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According to a sermon or preaching video of the LOGIC Church that is circulating on Social Media, a Christian or Believer that has been saved by God does not need to ask for forgivenss whenever he or she sinsby Jesus Christ has paid the price once and for all.

I have brought this here so that genuine Christians should be warned and wary of these dangerous teachings that is capable of detailing their walk with Christ. The dangerous teachings are becoming the norm these days from half-baked and outrightly unbaked Pastors and self-titled Apostles.

In the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 and Luke 11, Jesus himself taught his disciples to ask for forgiveness but proponents of the heretic teachings claim that the prayer was taught before Jesus died on the Cross, and therefore the prayer is antiquated. Now is the Lord's Prayer for Believers or Unbelievers? If you say it is for Unbelievers, is God the Father of Unbelievers such that they can approach him as his children and say "Our Father...."? Will an Unbeliever make sense to ask not to be led into temptation when he already stands condemned?

1 John 1:8-9 clearly speaks to believers and not Unbelievers and it says and I quote:

8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

John wrote this and still went ahead in the following chapter to warn the believers against sin even though they have an advocate in Jesus. That we have an advocate in Jesus is what gives us the confidence that if we confess our sins, he will out of his faithfulness forgive us and "purify us from all unrighteousness". All unrighteousness is sin and sin here is taken as impurities. The believer is thus being purified from sin, because when a believer sins, he is polluted and needs to be clean again. Purify means to make clean again, to remove impurities. That same purify is also used again by John in 1 John 3:3 wherein a believer purifies himself with the goal of being pure as He is pure and with the hope that when He appears, we will be like Him.

Let no one deceive you, though he who has had a bath has his body clean as Jesus said in John 13:10, he nonetheless needs to clean his feet from impurities to be completely clean at all times. And that cleaning as much as is possible, involves his admission of the sin and asking for forgiveness from the Father.

Unbelievers confessing their sins and asking forgiveness from God have no assurance of forgiveness without first accepting Jesus as their Lord and savior. They already stand condemned. It is only a believer that can confess and ask for forgiveness and get assurance of forgiveness because of the sacrifice of Christ Jesus.

Be careful of dangerous teachings that can derail your walk with God. What do you gain from telling God when you fall into sin that you cannot confess and ask forgiveness because Christ paid the price, yet in his paying the price you have still found youself in sin? Or will you even take a further step off the ledge and say that as a believer, you cannot sin? Beware.

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