There are two definitions that cause believers a lot of problems
1. Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. Context - in loving your enemies
2. Anything not of faith is sin. Context - eating food sacrificed to idols. If you go
against something that your conscience says you are not allowed to do in the faith
you are sinning.
Now the most extreme say we must be perfect as God is perfect in everything, which
is impossible so, this is just said to show we are failures.
The faith comment in its most extreme is everything done by a non-believer is sin.
Both positions destroy the focus of love being the driving force behind righteousness,
and right behaviour can be done by non-believers as demonstrated by Cornelius.
Actions that cause problems
1. Causing a brother or sister to stumble because of spiritual freedom
2. Being judgmental over issues that are not sinful
3. False accusations of motivation and evil because of faith or doctrinal positions
Many will never be free from their emotional prisons within, of justification because of
certain ideas and condemnation because of others.
Behaviour is the fruit of knowing God or the lack of this communion.
Jesus in our hearts will always lead to righteousness, and the lack of such a reality
will lead to death.
Jesus said specific things about how he promises to abide with us.
Faith and the walk. We are all messes and how it exactly works out in each will
be different, and what works for one, is not the same for another.
I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
John 10:9
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6
Communion and walking in the way has always been Gods way.
Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.
John 14:21
Jesus's command is loving others. This only comes from understanding oneself and
others, and the power sin has over our lives when not in communion with the King.
1. Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. Context - in loving your enemies
2. Anything not of faith is sin. Context - eating food sacrificed to idols. If you go
against something that your conscience says you are not allowed to do in the faith
you are sinning.
Now the most extreme say we must be perfect as God is perfect in everything, which
is impossible so, this is just said to show we are failures.
The faith comment in its most extreme is everything done by a non-believer is sin.
Both positions destroy the focus of love being the driving force behind righteousness,
and right behaviour can be done by non-believers as demonstrated by Cornelius.
Actions that cause problems
1. Causing a brother or sister to stumble because of spiritual freedom
2. Being judgmental over issues that are not sinful
3. False accusations of motivation and evil because of faith or doctrinal positions
Many will never be free from their emotional prisons within, of justification because of
certain ideas and condemnation because of others.
Behaviour is the fruit of knowing God or the lack of this communion.
Jesus in our hearts will always lead to righteousness, and the lack of such a reality
will lead to death.
Jesus said specific things about how he promises to abide with us.
Faith and the walk. We are all messes and how it exactly works out in each will
be different, and what works for one, is not the same for another.
I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
John 10:9
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6
Communion and walking in the way has always been Gods way.
Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.
John 14:21
Jesus's command is loving others. This only comes from understanding oneself and
others, and the power sin has over our lives when not in communion with the King.