"Simul iustus et peccator"

So this months concerns, Can we truly be saved and a follower of the Christ if we continue to sin the same sins again and again? Some of my more fundamentalist friends have me guessing that. As a sinner of some renown I certainly can grasp "Simul iustus et peccator" / Simultaneously Saint and Sinner. I know how Paul felt, I do what I don't want to do. and sometimes I don't do what I want to do.

One must not make the assumption lightly that he or she is a true Christian. A false conclusion at this point is tragic and fatal. Therefore I want to set before you four strands of the Bible's answer to the question,

"What is a biblical Christian?"1. According to the Bible, a Christian is a person who has faced realistically the problem of his own personal sin.2. A biblical Christian is one who has seriously considered the divine remedy for sin.
(a) First of all, God's remedy for sin is bound up in a Person. The divine remedy for sin is bound up in a Person, and that Person is none other than our Lord Jesus Christ -the eternal Word who became man,
(b) Secondly, God's remedy for sin is center in the cross upon which Jesus Christ died.

(c) Thirdly, God's remedy for sin is adequate for all men, and it is offered to all men without discrimination.

3. A biblical Christian is one who has wholeheartedly complied with the terms for obtaining God 's provision for sin.The divine terms are two: repent and believe.
4 A biblical Christian is a person who manifests in his life that his claims to repentance and faith are real.

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, "Jesus said, "but he who does the will of my Father in heaven" (Matthew 7:21).
In Hebrews 5:9 we read, "He be came the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him."
1 John 2:4 says, "He who says, 'I know him,' and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him".Do you repent and believe? And if you profess to repent and believe, can you make that profession stick - not by a life of perfection, but by a life of purposeful obedience to Jesus Christ?

May the God of our Faith Bless you all