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Nope. You can believe in God's grace, which is His Son having died on the cross, while you deserved DEATH, you only, NOT me. Oh, just kidding. What, can't you tell
We ALL are sinners, we all are forgiven of our sins, He does want us to confess however, be bold, do that. He asked us, too, to become holy, as He IS holy, as we walk our Earthly life with God and, until we get to Heaven, we will be working on the sanctifying work of ourselves getting to that one glorious day, of, you got it, glorified state of being, which comes ONLY after we die .
To be out of the body is to be present with the Lord. << Paul says this, not me.
We get our glorified bodies after we die, the subject of 'when' is for debate, but NOT in this thread , please
We are sanctified through the work of the Holy Spirit in us working us, because God wants us to work !!
We are justified by faith in Him , in His leading of our life, through His life and His Spirit guiding us. It's hard for us to see the guiding but just you go forth, you will KNOW
But, yes, we who were were DEAD in our transgressions--Ephesians 1:1 tells us--and were disobedient, CHRIST DIED FOR US, all of us, sinners and unbelievers. Keep in mind, we are ALL sinners, even Christians.
This 'disobedience to God speaks of HUMANKIND, not just the Israelites, as Hebrews' author refers to, so, don't think you get let off the hooK. You on iT , too But, NOT me. ;Read the last few verses of Ephesians 2 to realize we are all ONE, grafted into the same citizenship of Christ, Jews, Romans, Gentiles, ALL who believe in Him with their heart, those who are 'born again,' having His righteousness imputed unto their body and understanding there can be no such thing as 'self-righteousness.'
God UNhooked us all by the sacrifice of His Son on the cross. This is His great grace, mind you, it's certainly not His only grace. But, God took mercy on we sad sack human folk and in so doing, His mercy saves us from certain death that as to come to us before Jesus died on the cross. Now, we do still die, as said earlier, but we die once and then live forever !!! Either we live forever with Him , as we 'sleep in Jesus,' and ,then, one day go to be with Him, or, just go to Him right after we die, depending on how you believe, I believe, the latter but that's not the discussion here.
Bible authors do not tell us we are justified by grace, no, we are simply allowed to be saved to be His forevermore by God's grace. But, that grace alone does NOT save you, and, it ain't EVER gonna save you !! There's more to the story, for we must have FAITH . God makes this clear in the complete unraveling of words through Paul, His inspired author speaking in Ephesians 2, we are saved by grace through faith.....we are His workmanship. He made us and He WILL work us. We simply are to have faith in the work that He has us doing. What are you doing now?
Is it by faith in Him that you are doing it? ARe you at peace that the work you are doing on planet Earth is pleasing to Him ? Pray for that answer, God will ALWAYS give answers to our prayers, it will be His timing that the answers are revealed, by His Spirit's revelation and leading, but, they will come, you just read your bible, hear it's words, BY FAITH, and, follow through. Just like swinging the bat or kicking the soccer ball, the POWER comes with the follow-through, as well as don't forget what helps too, your technique that WORKS . Follow through your life with faith in His work and technique used to best bring glory to Himself, for God wants all attribution of good things we do merited to His favor, for this will bring favor on you in His eyes. This will bring grace, mercy, and the Love of the Father, God, YOUR Father, blessing you
We ALL are sinners, we all are forgiven of our sins, He does want us to confess however, be bold, do that. He asked us, too, to become holy, as He IS holy, as we walk our Earthly life with God and, until we get to Heaven, we will be working on the sanctifying work of ourselves getting to that one glorious day, of, you got it, glorified state of being, which comes ONLY after we die .
To be out of the body is to be present with the Lord. << Paul says this, not me.
We get our glorified bodies after we die, the subject of 'when' is for debate, but NOT in this thread , please
We are sanctified through the work of the Holy Spirit in us working us, because God wants us to work !!
We are justified by faith in Him , in His leading of our life, through His life and His Spirit guiding us. It's hard for us to see the guiding but just you go forth, you will KNOW
But, yes, we who were were DEAD in our transgressions--Ephesians 1:1 tells us--and were disobedient, CHRIST DIED FOR US, all of us, sinners and unbelievers. Keep in mind, we are ALL sinners, even Christians.
This 'disobedience to God speaks of HUMANKIND, not just the Israelites, as Hebrews' author refers to, so, don't think you get let off the hooK. You on iT , too But, NOT me. ;Read the last few verses of Ephesians 2 to realize we are all ONE, grafted into the same citizenship of Christ, Jews, Romans, Gentiles, ALL who believe in Him with their heart, those who are 'born again,' having His righteousness imputed unto their body and understanding there can be no such thing as 'self-righteousness.'
God UNhooked us all by the sacrifice of His Son on the cross. This is His great grace, mind you, it's certainly not His only grace. But, God took mercy on we sad sack human folk and in so doing, His mercy saves us from certain death that as to come to us before Jesus died on the cross. Now, we do still die, as said earlier, but we die once and then live forever !!! Either we live forever with Him , as we 'sleep in Jesus,' and ,then, one day go to be with Him, or, just go to Him right after we die, depending on how you believe, I believe, the latter but that's not the discussion here.
Bible authors do not tell us we are justified by grace, no, we are simply allowed to be saved to be His forevermore by God's grace. But, that grace alone does NOT save you, and, it ain't EVER gonna save you !! There's more to the story, for we must have FAITH . God makes this clear in the complete unraveling of words through Paul, His inspired author speaking in Ephesians 2, we are saved by grace through faith.....we are His workmanship. He made us and He WILL work us. We simply are to have faith in the work that He has us doing. What are you doing now?
Is it by faith in Him that you are doing it? ARe you at peace that the work you are doing on planet Earth is pleasing to Him ? Pray for that answer, God will ALWAYS give answers to our prayers, it will be His timing that the answers are revealed, by His Spirit's revelation and leading, but, they will come, you just read your bible, hear it's words, BY FAITH, and, follow through. Just like swinging the bat or kicking the soccer ball, the POWER comes with the follow-through, as well as don't forget what helps too, your technique that WORKS . Follow through your life with faith in His work and technique used to best bring glory to Himself, for God wants all attribution of good things we do merited to His favor, for this will bring favor on you in His eyes. This will bring grace, mercy, and the Love of the Father, God, YOUR Father, blessing you