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Originally Posted by Richard.Strickland
CKG I quote from your #76 Post
"No one has advocated that a Christian can sin all they want with no consequences."
"Any person who can sin and not be bothered by it or thinks they can sin all they want with no consequences could be deceived, but most likely they’re lost. On the other hand we beleivers are dead to and freed from sin."
Yes brother CKG, we are freed by grace from sin unto the second death.
However, to be freed of the wages of sin unto the first death, we have to admit or agree with God that we have sinned and abandon the sin.
CKG we both agree, that a brother can't sin without consequences. Do we not put ourselves back under the consequences of the law for the first death?
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When believers sin they will be convicted by the Holy Spirit. Paul doesn't tell us to confess or admit our sin. He tells us to turn from it. For example:
Ephesians 4
28. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
29. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
30. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
31. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32. And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you
(Note: We forgive because we have been forgiven, not to get forgiveness)
By first death do you mean the normal meaning of death (heart stops, no breathing...etc)? In the Bible there is death (the body dying; heart stops, no breathing...etc) and then there is the second death which is lost people being cast into the lake of fire. Unless the Lord comes and catches we believers away we will all face physical death. A believer who refuses to turn from their sin could face a premature death.