Is this what you truly believe is the righteousness of the saints? Is it not the perfectly lived life of Christ imputed to us?
I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but we would never be justified were it not for the perfect life of Christ making us right with God. We, in the flesh, will never actually do God's will completely and continually. And continually striving to keep the commandments was the error of the Pharisees. They, too, thought justification came through the law. The righteousness that exceeds their righteousness is the righteousness of Christ, and this requires no righteousness of our own. I implore you with all haste to prayerfully consider what I shared.
Brother eventually maturity leads here
“Little children,
let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning.
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that
he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God
doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.”
1 John 3:7-10 KJV
but until we come to that part of the doctrine it’s really really hard to hear. Jesus I parts righteousness through hearing and believing the gospel this kind of thing if accepted and believed leads to righteousness
“I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”
Luke 13:3 KJV
did you ever notice in Paul’s letters they are structured similarly he always concludes making something very clear that e actions of the believer are absolutely part of this equation
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 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.”
Galatians 5:19-21 KJV
do you see how if I now say “ what I do doesn’t matter Jesus lives a perfect life and it’s impites to me now “ then I’m totally rejecting what Paul’s trying to teach about repentance and our deeds and how they will disqualify us
if we don’t repent ? How Paul’s teaching then about what they need to stop doing and what they need to lean into
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.”
Galatians 5:
Your right without Jesus no one can be saved like if we reject what he said about being saved that would leave us without salvstion there’s a lot Jesus taught believers about salvstion and most of it teaches us how to believe and act and live things we’re supposed to hear believe and walk in and it’s not irrelevant and both don’t lead to the same place
“What then?
shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?
God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey;
whether
of sin unto death,( can serve sin and die )
or
of obedience unto righteousness?”( can repent and obey and live )
Romans 6:15-16
Life and death is before every man by the gospel sent to them
“Therefore,
brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For
if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but
if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”
Romans 8:12-13 KJV
He explained what the works of the flesh are it’s what we know as sinful ideas and actions and attitudes
the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like
we can’t be yielding to sin anymore we have to submit to God instead
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Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ( that’s our role )
Draw nigh to God, ( our place ) and
he will draw nigh to you. ( his place )
Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.”( herring and believing the gospel fixes the double mind part of we don’t reject it and embrace other things )
James 4:7-8 KJV
when a person dies they can either die in thier sins or they can die having repentance and remission of thier sins if
we don’t repent and start acting right as people in general we’re going to perish
man has a role and duty in the earth it’s why we were made Jesus didn’t do what he did so we can reject his doctrine but so we could come into it and be saved believing
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