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'You are absolutely correct, OSAS is a horrible doctrine. We should judge doctrines as we do humans by their fruit, and OSAS produces nothing but evil fruit.'
What this quote is saying to me and to all believers is that God's eternal salvation that redeems the sinner and imputes the righteousness of God as a free gift of grace, does not only produce evil fruit but must be evil in its nature. Salvation is not just a doctrine, it is God the Father who was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself by not imputing their sins and trespasses unto them. Salvation was God's redemptive plan to redeem sinful man from his sin and the sin nature that he inherited through Adam. The work of that plan was executed by Christ on the cross and it was a complete and finished work with nothing lacking. It provided man with the only way to God through Jesus Christ to be forgiven and cleansed and be made whole. The only way that salvation could be received is by grace and through faith. This salvation is according to the work of God and not of ourselves. Our boast is in the Lord always. To say that if any man believes this eternal and complete work of God through Jesus Christ to be evil and its fruit evil, is a very strange thing and I personally do not want any part of it.
To read that quote is a very strange thing to hear because it takes away from the cross and the eternal work that was accomplished by Christ. Every word of God is pure but that quote does not have the sound of the purity of God and I want to stay pure before God. To know that my sins have been put away and buried forever by Jesus Christ is pure. To know that the salvation that God has provided by grace is eternal and can never be taken from me is pure and makes me hunger and thirst after God. To know that God's salvation has been sealed in me is pure and it makes me want to serve God. To know that I have an advocate in Jesus Christ, who will always represent me before the Father, is something that is pure and it makes me want to hate sin and love righteousness and not want to do anything to grieve the One that saved me. Thank God through Jesus Christ that we are saved forever and the condemnation and wrath that was upon us has been lifted and removed forever.
What this quote is saying to me and to all believers is that God's eternal salvation that redeems the sinner and imputes the righteousness of God as a free gift of grace, does not only produce evil fruit but must be evil in its nature. Salvation is not just a doctrine, it is God the Father who was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself by not imputing their sins and trespasses unto them. Salvation was God's redemptive plan to redeem sinful man from his sin and the sin nature that he inherited through Adam. The work of that plan was executed by Christ on the cross and it was a complete and finished work with nothing lacking. It provided man with the only way to God through Jesus Christ to be forgiven and cleansed and be made whole. The only way that salvation could be received is by grace and through faith. This salvation is according to the work of God and not of ourselves. Our boast is in the Lord always. To say that if any man believes this eternal and complete work of God through Jesus Christ to be evil and its fruit evil, is a very strange thing and I personally do not want any part of it.
To read that quote is a very strange thing to hear because it takes away from the cross and the eternal work that was accomplished by Christ. Every word of God is pure but that quote does not have the sound of the purity of God and I want to stay pure before God. To know that my sins have been put away and buried forever by Jesus Christ is pure. To know that the salvation that God has provided by grace is eternal and can never be taken from me is pure and makes me hunger and thirst after God. To know that God's salvation has been sealed in me is pure and it makes me want to serve God. To know that I have an advocate in Jesus Christ, who will always represent me before the Father, is something that is pure and it makes me want to hate sin and love righteousness and not want to do anything to grieve the One that saved me. Thank God through Jesus Christ that we are saved forever and the condemnation and wrath that was upon us has been lifted and removed forever.