Posted on 06/01/2022 2:18:56 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
A pastor from Tennessee who said Democrats couldn’t be Christians because of the party’s pro-choice stance noted that he gave up his tax-exempt status.
Pastor Greg Locke of Mt. Juliet’s Global Vision Bible Church, close to Nashville, told his congregants he considered Democrats to be “baby butchers.”
In a sermon earlier this month, Locke said: “You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation. I don’t care how mad that makes you. You can get as pissed off as you want to. You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation. They are God-denying demons that butcher babies and hate this nation.”
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On a Facebook post on Sunday, Locke said that he renounced his tax-exempt status and stood his ground regarding his stance on Democrats.
He added: “Guess what I did this week. I got an attorney, and I dissolved our stinking 501c3 in this church because the Government ain’t gonna tell me what I can and what I can’t say. So, IRS, we don’t need your stupid tax-exempt status. You can put it in a bag and burn it in your front yard for all we care. I renounced 501c3 communism in this church.”
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“I’m counting on the blood of Christ to cover my sins. Past present and future sins.”
Indeed.
Romans 4:7-8 NKJV
Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven [PAST], And whose sins are covered [PRESENT]; Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin [FUTURE].
And because you are doing so it means you are NOT going to continue committing “sins unto death” because you have repented of sins and accept the Lordship of Christ.
A person who does not surrender to Christ as Lord (confessing the same in word and deed) has not received Christ nor His salvation.
If we commit sins after believing the Gospel, God chastises us to bring about correction and repentance. He will intervene with His children to prevent us from being lost. But those who do not receive such protective and preventative measures do not belong to Him.
Someone who has been born again cannot go on sinning and continue in sin. Discipline of believers can even include premature death, as indicated in the same passage you cited (Romans 8) as well as I Corinthians 11, and other places.
God does not save us to continue in sin. Rather, the certainty of salvation and the present possession of eternal life are contingent upon God’s active work keeping the believer by His power and wisdom. It is through our cooperative obedience, the godly fear He has placed within us, His convicting, correcting, leading, guiding, and instructing us that we are preserved for salvation. It is not merely that once saved future sin does not matter. It does matter. Salvation is ongoing. Obedience is an ongoing requirement.
We have been saved, are being saved, and will be saved. We have called upon the name of the Lord and continue to be “those who call (ongoing) on the name of the Lord” for salvation. Even among evangelicals the gospel message has been compromised today to mean salvation without obedience. Salvation is a gift that is not earned or paid for by the recipient. But there are requirements. Not everyone receives this gift. Repentance and faith are the starting point. A true believer is one who has been justified, is being sanctified, and will be glorified. We won’t be sinless until then, but it is our solemn obligation to obey His commandments.
Romans 6:15-16 & 22-23
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
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But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:13 NKJV
For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
1 Corinthians 1:2 NKJV
To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.
If a person considers himself or herself a “Christian” but does not have the fruit and is continuing to live in “sins unto death” and is not even being chastened by God, he or she need not despair. But he or she MUST come to realize that his or her initial salvation experience is either not real or is incomplete. That is, it is not merely an awakening to the truth of the Gospel but an obedience to it that brings salvation. A false assurance of salvation is a tremendously destructive deception that must be obliterated with the truth of the Gospel.
If you believe in hope/assurance/certainty of salvation, you must likewise believe in the certainty of the fruit/good works that are produced by God’s saving work in the life of the believer. And you must believe in the certainty of His sanctifying work in the life of the believer.
Doesn’t he know about the law that prohibits anyone but DemocRats from politicking in churches?
The church at Laodicia (so) was lukewarm.
Jesus welcomes the repentant...sinner....not the proud...sinner.
The latter die, over and over and over and over...
You cannot worthily receive Holy Communion with grave sin unforgiven on your soul, otherwise you receive instead greater damnation upon your soukd in receiving Christ unworthily. Priest is not helping Pelosi get to heaven, she is sending herself to damnation worse than the minute before....priest is assisting.
He’s a John the Baptist
“..Read about what God has to say about the Israelites who murdered their firstborn by burning them alive to Molech....”
^THIS^
Those that “bend the knee” (unrepentantly support, condone, etc.) to the UniParty’s mighty demonic abortion god, Molech, and claim to be “Christian” are in for a very rude awakening...
What does any of that have to do with the condition of being a Christian?
The question on the table is whether one can be a sinner and a Christian. The answer is yes. Not only can be a sinner, but IS a sinner. Being a Christian in no sense prevents one from sinning, even gravely. It happens every day.
Two comments. First a church is under 501c3 without having irs letter.
Second, John the Baptist was far more critical.
you, too, do not recognize the difference between the repentant and unrepentant. you can’t advocate for abortion and claim you’re repentant. doesn’t work that way
The fields are ripe and the workers are too few to worry about every grain that falls to the ground. If God wants that grain someone else will find it.
Now get on the bus or stand there, there's too many more stops to make to argue with you.
As a pastor, I assume that my teaching and preaching the Word causes people to be convicted of their sins, causes them to hear the holy spirit in their daily lives and encourages them to renounce satan and all his works including abortion.
If I only preach to those who are not sinners, especially unrepentant sinners, how will they know? What good are my sermons if they don’t change hearts and minds?
Do I only preach to those who are well and not to the sick?
Are you insane or just stupid? Seriously. Please show where I suggested anything even remotely like that. In attributing such vile things, you commit the sin of calumny. I will expect a speedy retraction.
I wonder how many people in his congregation that defined.
It’s clear that you and I have radically different understandings of what a Christian is.
Do you believe that it is “acting like Christians” that makes one Christian?
So in your view there are no Christian sodomites, murderers, adulterers,...anything else? Car thieves? Purse snatchers? Racists? You seem to know where the line is drawn, so help me out.
I suppose so. My bible contains 1 John 3:9.
That’s nice. My bible has 1 John 2.
If only there were some reliable authority to reconcile and interpret all this.
And we FReepers are blessed to have the minority right here in our midst!
There is. John 15:26
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