Subject: Saved by belief or belief and baptism? |
Bible Note: Greetings Lionheart, What you say is true, however to the darkened mind there is no understanding of what "true faith and belief" are. True Repentance isn't going from the left(obvious sin) to right (human morality)as the Apostate Church teaches. Human morality is the height of evil and is the same error that lucifer was guilty of (trying to be like God/Jesus/Christ). True Repentance is being buried to "all" the deeds of the flesh, "good and bad". As Isaiah said, "our good works are dirty rags in God's sight." Only Jesus is Good as He explained to the Rich Young Ruler, and only He (Jesus) that fulfilled the Law, can obey the law, and only Jesus (the Living Word of God) can live the Word through our crucified souls. James also made the distinction between believing and faith. That is why He said "even the demons believe". He went on to say, "show me your faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works." These people he was speaking to weren't slothful unemployed souls and I am confident all of them "believed" in God and "had faith" in what "they were doing" and in the god they were doing it for... He was making the distinction here, as is Christ through me, that if Christ, who is Faith Personified, isn't literally producing the "good works of repentance", then as far as God is concerned no matter "how seemingly good or how hard the person works even to the point of human morality, ethics, and values it counts for nothing. (The flesh counts for nothing/Phil 3, John 6 and John 15). Scripture is clear you can't serve God and Mammmon. God is New Jerusalem...now this may seem odd, but New Jerusalem is part of Heaven, right? ...and God is there, right? ...and Jesus is seated in Heaven, right? ...and "all good things" come from Heaven above, right? Furthermore, with respect to the mammon system, A satan is the prince of the air(mammon system), right? And the flesh is against the spirit and the spirit is against the flesh, right? The problem is Apostates sow and reap in the mammon system in which satan is the prince. Scripture says, "the just shall walk by faith, not by sight, right? Jesus said, "where your treasure is, your heart will be also", right? The Wicked Servant was a Servant, right? But his sin was that He buried his talent in the ground (the mammon system/the seen world). There is not one True Christian in Scripture that was a part of his/her culture, yet American Christians are not only part of it, but they are rulers in it. Jesus, nor the disciples, nor any of the 1st Century Churches were a part of the culture in which they lived. On the other hand, the Pharisees were, and you know the dialogue Jesus had with them (John). I sumbit to you that just as the Physical Jews claimed to know God and that Abraham was their Father...the Apostate Church is guilty of the exact same thing...they claim to know God and that Jesus is their Lord, but as Scripture says, they praise me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and they think they will be heard for their many words, and they give of their abundance... Just as were the Pharisees and Physical Jews liars, and story tellers, so are The False Teachers (Demonationalism and Cults) and Apostate Christians. The Physical Jews sought to obey the law in their own strength and the Apostate Christians seek to obey not only the Law, but to live the Word in their own strength. And again this is what Romans 10:2 and 2Tim 3 says. Apostate Christians are deceieved into thinking "well, we are Christians we have faith in Jesus, etc...we aren't anything like the Pharisees", etc...but they are self deceived because they are guilty of the exact same thing...only difference is they use the entire bible where as the Physical Jews just used and use the Old Testament. ...Continued on "Proceeding Note"... |