You quoted these verses and tried to justify why we should not practice righteousness by obedience to the law.
Faith without works is dead..
We can't do anything to please God without faith. We can by faith obey the law.
If you have a bad habit of taking God's name in vain, and by faith you are changed in heart, and then you by faith receive God's Spirit, and stop the habit of sinning (taking God's name in vain), you can say the end is freedom from that sin.
Galatians 5:21 - ..those who practice such things (sins) will not inherit the kingdom of God. No remorse, no repentance just bring on the sinful lifestyle -- descriptive of unbelievers/the unrighteous. 1 Corinthians 6:9 - Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?
God wants to free us from sin.
I agree that the righteousness given in Justification frees us from sin we had done. But are we to continue in sin? Are we to stay slaves to sin?
No Sanctification is about removing sin from the life. God wants to cure and remove the sin completely.
Yet the reality of that holiness becomes more and more evident in our actions, words, thoughts, attitudes, and motives. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4, we read - For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor.
So, becoming washed, sanctified and justified in Christ is a one-time event and is not a process, yet abstaining from sexual immorality is not a one-time event, but an ongoing process. Here is how I understand it. The believer possesses a positional, judicial standing of righteousness in Christ and, second, an ongoing process of growth in practical, progressive holiness which becomes increasingly evident in our actions, words, thoughts, attitudes, and motives.
Act 10:35 But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.
Notice the act of doing righteousness.
Rom 6:12-13
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
I am not promoting righteousness in order to be saved. I am saying that righteousness will follow the in the life of the save.
Rom 6:12-13
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
I am not promoting righteousness in order to be saved. I am saying that righteousness will follow the in the life of the save.
Faith will result in corresponding works.
Do you believe we should act like Jesus? Do you think we should allow God to transform us into the image of Christ?
Sanctification by faith.
How are you any different then the devil
Who believes in Jesus and understands the gospel truth but makes no choice to give up evil?
Who believes in Jesus and understands the gospel truth but makes no choice to give up evil?
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