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GRACE, Exploring Its Riches

committed to holiness, refraining from all habits of sin.
Except you did this, falling into sin will repeatedly be your
bane.

ii. Making a habit of sin after salvation:
Professing believers who repeatedly fall into sin need to
know that whereas the sacrifice of Christ covers all past
sins, any fresh or new habit of sinning cannot be hanged on
the past forgiveness. Sinning habitually after one had been
saved makes the Christian a sinner again; and except her
repents, he can lose his salvation. Such has fallen from grace
into sin again; and except he repents, he would end up like
all other sinners in hell. This evidently points out that living
in sin after embracing the truth (salvation that comes
through Jesus the Saviour) leaves such practitioners
without another sacrifice for their sins. It definitely brings
to question the erroneous doctrine of “once saved forever
saved”. If you were once saved but had again made it a
habit/practice of sinning, you violate the blood of the
covenant Jesus shed once and for all on the cross of Calvary.
This is why there is a message and a mandate to repent after
we know the truth. Repentance is a change of heart, which
leads to a change of ways and works. Repentance is what
makes us turn from what draws us away from the Lord into
the way that draws us near to Him.

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