Justified by work vs faith

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People in my church believe after accepting Christ, No matter what you do ex, murder rob the bank for living not make you lose your salvation only reduce your reward that because

1 salvation by faith, not by work.
2. David murder, Moses murder and they are save
But they are saved because they "worked" to give their sins to the Lord with repentance. They then became like people who did not sin, they were forgiven of their sins. If they had kept being murderers instead of giving it to Christ (or the symbolic blood of Christ) then they would not be saved. They worked out their own salvation and took on the righteousness of Christ.
 

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Believer sealed If he not grieve the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 4:30 says - Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed unto/for the day of redemption. *Nothing is mentioned about being UN-sealed by the Holy Spirit if you grieve the Holy Spirit. You are reading your own ideas (eisegesis) into the text.

As Greek scholar AT Robertson points out - Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God (mh lupeite to pneuma to agion tou qeou). "Cease grieving" or "do not have the habit of grieving." Who of us has not sometimes grieved the Holy Spirit?

https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/robertsons-word-pictures/ephesians/ephesians-4-30.html
 

mailmandan

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Bear No fruit Will Cut off

Bear fruit but stop?

We need to read from another teaching of Jesus
It similar to
Was have a faith but depart

Than mean go to hell
John 6:39 - This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.

John 10:27 - My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. So much for believers/saints/Christians going to hell. It's those who do not believe who are not His sheep (John 10:26) and do not have these promises.
 
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Ephesians 4:30 says - Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed unto/for the day of redemption. *Nothing is mentioned about being UN-sealed by the Holy Spirit if you grieve the Holy Spirit. You are reading your own ideas (eisegesis) into the text.

As Greek scholar AT Robertson points out - Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God (mh lupeite to pneuma to agion tou qeou). "Cease grieving" or "do not have the habit of grieving." Who of us has not sometimes grieved the Holy Spirit?

https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/robertsons-word-pictures/ephesians/ephesians-4-30.html
I believe that is incorrect.
Why does the Bible warn;...pray that the Holy Spirit never leaves you because it will not return...? Different words but, intent is the same.
 

mailmandan

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Matt 5:13

13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Salt lost his savour be cast out

13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

Lost saltines> be thrown out
In Matthew 5:13, Jesus points out that you are the salt of the earth. Before the days of refrigeration, salt was used as a preservative for meat. It was used to bring flavor to food. Jesus' call for followers to be "salt of the earth" symbolically, carries those uses into our spiritual lives. As salt helps preserve meat from decay, believers in Jesus help to preserve humanity from decay. Salt changes the flavor of food, just as the influence of believers can change a culture. Salt losing it's saltiness results in the salt being made it useless. The point here is not about loss of salvation, but a loss of purpose. "Bad salt" isn't destroyed or burnt, it's simply walked on and ignored.

Matthew 5:13 (AMP) - “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost its taste (purpose), how can it be made salty? It is no longer good for anything, but to be thrown out and walked on by people [when the walkways are wet and slippery].

We may think what happen when we old and can not do Nothing is that mean not bear fruit?
More eisegesis.

No, fruit of the Holy Spirit is love

Love is in your heart, you may not able to help other or give money to the poor because of your limitation as long as there is love in your heart, you bear the fruit

If Jesus in your heart you have love, because Jesus is love

It may not mean feed the hungry because you dobt
Romans 5:5 - Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. 1 John 4:7 - Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
 

mailmandan

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I believe that is incorrect.
Why does the Bible warn;...pray that the Holy Spirit never leaves you because it will not return...? Different words but, intent is the same.
Can you show me in the NT where the Bible says the Holy Spirit leaves believers (UN-seals them) and will not return?
 

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I believe that is incorrect.
Why does the Bible warn;...pray that the Holy Spirit never leaves you because it will not return...? Different words but, intent is the same.
Can you show me in the NT where the Bible says the Holy Spirit leaves believers (UN-seals them) and will not return?
 

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Romans 3:20,24,28;5:1,9
1Corinthians 6:11
Galatians 2:16
Knowing that a man is NOT justified by the works of the law,BUT BY THE FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST,even we have believed in Jesus Christ,that WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY THE FAITH OF CHRIST,and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

No amount of works make us worthy of redemption ,it is by grace ( God's unmerited favour) and faith in Jesus's act of payment for our sin debt that we are saved .
We are commanded to work by the Spirit in the works of righteousness that God has ordained for us to do in our walk.

In addressing the OP.
 

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A common, and wide spread misconception is the misunderstanding of salvation. Salvation, or conversion after repentance, is when one is baptized into the body of Christ, by the Holy Spirit, and has become a member of it. It in effect, is not a joining of a local church, (by which we should obtain learning and fellowship), but a part of THE church, Christ's Body, which is Spiritual. Here is where a lot of believers think that conversion is the "end all". But it is just the beginning, not of our salvation, that has already taken place, but our walk of obedience, or the working out and proving of our faith. To not bare any fruits of righteousness or to walk according to the world or flesh nature, is not what God intends for his people.
 

