Prior Book | Prior Chapter | Prior Verse | Next Verse | Next Chapter | Next Book | Viewing NASB and Amplified 2015 | |
NASB | Acts 16:31 They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 16:31 And they answered, "Believe in the Lord Jesus [as your personal Savior and entrust yourself to Him] and you will be saved, you and your household [if they also believe]." |
Subject: Food for thought. |
Bible Note: Good doctrine friends ! You cannot cut Jesus up into little peices and pick and choose the ones you like. "Oh now let me see, I want healing, heaven, joy and peace but not that obediance and suffering stuff" - it'll never work ! He is who He is and if you choose Him you get Him entirely in all His awesome love AND holiness. He will be no man's fool and is never fooled by human conniving to get out of hell without any holiness or cost! "If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. Luke 14:27 "Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. Luke 14:33 "So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions." Seems terribly clear - but if true then a large put of the xtian church is not really saved at all !! Frightening thought indeed ! But I perceive it to mean that you must be entirely His to the measure of your own knowledge of yourself - otherwise very very few are really His since we all have many areas in our lives that need His pruning and dealings. Which is why you were probably "saved" even when you had parts of yourselves out of obediance - unless your disobediance was willful and known and habitual. "He that sins is of the devil." "Whoever is born of God does not commit sin, for the seed of God is in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God" but also - to bring balanced doctrine -, "If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us..." and "If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father" with "there is a sin which is not unto death" Thankfully there is grace and forgiveness - otherwise no one would ever make it! But then grace must never be used as a "cover up" for sin or as a "clean glove on a filthy hand"! Those who are habitually, knowingly disobediant are none of His. All from 1 John - after which John Wesley tried to model his own preaching. blessings |