🎥 Baptist Bold: Ask a Pastor
📅 Episode 10 – Tuesday: Tough Topics
Question: “Can a Saved Person Live in Sin?”
🎬 Intro Script:
Welcome to Baptist Bold: Ask a Pastor—where truth isn’t filtered, and the Bible has the final word. I’m Pastor Joshua Tapp from True Words Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Let’s get into today’s question…
📖 Answer:
Can a saved person live in sin?
Yes. They shouldn’t—but they can. And they still go to heaven.
That might offend religious people—but it’s exactly what the Bible teaches.
1. Saved People Still Have a Sinful Flesh
📖 Romans 7:18 — “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing…”
Even the Apostle Paul struggled with sin after he was saved. Your spirit is born again—but your flesh is still corrupt.
2. Salvation Changes Your Destiny—Not Your Nature
📖 2 Corinthians 5:17 — “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature…”
Your position changes in Christ. You’re justified, sanctified, sealed. But you still have a body of death and a mind that needs renewing.
3. The Bible Is Full of Saved People Living in Sin
- Lot—a just man who got drunk and committed incest (2 Peter 2:7–8)
- David—an adulterer and murderer
- Peter—denied Christ three times and later compromised doctrine
None of them lost their salvation. But they sure lost blessing, peace, and reward.
4. Living in Sin Brings Judgment—Not Hell
📖 Hebrews 12:6 — “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth…”
If you’re saved and living in sin, expect discipline—not damnation.
God deals with His children as a Father, not as a Judge.
5. Works Prove Nothing
📖 Romans 4:5 — “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly…”
📖 Galatians 3:3 — “Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”
Don’t confuse fruit with root. A saved person can live carnal—but that doesn’t mean they were never saved. It just means they’re walking in the flesh.
🎯 Bottom Line:
Salvation isn’t behavior-based—it’s belief-based.
A saved person can live in sin, but they will face:
- Chastening
- Shame
- Loss of reward
- But never hell.
📖 1 Corinthians 3:15 — “He shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved…”
Once you’re saved—you’re sealed. But that doesn’t mean you won’t be sorry.
🎬 Outro Script:
Got more questions? Drop them below and hit subscribe for daily bold Bible answers. I’m Pastor Joshua Tapp—see you next time on Baptist Bold: Ask a Pastor.
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