“Stop All Sinning”? How?

The Deceitful, Idolatrous Underpinnings of the Stopping all Sinning Focus

Stop all Sinning Idolatry

BEWARE: CHARLES FINNEY’S FALSE TEACHINGS LIVE ON THROUGH MODERN FALSE TEACHERS LIKE MIKE DESARIO, JESSIE MORRELL, AND KERRIGAN SKELLY … Finney denied the sacrifice of Christ … These men have crept in unawares among us and teach that we are saved in part by “natural ability” and not wholly by Christ. They have thereby denied Christ. They even teach that sinners can “Stop Sinning” BEFORE they are saved! In other words, why did Jesus even have to come???? WOW! Galatians 2:21; 3:3 …. The cross of Christ and the daily cross is Christ’s solution for sin and not “natural ability” as Charles Finney and these false teachers teach. Romans 6 and 7 makes that more than obvious.

The ability to conquer all sin is the stated will of God and yet that divine ability (Grace = divine ability) does not enter the saved person until he is first saved. So how can someone “stop all sinning” before being saved by grace? Impossible. And, that is unmitigated idolatry, antichrist – putting self before, in place of Christ who alone is Savior and LORD. Repentance is first and foremost turning TO GOD and not turning from sin. If you get these out of order, you are a heretic.

Jesus told us to “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” (Matthew 4:19) Jesus did not tell His disciples to scale the fish but rather to catch the fish or be used of Him to bring them in.  Scaling is something only He who is Savior and Sanctifier can do – AFTER He brings the fish into the boat.

“Ye shall know them by their FRUIT.” (Matthew 7:16, 20): There system of heresies being taught by the wolves mentioned above does nothing but foster self pride which is luciferic and the antithesis of the Gospel Jesus gave us! (Isaiah 14:12-15)

IF your “Christianity” is not producing the fruit of love and humility, you are a lost soul. Read 1 Corinthians 13 until it gets in you – and causes deep repentance and a laying down of your life!

BEWARE OF THIS CHRIST-DENYING, SOUL-DAMNING SYSTEM OF HERESIES CIRCULATING IN THE CHURCH WORLD TODAY! ASTOUNDINGLY, HERETIC CHARLES FINNEY TAUGHT AND FALSE TEACHERS TODAY LIKE MIKE DESARIO TEACH THAT 1.)SIN DIDN’T CONTAMINATE THE HUMAN RACE WHEN MANKIND FELL, AND THAT 2.)FALLEN MANKIND HAS NO SINFUL BENT/SIN NATURE, 3.) YOU HAVE TO STOP ALL SIN BEFORE JESUS WILL SAVE YOU, AND 4.) THAT WE OVERCOME ALL SIN BY OUR OWN “NATURAL ABILITY” WITHOUT JESUS!

“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily (secretly) shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.” 2 Peter 2:1

Charles Finney Exposed

BEWARE OF THE MODERN FINNEY-ITES: SAINTS, THIS IS A PARTICULARLY EVIL STRAND OF HERESY BEING PERPETRATED BY SOME OF THE VILEST WOLVES WHO USE THE INTERNET TO POISON THE MINDS OF MANY. BEWARE. MANY OF THE STREET PREACHERS ARE THESE VERY WOLVES! IF WE OVERCOME SIN WITHOUT CHRIST (IMPOSSIBLE), WHO GETS THE GLORY OTHER THAN SINFUL US!!!!????? BEWARE OF THESE FINNEY-ITE ANTICHRISTS. 

“Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.” Isaiah 65:5

Holy living? YES!

But how?

Beware: While feigning to be holiness preachers, some today are actually promulgating a false gospel, a false emphasis which is moving the hearts of the gullible away from CHRIST, a sinful idolatry we are often warned about (Colossians 2:18-19). Evil, self-righteous men, posing as representatives of Christ, have crept in unawares and they want the credit for their “holiness” which is not “true holiness” but rather a false holiness, a pretentious sham (Ephesians 4:25). Also, they seem to want to beat others over the head (James 1:20) in the delusional pride of their own supposed holiness. Listen to this warning about this very sin which Jesus shows will be happening when He returns at the hands of unfaithful servants who previously knew Him:

“But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens …” Luke 12:45

The premise of self-righteous judgment is condemned:

“For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.” James 1:20

One disciples notes:

“The devil is crafty. If you come against the sinning christian gospel you are a legalist. If you come against the sinless perfection gospel you are a sinning christian or lukewarm at best. Its a narrow road. The devil has traps laid at every turn. People need to be more vigilant.”

