Rather everyone that believes in Jesus who fulfilled the Law on their behalf Rom 10:4
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
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4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Matthew 19:17-19 says: "And Jesus said to him, 'If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.' Then he said to Him, 'Which ones?' And Jesus said, 'You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; Honor your father and mother; and You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" Jesus himself says in Matthew 7:21: "Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter." And look what He says in John 14:21: "He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me." And 1 John 3:6 says: "No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him."
Moses' law won't judge anyone who has lived after the cross. Jesus' words will
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. 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. John 12:47-49
Faith in Christ means keeping the Law of God. You must obey God to be saved.
James 2:14-17: "What use is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,' and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead by itself."
Jesus says in Revelation 2:23: "I will give to each one of you according to your deeds."
Jesus will judge you for what you have thought, said, and done. Jesus will examine you to see if you have kept God's wonderful law. Only those who keep God's law will be saved. No one who simply says, "I believe in Jesus," will be saved. That is truly a dangerous misconception. Why, for example, did God choose and love Abraham? God Himself says in Genesis 26:5: "Because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws." What Abraham could do, you can do too. You just have to want it. For Deuteronomy 30:11-14 says that keeping God's law is not difficult. Whoever wants to be chosen and loved by God must obey God. There is no other way.
God's Law is written in the entire Bible. For example, the commandments "you shall not worship idols, you shall not be a criminal, you shall not be a homosexual, you shall not be a prostitute" are found in both the OT and in the NT. These and all other commandments must be kept if you want to enter Paradise. For certainly no idolater, no criminal, no homosexual, no prostitute, etc., will enter Paradise. Even if they were to say with their tongues, "I believe in Jesus," they will be thrown into the lake of fire where they will be destroyed forever (Rev 21:8). Indeed, God loves only the righteous but hates the wicked (Psalm 5:5).
What is written in the NT takes pre-eminence over what is written in the OT. For example, physical circumcision: in the OT, crucial; in the NT, nothing
You ignore both God's word and history. And no, the Church has not replaced Israel. The Church is grafted in. Jesus will return to Israel, not to Britain or America. Jesus will rule and reign from Jerusalem.
You do not cut down the tree where a branch is grafted in. Natural Israel exists as promised by God. The Old Testament prophecies are being fulfilled right now. In Israel.
Spiritual Israel is not everyone who follows God's law. I don't know where you get that from. The Law is impossible to keep. If we could keep God's law, Jesus died for nothing.
"A remnant of Israel will be saved."? Read Romans 11. Paul says that all Israel will be saved (verse 26). Romans 9,10 and 11 make no sense if there is no literal Israel.
Not only is Israel prospering in spite of 77 years of conflict with the Arab world, those who oppose Israel are being cursed. Most of the Middle East is running out of water. While Iran invested in nuclear research and funding terrorist armies, Israel developed desalination and irrigation techniques that allow water to be exported. Tehran is literally sinking as the aquifers collapse. Much of North Africa is even worse off. The anti Israel nations of Europe are being swamped with Muslims who are in the process of taking over. Britain is pretty much dominated by Islam, in spite of Muslims being a small percentage of the population.
Britain once ruled the waves. Now it took them 2 weeks to get a warship to the Gulf. Britain's economy is collapsing and only Middle East money keeps them afloat. And that is why the government dares not offend Muslims.
What happened? Britain betrayed Israel, again to pander to Muslim interests in the Middle East. God's blessing was removed when Britain turned against the Jews in the late 19th century. It's been downhill ever since. I'm English, by the way. I do not enjoy watching the UK degenerate into a Muslim republic.
God's promise to Abraham is seen in action today. God blessed America because America welcomed Jews who fled Nazi Germany before WW2. Britain sent Jews fleeing Nazi Germany away from Palestine often to be murdered on their return. God is not mocked.
If America turns its back on Israel, it's finished as a great power. India is friendly with Israel and has enormous potential. it could easily overtake America as the great world power.
Why is that you self righteous legalists don't recognise the truth? In order to even see the Kingdom of God, you must be born again. No one who is born again will be sent to the lake of fire. No one who is not born again will escape it. It is that simple.
Do you not know that all true believers are complete in Christ? That we are partakers of the divine nature? That we are new creations in Christ Jesus? That we died and our lives are hidden in Christ with God? That we are the righteousness of God in Christ?
