“Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.”
1 John 3:6
There is only one thing worse than being saved but having no assurance, and that is being lost but having assurance. The man who engages in pornography, masturbation and other sexual sins habitually and compulsively and yet thinks he is on his way to glory is the man most to be pitied. He thinks he has eternal security when all he has is a track record of ongoing disobedience that proves he is not a child of God.
This is the clear teaching of 1 John 3:6: “No one who abides in Him [who remains united in fellowship with Him—deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin. No one who habitually sins has seen Him or known Him.” Amplified Bible.
Abiding in Christ is incompatible with habitual sexual sin. Admiring porn stars and admiring Christ can’t be done with the same eyeball. You can’t live a life of deliberate, knowing and ongoing sexual sin if you have seen Christ and known Him. God’s Word says this is impossible.
One of the greatest hindrances to spiritual power in the church today is this false doctrine that a man can be both a Christian and a habitual fornicator at the same time. This erroneous teaching leaves men comfortably in their sins. After all, why make much of an effort to abandon your sexual sin if your eternal destiny is secure? Why flee fornication, make no provision for the flesh, put sin to death and pluck out your right eye to avoid adultery when you are assured of a place in heaven by and by? Why not just call yourself an addict, continue in your sin, make half-hearted efforts to quit, and persuade yourself that God understands that you are powerless over your addictions and compulsive behaviors? Because there is such a thing as false conversion, that’s why.
Jesus teaches that there are people who will be thrown into the Lake of Fire who thought they were saved and eternally secure (Matthew 7:21-23). Why were they so deluded? Because they professed Christ but practiced lawlessness. If you profess to know Christ as your Savior and Lord but still commit sexual sin week in, week out, don’t take comfort in the doctrine of eternal security. Because you are likely not saved at all. Whoever abides in Christ does not deliberately, knowingly and habitually look at porn. You have God’s promise on that.
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