It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
ALAN CHAMBERSI’m not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I’m not saying that that’s a mark of a mature believer at all.
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Let me be clear that I’m not God so I can’t tell you who is and isn’t going to heaven.
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But it doesn’t say anywhere in that passage that the people didn’t still struggle with temptation or that they never fell prey to that sin again whether it was the issue of homosexuality or any of the other things that are listed there.
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My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I’ve overcome the world.
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I believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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We will all struggle, we will all fall prey to some type of sin, some will fall prey to the same types of sin over and over again.
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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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For someone to promise a percentage type cure for this issue, for instance I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent permanent.
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So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.
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But sin resides, the power of sin resides in our flesh. It will always try us and it was always tempt us and therefore we always need to be submitting our mind, will and emotions to the lordship of Jesus Christ.
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Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that’s a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.
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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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