Many Christians believe that sin doesn’t matter and that you can live in sin and be saved at the same time. They speak constantly about grace and use the grace of God as a cloak to approve of sin. They believe and say that by faith in Jesus Christ and by His sacrifice and blood you have been made righteous. Therefore it doesn’t matter how you live. You can live the way you want to, because the sacrifice and the blood of Jesus ensure that you stay saved. But ofcourse this is a partial truth aka a lie of the devil that many Christians believe. Because what does the Bible say about living in sin (persevere in sin) and salvation? Can you live in sin and be saved according to the Bible or not?
What is the false doctrine of the Nicolaitans?
The Nicolaitans were such a group that followed their leader Nicolas and his false doctrine. His false doctrines deceived the Nicolaitans and caused them to deviate from the sound doctrine of Jesus Christ and go astray. The Nicolaitans believed they could keep sinning because they lived under grace and you still live in a sinful flesh.
The Nicolaitans used the grace of God, so that they didn’t have to die to the flesh and put off the old man and put on the new man. They could keep doing the works of the flesh and live sin, walang pakiramdam na isinumpa, thinking they were saved and escaping the punishment for sin, which is death.
But these Nicolaitians didn’t know Jesus experientially. They had no knowledge of the Bible and didn’t have the Holy Spirit.
Sa halip, they followed the words of their leader, who preached this false doctrine; this lie. (Basahin mo rin: Ang doktrina at mga gawa ng mga Nicolaitans).
Although the Nicolaitans were misled and believed this false doctrine and lived by it, because they considered it as the truth, Jesus hated the doctrine and works of the Nicolaitans.
The church at Ephesus hated the works of the Nicolaitans as well, tulad ni Jesus.
However, the church at Pergamos (Pergamum), where the throne of satan was, embraced the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. Because some of them held the doctrine of the Nicolaitans.
Jesus didn’t allow the doctrine and works of the Nicolaitans, which caused the church to be defiled. But Jesus called the church at Pergamos to repentance. If they wouldn’t repent, Jesus would come unto them quickly and fight against them with the sword of His mouth. (Paghahayag 2:6, 15-16 (Basahin mo rin: What is the throne of satan?)
The devil has deceived many churches with the same lie
We don’t know if the church of Pergamos listened and obeyed the words of Jesus. What we do know is, that the devil has succeeded again, by deceiving many Christians with the same lie and the same doctrine.
The devil has deceived many Christians, by making them believe that it doesn’t matter how you live and that you can live in sin, because you are not saved and justified by your works, but you are saved and justified by the redemptive work of Jesus Christ.
Muli na naman, this is a partial truth that is preached. Oo nga, you are indeed saved by the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. His blood has cleansed you from all your sins and iniquities and has made you holy and righteous and by which you are saved. No one can earn his salvation by his works. Up to here, it’s correct.
But… The blood of Jesus is not a permit to sin. The blood of Jesus doesn’t give you the right to persevere in sin.
The sacrifice and the blood of Jesus are not the same as the sacrifice and the blood of animals. The sacrifice and blood of animals provided a temporary atonement for the sins of the people. But the sacrifice and the blood of Jesus don’t provide a temporary atonement but deal with the sinful nature, which reigns in the flesh and from which sin proceeds.
The Old Covenant
Sa Lumang Tipan, which was sealed by the blood of animals, the people of God constantly fell back into the same sin. Because they were still carnal and their spirit was still under the dominion of death.
They were trapped in the (makasalanan na) flesh and the flesh ruled their lives. Therefore they constantly had to make atonement for their sins.
But despite the many sacrifices and the blood that was shed, nothing changed in man’s nature and nothing changed about man’s fallen state and nature. Which is the case in the New Covenant, which is sealed by the blood of Jesus Christ. (Basahin mo rin: ‘What is the difference between the sacrifice of animals and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ?‘).
The New Covenant
Sa Bagong Tipan, it shouldn’t be that those who are saved and belong to God’s people fall into the same sin over and over again and persevere and live in sin. Because they have been delivered from the power of sin and death, through the death of their flesh in Christ. This was not the case in the Old Covenant. So if those, who live in the New Covenant keep sinning then they are not delivered from the power of sin and death (a.o. Mga Hebreo 9, 1 John 1:5-7))
Sa Bagong Tipan, man has become a new creation through regeneration in Christ, which means the death of the flesh and the resurrection of the spirit from the dead. (Basahin mo rin: ‘Ang pagtutuli sa Bagong Tipan‘).
The new man is born of God and transferred from the power of darkness into the Kingdom of God, kung saan si Jesucristo ay Hari at naghahari.
Therefore darkness has no more power over the new man.
