81% of Christians think Christianity is following rules in the bible
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Amen..we must do the will of the Father!..What is the will of the Father for salvation ( as in going to be with the Lord for eternity based on His finished work alone )
The Will of the Father is to believe on Jesus and in His grace for salvation only.
John 6:40 (NASB)
[SUP]40 [/SUP] "For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day."
1 John 3:23-24 (NASB)
[SUP]23[/SUP] This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.
[SUP]24 [/SUP] The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
The Will of the Father is to believe on Jesus and in His grace for salvation only.
John 6:40 (NASB)
[SUP]40 [/SUP] "For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day."
1 John 3:23-24 (NASB)
[SUP]23[/SUP] This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.
[SUP]24 [/SUP] The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
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Just remember that obedience doesn't come first,salvation comes first,and then we are GOD's workmanship created In CHRIST unto good works.
Its the spirit that was saved AND sealed and cannot sin because we were born of INCORRUPTIBLE seed.
GOD Is a SPIRIT and just men were made perfect In our spirits..
GOD to man....SPIRIT to spirit.
Although we are weak In the flesh and still sin,we were saved and sealed In the spirit and cannot sin.
Your emphasis seems to be on the flesh of the reborn person.
GOD forgave those that accessed grace through faith In CHRIST alone once and for all, but we should want to work to the outside the new us thats on the Inside.
Be conscious of your right standing with GOD.
Its the spirit that was saved AND sealed and cannot sin because we were born of INCORRUPTIBLE seed.
GOD Is a SPIRIT and just men were made perfect In our spirits..
GOD to man....SPIRIT to spirit.
Although we are weak In the flesh and still sin,we were saved and sealed In the spirit and cannot sin.
Your emphasis seems to be on the flesh of the reborn person.
GOD forgave those that accessed grace through faith In CHRIST alone once and for all, but we should want to work to the outside the new us thats on the Inside.
Be conscious of your right standing with GOD.
The modern church could use some "fire & brimstone" preaching that demands a commitment & requires us to repent of our sins.
It's true repentance that brings revival.
2 Chronicles 7:14 (KJV)
[SUP]14 [/SUP]If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
It's true repentance that brings revival.
2 Chronicles 7:14 (KJV)
[SUP]14 [/SUP]If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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To love God IS to obey Him. "If you love Me you will keep my commands." The rich man told Jesus he obeyed the commands since childhood. But he couldn't give up his wealth- that would have shown that God is his focus, and not himself. I get it, I truly do. What you're saying is you need the later, and you think that I'm saying you need the first, when what I'm saying is you need both. If you were strong enough to be the later, then you would easily do the first because you love Him enough to obey His commands.
I don't have a checklist to check off to earn my way to heaven. I obey because I love Him, and He gives me the gift of grace because I obey Him. My obedience does not earn His grace, but He only gives the gift of grace to those who obey Him. He does not give the gift of grace to demons who believe, murders who believe, the sexually immoral who believe, etc. But to those who take up their cross daily to follow Christ. Taking up their cross daily does not earn grace, but it is only gifted to those who take up their cross daily.
I don't have a checklist to check off to earn my way to heaven. I obey because I love Him, and He gives me the gift of grace because I obey Him. My obedience does not earn His grace, but He only gives the gift of grace to those who obey Him. He does not give the gift of grace to demons who believe, murders who believe, the sexually immoral who believe, etc. But to those who take up their cross daily to follow Christ. Taking up their cross daily does not earn grace, but it is only gifted to those who take up their cross daily.
The law of sin is still in our bodies and will be until we get new ones from the Lord. We see the distinction here in Romans 8.
Romans 8:10 (NASB)
[SUP]10 [/SUP] If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
We are sealed now with the Holy Spirit in our inner man of the heart created in righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 1:13 (NASB)
[SUP]13 [/SUP] In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,
Romans 8:10 (NASB)
[SUP]10 [/SUP] If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
We are sealed now with the Holy Spirit in our inner man of the heart created in righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 1:13 (NASB)
[SUP]13 [/SUP] In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,
They tried to offer a remedy but it was poison. They thought that morality and striving in the flesh was the solution instead of relying upon God to sanctify them. It was once known as the "holiness movement" and while people were sincere, they were sincerely wrong. If you hold the law up and tell people to obey, it doesn't set them free. It condemns them! Even more so, because the flesh takes advantage of the law.
Oh how sincerity can be masqueraded as truth, yet it can put forth a lie. A congregation in sin and given the law to bring about change will inevitably make all of them quit Christianity or make, of them, many hypocrites and liars. I forgot a third option, bring them to an end of themselves and see their need for God to set them free. The true remedy to sin is by God's grace, it breaks sin's dominion. It's God's process of sanctification that has lasting change.
Oh how sincerity can be masqueraded as truth, yet it can put forth a lie. A congregation in sin and given the law to bring about change will inevitably make all of them quit Christianity or make, of them, many hypocrites and liars. I forgot a third option, bring them to an end of themselves and see their need for God to set them free. The true remedy to sin is by God's grace, it breaks sin's dominion. It's God's process of sanctification that has lasting change.
The whole man - body, soul, spirit - is sealed and saved, not just the spirit, or inner man.