TO COMBAT THE RAMPANT EXCUSE-MAKING SEGMENT OF PROFESSING CHRISTENDOM THAT SAYS IT’S OKAY TO SIN AFTER BEING SAVED, THESE DEVILS HAVE CREATED ANOTHER HERETICAL SYSTEM OF LIES. INSTEAD OF SIMPLY SEARCHING OUT AND APPLYING THE BIBLICAL PRESCRIPTION FOR SIN, THEY TAKE TO THE FLESH TO COMBAT ONE HERESY AND NOW HAVE CREATED A WHOLE DIFFERENT SYSTEM OF DIABOLICAL ERROR.

BEWARE of anyone who preaches holiness and yet not the daily cross! The cross is the only divine prescription for holiness!

Let no one fool you saints: Sin is overcome by the daily cross and yet most who preach holiness NEVER even mention this paramount biblical truth. The Essential Daily Cross

If stopping all sinning is your focus instead of Christ, you will never stop all sinning. In fact, you are currently, by this false balance/emphasis, committing the sin of idolatry. … All sinning will cease when His holy, enabling grace fills our hearts through true worship “in spirit and in truth.” (John 4:23-24) All other forms of “holiness” are utter falsity and will not enter His eternal kingdom.

WHO has Bewitched You?

“But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:15-16

The biblical prescription for “true holiness,” (Ephesians 4:25) as opposed to a false holiness, is to know and abide in Jesus Christ (John 15). Only Christ can make us holy and without spot or blemish as we truly abide in Him in a faith-filled, obedient, and worship-filled relationship.

“Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” Zechariah 4:6

God is able to establish our hearts in His grace and to multiply His grace to us (Hebrews 13:9; 2 Peter 3:18).

Who has put you under this spell of witchcraft, that you would think that you could please God, to earn His merit, by way of your own flesh?

“O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” Galatians 3:1-3

Authentic, divine holiness comes at surrender, not by striving.

“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;” Philippians 3:10

The sinning these street preaching, self-righteous idolaters need to repent of is preaching a false gospel – one that does not uphold Jesus Christ as the supreme and glorious Savior and LORD but rather has redirected the focus of many to the futile, pretentious act of trying to “stop all sinning” all by oneself.

—- OUR first and foremost goal, as Christ’s true disciples, is to LOVE, WORSHIP, to SEEK, and KNOW our LORD …. and not to “stop all sinning!” One comes before the other in the divine economy and so beware of those who pervert the order of the LORD’s Word which inevitably germinates and creates idolatry of the heart and actually misdirects all the focus on us. Such a false focus as to “stop all sinning” sounds good on the outside and yet is self-serving and originates from a soul-damning, SELF-righteous heart!

“Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” Galatians 3:3

Confess all sin yes! And, receive divine mercy for forgiveness and grace to overcome!

THE TESTIMONY OF SCRIPTURE LEADS US TO A LIFE OF CONFESSING ALL SIN – THAT’S FOR CERTAIN (1 JOHN 1:6-2:2, ETC.).

To underscore exactly why you will never meet or see the countenance of a “stop all sinning” idolater with the slightest joy, here’s a telling testimony from a former -“stop all sinning” idolater:

“Todd, I have to agree with you on this, even though I still believe there are some good biblical messages preached by Charles Finney. He wasn’t off on everything. I am glad you are sounding the alarm. Lately I have been thinking a lot about this whole subject. Charles Finney’s interpretation on the atonement does not bring peace to my soul but only causes confusion and produces joyless religion. And I know I will be misunderstood here by some. Even though I followed the message of “stop sinning”, and did not turn back to sin again, I felt completely depressed. And I know some will say, that proves that I didn’t really turn away or had godly sorrow that will produce that salvation in me, but that is not the case. JESUS is to be found! Shouldn’t he be the Object of our faith and not “stop sinning”? He is the One that my soul seeks. Who else can give peace and power but Him? I say this: If any person turns away from ALL sin with all his might, his being and power, with all the faith that he could possibly acquire, and continues to walk in that victory for years without stumbling once, yet will he not have true peace and biblical assurance because Jesus is not the focus. That person has come in another way. He is a thief. He never entered through Jesus. John Wesley said, when speaking about man’s condition and sin, that he who believes not that man is born spiritually dead and blind, is but still a heathen himself. God bless you. Thank you for standing up for the truth. It helped me to take the first step as well.” Lourens

Charles Finney was a false teacher. See links at bottom of this post.

