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Tommy4Christ

Tommy4Christ

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The absurdity in

I know many who profess Christ, have a difficult time discerning between works of the law, and a working faith through love, then will boldly claim its not of works??

Are you sure??

Dig deep and see the works commanded by God, and why faith alone is a doctrine of demons!!





The absurdity in
 
Tommy4Christ

Tommy4Christ

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I know many who profess Christ, have a difficult time discerning between works of the law, and a working faith through love, then will boldly claim its not of works??

Are you sure??

Dig deep and see the works commanded by God, and why faith alone is a doctrine of demons!!





The absurdity in ‘not of works’ Eph2:8-9

For by grace you have been saved through faith, andthat not of yourselves; it is thegift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boastEph2:8-9
Nearlyevery Professed Believer today has been persuaded that this passage means theycan be Saved ‘in their sins’ by doing Nothing, except expressing abelief in Christ. (Rom10:9-10,Confess & Believe)The idea of Deeds is labeled ‘Legalism’ in their minds and thereforetaboo to the plan of Salvation. Yet the Bible says that a person is saved bywhat he DOES and NOT by Faith alone. (James2:24) So if Salvation comesby DOING and not by Faith alone, as James insists, what’s Paul talking about inthe Ephesians passage?
InPaul’s time Christian Doctrine was at odds with Jewish teaching. So the Jewswere constantly trying to infiltrate the Christian fellowships to Proselytizethe Saints and convince them they had to observe Jewish Custom and Law to beSaved. (Gal2:4) But as Paul said: ‘TheJust shall live by faith!’ (Gal3:11, Hab2:4) Therefore it would stand toreason that the Deeds of Faith and the ‘Works’ of the law are twoentirely different things. That’s why the Bible repeatedly associates Faithwith DOING Something! In the Gospelof Christ doing is what makes the difference between saved or lost.
If anyone loves Me,he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come tohim and make Our home with him. Jh14:23
But He said, “More thanthat, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”Lk11:28
But He answered and said to them, “Mymother and My brothers are these whohear the word of God and do it.” Lk8:21
But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do thethings which I say? Lk6:46
You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. Jh15:14
The Bible says that:
Faith WORKS by Love, Gal5:6
Purifies the heart of Sin, 1Pet1:22
And has Victory over sin, the flesh and the devil! 1John5:4-5
TheWORKS of Faith are Obedience from the heart, Rom6:17, Doing what is Right,1Jh3:7, and Crucifying the flesh with its passions and desires, Gal5:24. Eventhe beloved Eph2 passage says in verse 10 : For we are Hisworkmanship, created in Christ Jesus forgood works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
This is why LOVE is the fulfillment ofthe law and the Righteous Requirements of it are kept in those who Walk inChrist. (Rom3:31, 8:4)
Whatdid Christ tell those who asked Him about the Greatest Commandment?
Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God withall your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment.And the second islike it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’On thesetwo commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.Matt22:37-40
TheAgape love of the Bible does notcover sin by excusing the sinner from blame. Love covering a multitude of sins,Js5:20, 1Pet4:8, implies the exact opposite of sinful behavior because reallove Does Not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in the Truth! 1Cor13:6.What is the Truth but to LOVE God, Stop sinning and KEEP His Commands.Just as:
RealFaith can be ‘imputed’ as Righteousness because it coincides with the Words ofChrist. Believing has everything to do with KEEPING His Commandments! Abrahambelieved God, Rom4:3, Walked in the Steps of Faith, Rom4:12, and did the DEEDSof Faith, Heb11:8. That’s why James says of him in Js2:22 ‘Do you see that faith was working together with his Deeds and bydeeds his faith was made perfect!’

This is the unique plan of God Called Synergy where two things ‘worktogether’ to produce a result that could not otherwise be obtained! (wordused in 2Cor6:1, Mt16:20, Rom8:28, 1Cor16:16, James2:22) CLEARLY without thisvital link between God and man Salvation is rendered inoperable.

It’s incrediblethat so many people believe they are saved by doing nothing when Christ told everyonetime and again to: ‘Do it, Keep it, Holdfast and Obey it’ You stand on a Sandy foundation believing Christ obeyed for you.(Matt7:21-23)
whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrateHis righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins thatwere previously committed, Rom3:25
Many‘believers’ are stuck on the concept of Grace being a ‘free gift’ fromGod of which no one can boast at the receiving thereof. But Grace is taken fromthe Greek Word: ‘Charis’, closelyrelated to another Greek verb: ‘chairo’…meaning ‘Rejoice exceedingly’, used often as a salutation ‘hail’. And anotherVerb used to express Grace is ‘Chrisma’translated anointing or unction, as in Jh2:20, 27, ‘The anointing we receivefrom the Holy Spirit that teaches us God’s Truth.
The Strongs lexicon defines Grace as: ‘The mercifulkindness by which God exerting His Holy influence upon souls, keeps,strengthens, increases them in the faith, knowledge, affection and kindles themto the exercise of Christian virtues.’

So the question is to the sin everyday believers: ‘HOW can you claim tohave received this exceedingly great and precious Gift from God (2Pet1:4) andremain in a wretched state of sinfulness with a desperately wicked heartaddicted to lust?’

Is it ‘boasting’ to be Cleansed, Purged and Purified by the blood ofChrist by faith and then walk in Newness of life, worthy of the high calling ofGod? (Heb9:14, Acts15:9, Rom6:4-6, Phil1:27, Col1:10) The ‘boasting’spoken of by Paul was of the Jews trying to establish their own Righteousnessapart from faith working by love! Rom10:3. Their boast is defined inRom2:17,23, where Paul accused them of striving for the ‘letter’ of the law butviolating the ‘Spirit’ of it by transgression.

Therefore Grace is a ‘free gift’ from God, BUT God will not allow it to beabused as a license to Sin. (Rom6:1,15) You can indeed ‘believe’ to no purposeand without effect! 1Cor15:2, 2Cor6:1, James1:26. (as the sin everydaybelievers have done)

Where did the nonsensical notion of pre-forgiveness of sin come from?Because it’s certainly NOT in the Bible! If such a ludicrous concept were trueWHY would the Scripture say: For if we sin willfully after we have received theknowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, andfiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Heb10:25-26
And ifthe Wrath of God is fully satisfied in Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross (the ‘itis finished’ slant) WHY is there Wrath yet to come on the children ofdisobedience? Eph5:6, Col3:5. The fact that Christ died some 2000 years ago ‘reconciling’ the world unto Himself,2Cor5:19, Rom5:10, DOES NOT mean that mankind is automatically ‘restored tofavor’ with God. He has yet to be ‘Reconciled’within the span of his lifetime through Repentance and faith proven by deeds!(Acts18:26, 2Cor5:20) Just because Christ was born doesn’t mean mankind has afree ticket to paradise for believing in His Birth. (as the ‘Christmas’attendees all suppose) www.standingthegap.org
 
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