The flesh no longer reigns, but Christ reigns in the new man. Since the flesh is dead and the spirit is alive.
Only when the flesh has died and the spirit of man is raised from the dead and the new man has entered the Kingdom of God and walks after the Spirit according to the law of this Kingdom in the light, man shall be saved.
Lahat ng tao, who is born of God stays in Him and doesn’t sin
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Hindi ba ninyo alam, na napakarami sa atin na nabinyagan kay Jesucristo ang nabinyagan sa Kanyang kamatayan? Kaya't tayo'y inilibing na kasama Niya sa pamamagitan ng bautismo sa kamatayan: na tulad ni Cristo na binuhay mula sa mga patay sa pamamagitan ng kaluwalhatian ng Ama, kahit ganoon dapat din tayong lumakad sa pagiging bago ng buhay (Mga Taga Roma 6:1-4)
Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not: ang sinumang nagkakasala ay hindi nakakita sa Kanya, ni hindi Siya nakilala. Maliit na bata, wag kayong dayain ng sinuman: ang gumagawa ng katuwiran ay matuwid, kahit na Siya ay matuwid. Ang gumagawa ng kasalanan ay sa diyablo; sapagkat ang diyablo ay nagkakasala mula pa sa simula. Para sa layuning ito ang Anak ng Diyos ay ipinakita, upang wasakin Niya ang mga gawa ng diyablo. Ang sinumang ipinanganak ng Diyos ay hindi nagkakasala; sapagkat ang Kanyang binhi ay nananatili sa kanya: at hindi siya maaaring magkasala, because he is born of God.Sa bagay na ito ang mga anak ng Diyos ay naipakikita, at ang mga anak ng diyablo: ang sinumang hindi gumagawa ng katuwiran ay hindi sa Diyos, ni ang hindi umiibig sa kaniyang kapatid (1 John 3:6-10)
A person may repent and be baptized in water and receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit, but if there is no change in the life of the person and the person keeps doing the works of the flesh and of darkness and keeps walking in unrighteousness in darkness, then the life of the person shows, that the person has not repented and is not born again in Christ. Since the flesh in which sin reigns and from which sin proceeds, ay buhay pa rin. The flesh has not been crucified in Christ.
The person has not become a new creation and is not yielded to Jesus Christ; the Word and the Holy Spirit and doesn’t do what They say. But the person is still the old creation, who belongs to the devil . Therefore the person still lives in disobedience to God and His Word after the will of the flesh in obedience to the will of the devil and sin and persevere in sin or fall back into the same sin over and over again. (Basahin mo rin: ‘Ang kalooban ng Diyos vs ang kalooban ng diyablo‘ at ‘Ang baluti ng kadiliman‘).
The true gospel of Jesus Christ calls to repentance
Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel (Markahan 1:14-15)
And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His Name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things (Lucas 24:46-48)
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, Ang anak ko, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby (Mga Hebreo 12:5-11)
The true gospel calls to repentance and sanctification and disciplines and corrects and chastises. The modern gospel, which is not a gospel, doesn’t contain these elements.
The modern gospel is a humanistic gospel (message) that pleases the ears, at damdamin, and emotions of the people in the church.
This gospel welcomes everyone and everyone may stay the way they are. Everything is allowed and tolerated, nothing is wrong. God loves everyone, just the way they are. And so sin is embraced instead of condemned and removed.
Because you have to respect others and forgive and love others instead of condemning them. Pero totoo ba iyan?
Where is it written in the Bible, after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that you have to accept sin and that sin in the church must be tolerated? That if you live in sin you are saved? Where is it written that you must leave those, who persevere in sin alone?
Where is it written that it doesn’t matter if preachers, mga matatanda, and other leaders of the church become disobedient to God and His Word, due to the will, and the lusts and desires of their flesh and fall in sin and/or persevere in sin? (Basahin mo rin: ‘Ang diwa ni Eli’)
This is nowhere written in the Bible because sin is rebellion and disobedience to God and His will. And how can those, who don’t walk in the will of God and are disobedient to His Word, teach others to walk in the will of God and to be obedient to the Word, so that they will grow up into the image of Christ?
The new creation shall fulfill the righteousness of the law
Ang mga, who sin and live in sin and refuse to repent of their lifestyle, show by their works that they don’t belong to Christ and are not saved, but that they still belong to the devil and are not the servants of righteousness but the servants of sin. They are carnal and still listen to the devil and do his will and serve the devil through their flesh. (Basahin mo rin: ‘The commandments of God vs the commandments of the devil’).
