What if i'm pretending?

“There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.”
--- Martin Luther

"A Christian is not somebody who stays away from all the wicked things he loves and clings to all the righteous things he hates so that he can go to heaven. The fear of the Christian is not going to hell. The fear of the Christian is being separated from Christ."
--- Paul Washer

"If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds; if you have no throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done evil, you are no child of God."
--- Charles Spurgeon

"You cannot use a method that is fundamentally self-centered to invite people into a moral universe that is fundamentally God-centered."
--- Dwight L. Moody

“If you're a genuine Christian, worldly pleasures are no longer pleasures to you and the very tasting of them makes you feel sick since the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit has caused you to be Born Again as a new creation with new appetites that desire to live a life that is pleasing to God. God causes you to go from being dead to alive. Is Jesus Christ the born again passion of your heart? Have you had a supernatural change of life or was it merely a new destiny you were looking for? The question is not do you desire to go to heaven, the question is do you desire Jesus Christ?

You will never know the worthiness of Christ until you know the unworthiness of your own heart.”
--- MV

"To swim in one's sins while claiming God's grace, reveals one's lostness while despising Him to His face."
--- MV

No Assurance While Intent On Sin

"The Bible makes it plain, I believe, that people who persistently refuse the command of Jesus’ lordship have no warrant for believing that they are saved. Such people should not be comforted that they are saved simply because there was a time when they “believed” gospel facts or walked an aisle or signed a card or prayed a prayer. In fact, Jesus seems far more eager to explode the assurance of false “professions of faith” than he is to give assurance to people who are intent on living in sin. Where does he ever bolster the “eternal security” of a person unwilling to forsake sin?

I am not saying that only perferct people are saved. There are no perfect people on this earth. We sin every day and every good work we do is tainted with sinful remnants of corruption. I am saying that a person who goes on willfully rejecting the commands of Jesus for his life has no warrant for salvation."

--- John Piper