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the gospel is about repentance, confession and walking righteously


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Ariel82

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#41
The gospel is ALL about Jesus, and what He has done to save sinners. Our response to the gospel is not a part of the gospel.
Even if you don't define it as part of the,gospel, does that mean it's not important to discuss?
 
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Depleted

Guest
#42
I guess it comes down to how would you talk to someone who believes in another religion for their salvation?

You used to,believe in works salvation.

How was the gospel preached to you? How did you come to realize the difference between doing good works for the love of God versus doing it out of fear?
I was saved by going to see Jesus Christ Superstar. Weber doesn't even believe in God, and yet God's words hit me so I was saved.
 
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FreeNChrist

Guest
#43
Even if you don't define it as part of the,gospel, does that mean it's not important to discuss?
It just means repentance, confession and walking righteously is not part of the gospel.
 
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eternally-gratefull

Guest
#44
Not what I said or believe at all...All I hear is a loud gong right now.

Are you actually listening to what I am trying to say to you?

Maybe I need work on my communication skills.

I know the difference between justification and sanctification, but I believe BOTH are part of the gospel....God justifies us through Christ blood,then He sanctified us, neither are by our power but HIS.
God sanctified us the moment we were saved, That sanctification has NOTHING to do wiht how good we are. or how bad we are. It has to do with God sanctifying us.

If we are talking about CONDITIONAL sanctification (how our lives actually are in how we walk ) then no, That i snot part of th egospel

I was trying to differentiate.

Many in here scream of works, And attack people who call the out. They are teaching CONDITIONAL sanctification is how one gets saved or keeps their salvation.

There is where you confusion comes in, As Said, You op says conditional sanctification (walking in righteousness) is part of the gospel. that is not true.




James talks about a dead faith. Some people stop at justification and then believe that's it...but it's not..God cleanses us of our sins in order that we do good works.
WHO DOES THIS? WHO TEACHES THIS?

I hear this in this room as an argument so many times, I am sicked by it.. I mean seriously, is not this attack on the gospel of grace so old that people can not see it? And people wonder why people like myself and others get so angry at those attacking Gods gospel.


That is the full message,

Good works doesn't save us.
Good works is conditional sanctification. The more good works you do, the more conditionally sanctified you are, the more your living resembles Christ.. The less you do, the less sanctified you are..

God tells us to work out our salvation, That is conditional sanctification, it is living out what you are (your position) it is not the gospel. It is not how one gets saved. Yet people in here open thread after thread saying it is how you get saved.


But full message is that God has more planned for our lives than just being saved. He blesses us and he wants us to bless and love others as well.
it does absolutely no good to tell a dead person how to live in christ, If people do not have the correct gospel.

We can not talk about sanctification in here, because we are to busy trying to separate the works salvationist, from the grace salvationist.

telling a worker or unsaved person how to live is meaningless.. They can act like a new creature, but they are not one yet, and all their works will be as filthy rags,, These are the people on that day who will say lord lord, have we not done these works in your name, And jesus will say depart from me, I never knew you.

why? they were NEVER SAVED TO BEGIN WITH..
 
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Ariel82

Guest
#45
God preordained us to have the knowledge between good and evil. We aren't tabula rasa. If we were, Cain did nothing wrong when he killed Abel.

Therefore, Romans 1:[FONT=&quot]18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.[/FONT]

And, if you look at that list, that's all of us! So the knowing didn't do it for us. God did.

If it be God's will that he will save a person, there isn't a "first step" in the gospel, there is just letting people know what God's word says. Because
Romans 10:17 [FONT=&quot]So then faith [/FONT]comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
I guess I should have said the first visible step we see in another's life of God calling them towards Him and His salvation...instead of my shorthand response, with the expectation of everyone being able to read my mind.

Thanks for the scriptures.
 
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eternally-gratefull

Guest
#46
The gospel is ALL about Jesus, and what He has done to save sinners. Our response to the gospel is not a part of the gospel.
I disagree

The gospel is all that, But the good news is that because of what God did, We can be saved, How do we get saved? Respond to the gospel. Say yes lord. I want that applied to my life.. In FAITH.
 
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Depleted

Guest
#47
No I am asking people to stop feeding adults breastmilk and make them learn to eat solid food.

If people spend all their time preaching justification, when does discipleship training begin? When do people learn about sanctification? What if they hear other voices besides the Holy Spirit, how do they learn to discern the difference?
Oooooo, "discipleship training." The words that destroyed a church!

