Not By Works

Then I am going back to a wrong difinition.

No, once again, Christ did all the work to provide the covering for the sins of the world. He did this as our kinsman Redeemer. That is Grace a completed, finished work that can't be added to or made better.

Now according to the NT,we receive that free gift, that unmerited favor " by Faith"! The word the NT writers used to communicate how we apply that Faith is pisteuo.

Pisteuo is defined as "a personal surrender to Him and a life inspired by such surrender".
The Strong's gives us the disclaimer that "pisteuo means NOT just to believe."

We receive the Grace of God by Greek pisteuo, it's used 248 times in the NT. The Greek never allowed work or effort to be separated from NT pisteuo. And because to receive the unmerited favor, the free gift of Grace takes a specific act, based upon a specific belief, sustained by a specific kind of confidence, doesn't means that is salvation by works. Salvation is 90% courage, 9% endurance, and 1% all that other stuff.

Christ told His faithers, those who are living a Continually surrendered life, to have courage, over and over again. So are you saying Christ is pushing works salvation???

The above is spot on correct. Your problem is you’re trying to add to His work and grace when you just said above that it cannot be added to or made better.

Von1 started a beautiful thread in the BDF. I encourage everyone to drop by and read it. It’s titled, Special To Me.

Why do you think something can be added to the work of Christ? It's finished, complete!

Maybe you can point out what specific works your referring to, rather than just crying, works, works!

Are you saying that the Strong's and Vines are promoting a works based salvation????

I don’t. You do by adding “perfection” to faith.

I don’t give one single hoo hoo about Strong’s and Vines. I’m led by the Holy Spirit.

Who said anything about perfection?

Ya, your empty mister!

Really, then prove it. First, being led by and being sealed into us could be seen as two different things. Which is it?

Does that mean you’ll leave me alone? Please say yes.

I don’t have to prove anything to you. Jesus knows full well who and what I am.

When one looks up nothing in the dictionary, this is what they find....

Nothing
Descriptive Noun
The sum of what Noose knows concerning biblical salvation

Jesus tells us to test the Spirits. You claim you are led by the Spirit of Christ. Or are you claiming you are sealed with His Spirit?

Your the one who keeps coming back to me! I thought it was one of those pretend to hate, but secretly you love me?

Test your own spirit.

Your refusing?

God does the changing of the soul. He takes a soul which surrenders to Him completely and "overhauls" it. You can quote any scripture you like. The meaning will still be the same. The Pharisees found this out.