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Stevie Martin says, Happy Sabbath. I have a question. Will a person be saved if he or she has been walking with Jesus all of his or her life but one moment of weakness he or she sins and dies right away after without repenting. That’s a really will he or she still be saved? That’s a good question.
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Oh no.
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Jay. When do you want to jay or.
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Faye we got for it?
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I’ll cover this one. So yeah, it is a good question and I don’t think there ever is going to be an actual black and white answer to this. This is one that we’ll have to wait for the judgment to see. How does God really address it because yes, repentance is important but I can’t say that always. Absolutely you need to have it. Let’s talk about why first. Like one John 516 I think this is an interesting verse in this context. It says if you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. I refer to those whose sins do not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that you should pray about that. All wrongdoing is sin and there’s a sin that does not lead to death. And of course this passage is greatly debated about what does it really mean? What is a sin that does not lead to death and which one does. And it could be he’s talking about someone who’s alive but what about someone who has just passed away who their last act?
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Like think of suicide. Maybe suicide was the last act that might be a sin and we’ve addressed it before and we’ve said know like even Samson it says committed suicide at the end. But he’s said to be one of those people of faith heralded in the book of Hebrews. So can’t just quickly judge. You can’t just jump to it and say okay, yes, they’re lost or they’re saved but what’s important especially when it comes to sin is is it a cherished sin? Is it one like this person just in their heart can’t give it up and they would put that sin before the relationship with God? Or is it just a sin where like last know this person they’ve hated this thing, they detest this sin but last moment satan has a gotcha moment and deceived them, got to them somehow.
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Caused them to sin and then they died.
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I think that latter sin is totally.
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Different than the one that’s the cherished.
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Sin that someone just hoards in their.
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Heart and would rather have as opposed to God in the first case.
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There’s nothing God can do when someone builds into their character their sin. So when God is going to go and destroy sin in the last days.
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At the end of the millennium, god.
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Would have to destroy that person with.
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Their sin but if someone detests their.
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Sin, doesn’t like it still messes up. Who knows, maybe God could say you’re still separate from your sin. Of course God wants to forgive. God is willing to forgive. And it’s totally understanding. God is really on our side. We have to understand it. God is just looking for people who will be happy to be in his presence, who will be forever eternally satisfied.
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To be with Him.
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In contrast, you probably talked about apostasy, right? Where apostasy is rebellion against God, it’s turning away from God. So was that person’s last act rebelling from God, turning away from God, or was it again, just a slip up? But their still general trajectory was going.
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Towards God, and that’s something where, again.
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Only at the judgment, if we go through the records of that person’s life, especially at that last moment, will we have an idea of where they’re at.
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When they passed away.
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So, great question.
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CD martins and Tina Faye, do you.
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Have any other thoughts you’d like to chime in?
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Oh, the only thought that comes to my mind is somebody once wrote it’s not about the occasional good deed or misdeed, but it’s the direction of the life. And I think if the direction of somebody’s life is to follow after Christ, and then in one instance of weakness, yeah, they might have fallen. And I think God also knows the intent of the heart. He knows if they had the time or opportunity to repent and go through that full motion, god knows what they would have done had they had the opportunity. Kind of just like the thief on the cross. If the thief on the cross had the opportunity, he would have been baptized. He would have done a lot of things, I think, and God knows his heart. And so, yeah, I would just entrust that person’s soul and keeping into the merciful hands of a wise and loving God who is all just and.
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The.
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Only one who can really judge righteously.
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Exactly. And just pray for them. That I believe. Even if we pray now, God could still work in their life in the past and can hopefully pave the way for that person to be saved.
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Yeah, as long as it’s not the unpardonable sin, there will always be opportunity to come back.
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So.
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We’Re going to fall a thousand times before I think we’re ready and I think it’s part of the cleansing process. So as long as it’s not the unpardonable sin, then there’s hope.
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