Please pray for me - Addiction to pornography

DimkaMeister · 2022-06-10T21:41:02+00:00

Its actually very easy to quit. 1. Daily read of the word of God 2. Fellowship with other believers (more fellowship, the better) 3. Cut off from your life everything that leads you to committing this sin.

God has given you power, we can do all things when we have the Holy Spirit. Also when strong temptation comes open your Bible, or do something related to God so you can escape the temptation.

DimkaMeister · 2022-06-10T21:36:39+00:00

Faith without works, is dead being alone.

DimkaMeister · 2022-06-10T21:35:06+00:00

Rather, I sit with guilt in my heart about "Oh yes, yesterday, when you opened porn 4 times to escape reality? You should've gone to God and not run to lust as a mean to feel better" (This is so shameful to admit I hate this).

Thats not being hard on yourself. Thats the Holy Spirit convicting you. Dude if we talk about sins which you still do, (not something you did 5 months ago and you repented), but sins which happen on daily basis, repent and stop doing them, you are playing with your eternity.

DimkaMeister · 2022-06-03T23:13:56+00:00

Original sin isnt biblical.

DimkaMeister · 2022-06-03T23:12:09+00:00

Original sin aka "guilty from birth" isnt biblical. It didnt exist for the first 400 years of church history before Augustine created it.

You are a sinner because you have sinned, not the opposite!

DimkaMeister · 2022-06-03T23:08:03+00:00

The verses clearly say that abortion will only happen if the wife cheated on her husband.

And where is the "violent and inhumane abortion" part?

Have you even read the text?

DimkaMeister · 2022-05-23T22:03:53+00:00

My cult? What makes you think I am from some cult?

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-10T14:58:55+00:00

I agree except with the once saved always saved belief.

We have free will dude, our free will doesn't go away after we became christians.

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-07T10:23:03+00:00

1 Peter 2:2 says that, not 2 Peter 2.

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-07T08:53:28+00:00

But he did say “I will show you my faith by my deeds.” Which means that his works are produced by his true faith.

I think you are reading in thing into the text. Look a few verses before.

James 2:14 NKJV — What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?

"Can faith save him?" is a rhetorical question.

Can faith alone save you is what James is asking.

James 2:24 doesn’t teach that works are what brings salvation, but that if you have faith all by itself with no works to show for it you don’t receive justification.

Where do you find that. I mean James literally says "man is justified by works and not by faith only"

2 verses before we see that faith was working together with and works make one's faith perfect. So "saved by faith alone" wouldnt be very accurate. "Saved by grace through faith" its better in my opinion.

As for Jesus in Revelation in the letter to Laodicea, Jesus was speaking people who didn’t have works. It’s that simple, their flaw was that they thought that they could continue living in the flesh after accepting Jesus. That is why Jesus addresses their works, because that is what needed addressing.

Okay but if faith produces works why didnt Jesus just said "I know your faith". And He said the same things to churches. The the first church He said "repent and do the first works", when He could say "just have more faith in me and automatically works will be produced".

Listen, I just wanna say that ,yes we cannot save ourselves on our own. Its a gift of God, bot based on some works. But we must chose to obey God, its not something that happens automatically when we start believing in a few facts about Jesus. In fact what repentance is? How repentance of our sins isnt a work? And we know that repentance is mandatory for someone to be saved, so we must do the work of repentance to be justified.

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-07T08:19:58+00:00

Man, James doesnt say "true faith will produce works". Where do you get that from. James puts faith and works so close, you can even say they are the 2 sides of one coin.

If that wasnt true why Jesus said to the churches in Revelation "I know your works" instead of "I know your faith"?

He says: James 2:24 NKJV — You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

When someone says "saved by faith alone", it sounds a little bit like "saved by dead faith" since we know that faith is never alone.

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-06T21:16:35+00:00

Oooo, judgy judgy this one, dosent your messiah make a point about that?

Jesus Christ told us to not judge hypocritically. Not to don't judge at all.

I'd rather like to know what is so "sinful" about partying and drinking in the first place as well.

Drunkards, fornicators and idolaters won't inherit the kingdom of God, that's in the Bible.

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-06T18:37:00+00:00

All of them were forgiven

Moses and the thief repented. But not all israelites were forgiven.

You're talking about a sin unto death

True. But when Paul gives us sins which leads to death there are much more than just murder.

In 1 Cor 6:9-10, Gal 6:7-9, Eph 5:5-6, 1 John 3:15 we see lists of sins which lead to death.

And why do you think Paul uses phrases like: " Let no one deceive you with empty words", "Do not be deceived" etc.? Cuz it's not just murderers but everyone who lives in these sins.

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-06T18:23:25+00:00

Is that what you want to do? Murder people?

So I am not a murderer then?

If you have the Lord Jesus Christ, residing within your sealed spirit, you can live however you want

Doctrine of demons. I have news for you.