All sinning will cease when His holy, enabling grace fills our hearts through true worship “in spirit and in truth.” (John 4:23-24) All other forms of “holiness” are utter falsity and will not enter His eternal kingdom.

“If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.” Job 9:20

“Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?” Proverbs 20:9

The message of Jesus, John the Baptist, the apostles, and Peter in Acts etc was “Repent” and not “stop sinning.” That only comes AFTER a lost person repents and is born again.

Repentance is needed. It’s an imperative (Luke 13:3, 5). True repentance is first and foremost turning TO God and not just turning from sin. Many false converts who are sorry for their sins seek to turn from them but yet they never truly turn in their hearts to Christ and truly believe upon Him to everlasting life (Luke 8:12-15). And, perhaps the preaching of “stop all sinning,” which does not focus on CHRIST, leads people into a false repentance.

“And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? ³¹ And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” Acts 16:30-31

Have we greatly overcomplicated the original Gospel message?

Perhaps we should consider ceasing to tell everyone else to repent and consider doing so ourselves and begin with our own sin of being misled by a false gospel and preaching that false emphasis to others (Job 19:28). Listen to Jesus’ apostle who counted all else “but dung” to know Jesus: “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;” (Philippians 3:6-10)

Note the essential cross in this vital passage … something completely disregarded and removed from the Gospel message by the devils who preach “Stop all sinning” – “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;” It’s only by that daily cross Jesus mandated us to take up that sin is conquered in the resurrection power of Christ and not by the self-effort of forgetting God and straining to supposedly overcome all sin while we commit the sin of self-idolatry.

If you think I am justifying any sin at all, you are absolutely dead wrong and perhaps unrepentant and unteachable and so covering those sins by attacking the mere human messenger here.

“Be ye holy as I am holy” says the LORD and yet He didn’t leave us to ourselves to make holiness happen (1 Peter 1:15-16; Hebrews 12:14, etc.). Holiness can only come from Him, in a truly abiding relationship, which will always produce His “true holiness” as opposed to feigned, false, pharisee holiness (John 15). There’s an eternity of difference between the true holiness that only the LORD can produce in us as we truly love and worship and obey Him, and a counterfeit holiness which seeks the praises of mere sinful men. Listen to the LORD who is speaking to the false holiness preachers of today:

“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. ²⁴ Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel (pervert divine priorities). ²⁵ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup (to be seen of men) and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.” Matthew 23:23-25

God sees our sins and so perhaps we could be willing to be authentic, honest, and cease the parade of falsity. The psalmist cried:

“O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.” Psalms 69:5

Further examining the order of things ….

Did the repentant, forgiven thief on the cross cry to Jesus “LORD, I’m going to try to stop all sinning” or did he simply say “Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.” … “And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. 43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.” (Luke 22:42-43)

God is no fool. Christ came for a reason and that is due to our own helpless state outside of His divine intervention. All sin is conquered by and through Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own precious blood (Revelation 1:5). His grace, in an abiding relationship with Christ, grants the compete victory over all sin and yet He also made provision for the believer if that person were to falter (1 John 1:3-2:2; Romans 6:14; Titus 2:11-14, etc.).

Mankind is fallen and Christ alone is our Solution!

Total Depravity, as defined by Calvinism, says that fallen man is so depraved that he cannot even make a choice. Nonsense. Yet, mankind is fallen and the effects of sin should be obvious in Scripture and personal experience.

“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Genesis 6:5

“And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.” Genesis 6:12 

Jesus Died to Give Us the Full Victory
Charles Finney’s False Gospel | Stop ALL Sinning before Getting Saved???? Nonsense!

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