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Livingbygrace when I confessed that I break God's commandments daily, I did not mean that I deliberately practiced disobedience against Him. I did not mean that I blatantly went out to commit adultery or to deliberately lust, or to murder or deliberately hate. I did not mean any of that. What I meant by my breaking His commandments, was that while I was striving to obey Him, I cannot expect to be able to perfectly keep them as His justice requires. I may have kept myself from adultery today, but the full intention of that commandment was not fulfilled 100% in all my being this day. I dare not have the arrogance to claim that I kept one of God's commandments 100% completely perfectly this day unlike you. You keep taking technicalities out of my words and twist them and that's the only foundation you have for an argument against me. All you have done thus far is twist my words and accuse me of things I do not believe. You cannot hold an educated, godly discussion because all of your arguments are rooted in your defensiveness, because you practice the very things the word and law of God declares you should not. And when someone like me comes along and tells you what the law says, you scream legalism. You condemn me for saying that true Christians will have a degree of obedience in their walk; and you say I believe that we are saved by this obedience. But you fail to see that the only thing I have been saying all along is that we are saved only by Christ, and that we have received the grace of God is made evident by those works which we carry out. I have always said here that we strive to obey God not in order to be saved, but because we are saved. This Spurgeon also said exactly himself:
Charles Spurgeon - "The old covenant was broken, and we became condemned thereby, but now, having suffered death in Christ, we are no more under it, but are dead to it. Brethren, at this present moment, although we rejoice to do good works, we are not seeking life through them, we are not hoping to obtain divine favour by our own goodness, nor even to keep ourselves in the love of God by any merit of our own. Chosen, not for our works, but according to the eternal will and good pleasure of God; called, not of works, but by the Spirit of God, we desire to continue in this grace and return no more to the bondage of the old covenant. Since we have put our trust in an atonement provided and applied by grace through Christ Jesus, we are no longer slaves but children, not working to be saved, but saved already, and working because we are saved."
Charles Spurgeon - "The old covenant was broken, and we became condemned thereby, but now, having suffered death in Christ, we are no more under it, but are dead to it. Brethren, at this present moment, although we rejoice to do good works, we are not seeking life through them, we are not hoping to obtain divine favour by our own goodness, nor even to keep ourselves in the love of God by any merit of our own. Chosen, not for our works, but according to the eternal will and good pleasure of God; called, not of works, but by the Spirit of God, we desire to continue in this grace and return no more to the bondage of the old covenant. Since we have put our trust in an atonement provided and applied by grace through Christ Jesus, we are no longer slaves but children, not working to be saved, but saved already, and working because we are saved."
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