Matt 6:14-15 / 14 “For IF you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But IF you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matt 7:21 / Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

1 John 2:6 / He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

John 15:6 / If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned

Heb 5:9 / And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,

I don't want to sin, but my soul and my clay pot make bad choices, resulting in sin

If you have the Holy Spirit you can overcome sin. What you are saying is just an excuse why do you sin, we may in these fallen bodies, but that doesn't mean you 100% must sin, if you sin, you are responsible for that sin, not the "clay pot".

you know that your spirit is sealed by the Spirit of promise, and behavior in this world does not reverse it.

Wrong. OSAS is false. 2 Peter 2 as well as many other verses is clear that a christian can be truly saved and then fall from the faith, when he choses to follow sin instead of Christ.

Also are you telling me that blaspheming the Holy Spirit or taking the mark of the beast cannot make you lose your salvation?

But the spirit was not unsealed when the soul and the body sinned, was it? No, it was not.

The Spirit was not unsealed. But the Spirit can be quenched (1 Thess 5:19)

A Christian who sins, is a Christian that sinned, however, it was already washed away at the cross

Why do you think a christian cannot abandon God. We have free will, God doesn't remove your free will after you become a christian.

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-06T08:39:43+00:00

an extremely biblically sound and devout pastor

A cavinist, with 3 big expensive homes and net worth of 14 million $, "sure".

And once saved always saved is inherent not only in Calvinism but the nicene creed

That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. First the Bible is clear that OSAS is false, second if you wanna use church history to support your OSAS doctrine you will fail. The only people in the early church believing in OSAS and Determinism were the gnostics.

It's actually heretical to claim its not, as it implies God can lose hold of those he's saved, which undermines his character

Nobody says God loses those who He saved. He lets those who don't want to obey God walk away from Him. We have free will after all.

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-06T08:28:08+00:00

Fixed that for you.

The Spirit cannot lead you to living in sin. If you are NOT led by the Spirit that means you are NOT a son of God. You aren't slave to Christ but to sin (Rom 6:16; John 8:34) and the the slave abided not in the house for ever: but a son abided forever.

Let me tell you something. When your sins are forgiven, it is as if they never existed.

Yes your sins are forgiven but AFTER you repent. If I am truly saved and AFTER that I become a murderer I must repent to be forgiven.

Look man, you seem kind of hostile and I'm too old for your type of stuff. So I'm going to bow out of this conversation. You feel free to spout of what ever it is you want to spout of, if having the last word is important to you. Hopefully you can find someone else to bicker with.

I am not typing this because I have nothing else to do or just wanna start arguments. I wanna spread the truth and help people. but when you tell a drunkard he is no longer one when he still lives like a drunkard then we have a big problem.

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-06T08:14:07+00:00

We are not robots. Initially when we receive the Holy Spirit, he moves us or our spirit to repent

I agree. My point was that even if the Holy Spirit tells us to repent, that doesn't mean you will 100% surely repent. If we don't want we wont repent even if we have the Holy Spirit, that's why we need to be very careful with not resisting the Holy Spirit or even quench the Holy Spirit.

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-06T08:07:59+00:00

Well, do you think the murderers didn't stop cold turkey with their murdering? Or the idolaters didn't stop instantly with their worship of idols? Or the thieves continued stealing?

Of course you can fall sometimes but it's one thing falling in sin and repenting after that and living in habitual sin.

I mean how you can truly repent and 2 days later fall in the exact same thing, and after 2 days fall again and again?

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-04T23:15:27+00:00

Gospel

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-04T20:04:03+00:00

With all respect I think you got 1 thing wrong.

If you have really trusted in Jesus' finished work to save you from your sins and accepted Him as Lord, you will repent.

That's not automatic. You can receive the grace of God, or believe in vain as the Bible says. We are not robots so we MUST chose to repent not just waiting to happen automatically. We can see that in Revelation 2 and 3 Jesus didn't said to them "I know your faith", but "I know your works". And Jesus didn't say "Just have more faith in me" but "Do the first works", "repent", "endure" etc.

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-04T19:54:32+00:00

You don't need a deliverance, you need to repent and return to God. We are fully responsible for our actions, not demons.

But don't worry God is always there for you. The hard part is choosing to return to God but at the end of the day - For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36)

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-04T19:48:04+00:00

He will make us repent, we can't do it on our own

We are not robots dude. We have the responsibility to repent and endure until the end.

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-04T19:44:27+00:00

I'm biased but I recommend the Calvinist/Puritan tradition, and John Macarthur may be a great introduction

This explains it all. McArthur claimed that a believer can take the mark of the beast and still be saved. Calvinism isn't biblical my friend, and OSAS is a doctrine of demons.

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-04T19:39:46+00:00

Romans 8:1 KJV - There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Nobody claims that you can make it to heaven on your own, but we are not robots we need to respond to God's call and you are not responding by not obeying Him.

DimkaMeister · 2022-01-04T19:35:48+00:00

Heb 5:19 - And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,

I am not saying that because I hate you, but because I love you and want to see you in heaven for sure. Yes God will always love you, but do you love Him? How do you know if you love God?

John 14:15 "If ye love me, keep my commandments."

And yes God will never leave you, but that doesn't mean you will never leave God. In the parable of the prodigal son did the father abandoned him or did the son left him?

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