Opening Prayer - Heavenly Father we thank You for this oppertunity to worship You and study Your Word. We're eternally thankful for Your Son who came into this world to give His life for us on the cross so that we would have an oppertunity to not only go to Heaven, but that we would have the power and ability to obey Your commandments. We pray that everyone who reads or listens to these sermons who are not saved will become saved. Please help us to learn Your Word. For our eightieth sermon in this series for Sunday evenings, we ask that You will help us to stop committing these sins and help us to be sure we are really going to Heaven. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
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COMMANDMENTS THAT CAN’T BE IGNORED
Jesus said in John 14:15, "If ye love me, keep my commandments." There’s nobody in Heaven who doesn’t love Jesus, so that verse means that if you are saved, you will keep Jesus’ commandments the best that you can.
There are many examples of sins to avoid in the Bible -
Romans 1:24–32 says, "Wherefore God also gave them up (These people had refused to turn from their sins and receive Christ as their Lord and Savior so many times, that God lost His patience and quit giving them opportunities to receive salvation. A similar verse is Proverbs 29:1, and it says, “He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.” Someone can refuse or put off their decision to become a Christian a certain number of times, and their heart can become too hard to receive salvation because each time they say no to Christ, their heart gets harder than it was before.) to uncleanness (thinking about and loving dirty and perverted things and thinking something perverted about everything seen) through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up (See note at the beginning of this paragraph (Romans 1:24).) unto vile affections (women having sex with other women and men having sex with other men): for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly (Clearly after reading this, practicing homosexuality is sinful, and those who are guilty of it need to repent and refuse to live that lifestyle anymore.), and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge (They refused to listen to God.), God gave them over to a reprobate mind (This is referring to people who have said no to the Holy Spirit urging them to repent of their ways and get saved a certain number of times, and their hearts have become too hard. As a result, they are unable to get saved.), to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness (not obeying the commands in the Bible), fornication (having sex before marriage), wickedness (when someone causes or is likely to cause harm or trouble), covetousness (wanting something that someone else has), maliciousness (causing harm to someone for no reason); full of envy (when someone frequently carries a grudge because they have a strong desire for something someone else has), murder, debate (argue), deceit (misleading someone to get them to believe what is false or get them to not believe what is true), malignity (extreme hatred toward someone); whisperers (someone who secretly tells lies about another person in order to hurt their reputation), Backbiters (someone who says evil things about someone who is not around to hear at the time), haters of God (someone who greatly dislikes, boldly challenges, or disagrees with God over and over in their mind), despiteful (someone who hates an enemy so much that it leads to violence), proud (someone who thinks that they are excellent in many ways. For example, they may think that their mind, body, possessions, accomplishments, job, country, and church are much better than others.), boasters (someone who brags about how excellent they, their possessions, or their accomplishments are in order to make themselves look good around other people), inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding (someone who doesn't agree with the truths in the Bible), covenantbreakers (someone who doesn't keep the promise they agreed to keep in a contract or agreement), without natural affection (not loving others), implacable (someone who hates another person and never changes their hatred.), unmerciful (someone who cruelly punishes another person and never spares them or forgives them): Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them (If you enjoy when other people do these types of sins, you are just as guilty as people who do them.)."
The Bible teaches that if someone claims to be a Christian and continually commits the sins that were just listed (or any other sins) on purpose, and they don’t feel sorry and/or try to not do them again, that person is not a Christian. A Christian can and will very likely commit some of these sins repeatedly, but that Christian will feel really bad about it and will ask God to forgive them and try their best, with the Holy Spirit’s help, to not do them again.
If you continually commit sins on purpose, and you aren't bothered and upset because of it (Hebrews 12:5–11), then you need to pray or make a decision again to become saved. Please follow this website to become saved - http://chriswaug5.wix.com/howtogotoheaven
(If you have prayed or made a decision to trust Jesus’ death on the cross and His shed blood to erase your sins and let you into Heaven, but you commit the sins that were mentioned in Romans 1:24-32, ask God to forgive you. Then, “from this moment on”, try your absolute best (explained in Revelation 3:19) to not commit these sins again, with God helping you change.)
If in the future you haven’t tried your absolute best to live this way, then ask God to forgive you. After that, “from this moment on” try your absolute best (explained in Revelation 3:19) to begin living this way again, with God helping you change (Continue to follow this pattern every time you fail to live this way.).
If you have never prayed or made a decision to trust Jesus’ death on the cross and His shed blood to erase your sins and let you into Heaven, please go to this website - http://chriswaug5.wix.com/howtogotoheaven