They all claim that.

Stop following the traditions of men and follow the Holy

Spirit. But few do. You even do not know when you are espousing the doctrines of
men, like this phrase you spew out "saved by grace". It is a catch word from the
Reformation which summarized a severe doctrine of humanist men that infiltrated the
Church. While you may not have know anything about that and probably did not mean
it in a Humanist way, you were unwittingly espousing the doctrine of men by that
one phrase as a summary. For we are not saved just by grace. That would be a gross
oversimplification that has torn great chasms between Christians and thrown entire
populations of the Church into grave error. I suspect hundreds of thousands have
been damned because of it. Be careful and pay VERY close attention to your doctrine
so you may save both yourself and your hearers, as Paul said.

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It is good news to know you are absolved of the responsibility to choose and obey.
It is all done for you in Calvinism. That is greater news than what Jesus preached,
from a fleshly viewpoint. The reason it works so well for the Gospel of the flesh
is that Calvin was a Humanist lawyer for most of his life when he had his
conversion experience and left the Catholic Church. Humanism at that time meant
they believed in the powers of the human reasoning to figure things out without any
kind of revelatory intervention from God, even by the Holy Spirit. And so they
built a Humanist Gospel by the powers of human reasoning examining the Scriptures.
That is Calvinism. So Calvin became the Humanist replacement for either Christ or
St. Paul or both. He enforced strict obedience to Christian morals to the point
that they nicknamed him the little dictator of Geneva.

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Man, I'm not saying I'm Calvinist or not, but it doesn't matter to me. Can't man's
free will and God's soverignty exist together? At least in a limited way?

My Reply:
Frankly it's none of our business to meddle in these matters. YHWH is in control
and that is all we need to know about that. Otherwise, we must do what we are
called to do. By the power of the Holy Spirit, if He truly dwells within you, stop
sinning. Bring glory to God. Trust Christ, meet with the Father in the Holy of
Holies every day, allow the Holy Spirit to speak and lead and work through you.

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Again you are putting words in where they were not said. #1 the only "finger
pointing" was at what you yourself confessed regarding your life. I know nothing
more than what you tell me. But from what you have told me that is the conclusion
from Scripture.

And your question according to your own words was a trick question. You have set
the conclusions based on your experience, not based on Scripture. That means you
have loaded the question so that whether I answer yes or I answer no you have
condemned me. If that isn't a trick question then you have no grasp on reality. It
is the very definition of a trick question where there is no right answer. However,
the only reason there is no right answer according to you is that you do not
acknowledge what the Bible says about it. You want to make your own rules according
to what you find acceptable and believable. So we are back again to the fact that
you do not believe the Scriptures.

As for your celibate homosexuality, if you would like to draw attention to it, we
can. That is your choice. I chose to focus on the heart of the issue, which is that
if you continue to sin you do not know Jesus or the Father. Now if you had said
that you did stop sinning for a time and then you fell back into it and then you
got out of it for a time and then recently found yourself in it again. From a
pastoral viewpoint that would take some further questioning to find out whether you
were a Christian who knew Christ, but were finding yourself in sin again or if you
really did not know Him and simply had grown tired of the particular sins you were
well acquainted with and by that "stopping" had thought you had stopped sinning for
some time.

I had a man tell me that he was a porn addict and came to me for counseling. I
asked him what he meant by an addict and if he was practicing that now. He said he
hadn't used porn for 8 months, but that he was indeed a porn addict. He said that
he would be a porn addict the rest of his life. As he said, "Once a porn addict,
always a porn addict." He was saying it as soberly with reverence like he was
quoting the Bible. The Holy Spirit gave me these words: So you don't believe you
can ever be free from it? He said no. I asked him if he truly believed in the
sacrifice, atonement, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He said yes. I told him to
his face, "I don't believe you." He blushed. The Holy Spirit came upon me and I
asked him, "Why aren't you masturbating right here right now in front of me or in
the grocery store or out on the street in front of everyone?" He was stammering and
he is an eloquent man and quite large. The Holy Spirit brought him to the ground.
Then I said, "Go on then! Go do it! Just go do it. Why stop? Go in your room and
just go do it if you are still a porn addict.

The word for sexual immorality in Greek is pornos (πόρνος). And these people will
be thrown into the lake of burning sulfur because they refused to repent of their
sin. If he was addicted to it, it was because he had never known either Jesus
Christ or the Father and the Holy Spirit of God had never dwelt in him.

