Seven Common Lies Being Taught in Churches, Lie #6

Seven Common Lies Being Taught in Churches, Lie #6

October 18, 2008 by LizAnn

1. All churches are God’s church
2. Satan was once in heaven
3. An anti- Christ is coming
4. Jesus is coming back here
5. Once you are saved, you will always be saved
6. We are all sinners
7. Baptism washes your sins away

Lie #6 – We are all sinners

There is a partial truth in this statement. We are all born with a sinful nature, and all have need of salvation at an age when we can discern right from wrong.

“For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.“ Romans 3: 23

But once we have been saved, we are born again and changed in a moment from a sinner to a saint.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”  2 Corinthians 5:17 And God has promised to keep us free from all sin- “Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin; if the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.“  John 8: 34, 36

“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?”  “Being made then free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.”  Romans 6: 1, 18

Sinners are of the devil, not of God: “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin: for his seed remaineth in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifested (made known) and the children of the devil:” 1John 3: 8-10

Furthermore, a sinner has no inheritance in the Kingdom of God:

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleaness, lasciviousness, idolatory, whitchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkeness, revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have told you in times past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdon of God.”  Galatians 5: 19-20 

“be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.“  Galatian 6:7

Dear precious soul, can you look upon these beautiful words of God and still say that Jesus does not have the power to save us and keep us free from sin?

“Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his, And let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”  2Timothy 2: 19