God's law saves no one. You try boasting before God about how well you have obeyed the law. Lord Jesus said that we must have a righteousness that exceeded that of the Pharisee. Outwardly, the Pharisee was perfect. Jesus called them whitewashed tombs, dead inside. There are plenty of modern day Pharisees. God is no more pleased with them now than He was 2,000 years ago.
Thats false doctrine, Jesus kept the law for His People and that saved them. He kept all the moral requirements the law demanded, and He kept the penal requirement for them His Law demanded, so they are complete in Him. So again your doctrine is false and against Christ.
Jesus kept the law to set an example. To be like Jesus is the meaning of life. Whoever continues to sin was never a Christian (1 John 3:6). Only those who are sinless have attained enlightenment. And enlightenment is the highest rung on the ladder. The purpose is to work on oneself, to constantly improve until one reaches absolute perfection (Matthew 5:48). Whoever does not reach this perfection will not enter the gates of paradise. There is absolutely no doubt about that.
Israel has been rejected by God (2 Kings 23:27) because Israel did not keep God's law (2 Chronicles 24:20). And Israel has become Babylon the Great (Isaiah 1:21), which will be destroyed (Jeremiah 7:34). And what do you do when something old has become bad? You replace it with something new and better (Hebrews 8:13). And Jesus himself said to the Jews that the kingdom of God would be taken away from them and given to a new people (Matthew 21:43).
You won't be entering the gates of Paradise then. Your comment is ridiculous. You think the thief on the cross had reached perfection? You have no idea what it means to be born again.
The thief on the cross was saved because Jesus saw his heart and knew it was willing to change. That is to say, assuming the thief hadn't died on the cross, he would have lived a perfect life on earth. Jesus knows everyone's heart and can recognize it instantly. However, if you think that everyone who says "I believe in Jesus" shortly before their death is saved, then you are greatly mistaken.
Being born again means leaving behind an old, sinful life and starting a new, sinless one. That is the definition of being born again. Being born again does not mean that you continue to sin. Certainly, that is a very flawed misconception. Remember the woman caught in adultery who was brought before Jesus. What did Jesus say to her? He said to her in John 8:11: "I do not condemn you, but sin no more."
Israel shall be saved !
Isa 45:17
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
But Israel [ The Elect of God] shall [no doubt about it] be saved in the LORD [ Yahweh in Christ] with an everlasting Salvation. And they [ The Elect or the Israel of God] shall [no doubt about it] not be ashamed nor confounded world without end..
What Israel is spoken of here ? Remember Paul teaches that all are not Israel [ of the Election of Grace] that are of Israel [ the nation]
This Israel's salvation is premised upon the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant, and not the Mosaic law at Sinai..
This Israel is comprised of the Children of Promise per Rom 9:7-8
7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 8
That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
So the Children of Promise here in vs 8 and the first mentioned Israel in vs 6 are the same.
And that's the Israel in view in Isa 45:17
And their Salvation is sure and based upon the Immutable Counsel of The LORD.
Isa 45:17
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
But Israel [ The Elect of God] shall [no doubt about it] be saved in the LORD [ Yahweh in Christ] with an everlasting Salvation. And they [ The Elect or the Israel of God] shall [no doubt about it] not be ashamed nor confounded world without end..
What Israel is spoken of here ? Remember Paul teaches that all are not Israel [ of the Election of Grace] that are of Israel [ the nation]
This Israel's salvation is premised upon the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant, and not the Mosaic law at Sinai..
This Israel is comprised of the Children of Promise per Rom 9:7-8
7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 8
That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
So the Children of Promise here in vs 8 and the first mentioned Israel in vs 6 are the same.
And that's the Israel in view in Isa 45:17
And their Salvation is sure and based upon the Immutable Counsel of The LORD.
James 2:14-17: "What use is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,' and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead by itself."
You're referring to replacement theology here. The carnal has been replaced by the spiritual. Jacob has been replaced by Jesus. With regard to Jacob, his descendants had to circumcise themselves physically. With regard to Jesus, his descendants have to circumcise themselves spiritually. And Jesus is far better than Jacob because Jesus didn't receive blessings through deception like Jacob did, but through obedience. Therefore, the descendants of Jesus are also far better than the descendants of Jacob because they receive blessings just as much through obedience. Obedience means keeping God's law. God's law is the morality defined throughout the Bible.