Here is the list from Revelation 21:8 translated literally from the Greek, no
interpretation at all:

"But these filled with dread and without persuasion and without allotment and who
are stinking abominations and are criminal murderers and are male prostitutes and
are sorcerers and who minister to images, all these fakes, their allotment is in
the fiery pond, into fire and sulfur, which is being the second death."

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I am trying to be patient with you and only reply to what you have actually in fact
said about yourself. I am not conjecturing and casting out judgments based on any
imagination about you. If you feel anything from my words, it is because these are
what the Testimony of God says. I want to see you saved and walking whole in the
LORD. This is my desire for you. If you are truly able to turn to the LORD and be
saved and walk in this salvation upright and not lame, then I will be praising YHWH
right alongside you.

Would you argue with your surgeon during the surgery telling him he doesn't know
what he is doing and that he is an idiot?

Take a moment and consider for yourself whether you want to be a fool or a wise
man. There are only two options in Proverbs, so you must choose one. I don't need
to know. That is between you and the LORD. Here is what Proverbs has to say about
the behavior of each and the outcomes.

Proverbs 23:9 " 9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom
of thy words."

Proverbs 9:7-12 "7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he
that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest
he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. 9 Give instruction to a
wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in
learning. 10 The fear of ‫ יהוה‬is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the
holy is understanding. 11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of
thy life shall be increased. 12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself:
but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it."

I ask this because I am going to correct you with Jesus' direct command on what you
call "perfection" but in the Greek there is no such idea. It is "completion". Get
ready, because you will have to repent after this.

"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."

Do you think Jesus was a liar, a fraud, deceiving us that we could not be perfect
as our Father in heaven is perfect? It is not some future thing. He commanded them
to be that now. There is no future tense in this and the context is about now. Let
me know when you have repented and agree finally with the Scriptures.

You claim that you freely admit your sin, but you are tenaciously refusing to admit
this one. So then you talk a lot about hypocrisy. Are you sure you are not doing
that by opposing this teaching that I have patiently and plainly shown you from
every author in the New Testament? And now I show you directly where Jesus commands
us to be "perfect" or better translation "complete" as our Father in heaven is
complete or perfect. Do you dare oppose our Lord's direct command or worm around it
somehow? Are you wise or foolish and are you just pretending to confess your sins
or will you confess this one and finally agree with God that He can set you free
from sin and you can walk like a man, redeemed by God and whole (complete)?

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Now I will reply to your hypothetical and sweeping judgment of all people on the
planet. You are obviously playing God by making this assumption and you do it to
avoid agreeing with God's own Testimony. I do not agree with you, because to agree
with you is to disagree with God. Maybe that does not matter to you. If that is how
it is then my words have been correct that you are indeed not saved in the first
place.

If however you care about agreeing with God or not, then you must confess this
limitation on your perception, judgment, and knowledge of all people. You are a bag
of dirt breathed into with the light turned on. You are nothing, as I am nothing.
This is the plain fact of the situation. You would be wise to pay heed to the
repeated quotes from every author in the New Testament that I have given you so
far. These are not quotes of human thoughts. They are not the opinions of the
authors as human beings. These are the very words of God inspired into the authors
and written and preserved for us so we are without excuse. Either we agree with
God's Testimony or we are worse off than those who have never believed. You've got
to make a choice.

Many people leave church when their pastor is caught in some sin, usually an affair
or a financial scandal. Their faith is so crushed. This is because they have based
their faith in God's testimony based on the performance of a man. I am telling you
not to place your confidence regarding God's Testimony and what He directly says,
based on any man's performance.

You would have to worry had I boasted that I have been walking without sin and I am
living in the heavenlies with the LORD and lifted along by angels who are
ministering to me. And while that may be true, I have not come to you that way. I
have come humbly to you, but still speaking the authority of God based only on His
Testimony.

I also want to say that I have ministered to homosexuals who were wanting to
finally escape and be rid of that, in the church in Washington State. It is not
something new or strange to me. One was a successful ministry and the other not.

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Admitting your failure is not enough. You assume everyone is like you. In fact,
those who do not have the power of the Holy Spirit are like you. But you assume
that you know that out of 7 billion people that there are none who have that power
of God and obey Him. Do you really have the insight of God to see in the hearts of
every person on the planet or do you even just have His all knowing capabilities to
see the actions and to adequately judge them of all 7 billion people across the
Earth at once?

