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1 | Matt 16:6 explained | Matt 16:6 | Elijah_Jones | 91705 | ||
Good post and thought here! I do think that Pharisees were trying to obtain righteousness. Jesus said it well when he said "You search the Scriptures for in them you THINK you have eternal life, and these are they which testify of me". I'm convinced that the Pharisees really thought they were more righteous than everyone else, because they were doing better than everyone else. Hence, they looked like whitewashed tombs. Everything looked good on the outside, it was the heart where the problem lay. As to the Cain and Abel thing. I think I may have led you to believe I was expounding a doctrine. I'm not. There really isn't a clear explanation given on precisely what the problem was between the two. I'm not even sure we're told why they decided it was appropriate to even give an offering in the first place. We are left to fill in the gaps.. so to speak. It may be exactly what you are stating, it might be what I am stating, it might be something else altogether. All I meant to say was that when I was involved in studying out the danger of self-righteousness thru works, this Scripture came to me as a type of prophetic illustration of the difference between faith in Christ and our laboring to get right with God. I maintain that the thing that we can add to our obediance that becomes leaven is a foolish trust that our salvation rests in how well we obey God. It rests solely on Jesus's work on the cross and our trust in His work. Our obediance is simply "proof of the pudding" that we have in deed come to faith in Christ. I agree that we are in the same sheet of music. :) I am blessed to have had this oppurtunity for us to look at each other's understandings, and hope and pray that we are both built up in our faith and our love for one another. I know that I have been! Be blessed, my brother in Christ. |
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2 | Matt 16:6 explained | Matt 16:6 | bronx hulk | 91968 | ||
amen. May the Lord continue to do a great work through this website. |
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