Yes, the obedience is a response to having been delivered. That is how we follow God. That's following His commands. But the obedience isn't the means by which eternal salvation is given. It's the reasonable response to having been saved. The saved person also will exhibit fruit from being saved. That's the natural result of having the Holy Spirit indwell their soul.
Salvation is believing Jesus is God, that He lived a sinless life, died on the cross and rose again. That by believing in Him we have sins forgiven and eternal life. That is it.
Works are our response after-- having believed earlier.
Salvation is believing Jesus is God, that He lived a sinless life, died on the cross and rose again. That by believing in Him we have sins forgiven and eternal life. That is it.
Works are our response after-- having believed earlier.
yes amen we love him because he first loved us and to love God we have to live one another the way Christ taught us
you see Gods command isnt what Moses said it’s what Jesus said. So it’s not “ don’t commit the act of adultery “ it is “ cast away the lust and wandering mind fantasizing about adultery and you’ll never have any motivation to commit adultery “
Moses said this
“Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
( but Jesus says this )
but I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
Matthew 5:27-28 KJV
one is a commandment to the flesh to abstain from sin , the other is a command to the spirit within to overcome sin at its root “nip it in the bud “ do to speak
what Jesus says sets us free from sins dominion ion over us because he’s informing us of the issue and where our fight really is
“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”
Mark 7:21-23
the only reason anyone sins is because of that issue in mankind this issue
“I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.”
Romans 7:21, 23 KJV
that’s the only reason we even consider doing evil because of that darn fruit. The gospel is about circumcising the evil in our mind and heart and filling us up with the gospel Gods true Will and word
when you say obey his commands it’s Christs word we need to hear and heed and walk after which are quite dofferent from Moses words as different as life and death
The reason Jesus can say this and it’s true is because Greg battle is within us that’s why we absolutely have to hear and believe the gospel where the battle is happening
“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
Mark 16:15-16 KJV
It’s to hear and believe Jesus that’s where we start hearing Gods commands
“For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.”
John 12:49-50 KJV
so when we’re talking about works it is not the works of Moses law but the good fruit of the gospel we’re talking about
it’s simply Jesus teaching us to be good and decent people to others share his word and name share thre gospel but he’s teaching us to stop doing harm to anyone else and start doing good to others that’s l the actions that need to change how we treat other people who Christ also suffered and died for
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