[Christ] in whom also you, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also when you believed you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, Ephesians 1:13
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your complete spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:23
It is God that sanctifies us through Christ's work. We are waiting for the redemption of our bodies.
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 (NASB)
[SUP]23[/SUP] Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
[SUP]24 [/SUP] Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass. ( isn't is good to know that the Lord will be faithful; to bring about one day our spirit, soul and body - that we are both sanctified now in our spirit and are being sanctified in our soul and body? )
As believers, our born-again spirits are complete in every way. Paul made it very clear in this verse that it is God’s will for our entire person to be sanctified. Our souls and bodies will not experience the same degree of sanctification as our spirits until we go to be with the Lord or He returns for us. They can be blameless but not sinless.
We are still waiting for the redemption of our bodies to come. The first fruits is our spirit/inner man completely sealed in Christ and it cannot sin.
Romans 8:23 (KJV)
[SUP]23 [/SUP] And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 (NASB)
[SUP]23[/SUP] Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
[SUP]24 [/SUP] Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass. ( isn't is good to know that the Lord will be faithful; to bring about one day our spirit, soul and body - that we are both sanctified now in our spirit and are being sanctified in our soul and body? )
As believers, our born-again spirits are complete in every way. Paul made it very clear in this verse that it is God’s will for our entire person to be sanctified. Our souls and bodies will not experience the same degree of sanctification as our spirits until we go to be with the Lord or He returns for us. They can be blameless but not sinless.
We are still waiting for the redemption of our bodies to come. The first fruits is our spirit/inner man completely sealed in Christ and it cannot sin.
Romans 8:23 (KJV)
[SUP]23 [/SUP] And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
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Its error to say that the whole body Is saved and sealed here on this earth.
If everyone was sealed In there whole body,then the whole body would be perfect and those that are reborn would not sin because they would be perfect In spirit and also In the body.
We are not perfect In the body yet,we have not received our new bodies yet.
If everyone was sealed In there whole body,then the whole body would be perfect and those that are reborn would not sin because they would be perfect In spirit and also In the body.
We are not perfect In the body yet,we have not received our new bodies yet.
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I am reading a book on satan and his tactics.
One of satans greatest victories is religion. If satan can paint God as a different God than he really is (different gospel) then satan can have millions upon millions of people who think they will go to heaven, who will end up in hell.. But more than this, he will have these warriors who think they are fighting for Christ fighting for himself and keeping people away from the truth of the gospel of Christ. possibly even taking out true Christians from the battle as they too fall for this legalistic ritual/rules based Christian lifestyle which has no power at all.
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I couldn't agree more.
"Religion consists of all the things (believing, behaving, worshiping, sacrificing) the human race has ever thought it had to do to get right with God. About those things, Christianity has only two comments to make. The first is that none of them ever had the least chance of doing the trick: the blood of bulls and goats can never take away sins (see the Epistle to the Hebrews) and no effort of ours to keep the law of God can ever finally succeed (see the Epistle to the Romans). The second is that everything religion tried (and failed) to do has been perfectly done, once and for all, by Jesus in his death and resurrection. For Christians, therefore, the entire religion shop has been closed, boarded up, and forgotten. The church is not in the religion business. It never has been and it never will be, in spite of all the ecclesiastical turkeys through two thousand years who have acted as if religion was their stock in trade. The church, instead, is in the Gospel-proclaiming business. It is not here to bring the world the bad news that God will think kindly about us only after we have gone through certain creedal, liturgical and ethical wickets; it is here to bring the world the Good News that “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly.” It is here, in short, for no religious purpose at all, only to announce the Gospel of free grace." -Robert F. Capon
"Religion consists of all the things (believing, behaving, worshiping, sacrificing) the human race has ever thought it had to do to get right with God. About those things, Christianity has only two comments to make. The first is that none of them ever had the least chance of doing the trick: the blood of bulls and goats can never take away sins (see the Epistle to the Hebrews) and no effort of ours to keep the law of God can ever finally succeed (see the Epistle to the Romans). The second is that everything religion tried (and failed) to do has been perfectly done, once and for all, by Jesus in his death and resurrection. For Christians, therefore, the entire religion shop has been closed, boarded up, and forgotten. The church is not in the religion business. It never has been and it never will be, in spite of all the ecclesiastical turkeys through two thousand years who have acted as if religion was their stock in trade. The church, instead, is in the Gospel-proclaiming business. It is not here to bring the world the bad news that God will think kindly about us only after we have gone through certain creedal, liturgical and ethical wickets; it is here to bring the world the Good News that “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly.” It is here, in short, for no religious purpose at all, only to announce the Gospel of free grace." -Robert F. Capon
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I see several reasons for this false belief.
First is the fact that most members of local churches are just like the church at Corinth. i.e. carnal and can not receive the meat of the Word.
Secondly, to many pastors are also carnal and do not know the meat of the Word.
Thirdly, those who know the problem don't have the guts to stand up and address the situstion as Paul did.
First is the fact that most members of local churches are just like the church at Corinth. i.e. carnal and can not receive the meat of the Word.
Secondly, to many pastors are also carnal and do not know the meat of the Word.
Thirdly, those who know the problem don't have the guts to stand up and address the situstion as Paul did.