Jackson123

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My question is asked because you don't seem to understand salvation..How Jesus saves ? other than responding with 2-3 verses ,using them to argue against Eternal security. How are we Justified before God ?How do we recieve Jesus and the Atonement? How are we baptised into the body of christ . What do we need to believe about the Gospel? What does predestination, adoption, Spirit of adoption, glorification, sanctification, ect mean ?
Then you can make arguments about works salvation or not . There is no point discussing these matters if you don't understand how we are saved .
My friend, I don't know all of that, all I know about salvation is by grace through faith
 

Jackson123

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We are commanded to work by the Spirit in the works of righteousness that God has ordained for us to do in our walk.
Not by work of the law, legalistic but work of the Spirit. Yes I agree.

Not murder, murder is not work by Spirit, murder must repent, sin seperate us from God
 

Jackson123

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But they are saved because they "worked" to give their sins to the Lord with repentance. They then became like people who did not sin, they were forgiven of their sins. If they had kept being murderers instead of giving it to Christ (or the symbolic blood of Christ) then they would not be saved. They worked out their own salvation and took on the righteousness of Christ.
That what I think. I believe David repent and not murder anymore

I know we are a sinner, but we have to keep repent from our sin or Will Cut of and burn
 

Jackson123

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A common, and wide spread misconception is the misunderstanding of salvation. Salvation, or conversion after repentance, is when one is baptized into the body of Christ, by the Holy Spirit, and has become a member of it. It in effect, is not a joining of a local church, (by which we should obtain learning and fellowship), but a part of THE church, Christ's Body, which is Spiritual. Here is where a lot of believers think that conversion is the "end all". But it is just the beginning, not of our salvation, that has already taken place, but our walk of obedience, or the working out and proving of our faith. To not bare any fruits of righteousness or to walk according to the world or flesh nature, is not what God intends for his people.
Yep, obidience is fruit of the Holy Spirit. Salvation not by work, but some time create a Lot of work. Like I say oN op
It happen to Noah, his faith make him do a thousand hours of work, build giant ship manually
It wasn't power tool than.

Salvation not by work, start by faith> obidience> some time obidience mean work hard, some time not
 

Jackson123

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Noah was a just man and found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah's faith in the Lord is what prompted him to do the work of building the ark. Noah's faith delivered him from drowning in the flood, his work did not deliver him eternally, he was already delivered eternally, or he would not have had spiritual faith, in a spiritual God.
His work to build the ark was his obedience to God. Learn from the history of Adam and eve, why the Lord drive them out from Eden ? Because not obey the Lord and Eat the forbiden fruit

Obedience is crucial
 

Jackson123

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Ephesians 4:30 says - Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed unto/for the day of redemption. *Nothing is mentioned about being UN-sealed by the Holy Spirit if you grieve the Holy Spirit. You are reading your own ideas (eisegesis) into the text.

As Greek scholar AT Robertson points out - Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God (mh lupeite to pneuma to agion tou qeou). "Cease grieving" or "do not have the habit of grieving." Who of us has not sometimes grieved the Holy Spirit?

https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/robertsons-word-pictures/ephesians/ephesians-4-30.html
We grieve the Holy Spirit when we disobey the Lord

For Example murder. We must repent or Cut of and burn.

Base oN complete picture of the bible teaching we learn murder not inherit the kingdom, that mean not sealed anymore
 

mailmandan

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We grieve the Holy Spirit when we disobey the Lord

For Example murder. We must repent or Cut of and burn.

Base oN complete picture of the bible teaching we learn murder not inherit the kingdom, that mean not sealed anymore
Can you show me which Bible verse says, “not sealed anymore?”
 

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His work to build the ark was his obedience to God. Learn from the history of Adam and eve, why the Lord drive them out from Eden ? Because not obey the Lord and Eat the forbiden fruit

Obedience is crucial
Yes and what people need to obey to be saved today is not to " go build Ark " its ' believe the Gospel . Anything more or less is to deny the Gospel .
Rom 6.17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye HAVE obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine ( the gospel ) which was delivered you.
1 cor 15
1¶Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2By which also ye are saved if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3¶For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Now because of the way the mind of those who hold to works salvation they will ignore everything in the verses and be ' triggered ' by the word ' if ' in verse 2 . However its simply saying to those who may have not believed the message it would be in vain .
 

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We grieve the Holy Spirit when we disobey the Lord

For Example murder. We must repent or Cut of and burn.

Base oN complete picture of the bible teaching we learn murder not inherit the kingdom, that mean not sealed anymore
We also grieve our Parents when we mess up . But we still remain their child . Are we more loving than God ?
 

Jackson123

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Can you show me which Bible verse says, “not sealed anymore?”
Seal mean protected, or save

So seal mean save or inherit the kingdom
That mean not seal = not save


When you murder you not inherit the ke

Back to Galatians 5:21
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
 

mailmandan

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Seal mean protected, or save

So seal mean save or inherit the kingdom
That mean not seal = not save

When you murder you not inherit the ke

Back to Galatians 5:21
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
I see that you could not produce a Bible verse that says, “not sealed anymore.”

In Galatians 5:21, other translations say those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 gives us a similar list of sins and states that the unrighteous who are characterized by such sins will not inherit the kingdom of God. In verse 11, we read - And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

So it’s the unrighteous/unbelievers who practice such things and not believers. 1 John 3:9 - No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. (NASB)