God has given His commandments to make His will and His nature and righteousness known and to reveal sin. Jesus has never annulled the commandments of the law. But Jesus fulfilled them by walking after the Spirit in the will of the Father in righteousness. And those, who belong to Jesus Christ shall walk after the Spirit instead of the flesh and fulfill the righteousness of the law (a.o. Mateo 5:17-18, Mga Taga Roma 3:31; 8:4 (Basahin mo rin: ‘Kaya ba ng tao na tuparin ang batas?’).
“Whosoever does not bear his cross and come after Me can’t be My disciple”
Sinagot sila ni Jesus, Katotohanan, katotohanan, Sinasabi ko sa inyo, Ang sinumang gumawa ng kasalanan ay alipin ng kasalanan (John 8:34)
And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, If any man come to me, at huwag mong kamuhian ang kanyang ama, at ina, at asawa na, at mga bata, at mga kapatid, at mga kapatid na babae, oo nga, at sariling buhay din niya, hindi siya maaaring maging Aking disipulo. At ang sinumang hindi magdadala ng kanyang krus, at sumunod sa Akin, hindi maaaring maging Aking disipulo (Lucas 14:25-27)
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Kung may darating na kasunod ko, ipagkait niya ang sarili niya, at pasanin ang kanyang krus, at sundan mo ako. Sapagkat ang sinumang nagnanais na iligtas ang kanyang buhay ay mawawalan nito: at ang sinumang mawawalan ng buhay dahil sa akin ay matatagpuan ito (Mateo 16:24-25, also Mark 8:34-35, Lucas 9:23-24)
Jesus never spoke about accepting people with a sinful lifestyle. He didn’t preach that sinners could live in sin and stay the way they were and be saved.
Jesus was not a Promoter of sin! He didn’t speak about respecting and tolerating sin.
On the contrary, Sinabi ni Jesus, that He hated sin and called the sinners to repentance. Because everyone, who commits sin is a servant of sin and is not saved.
Sinabi ni Jesus, that if anyone still loves his own life, and doesn’t deny himself, and doesn’t put Jesus above all, then the person can’t be Jesus’ disciple.
Sinabi ni Jesus, that if any man wants to come to Him and follow Him, then the person must deny himself and take up his cross.
Because if you don’t lose your own life in this world, you shall not find life.
Many churches tolerate sin from both church members as church leaders
In the Book of Revelation, Jesus didn’t speak to the various churches that He respected their behavior and the doctrines and works of the darkness.
Jesus didn’t embrace sin, since sin is the will of the devil. But Jesus commanded the churches to remove the sin, because if they wouldn’t, they would reap the consequences of their disobedience.
There are many churches today, where everything is tolerated. They not only tolerate everything from the members of the church, who say they are saved but live in sin and keep sinning. But they also tolerate everything from the preachers and leaders of the church, who are carnal and keep doing the works of the flesh.
Lying, cheating, fraud, pagsamba sa diyus diyusan (i.e. Mga pilosopiya sa Silangan, yoga, pag iisip ng isip, Meditasyon, martial arts, reiki, Acupuncture), ang pangkukulam, fortune-telling, pakikiapid, pangangalunya, extramarital affairs, diborsyo, living together unmarried, sexual relationships outside of marriage, porn bokep, homosekswalidad, and all other (sekswal na) karumihan, abortion, euthanasia, abusive drinking, atbp. It has all become very normal and is not considered as sin anymore.
The conscience of many Christians is seared with a hot iron and they don’t even know it. They are blinded by the lies of darkness and allow everything.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Huwag kayong magpadaya: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God(1 Mga Taga Corinto 6:9-10)
“Lumakad sa Espiritu, at hindi ninyo tutuparin ang pagnanasa ng laman”
This I say then, Lumakad sa Espiritu, at hindi ninyo tutuparin ang pagnanasa ng laman. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, pakikiapid, karumihan, kahalayan, Idolatry, ang pangkukulam, galit na galit, variance, mga pagtulad, galit na galit, alitan, mga sedisyonal, mga erehe, Envyings, mga pagpatay, lasing na lasing na, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God (Mga Taga Galacia 5:16-21)
But the Bible (ang Salita) is clear and says, na ang mga, who do these things are not born of God and don’t belong to God,, and shall not inherit the Kingdom of God (a.o. John 3:3-5, 1 John 3:8-9; 5:18)
Many Christians serve the devil instead of God
Many Christians don’t stand in the service of God and serve God, but stand in the service of the devil and serve him. Because instead of preaching the truth and the gospel of Jesus Christ and reconciling people to God, they preach lies and lead the people astray and make them walk on the broad way that leads to destruction. Because the way of the world doesn’t lead to eternal life but leads to death (o.a. 2 Petrus 2, Jude (Basahin mo rin: Destroying the works of God instead of the works of the devil).
