Christian Struggles; Q & A's.

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Christian says/asks, "I temporarily went back to sin "backslid" (missing the mark) and messed up, now what"?

The LORD, "Don't say you need to be saved again, or make up for your sins--making up for lost time, repent and move on." Continue on now serving Christ. We don't redeem ourselves, but we do try and make it right with people if we sinned against them in this process. We could go further but we'll leave it there. Because this is solely focused on Christians and what we need to do. Below will focus some on others in how they should be operating as Christians.

(I John 2:1-2) "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate (plead our case, our sin debt) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

2And he is the propitiation (to appease, make peace) for our sins (missing the mark): and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world."

Meaning the advocate Christ is there, we need to call on Him back to good standing with our Father.

You sin you need to repent. Unlike some false teaching saying you do not need to repent. All your sins are forgiven in the future. That's a lie taken out of context abusing the grace giving license to sin. They need to balance Scripture correctly. Using grace as an excuse, is still making the cross null and void. We are to be following Christ, serving Christ. Did Christ sin, serve sin? Serve us sin? This should be basic Christianity 101 i.e. elementary principle things of salvation per Hebrews 6:1-3.

After you repent God does not want to hear about it again. This is doubting His forgiveness and Christ' work on the cross.

Now, imagine a judge saying you go free. Here's the icing on the cake, if you will--the judge arranged it to be paid. By not forgiving ourselves lets see here what we're saying to the judge; 1) Who stands up there and questions they judge? The Lord want us to admit it to Him, and whoever else we wronged--sinned against. Then we go free, your free. Who stands there and says to THE JUDGE you want to rethink that? 2) the Judge arranged it to be paid, but not recognizing that as well by not forgiving self for your sins. What a forgiving judge we have here? Amen. There is not a criminal on the planet who would not feel a huge sense of relief, appreciation, burden, and burden of not knowing relieved, and gone. Absolute joy! God is love :) (I John 4:8-11).

As it is not forgiving self is nonsense. We must view this in the eyes of God. Quite frankly, before salvation we don't even know to forgive, nor what to forgive for as well. The Lord has let you go free, let yourself go free. You going to put yourself in prison after THE JUDGE says go free? Nope. You paid it off by belief in Christ and repenting through HIS sacrifice being cleared by our Father.

Now, Christian to Christian:

(Matthew 18:32-34) "Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:

Through desire/motives. They longed for forgiveness, and found the way out from their sins. But here they have become judge being guilty themselves. That's what we were before salvation (judging by our own standards, not having forgiveness for ourselves, thus others). They are doing it again.

33Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?"

Pity = Mercy. God's feelings came first in His plan at the cross for mankind. Compassion gave to mercy (freeing from judgment), and mercy gave to grace (unmerited kindness, THE GIFT of God).

So, as it is they are saying they won't have mercy on someone who the Lord has mercy on and then grace.

34And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him."

The LORD is furious and angry over this. Who wouldn't be?

The point is here they are going pay. Why? Christ paid the ransom and the cross but it's not good enough and not working. So God does not cast them away in the sense of not being a Christian anymore. But they are going to see what it's like bearing the burden of their sins once again. They need to, taking us back before salvation.

What else does this mean? Their going to be sent to satan and his evil spirits/messengers, approved by God. This is an actual favor by God reaching out in every way so a person repents getting that pride out of them. Christ paid the debt free on the cross for you. But that's not working in this case.

Who are we not to forgive another? Seeing as how they repented. Having pity is to have mercy upon a person being released from judgment by THE JUDGE. They asked for forgiveness, and said they were sorry being remorseful. So the Lord forgave them, but you will not?

(This should take one back to the very foundation of forgiveness at the cross. Where we started. Christ paid the price in full in ransom, and it is being abused by the person who refuses to forgive another servant of Christ. That happens, they are going to pay for it themselves. Back to the very foundation where Christians begin. We are not to leave that grace forgetting where we came from)!

Back to original question. Do not think you need to be saved again:

(Hebrews 6:4-6) "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

(This also talking about being "stuck" on the salvation message that is milk. Really teachers? your going to keep teaching what you think is a saved person the salvation message week after week? Does the 1st grader graduate on up once they get it? STOP holding them back).

5And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

(They got a taste = some milk. For deeper understanding not only go back to Hebrews 6:1 but chapter 5).

6If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame."

(Because of lack of understanding going back to sin. Which is why we're covering this part as well. The lack of growth through discipline (disciple) not moving onto the meat (just as in life we grow up and mature in the World sense, we do as Christians).

(So what happens when a first grader knows the curriculum but held back for no reason? You see, the false teachers do everything to dissuade and discourage people from moving on in God's Word. So they are stuck at salvation asking this question. "Do I need to be saved again"? No, no, no. Let's repent and move on learning the rest of the Word that is not directly due to salvation).

(Finally, don't say you need to repent unto salvation/be saved again. It's an impossibility because Christ did not fail being sinless. Obviously, saying you need to be saved again is saying Christ failed, putting Christ to shame. Christ won the victory, and for this reason. But don't let that grace being an excuse testing God going back to sin).
So, from both angles overall we're to look back where we came from without thinking and saying we need to be saved again. As Christians we do not repent to salvation. But repentance in reproof (conviction) with correction from the Lord's Word growing (instruction in righteousness). The LORD loves sincere effort. 

Amen †