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1 | Salvation is a gift to be accepted | Luke 6:46 | mark d seyler | 141296 | ||
Hi Angel, Anyone who claims salvation yet uses that as a license to sin is serving themself, not God, and shows by their life that they are not saved! Colossians tells us that the handwriting of the ordinances have been blotted out. There is now no law written against us, and where there is no law sin is not imputed. But that only applies to those who are now under grace. We are under grace because we are born again. We are born again because because God has given us rebirth. Hebrews tells us Jesus is the author of salvation to those who obey Him. The person who wants to sin with impunity has taken the name of the LORD, "Christian", in vain! The real Christian hates sin. The person who says that since they said the "sinner's prayer", and now they can sin all they want and God can't do anything is deluded. "Why do you call Me Lord, and not do the things I say?" The man at the wedding feast was not clothed in Christ's righteousness. We are saved by Christ's righteousness, not by good works as you claim! Either my salvation is entirely from Christ's righteousness imputed to me, or it is from my performence, which is by works. The Bible says grace, not works. Love in Christ, Mark |
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2 | Salvation is a gift to be accepted | Luke 6:46 | JCrichton | 141365 | ||
Hi, Mark! I followed your post till you made this statement: "We are saved by Christ's righteousness, not by good works as you claim!" Where did I claim that Salvation is earned by works? ...perhaps you read another one of my posts where I speak on certain congregation that believe that they can become gods if they work hard enough to obtain salvation and deification!--observing that there are those congregations out in the world does not make me a member of their religious belief! ...or perhaps you've read where I have stated that though God's Gift is free man can still refuse to partake of Salvation by rejecting God: 14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. 16“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.” (John 3:14-21) If Christians choose to sin and allow their pride to blind them by refusing to seek Christ's mercy (repenting and confessing their sins) they are willfully rejecting Salvation! (1 John 1:1 through 2:17) God would never take back His Gift, but man must comply with Jesus in order to be partaker of Salvation! (Luke 6:46-49; John 15:1-6) God Bless! Angel |
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