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You falsely suggest these verses mean that Jesus will JUDGE US BY OUR WORKS TO SEE IF WE ARE SAVED.....
He already knows who is saved and who is not. This is for the benefit of us so we know if we are ready to stand before him at the coming Judgment.

Are you ready?
Or are you depending on a faith that has no works attached to it to save you?
James calls that 'dead faith'--the faith that can not save.
It can't save because it's not really faith in God. If it was it would be alive and have works attached to it.
 
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26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. - Galatians 5:26

It's a sin for people to be provoking him to do something out of line.
I know you will rationalize in your minds why it's okay to do that, but it's not okay.

This thread is dedicated to provoking Christians to do evil.
People lie in wait to attack anyone who dare suggest that a Christian can lose his salvation.
I wouldn't be here if it were not for the ignore button. It's the only thing that makes it tolerable to post here.
Funny, I go the 5 point Calvinism threads ...never once felt provoked to do evil.....maybe because I take responsibility for my own actions rather than blame others?
 
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31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
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How do you become a sheep?

How are you DEEMED righteous?


You falsely suggest these verses mean that Jesus will JUDGE US BY OUR WORKS TO SEE IF WE ARE SAVED.....


No.....


the goats and sheep are sorted already....


Goodness
Show us in the passage these sheep who don't have works of righteousness.
 

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Sheep have works of righteousness.
Did that slip your notice?
You... are so blind.

Please pray for God to open your eyes...


Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
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But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

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The works the sheep are being praised for .... are the spotless works of our Savior... the perfect Lamb....

The righteousness of Christ.
 

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They have the righteousness of CHRIST..
which is by faith
the fruits of those who dont have the righteousness of Christ but profess him.... the goats...



"lord lord have i not done many wonderful works in your name"....

they will have iniquity found in them because unlike those who have the righteousness of Christ... they are not spotless


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same principal

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
 

OneOfHis

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Funny, I go the 5 point Calvinism threads ...never once felt provoked to do evil.....maybe because I take responsibility for my own actions rather than blame others?
Those who don't trust in Christ often are provoked by those who have assurance in Him.

This thread is dedicated to give Christ glory for salvation, of course those who desire to establish their own righteousness will get angry and desire to do evil. It's in their nature. They need a new one.
 
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Those who don't trust in Christ often are provoked by those who have assurance in Him.

This thread is dedicated to give Christ glory for salvation, of course those who desire to establish their own righteousness will get angry and desire to do evil. It's in their nature. They need a new one.
So agree..they think we are equal footing and we are absolutely not!!
 

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1 Thessalonians 5:9 ESV
9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

What a wonderful gift from our Creator. Salvation provided through our Lord Jesus Christ. We are worthy of zero, nada. But God in His mercy, gave us one more chance.
 
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1 Thessalonians 5:9 ESV
9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Just as physical circumcision in a putting off of the flesh was the sign in the old covenant of being in covenant with God, so spiritual circumcision in a putting off of the deeds of the flesh is the sign in this New Covenant of being in covenant with God.

No putting off of the deeds of the flesh in circumcision means you have not been justified in Christ and are not in covenant with God and are not protected from the wrath to come.
 

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This thread is dedicated to provoking Christians to do evil. People lie in wait to attack anyone who dare suggest that a Christian can lose his salvation.
It’s not provoking, it’s correcting. When you have a grown man spreading a false gospel and refusing to listen to the Truth, and that same grown man makes snide comments while crying that people pick on him, that person needs to be corrected, as do you regarding your heretical views. You seem like a kind person, judge, but your views are heretical nonetheless.
 

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It’s not provoking, it’s correcting. When you have a grown man spreading a false gospel and refusing to listen to the Truth, and that same grown man makes snide comments while crying that people pick on him, that person needs to be corrected, as do you regarding your heretical views. You seem like a kind person, judge, but your views are heretical nonetheless.
You are hilarious.
 
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Do you understand, it said ALL OF THE LAW.

Here it is in the New Century Version:

James 2:10 (NCV)
10 A person who follows all of God’s law but fails to obey even one command is guilty of breaking all the commands in that law.

Here it is in the Bible in Basic English.

James 2:10 (BBE)
10 For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.

Here it is in the Amplified Version

James 2:10 (AMP)
10 For whosoever keeps the Law [as a] whole but stumbles and offends in one [single instance] has become guilty of [breaking] all of it.

Here it is in the New Living translation 2.

James 2:10 (NLT2)
10 For the person who keeps all of the laws except one is as guilty as a person who has broken all of God’s laws.


Could it be you have never felt as Guilty as one who has broken all of God's laws.


Romans 12:3 (ESV)
3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Brother you are missing the point and cannot see the forest due to the trees.........and my point above stands............are you guilty of opposing a God called man and standing against God by standing against a pastor he has called and is using?
 
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If you did, you would never say salvation can be thats not assurance.

assurance Means you KNOW without amy doubt no matter what, you will get what you wish,

you can’t say this,
AMEN....the hope the bible sets froth...a confident expectation of something GUARANTEED.........not a 1 dollar lottery ticket hope like he peddles
 
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1 John 5: 11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has [d]life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, [e]and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
just think about it,


I mentioned this and got a red x.

that should tell you everything you need to know about a certain poster
AMEN...........like I have said many times.......it is obvious who that poster follows........God is not the one I might add
 
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This is so wrong @PS ...

Are you speaking from your heart of flesh ?

You keep tearing down my brother , yet the bible says we should build each other up...

I know from your post that you keep attacking him personally , He is Gods precious son , remember that ...
Thanks Rose.........his time will come........keep swinging my sister across the "pond"