It does appear as if people that believe we cannot abstain from sin,come across to the people that believe we can abstain from sin,and that we have to have works to have faith active,that they are doing something wrong,and in delusion.
For even if works do not have anything to do with salvation,it does not hurt,but helps.
Hey you,stop feeding that poor man over there,don't you know you are deceived,for your works mean nothing.
Hey,where are you going homeboy.Oh,you are going to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction.Stop doing that,don't you know you are in delusion.
Hey,stop preaching to be Christlike,and represent goodness.You are deceived,and do not even know it.
Hey people,do not listen to these people when they preach act like Christ,represent goodness,for they are deceived,and do not heed when they feed the poor and needy,and help out people,for they are in delusion.
Take no heed to what they say,or do,for it is an optical delusion.
That is funny,as if they are doing something wrong,and are deceived,but they act more Christlike than those that believe we cannot abstain from sin,and Jesus said you will know them by their fruits,so the ones that act more Christlike,and stress to act more Christlike,which is basically to represent goodness,I would say have to be more in the truth,for you will know them by their fruits.
The truth is when we live for God we have to do what God wants us to do,plain and simple,and do not grieve the Spirit,and do not quench the Spirit,but do what God wants you to do.
Help the poor and needy,and abstain from fleshy lusts.
And James said a man is justified by works,and not faith alone,which plainly he is saying do what God wants you to do,which we know we have to do that anyway,for if we do not do what the Spirit wants us to do,then we are rebellious,and that is why James points out if you do not help the poor,then you are not doing what God wants you to do,so then faith is not active in your life,for if you belong to the kingdom of God,that is what you are supposed to represent,and behold,the kingdom of God is within you.
Paul,faith alone,not saved by works,confessing Christ.James,a man is justified by works,and not faith alone,after they receive the Spirit,and we know we have to do what God wants us to do,and these works are not of us,and not of the flesh,but doing what God wants us to do,for if we do not we are rebellious,and then how do we have faith.
When we see the list of the operation of the Spirit,there is no fleshy operation in there,so if you are led of the Spirit no fleshy operation will be there,so you can abstain from sin,for a Spirit led life will not fulfill the desires of the flesh,but that is only if a person is sincere,and does not want sin in their life,then it would be possible by the Spirit.
Hey,do not listen to these people when they preach act like Christ,and represent goodness,and abstain from sin,and do not take heed to them when they goest about feeding the poor,and providing them with clothes,and visiting the fatherless and the widows in their affliction,and going about doing good works here and there,to and fro,for they are in delusion,and what you are hearing and viewing is an optical delusion.
That is funny,as if they are doing something wrong.
I would say the people that are more Christlike,and stress to be more Christlike,which is to represent goodness,would be the ones more in the truth,for you will know them by their fruits,and the more they act like Christ,the more truth they would be in.
1Co 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1Co 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
1Co 13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
1Co 13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1Co 13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
1Co 13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
1Co 13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
We can look at it from the viewpoint of love,and love is the fulfilling of the law,which love does not think an evil thought.
2Ti 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
We can look at it from the viewpoint of confessing Christ,they have to depart from iniquity.
Rom 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Rom 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
We can look at it from representing God's goodness,if you do not continue in it,and stray,then you will be cut off of you do not correct yourself.
Jas 2:14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
Jas 2:15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Jas 2:16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Jas 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
We can look at it from the viewpoint of allowing the Spirit to lead us,which if we do not help the poor and needy,then faith is not active in our life,which we can help more than by finances,and if we have the means financially,and we do not do it,the love of God does not dwell in us.