You cannot even confess your sin of error in the face of clear teaching from the
Testimony God Himself has given. It seems unlikely you are able to really confess
your sins with that necessary desire to stop sinning. And if that is not there then
you are still in your sins. It is necessary to agree with God to the point of your
action agreeing as well or else you do not appropriate the forgiveness of Christ.
Even the thief on the cross did what he could with his body in that precarious
situation. He defended Christ against the other thief with his words. You are not
limited in such a way are you? If not, then you must demonstrate your agreement
with God by your actions. Stop sinning.

Your question first is faulty. Your conclusions are even more faulty. Would you
like to know why? By your tone, probably not. I will tell you anyway, in case by
some chance you might have chosen to become wise and listen and add to your wisdom.

"Do you live a sinless life?" Your question has changed. I assume due to the fact
that I pointed out you were asking something regarding a thing I had never talked
about "sinless perfection".

Next, I want to point out you have a faulty idea of sin and a faulty idea of the
purpose of the LORD in sending His Son. I have already pointed this out to you more
than once. He came to destroy sin, the works of the devil. So if you continue to
harbor sin and do not stop it at all, every day sinning, then you cannot say that
you have received the purpose of God in Christ inside of you. John says that over
and over and over. Jesus said it in that quote I gave you from Matthew. Tell me
what you think Jesus meant when He commanded us "Be ye therefore perfect, even as
your Father which is in heaven is perfect." ???

There are only two allotments you can have from life. Either you have an allotment
in the Kingdom of God while you are alive and you carry over to the Judgement. Or
when you are without allotment you will be given your allotment in the fiery pond
of fire and sulfur, the second death, as I showed in Revelation already.

The point is this. Your question would have been better worded, in accordance with
what the Testimony of God has stated to you, "Can anyone besides Jesus stop
sinning?" The argument was not about a sinless life. It was about stopping sinning.
If we can stop sinning then we can see that it is possible to live a sinless life.
Right? Since you refuse to accept the spiritual argument God Himself makes, I will
argue with you from a fleshly standpoint. Are there ever any times that you do not
obey sin? If not, do you think that anyone can ever refuse to obey sin and get away
with it, even once?

If anyone can disobey sin even once, then it is possible to disobey sin every time.
Either sin has complete mastery over you or it doesn't have actual mastery over
you. And if you have God Himself indwelling your body with the same exact power
that raised Jesus' completely lifeless and dead body from among the dead, then can
you still say that you cannot escape the power of sin every day from that day
forward?

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Regarding your insistence on judging the saints based on the pattern of the world
and those in the world... read Paul on this:

" 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of
God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this
world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God
ordained before the world unto our glory:" [1 Corinthians 2:5-7]

" 1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from
all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." [2
Corinthians 7:1]

" 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye
not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but
that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish,
even your perfection.
10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use
sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and
not to destruction.
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind,
live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you." [2 Corinthians
13:5-11]

" 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing
ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you." [Philippians 3:15]

" 26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now
is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery
among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that
we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in
me mightily. " [Colossians 1:26-29]

" 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always
labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in
all the will of God." [Colossians 4:12]

" 10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might
perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto
you." [1 Thessalonians 3:10]

" 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. "
[2 Timothy 3:16-17]
" 1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto
perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of
faith toward God," [Hebrews 6:1]

" 19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did;
by the which we draw nigh unto God." [Hebrews 7:19]

" 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified."
[Hebrews 10:14]

" 20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that
great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which
is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and
ever. Amen." [Hebrews 13:21]

" 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire,
wanting nothing." [James 1:4]

" 22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made
perfect?" [James 2:22]

" 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a
perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body... 11 Doth a fountain send
forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? 12 Can the fig tree, my brethren,
bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water
and fresh... 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory
not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but
is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy
to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without
hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make
peace. " [James 3:2, 11-12, 14-18]

" 10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ
Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen,
settle you." [1 Peter 5:10]

" 5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby
know we that we are in him." [1 John 2:5]

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I only preach what the LORD Himself has taught me and I do the will of the Father
every day according to how He speaks. This is how you and I have met. Tomorrow I
minister to another who calls himself a brother but cannot control his lustful
eyes. He does not believe it is possible to not look at a woman who is walking by.
He has done what you have done. He has superimposed his own sin onto everyone else.
And while most Christian men do suffer from this wandering eye, it is not necessary
and can be stopped, just as your sins can be stopped. It requires some steps in our
relationship with the LORD to achieve it. If you insist it is impossible, then we
have nothing else to say. If on the other hand you have hope to overcome these,
then we might continue.