we never should sin again if we continue until the end of our natural lives to trust in Him 24/7. No one can say they are sinless; but we should be making progress and we should sense when grieving the Spirit.
One of the best arguments for eternal security is that we are the "purchased possession"; God can't resell us the blood of the cross bought are redemption ( Eph. 1:14). We are of course sealed by the Spirit and there are many other assurances of like manner. Of course there are many verses which seem to counter this in terms of warnings. I suppose at this late hour I had better retire. I could get into a lengthy discussion of many of these verses but thought I would leave it open for others to ask about some of them. I will say that a Christian still sins and has to ask forgiveness; and there are results in this life that are detrimental and perhaps deadly as Paul warned to the Corinthians taking communion unworthily. God in His mercy will take us out if needed; and we risk getting into heaven without rewards as through the fire IF we are truly saved if not careful.
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