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1 | What does Scripture mean by no works? | John 3:5 | EdB | 111380 | ||
Tim To me it isn't a must do list but rather if you love Jesus you will do list. If some one prays the prayer of salvation and dies before being able to be baptized I believe their salvation is safe. However if someone gets saved and refuses to be baptized or puts it off, I guess the question I ask is where is the obedience? Where is the love? I don't see it and I would think they may possibly be one that hears "depart from me I never knew you." EdB |
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2 | What does Scripture mean by no works? | John 3:5 | CDBJ | 111398 | ||
Hi EdB, God doesn’t command us to love Him for salvation but he does tell us to believe in His Son Jesus. The Love for God doesn’t come until we learn more about Him through studying His Word. The more we learn of Him the more our love grows for Him and we can’t even understand that without being saved first. 1 John 4:9-10 God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. 10This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. CDBJ |
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3 | What does Scripture mean by no works? | John 3:5 | EdB | 111440 | ||
CDBJ Salvation demands a change, albeit small at first a change none the less. Part of the that change is obedience to the Master, to the Lord, to our Savior. Too many are taught today that all you have to is believe. James 2:19 clearly tells us more is required. The word beleive used in John 3:16 clearly says there is more. Pisteuo belief is a belief where one is depentant, trusting, putting one's life in another's hand. To say you believe with no change in your heart, life or spirit is nothing more than lip service. If we believe Jesus died for us we also believe we need to be obedient to his word. Too many believe to day they can live like children of hell, do what they think is right, do what they can justify, do what they "feel" and because they confess Jesus as Lord they have everylasting life. It takes more than just confessing Jesus is Lord of your life, Jesus in fact has to be Lord of your life. There can be no fence sitting here, many think "I'll say He is Lord but I'll still run the show." Jesus commanded his disciple to go make disciples baptizing them. I most every case of conversion we see baptism as past of the process. Peter say repent and be baptized. Can you be saved and not baptized? Yes. But I beleive all saved people will have a desire to be baptized as soon as possible. The ones that resist I have to ask who is in control of your life Jesus or are you still holding on. EdB |
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