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MarcR;3379313]Paul and John agree that what a person decides to do is not a work of God. Only what God does in and through a person's life is a work of God
I believe this statement is the great example of the difference between how Jesus lived, and how those who He rejected in Matt. 7, lived.
Using The Sabbath God Created for man as an example, only an example, nothing else. Please don't shut the door because of the mention of God's Sabbath. I'm using it as an example.
God sets forth a Commandment, Saturday Sabbath. And Man set's forth a Commandment Sunday Sabbath.
If I regard God's Words over man's word, am I doing a work of Man?
How is following God's Commandment a "Work of man", but following "mans" religious doctrines and traditions a "Work of God"?
How can you say God's Sabbath is not a "work of God"? And how can you say obeying God regarding His Sabbath is our "work"?
Jesus also, was born into a religion that had traditions of man that had been taught for thousands of years. These traditions were not from God as He clearly pointed out.
Did He walk in the "Traditions" of man as the mainstream church of His time preached? Or did He "Walk" in the Works of God?
Didn't Eve have the exactly same choice? She had the Word's of God in her mind, and she had the "words" of the enemy of God in her mind. And she was forced by God to "make a choice" as we all are.
Duet. 30:
19 I call heaven and earth to
record this day against you,
that I (Jesus)
have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:
therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed
may live:
That thou mayest
love the LORD thy God,
and that thou
mayest obey his voice, and that
thou mayest cleave unto him:
for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
How is choosing Jesus and His Works a "work of man"?
I understand this to mean that the works law keepers and others think they are doing for God will burn away when tried by fire;
How in the world do you come to the conclusion that those who are obedient to God and have made the choice Jesus instructed are going to be burned when the heat get's turned up.
Can you give one example of the Faithful in the Bible that fled when the heat got turned up? Caleb. Abel, Noah?
How is following a Commandment Jesus said was created for "MAN", something we "Think we are doing for God"?
but the Works that God does through a person's life will be rewarded as long as the law keeper doesn't depend on his works for Salvation.
How can you preach that the "works" God does through our life is different than His Work's created for man?
This a very dangerous mindset that is taught in mainstream religions IMO. If we are convinced that Jesus is in us, then everything we do is a "work of God".
We can create images of God in the likeness of a long haired men's hair shampoo model, a direct and blatant rebellion and disrespect to the First and greatest Commandment of God, and are b
lameless in our minds because it "must" be a Work of God.
We can say "Lord, Lord, and create massive "Feasts unto the Lord" and religious traditions and High Days, that our fathers were destroyed for doing, and as long as we place Jesus name on it, we are blameless.
How, because Jesus must be in us, our preachers said so, therefore any "Work" we do is a "Work" of God as long as we say "Lord, Lord.
The Bible teaches against this ancient practice of rebelling against the Word of God. Doesn't this give you pause?
1 Co 3:10-15
10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
KJV
I understand this to mean that the works law keepers and others think they are doing for God will burn away when tried by fire; but the Works that God does through a person's life will be rewarded as long as the law keeper doesn't depend on his works for Salvation.[/QUOTE]