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You don't even get to be a family member and friend if you don't obey!
Luke 11:28 He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
Matthew 12:50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."
John 15:14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
John 6:29 [blb] -
"Jesus answered and said to them, 'This is the work of God, that you should believe in Him whom He has sent.' "
1 John 5:9-12 [blb] -
"9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God that He has testified concerning His Son. 10 The one believing in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one not believing God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning His Son.
"11 And this is the testimony: that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 The one having the Son has life; the one not having the Son of God does not have life."
"Jesus answered and said to them, 'This is the work of God, that you should believe in Him whom He has sent.' "
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"9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God that He has testified concerning His Son. 10 The one believing in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one not believing God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning His Son.
"11 And this is the testimony: that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 The one having the Son has life; the one not having the Son of God does not have life."
Have you learned yet not to go against the truth and say we don't have to repent of our sins to get saved?
We have to hear the message that saves and that is about our repenting of sins to get saved.
,,,but you are hear preaching against repenting of sins to get saved.
1 Timothy 4:16 Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.
We have to hear the message that saves and that is about our repenting of sins to get saved.
,,,but you are hear preaching against repenting of sins to get saved.
1 Timothy 4:16 Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.
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Who has said we dont have to repent to be saved?
That has been the message since the beginning! Repentance means to change ones mind, to turn. This change of mind results in a change of action, naturally, which is called "fruits worthy of repentance" in the Bible. Starting from John the Baptist:
Mat 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
What happens if they dont? Dont say we got Abraham for our Father, John the Baptist says to the Jews.
Mat 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
^Thats what happens.
And Paul repeats the same thing after the cross, just throwing that out there:
Act 26:20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
2Co 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Prophet Isaiah cries out the same message:
Isa 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Isa 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
That has been the message since the beginning! Repentance means to change ones mind, to turn. This change of mind results in a change of action, naturally, which is called "fruits worthy of repentance" in the Bible. Starting from John the Baptist:
Mat 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
What happens if they dont? Dont say we got Abraham for our Father, John the Baptist says to the Jews.
Mat 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
^Thats what happens.
And Paul repeats the same thing after the cross, just throwing that out there:
Act 26:20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
2Co 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Prophet Isaiah cries out the same message:
Isa 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Isa 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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John 14:23 Jesus replied, "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
Jesus moving in with you is about Jesus living in your heart.
Jesus moving in with you is about you becoming his family and friend.
Now read again HOW that will happen.
Did you read it? Did you see it?
Now say it because it is the truth, the light, and the way.
Jesus moving in with you is about Jesus living in your heart.
Jesus moving in with you is about you becoming his family and friend.
Now read again HOW that will happen.
Did you read it? Did you see it?
Now say it because it is the truth, the light, and the way.
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Looks like I have to do everything around here, so here are some verses I found quickly on a search:
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Rom 11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
2Ti 1:9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
Rev 17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. [This isnt not of works, but it says written in the book of life from the foundation of the world]
Rom 4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
Rom 4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Rom 4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
Rom 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Rom 11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
2Ti 1:9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
Rev 17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. [This isnt not of works, but it says written in the book of life from the foundation of the world]
Rom 4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
Rom 4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Rom 4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
Rom 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
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