Subject: Abiding in Christ |
Bible Note: Excellent points Steve, Actually, it is John 15:6-7 that lead me to begin a personal study in the "abiding in Christ". I have only recently begun the study and haven't yet gotten too deep into it. I have been reading Murray's "Abide in Christ" and to this point was getting something different from what Christ said in John 15: 6. I'm certainly not judging Murray's doctrine as I have not yet begun to learn what he had to say on the subject. But where I'm at at this point of his writing he seems to be saying a failure to abide costs a believer much of the blessings that are possible through Christ. Christ clearly says that a failure to abide results in being cast into the fire and burned. Of course all of this and what's to come in the study has to be illumed by the truth that no effort on our part saves us, therefore, no effort or lack of can undo that work of Christ that we have been "guaranteed" completion of. Thanks for the feedback, Jeff |