(Comments by Joan Boney)
Many preachers in today's churches are offering their congregations freedom to sin by presenting a doctrine which says: "God loves you and wants you to be happy. Certainly you can divorce and remarry. Certainly you can have same sex marriages. Certainly you can commit adultery and fornication and continue in the church."
They preach doctrines of devils in their churches and both the preacher and his followers will suffer damnation for all eternity or serious loss in heaven as they pursue and approve sins in the church groups.
For example: Freedom from fornication
I Corinthians 6:9-10 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexuals), nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
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18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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I Corinthians 7
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
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Fornication was being committed by a man in the church. Here is what the apostle Paul said to do with this man.
I Corinthians 5
5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
I believe we deliver such a person to Satan when we withdraw from that person and will not keep company with him.
Paul says:
I Corinthians 5:11;13 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat... Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
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The Bible teacher of the singles class at the church I once attended was committing fornication and when I learned of this I was deeply grieved, knowing I could no longer attend his Bible class or keep company with him.
(I believe Satan did attack this man's flesh. For he told me several years later that fornication was no longer a problem for him. He indicated he was no longer able to have sex.)
To commit such sins after you are born again is to try to crucify Jesus afresh for there is no more sacrifice for sins after you have already been forgiven that sin.
Hebrews 6:4-6 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame.
Hebrews 10:25-26
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
II Peter 2
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
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Freedom from sin is doing the scriptures.
But many pastors and church groups approve sins in their churches, teaching doctrines other than those in the Bible and setting up ways to make sinners inside those church groups feel approved while they sin.
These pastors and church groups destroy themselves along with those sinners that they accept.
II Thessalonians 2:10-12
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Jesus told the woman taken in adultery:
John 8
11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth ME (The Word) shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
At one point, Jesus healed an impotent man.
John 5:14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
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In the first coming of Jesus, HE did not come to condemn the world but to save the world.
In the second coming of Jesus, HE comes to judge all, and those who live by the word Jesus takes to live forever with HIM in the new heaven and the new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. Revelation 21:1-5
At the second coming of Jesus all will be judged by what they do on this earth, whether good or bad.
II Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
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