If you prayed a prayer and took Jesus into your life, is it okay to deliberately keep sinning?

Question

The answer is NO! Our salvation is not a license to
sin. "They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord." (Jude 1:4)

"If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has
insulted the Spirit of grace?" (Hebrews 10:26-29)

Answer 1

This is what Paul, God's apostle says:

"What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Romans chapter 6

This is not a lesson learned and mastered overnight. I have been in this way over 36 years, and I still have a lot to learn.
Doctrine is one thing - Mastery is something else.

Answer 2

You are free to kneel when praying the Rosary, especially if you find that conducive to prayer. Though, kneeling is not necessary when praying the Rosary. You can pray silently, with a whisper, or out load. Again, whichever you find most conducive to your prayer style. If you are concerned about your roomate rejecting to your praying the Rosary, you are free to pray silently or with a whisper. You should already be doing this anyway when praying the Rosary but I would recommend that you remember to meditate on the Mysteries of the Rosary as well. Sooner or later, a Protestant may challenge your praying the Rosary. You can show them that the Rosary is, far from being a Marian "thing", you are actually praying the Gospel when praying the Rosary - and what Protestant is going to reject the idea of praying the Gospel, right? Since there aren't many Catholics on this campus, perhaps you can suggest, to the few you know, the possibility of maybe getting a Catholic "prayer group" or social club together every so often so, among other things, pray the Rosary as a group. A group of Catholics is less likely to be "bothered" by Protestants than when praying individually.

Answer 3

The only thing that is important is that we follow Jesus.

"Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides... No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day." Martin Luther

Answer 4

I think like someone else here said the key word is deliberately
there`s a world of difference between a person who really tries hard to not sin but makes the odd slip up but then honestly regrets it ,and a person who thinks they can go about doing exactly as they please, secure in the knowledge that they have been saved .
funny enough i asked our local reverend(Church of England) about this the other day ,i didn't`t know any one had this belief until i came on YA but he knew nothing about this either ,in fact he said that by accepting Jesus a person puts themselves under an obligation to try their very hardest to commit no sins at all

Answer 5

1 John 2:1-2

Answer 6

Brian F the key word is deliberate. 2) some have not grown in their faith 3) as need a new start was pointing out if they are still doing these things deliberately they are only nominal Christians. And to the person who saw hypocrites at church. What better place to find sinners? And what Christian thing did you do to stop there hypocrisy other than give up on God because His representatives didn't live up to your standards? Aren't you prooving neeeda newstart's point?

Answer 7

if you pray prayers and Jesus lives in your life and you still sin sins you should definitely need to see a linguist.

Answer 8

1 John 3:6
Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.

Answer 9

I was a christian for 20 years, what did I see ?
HYPOCRISY! just like I see now with you!
GET OFF YOUR PEDISTAL, who do you think you are?

Answer 10

Then why do you all keep sinning?