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Only A Sinner Saved By Grace???
Sadly, though, Christians sometimes choose
not to take God’s “way of escape”; instead,
they choose to yield to the temptation or
yield to peer pressure, and they choose to
please men and/or satisfy their carnal lusts
and desires rather than please God, thereby
expressing more love for self and for others
than love for God.
But both overt sins and sins of the thought life
have serious and painful consequences.
Galatians 6:7 says, “Be not deceived; God is
not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap.” Although genuinely
born-again Christians will never lose their
salvation, continual and unrepentant sin in a
Christian’s life will not only evoke God’s
chastisement and break fellowship with
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