How would you answer that question posed by the author of the devotional?
YOU ASK HOW CAN WE BE RIGHTEOUS WHEN WE HAVE DONE WRONG. ? ASK THEN HOW CAN JESUS BECOME SIN WHEN HE WAS RIGHTEOUS AND NEVER DID WRONG?
How would you answer that question posed by the author of the devotional?
Wrong! More lies from false teachers like Joseph Prince.
1 John 2:29
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
1 John 3:7
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
1 John 3:10
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."
Promoting the lies and the doctrine of the Devil is also not righteous.![]()
I would hope that people simply not make a fuss over who made a statementby posting their name in big letters above the statement...If the statement is inspired by God then the message is from God and not from the named person who stated it..
When people make a fuss over who wrote the statement that is being shared,, either negative or positive fuss, they are undermining the position or their opposition to it...
Wrong! More lies from false teachers like Joseph Prince.
1 John 2:29
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
1 John 3:7
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
1 John 3:10
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."
Promoting the lies and the doctrine of the Devil is also not righteous.![]()
READ THE TITLE OF THIS THREAD AND START TO SEE HOW GRACE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS ARE 100% GIFTS....'BESTOWED' ON THE SONS OF GOD. TIED TOGETHER IN CHRIST.
Just figured that she copied from website...to not give credit to author is plagiarism.
It is our responsibility to focus on words and not people.
READ THE TITLE OF THIS THREAD AND START TO SEE HOW GRACE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS ARE 100% GIFTS....'BESTOWED' ON THE SONS OF GOD. TIED TOGETHER IN CHRIST.
I feel like we are talking oranges and apples....
Firstly, everyone knows you don't like Joseph Prince. Can you respect the admins and mods enough to learn and curb your tongue on that topic and stop with the mud slinging?
I have found a pretty simple way of spotting a false grace message.
The false grace message says sin (works of the flesh) still has dominion over you when you are born again of the Spirit and under grace. This means by definition that you are still a servant of sin.
But the true grace message says when you are born again of the Spirit and truly under grace sin shall not have dominion over you. This means you are now made free from sin by Christ and are now also made a servant of righteousness.
So when the false grace camp say works do not matter, they also include the works of the flesh=sin in the whole mix of works as they say do not matter.
Sin is a work people, and sin does matter, that is also why Jesus came and was crucified.![]()
http://christianchat.com/bible-disc...-spot-false-grace-message-24.html#post2929806I just went through the first 25 pages of this thread and am not going to further traumatize myself by reading the next 20 pages. It never ceases to amaze me that the persons who report posts for being rude, personal attacks, etc. invariably are just as guilty as the person they reported.
Honestly after observing the behavior of a number of persons on both sides of the debate in two threads that I have reviewed this evening all I can say is that I'm appalled by they way that persons who claim to be part of the same family treat each other.
There are two kinds of Christian righteousness, just as man’s sin is of two kinds. The first is alien righteousness, that is the righteousness of another, instilled from without. This is the righteousness of Christ by which he justifies though faith, as it is written in I Cor. 1:30: “whom God made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.”
This righteousness is primary; it is the basis, the cause, the source of all our own actual righteousness. For this is the righteousness given in place of the original righteousness lost in Adam
Therefore this alien righteousness, instilled in us without our works by grace alone—while the Father, to be sure, inwardly draws us to Christ—is set opposite original sin, likewise alien, which we acquire without our works by birth alone.
The second kind of righteousness is our proper righteousness, not because we alone work it, but because we work with that first and alien righteousness. This is that manner of life spent profitably in good works, in the first place, in slaying the flesh and crucifying the desires with respect to the self, of which we read in Gal. 5:24, “And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” In the second place, this righteousness consists in love to one’s neighbor, and in the third place, in meekness and fear towards God
There are about ten (10) NT verses which (are trying to) teach us that ...RIGHTEOUSNESS IS A GIFT 2B RECEIVED AND IT'S FREE.
Anyone who has the Holy Spirit can recognize the difference between wisdom from above and prideful earthly wisdom that only wants contention.
There are about ten (10) NT verses which (are trying to) teach us that ...
THOSE WHO PRACTICE RIGHTOUSNESS ARE THE RIGHTEOUS ONES (in God's eyes)!
I.E. the righteousness that you received (once) must be maintained.
Heads up, folks!
Habitually sinning definitely is NOT any part of practicing righteousness!