No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother. (1 John 3:8–10, NIV 1984).
My Musings – A legal doctrine, called fruit of the poisonous tree, states that evidence that is illegally obtained is inadmissible in court. It is a Christian doctrine that poisonous fruit (“not [doing] what is right”) is evidence that such a person “is not a child of God.“ Only “children of God” are admissible to Heaven. Of course, children of God are never perfect this side of Heaven. They do sin from time-to-time. But those who claim to be “children of God,” who afterwards “continue to sin,” habitually and unrepentedly, likely never had “God’s seed…in [them].”
“By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.” (Matthew 7:16–18, NIV 1984).
My Advice – Who is the one with “God’s seed [remaining] in [them]?” The one “who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But [their] delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law [they] meditate day and night. [They are] like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.” (Psalm 1:1–3, NIV 1984). Be that person.
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