Practicing Sin
1 John 3:4-10 ESV

“Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.”

If sinning against God is our habit, our custom, our way of living, our routine or ritual, i.e. our normal practice, then we are not truly born again of the Spirit of God, for the Word of God teaches us that if we walk in sin we will die in our sins, not have eternal life with God in heaven. This is not saying we will never sin again (See: 1 John 2:1-2), but that if we make sinning against God our practice, and if we don’t make righteousness our practice, then we don’t truly know God, we are not abiding in Him, and we don’t have the hope of eternal life with God in heaven when we leave this earth.

Yet, many people today are preaching and teaching that we can believe in Jesus, and have the hope of heaven when we die, by a mere profession of faith in Christ which requires no repentance, no obedience, no submission to Christ or his cross, no death to sin and no living to righteousness. Please know that this is a BOLD FACED LIE! Scripture contradicts that notion all throughout the New Testament.

These who teach this false grace gospel, which requires no death to sin or living to righteousness, but allows for a continual practice of sin in one’s life, are charmers, deceivers, manipulators and liars whose goal it is to deceive and to pull people away from genuine faith in Jesus Christ. And, what they teach are lies which they concocted, but which have no scriptural backing to them whatsoever. So, they pull scriptures out of context to support their lies, and they say what people’s itching ears want to hear, and so many people listen to them and follow them in their deceitful scheming.

These teachers of this false gospel and their messages are full of pride, moral and spiritual indifference, lies, deceptions, fakery, and hypocrisy, while they give credence in their own lives, and in the lives of their followers, to sinful habits (the practice of sin) and to lying excuses for why they continue in those sinful practices, or why they feel at liberty to do so. Oftentimes they blame others for their continued sin or even blame Jesus Christ, as though it is His responsibility to make sure they don’t sin.

But, Jesus did his part. He made the way for us to be free from our slavery to sin, and he has given us everything we need to live godly and holy lives, pure lives in him, pleasing to him. We are not puppets on a string which he makes do whatever it is he wants us to do. We have a choice whether to obey him or not; whether to submit to him and to yield to his Lordship, or whether to go our own way and keep on living in sin. So, we have no one to blame but ourselves if we choose to keep making sin our practice, and to not love our brothers and sisters, as a result of those practices, and thus to not have fellowship with God, and to not have heaven as our eternal home.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18]

When in The Stillness

An Original Work / September 26, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

When in the stillness of this moment,
Speak to me, Lord, I humbly pray.
Be my desire, set me on fire,
Teach me to love always.
Help me to walk in fellowship with You,
Listening to You; sit at Your feet.
Whisper Your words to me,
Oh, how gently, guiding me in Your truth.

While we are waiting for Your blessing,
Lord, in our hearts be King today.
Help us to live for you ev’ry moment,
List’ning to what You say.
May we not stray from your word within us,
Help us obey You, Lord, in all things,
Walking each moment, Lord, in Your presence,
Our offerings to You bring.

Help us to love You, Lord, our master;
Be an example of Your love,
Helping the hurting, lift up the fallen,
Showing them Your great love.
Teach them to love You, follow You always,
Bearing their cross and turning from sin;
Walking in daily fellowship with You,
Making You Lord and King.

In Action and Truth, Practicing Sin
An Original Work / April 7, 2018
Reposted on April 10, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love