They are masters in adjusting the truth of God to the will and desires of man and the truth of the world, building bridges with the world and with other religions and philosophies, and adjusting the words of God to approve sin and compromise with sinners.
But preaching the sound gospel of Jesus Christ and calling sinners to repentance and delivering them from the power of sin and death and standing on the Word and keep standing on the Word and representing, preaching and bringing the Kingdom of God and walk in the authority of Jesus Christ on earth, they don’t know anything about and are not familiar with.
Many preachers and elders (leaders) of the churches don’t solve the problems. Sa halip, they allow the people to live in sin and leave them in their sins, because they don’t want to hurt or offend anybody’s feelings and don’t want to get involved and cause problems. And so they let everything run its course, hoping that the problems will solve themselves. But problems don’t get solved by themselves but go from bad to worse. (Basahin mo rin: What does the Bible say about sin in the church?).
Jesus gave His life to deal with the sin problem
Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls (1 Pedro 2:24-25)
Jesus gave His life and suffered immensely to deal with the sin problem. The sin problem didn’t solve by itself. But the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, ang Anak ng Diyos, was needed to solve the sin problem. It was needed to redeem man from sin and death and restore the fallen position of man and reconcile man to God.
Jesus gave His life for man, so that man could be free from the power of sin and death and live in freedom. Because sin is bondage. Sin doesn’t lead to eternal life, as the devil made many Christians believe. But sin leads to death.
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Sapagkat ang maging makamundong pag iisip ay kamatayan; ngunit ang maging espirituwal na pag iisip ay buhay at kapayapaan. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be (Mga Taga Roma 8:5-7)
Isang tao, who lives after the flesh and is carnally minded shall persevere in sin.
Therefore if someone perseveres in sin, it shows that the person is after the flesh and is carnally minded and has not yielded to the Spirit and the law of God (the law of the Spirit), but lives in enmity against God and doesn’t love God and doesn’t belong to Him, but still belongs to the devil and death.
If you love God you will keep His commandments
Because if you love God, you will keep His commandments instead of being prideful and rebellious and disobey the Word and live in sin (a.o. Exodo 20:6, Deuteronomio 5:10, John 14:15, 23)
To be carnally minded is death. Because everyone, who lives in sin and keeps sinning and doesn’t repent shall deserve death and not, as is preached in many churches, life and be saved (Mga Taga Roma 1:24-32)
What does it mean to not live under the law but under grace?
How often do people say, “I don’t live under the law but under grace”. While they live in disobedience to God and His Word after the flesh in sin, tulad na lamang ng mundo. So what does it mean that you don’t live under the law but under grace? What is truly written in the Bible about not living under the law but under grace?
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Hindi ba ninyo alam, na kung kanino ninyo isinusuko ang inyong sarili na mga alipin upang sumunod, kanyang mga lingkod kayo na inyong sinusunod; kung ng kasalanan hanggang kamatayan, o ng pagsunod sa katuwiran? Ngunit ang Diyos ay pasalamatan, na kayo'y mga alipin ng kasalanan, kundi sinunod ninyo mula sa puso ang anyo ng doktrinang iyon na iniligtas sa inyo. Ang pagiging pagkatapos ay ginawang malaya mula sa kasalanan, kayo ay naging mga alipin ng katuwiran (Mga Taga Roma 6:12-18
Sapagkat noong kayo ay mga alipin ng kasalanan, malaya kayo sa kabutihan. Ano nga ang bunga ninyo sa mga bagay na iyon na ikinahihiya ninyo ngayon? sapagkat ang katapusan ng mga bagay na iyon ay kamatayan. Ngunit ngayon ay napapalaya sa kasalanan, at maging lingkod ng Diyos, nasa inyo ang inyong bunga tungo sa kabanalan, at ang wakas buhay na walang hanggan. Sapagkat ang kabayaran ng kasalanan ay kamatayan; ngunit ang kaloob ng Diyos ay buhay na walang hanggan sa pamamagitan ni Jesucristo na ating Panginoon (Mga Taga Roma 6:20-23)
ang mga, who live in sin lives under the law
Lahat ng tao, who walks after the flesh and keeps doing the works of the flesh and therefore perseveres in sin lives under the dominion (authority) of sin and death and therefore lives under the law of sin and death, which reigns in the flesh.
The only way to ensure that you no longer live under the law but under grace, is through the death of the flesh in Christ. It’s through regeneration in Him and sanctification; putting off the old man and putting on the new man. (Basahin mo rin: Ipagpaliban mo na ang matanda at Ilagay sa bagong tao).