That so leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
 
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Ariel82

Guest
#48
It just means repentance, confession and walking righteously is not part of the gospel.
Are those three things part of a believers life? Yes or no will suffice.
 
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Ariel82

Guest
#49
Oooooo, "discipleship training." The words that destroyed a church!

That so leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Why?

I feel like there is a storu behind this statement.
 
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FreeNChrist

Guest
#50
I disagree

The gospel is all that, But the good news is that because of what God did, We can be saved, How do we get saved? Respond to the gospel. Say yes lord. I want that applied to my life.. In FAITH.
Yes, we respond to the gospel.
 
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eternally-gratefull

Guest
#52
Do you beat babies?

Do you put on a show of beating folks over with scriptures to "prove" to the babies what the truth is?

Preach the gospel. Talk about the difference between justification and sanctification. Praise God.

Determine if you are talking to a baby, an adult or an unbeliever.

If you spot a wolf, an enemy, then do what Jesus says: bless those who curse you, go the extra mile. Let vengeance be God's .

That last statement goes against the world's wisdom and will probably be rejected.
Again, I ask you. How did jesus and the apostles treat the pharisees?

do you treat A person who claims to talk for God and claims he has walked with God for a few decades, the same as a person who is just trying to ask about God. No..

and second, A legalist tryign to talk to a babe and tell them how righteous they have to be or they could lose salvation is not a danger to them?


I can not curse anyone (although I have been cursed by a few..lol)

But I can confront them, and call them out byu spreading the truth..



 
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eternally-gratefull

Guest
#53
Because no one ever wants to acknowledge their own sins and bad behavior.

thats not true, I have seen a few people admit when they have been shown to be wrong..
 
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Ariel82

Guest
#55
God sanctified us the moment we were saved, That sanctification has NOTHING to do wiht how good we are. or how bad we are. It has to do with God sanctifying us.

If we are talking about CONDITIONAL sanctification (how our lives actually are in how we walk ) then no, That i snot part of th egospel

I was trying to differentiate.

Many in here scream of works, And attack people who call the out. They are teaching CONDITIONAL sanctification is how one gets saved or keeps their salvation.

There is where you confusion comes in, As Said, You op says conditional sanctification (walking in righteousness) is part of the gospel. that is not true.






WHO DOES THIS? WHO TEACHES THIS?

I hear this in this room as an argument so many times, I am sicked by it.. I mean seriously, is not this attack on the gospel of grace so old that people can not see it? And people wonder why people like myself and others get so angry at those attacking Gods gospel.




Good works is conditional sanctification. The more good works you do, the more conditionally sanctified you are, the more your living resembles Christ.. The less you do, the less sanctified you are..

God tells us to work out our salvation, That is conditional sanctification, it is living out what you are (your position) it is not the gospel. It is not how one gets saved. Yet people in here open thread after thread saying it is how you get saved.




it does absolutely no good to tell a dead person how to live in christ, If people do not have the correct gospel.

We can not talk about sanctification in here, because we are to busy trying to separate the works salvationist, from the grace salvationist.

telling a worker or unsaved person how to live is meaningless.. They can act like a new creature, but they are not one yet, and all their works will be as filthy rags,, These are the people on that day who will say lord lord, have we not done these works in your name, And jesus will say depart from me, I never knew you.

why? they were NEVER SAVED TO BEGIN WITH..
So while you were a legalistic works salvationist, would you have called yourself as unsaved and destined to hell?

"We can not talk about sanctification in here, because we are to busy trying to separate the works salvationist, from the grace salvationist."

Sounds like you haven't stopped "working".

Perhaps you will stop being so busy wolf hunting and making excuses about what you can't do.

Maybe it's time to follow Jesus instead of just talking about Him.

Jesus said let the dead bury the dead, we are called to speak life into the world.

Perhaps if we spent more time talking about sanctification and living what Jesus teaches instead of chasing wolves, we might display Christ to a dying world.
 
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eternally-gratefull

Guest
#56
So while you were a legalistic works salvationist, would you have called yourself as unsaved and destined to hell?

If my faith was in how good I was, and not what Christ did, Then I was not saved,
 

zone

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#57
I believe the first step of preaching the gospel message is for people to realize that they Need a savior.
which is why we have to preach the Law first!
once they see they are lost sinners, then comes the Good News!