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John 3:16 KJV: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.


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So it's been a minute since I last been here but for a mini recap since then i fully went into my church to join it and get baptized having myself  abstain from mastubating and cutting off from bad habits and reading the niv bible i got from there and least tried to read from the back of it rn too earlier reading in the 30 day reading in verses too ones im struggling like laziness,lust,strengthing faith.etc but admittedly among it in four separate occasions (half in today in badly relapising into edging half in which i couldn't stop in time or the first i cracked and searched in xvideos and fell) and sometimes think in if im really saved as i still under my bad habits or beliefs among just kinda unsure how too feel the presence of the spirit and hear him too continue from ny old post which in it i decided to see it and give thx too those in their advices i read so far and partly ask in better ways i can motivate myself to read and act his word more especially better said faith too him along better confession my sins too him and show him my genuine desire to change?
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>>28081 (OP) 
>sometimes think in if im really saved as i still under my bad habits
Take heart. Cleaning up your life does not save you. You are saved by what Jesus has done for you. That is why the gospel is such good news. God has done for us what we could not do ourselves.

In Romans, the Apostle Paul writes that he felt the same way you do:
"We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!" Romans 7:14-25 NIV

It is good that you are fighting against sin. The very fact that you are miserable when you give into temptation is evidence that you are saved.

>ask in better ways i can motivate myself to read and act his word more 
The more you understand how sinful you are, and how impossible it would be to achieve holiness on your own, the more-clearly you will see how much God loves you. And the more you see how wonderful He is, the more you will love Him and want to read his word to be closer to Him:
"But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God." Romans 5:8-11 NIV
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>>28083
Thx for the advice and admittedly most of em was a bad attempt to edge and stopping too soon up too and fully ejactualte not helped as even as i try to avoid stuff that'll have me relapse i end upjust looking at it either nudes,lewd rp's and such ending up in falling back ingo my sin.
which I'd be disappointed/mad at myself for said relapses and by guilt admit to God in what in my relapses still feels good/looks hot hence why I think im not s/a fraud follower
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