Ang mga, who live in sin are not in Christ and are not saved
Kaya nga ngayon ay walang kahatulan sa kanila na nasa kay Cristo Jesus, na hindi lumalakad ayon sa laman, ngunit pagkatapos ng Espiritu. Sapagka't ang kautusan ng Espiritu ng buhay kay Cristo Jesus ay nagpalaya sa akin sa kautusan ng kasalanan at kamatayan (Mga Taga Roma 8:1-2)
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law (Mga Taga Galacia 5:18)
Whosoever abides in Him sinneth not: ang sinumang nagkakasala ay hindi nakakita sa Kanya, ni hindi Siya nakilala (1 John 3:6)
Kaya nga, people may say they are saved and are not under the law but under grace, but if they still allow sin to reign as king in their lives, by obeying the lusts and desires of the flesh and therefore live in sin, then they are not living under grace. By living after the flesh and doing the works of the flesh, they still live under the law.
Lahat ng tao, who is not made alive in Christ by the resurrection of the spirit from the dead and doesn’t walk after the Spirit, but still lives under the authority (dominion)s of sin and death, still lives under the law.
Lahat ng tao, who by faith is born again in Christ and saved, and abides in Him, shall not (live in) kasalanan ba. As a matter of fact, it is written that everyone, who sins has never seen Him, and neither has known Him.
The Word is clear, na ang mga, who allow sin to reign as king in their lives and obey sin by living in sin, are not delivered and are not saved. But they still live under the authority of sin and death and their final destination shall be the kingdom of death (hell, Hades). Since the fruit of death is sin and the wages of sin is death and not eternal life.
Mabubuhay ka ba sa kasalanan at maliligtas?
He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. Then answered the Jews, and said unto Him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? Sumagot si Jesus, I have not a devil; but I honour My Father, and ye do dishonour Me. And I seek not Mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth. Katotohanan, katotohanan, Sinasabi ko sa inyo, If a man keep My saying, he shall never see death (John 8:47-51)
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: at kasalanan, when it is finished, bringeth forth death (James 1:14-15)
“Mag ingat ka, mga kapatid, baka sa sinuman sa inyo ay magkaroon ng masamang puso ng kawalang pananampalataya, sa paglisan sa Diyos na buhay”
Mag ingat ka, mga kapatid, baka sa sinuman sa inyo ay magkaroon ng masamang puso ng kawalang pananampalataya, sa paglisan sa Diyos na buhay. Ngunit payuhan ang isa't isa araw araw, habang ito ay tinatawag na To day; baka ang sinoman sa inyo ay tumigas sa pamamagitan ng panlilinlang ng kasalanan. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end (Hebreo 3:11-14)
And He said unto me, It is done. Ako ang Alpha at Omega, ang simula at ang wakas. Ibibigay ko sa kaniya na auhaw sa bukal ng tubig ng buhay nang walang bayad. Ang magtagumpay ay magmamana ng lahat ng bagay; at ako ang magiging Diyos niya, at siya ay magiging Aking anak. Ngunit ang mga natatakot, at hindi naniniwala, at ang mga kasuklam suklam, at mga mamamatay tao, at mga patutot, at mga mangkukulam, at mga sumasamba sa diyus diyusan, at lahat ng sinungaling, ay magkakaroon ng kanilang bahagi sa lawa na nagniningas ng apoy at asupre: alin ang ikalawang kamatayan (Paghahayag 21:6-8)
Mabubuhay ka ba sa kasalanan at maliligtas? Hindi, you can’t live in sin and be saved. Tanging ang mga, who are born again in Christ and are born of God and have become a new creation (son of God) and submit to Jesus Christ and God the Father and listen to the Word and the Holy Spirit and obey and do the Word and walk after the Spirit and live in righteousness, they shall not see death but shall inherit eternal life.
Sin reigns until death; death in Christ or natural death
The fact of the matter is, that sin reigns as king in people’s lives until death. However, the people determine until which death this is; the death in Christ or natural death
A person can allow sin to reign as king in his lives until his repentance and the regeneration in Christ, when the flesh dies in Him. From that moment, the person is delivered from the power of the devil and the law of sin and death. Through the resurrection of the spirit from the dead, sin and death no longer have authority over the person. But the person has been made free and by walking after the law of the Spirit as an overcomer in Christ the person shall inherit eternal life.
Or a person can allow sin to reign as king in his life until the person dies a natural death, whereby the spirit of man remains under the authority of sin and death unto his death. The person shall not inherit eternal life, but shall go to the kingdom of death (hell) and on the Day of Judgment be cast into the eternal lake of fire and experience the second death.
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