{"id":506,"date":"2015-08-11T11:16:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T15:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2015-08-11T11:16:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T15:16:48","slug":"new-creatures-in-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/2015\/08\/new-creatures-in-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"New Creatures in Christ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my Facebook comments&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".8q.1:5:1:$comment1176351112391661_1176742262352546:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".8q.1:5:1:$comment1176351112391661_1176742262352546:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".8q.1:5:1:$comment1176351112391661_1176742262352546:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$text0:0:$text0:0\">I wrote a post called &#8220;Fish-oil Salesmen&#8221; on this blog\/website\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>that came from a study on repentance. bottom line, a Christian can sin, but there will be a clear change, and the true Christian is a new creature who no longer can enjoy his sin. someone for example, who is homosexual, gets drawn to God like someone wooing their bride. this person that is saved says &#8220;I DO&#8221; in essence to the God of the Universe, and basically\u00a0divorces\u00a0himself from the gods of the world and his sinful\u00a0lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>love makes obedience easy, as GOD is drawing them and the person is responding to the light God is shining. Eventually the man is forced into the valley of decision &#8212; he knows his sin has to go, and he must make a leap of faith, but he also knows that God will catch him and he knows it is a small leap. when he leaps, he finds Jesus and gets a burning desire to know God more and more, and God brings people into his path and starts working on what he begun. This doesn&#8217;t mean that in times of great stress, the man might have a moment he makes bad decisions or at times in his mind goes back to think he never was changed. however, God pulls him out of that season, whether it is a month or a day or whatever. the man doesn&#8217;t stay down if he is truly saved is what i think is the truth.<\/p>\n<p>I am big on the plowing and planting phase, and i think that is what we miss today. i think we instead microwave things and put the emphasis on salvation being a PRAYER instead of A PERSON (HE that hath the SON HATH LIFE) so people PRAY TO BE SAVED IN THEIR SIN &#8212; instead of FROM their sin. They don&#8217;t flee from the wrath to come because they are told you only have to believe and pray a prayer. This shallow evangelism does not produce the new creature that no longer can enjoy sin.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk Cameron said, &#8220;Most backsliders never slid forward to begin with&#8221;. I am maybe over-explaining, but to put it simply, heaven is spent forever worshipping God.<\/p>\n<p>If you received Christ, but have no problems going right back to your first loves, you in all likelihood never met him.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what the church evangelist just promised. \u00a0Or fish oil salesmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my Facebook comments&#8230;. I wrote a post called &#8220;Fish-oil Salesmen&#8221; on this blog\/website\u00a0that came from a study on repentance. bottom line, a Christian can sin, but there will be a clear change, and the true Christian is a new &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/2015\/08\/new-creatures-in-christ\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}