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NASB | Matthew 6:14 "For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 6:14 "For if you forgive others their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins], your heavenly Father will also forgive you. |
Subject: Shouldn't we obey ALL God's Word? |
Bible Note: Joe I am with you 100 percent with ref. to James 2:14. I think from a lot of the Questions that I see on the forum that there must be a number of people that have never truly come to a personal relationship with the Living Lord! When it comes right down to it, if they would be truthful in their answer, they don't know for sure that they have eternal life yet. When ask if they would die today, do they know for sure if they would go to heaven, there likely answer would be, well I hope so. When one hopes for something, it means they don't have it yet! The Lord pointed out an illustration to me, that I incorporated into a small book that I wrote on the word BELIEVE. The illustration is in ref. to James 2:17, in regard to faith and works. James 2:17 (Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.) My illustration is that faith is like poison ivy, and works is like scratching. If you have true faith in Jesus Christ, it will manifest it's self outwardly. I.e. If one has poison ivy they are going to scratch, they can't help it. Yet if a person doesn't have poison ivy, no amount of scratching in the World is going to give it to them. They have to come in contact with the vine to get it. There are a lot of people doing the things that true born again believers do, yet they are not members in the family of God. That's where the parable of the Wheat and the Tares comes in. It becomes very exasperating trying to reveal truth to those that can't see it. We find our selves trying to do the work of The Holy Spirit. We want people to find what we have found in Christ. That fact that we know right here and now that eternal life is ours in Christ, with out dying to find out. Jesus told Peter that flesh and blood couldn't reveal it, but God the father only. Even knowing this I still get frustrated trying to bring people to our precious Savior. God says that faith comes by hearing and that of His word, so we keep cranking it out with an expectation that the light will go on with someone. Yours in Christ CDBJ |