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What kind of a savior is Jesus Christ? Can our works or anything for that matter be put in the same scale as His sufferings? Or are we warned knowing that the ungodly will not inherit the kingdom of heaven, and therefore not to be partakers with them?
If we could meet the Righteous demands of God the Father, because He gives us His Spirit, the Helper, then why did Jesus need to die? Couldn't we just live perfectly by His Spirit, or maybe at least good enough? We commit sin by falling short of the glory of God, by what we've thought, by what we've said, what we've done, and what we've failed to do. Although washed, there is nothing good in us, in the flesh that is. Paul said he didn't have a righteousness of his own, nor had he become perfect, but he pressed on towards the upward call of Christ Jesus. Or did He need our help? Did Jesus die for me when i was dead in my sins, when i was good enough, or when He was good enough to die for me? I think it was this: God took me, formerly the vilest blasphemous wretch, a dead evil sinner, and brought me face to face with my sins - made to feel them, and i was made aware that hell was before me, that my soul was in the hands of God Almighty, that He knew everything - including al the thoughts i was having about Him at the time. As it is written 'It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.' I was also shown mercy and brought to Christ for mercy and forgiveness, and God shone into my heart the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is my Lord, who became to me Wisdom from God, sanctification, and redemption, so, just as it is written, let him who boasts, boast in the Lord. He specializes in taking heavy burdens. God showed me Jesus and i wept in repentance and faith that the Lord my God suffered so much at the hand of God to pardon me. I know He was crushed as the Only Perfect Sacrifice to atone for my sins, satisfying the Righteous Just demands of God the Father on my behalf, and purchasing my soul with His blood. I know that His Resurrection proves it. I know He covers me in a Robe of His Righteousness and He has set me free from the power of sin, and He has sent His Holy Spirit to empower Holy living and service and worship to my God. He will never leave me nor forsake me. I am grateful that He has not destined me for wrath but for obtaing salvation. I thank God that He purposed to save me before the world began, that Jesus accomplished redemption for me at Calvary on the Cross, and that the Holy Sprit has applied that to my heart and sealed me with His promise. I am saved, being saved, and eagerly awaiting salvation at His appearing. May I be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, and He is faithful, He who began a good work in me: He will do it. And He will carry it on until the day of Christ Jesus. Jesus who prayed not for the world, laid His life down for His sheep which His Father gave Him, that no one will snatch me out of His hand, there is no condemnation in Him, and that nothing will separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, even before the world began, for i was always with Him, and this is love, not that we loved God, but while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. I thank God He opened my eyes. May i not sin against my Lord, and i know it is only by His Spirit that i may not, and this is because He set me free. One who is born again is a lost sheep that must be saved. Those who are not his sheep cannot hear His voice. Many are called but few are chosen...according to the foreknowledge of God, and not because of me, but because of His Mercy. We are justified by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
Why would i rejoice in His Victory if maybe He really didn't mean it when He said 'You are Mine!’ or ‘So it is not of him that wills or him that runs, but God who has mercy,’? God is active in regeneration and passive in reprobation. His warnings will judge the dammed and persevere the elect. He did not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance, it is not the healthy who need a Physician but the sick...He will not have sacrifice but mercy. Those who say this doctrine means we should sin more so that grace may abound are just in their condemnation as those who are marked out from long before for this; all those who turn the grace of God into a license to sin. You will know them by their fruits. Not that the tree can save themselves because they produce fruit, rather we are saved to bear fruit,
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Eph 2:11
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 33 Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; 34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written,
“FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG;
WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.”
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8
that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God's mystery, that is, Christ Himself, Colossians 2:2
Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; II Peter 1:10
Rejoice brother, don’t doubt, but see His Hands and His feet,
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. I John 4:18
and keep yourself unspotted from the world
It is good that you grasp one thing and also not let go of the other; for the one who fears God comes forth with both of them. Eccl 7:18
May God richly bless you and keep you; His is the Power and the Glory and the Honor forever, in Christ's Name, amen
May the Love and Peace of Christ be with you and with your spirit
What kind of a savior is Jesus Christ? Can our works or anything for that matter be put in the same scale as His sufferings? Or are we warned knowing that the ungodly will not inherit the kingdom of heaven, and therefore not to be partakers with them?
If we could meet the Righteous demands of God the Father, because He gives us His Spirit, the Helper, then why did Jesus need to die? Couldn't we just live perfectly by His Spirit, or maybe at least good enough? We commit sin by falling short of the glory of God, by what we've thought, by what we've said, what we've done, and what we've failed to do. Although washed, there is nothing good in us, in the flesh that is. Paul said he didn't have a righteousness of his own, nor had he become perfect, but he pressed on towards the upward call of Christ Jesus. Or did He need our help? Did Jesus die for me when i was dead in my sins, when i was good enough, or when He was good enough to die for me? I think it was this: God took me, formerly the vilest blasphemous wretch, a dead evil sinner, and brought me face to face with my sins - made to feel them, and i was made aware that hell was before me, that my soul was in the hands of God Almighty, that He knew everything - including al the thoughts i was having about Him at the time. As it is written 'It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.' I was also shown mercy and brought to Christ for mercy and forgiveness, and God shone into my heart the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is my Lord, who became to me Wisdom from God, sanctification, and redemption, so, just as it is written, let him who boasts, boast in the Lord. He specializes in taking heavy burdens. God showed me Jesus and i wept in repentance and faith that the Lord my God suffered so much at the hand of God to pardon me. I know He was crushed as the Only Perfect Sacrifice to atone for my sins, satisfying the Righteous Just demands of God the Father on my behalf, and purchasing my soul with His blood. I know that His Resurrection proves it. I know He covers me in a Robe of His Righteousness and He has set me free from the power of sin, and He has sent His Holy Spirit to empower Holy living and service and worship to my God. He will never leave me nor forsake me. I am grateful that He has not destined me for wrath but for obtaing salvation. I thank God that He purposed to save me before the world began, that Jesus accomplished redemption for me at Calvary on the Cross, and that the Holy Sprit has applied that to my heart and sealed me with His promise. I am saved, being saved, and eagerly awaiting salvation at His appearing. May I be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, and He is faithful, He who began a good work in me: He will do it. And He will carry it on until the day of Christ Jesus. Jesus who prayed not for the world, laid His life down for His sheep which His Father gave Him, that no one will snatch me out of His hand, there is no condemnation in Him, and that nothing will separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, even before the world began, for i was always with Him, and this is love, not that we loved God, but while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. I thank God He opened my eyes. May i not sin against my Lord, and i know it is only by His Spirit that i may not, and this is because He set me free. One who is born again is a lost sheep that must be saved. Those who are not his sheep cannot hear His voice. Many are called but few are chosen...according to the foreknowledge of God, and not because of me, but because of His Mercy. We are justified by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
Why would i rejoice in His Victory if maybe He really didn't mean it when He said 'You are Mine!’ or ‘So it is not of him that wills or him that runs, but God who has mercy,’? God is active in regeneration and passive in reprobation. His warnings will judge the dammed and persevere the elect. He did not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance, it is not the healthy who need a Physician but the sick...He will not have sacrifice but mercy. Those who say this doctrine means we should sin more so that grace may abound are just in their condemnation as those who are marked out from long before for this; all those who turn the grace of God into a license to sin. You will know them by their fruits. Not that the tree can save themselves because they produce fruit, rather we are saved to bear fruit,
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Eph 2:11
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 33 Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; 34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written,
“FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG;
WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.”
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8
that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God's mystery, that is, Christ Himself, Colossians 2:2
Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; II Peter 1:10
Rejoice brother, don’t doubt, but see His Hands and His feet,
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. I John 4:18
and keep yourself unspotted from the world
It is good that you grasp one thing and also not let go of the other; for the one who fears God comes forth with both of them. Eccl 7:18
May God richly bless you and keep you; His is the Power and the Glory and the Honor forever, in Christ's Name, amen
May the Love and Peace of Christ be with you and with your spirit