Did you know that even though you accept Christ as your Savior, that you must do much more to be truely saved?
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You must establish a personal relationship with the Lord through prayer, and let the Lord work through you by being rightous all the time. Do everything in your life as if it was for Christ personally. Do the Lords work and follow his every commandment.
James 2:14-26 is sometimes taken out of context in an attempt to create a works-based system of righteousness, but that is contrary to many other Scriptures. James is not saying that our works make us righteous before God, but instead he is making it clear that real saving faith is demonstrated by good works. Works are not the cause of salvation; works are the evidence of salvation. The person who claims to be a Christian but lives in willful disobedience to Christ with a life that shows no works has a false or dead faith and is not saved. James is clearly making a contrast between two different types of faith—truth faith that saves and false faith that is dead.
The error in regards to the relationship between works and faith is to make works part of what justifies us before God. The mixture of works and faith together creates a works-based system of righteousness which is totally contrary to what Scripture teaches. There is no conflict between Romans 4:5, “But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness” and what James wrote when he said “faith without works is dead.” Works come from true faith ...
James 2:14-26 is sometimes taken out of context in an attempt to create a works-based system of righteousness, but that is contrary to many other Scriptures. James is not saying that our works make us righteous before God, but instead he is making it clear that real saving faith is demonstrated by good works. Works are not the cause of salvation; works are the evidence of salvation. The person who claims to be a Christian but lives in willful disobedience to Christ with a life that shows no works has a false or dead faith and is not saved. James is clearly making a contrast between two different types of faith—truth faith that saves and false faith that is dead.
The error in regards to the relationship between works and faith is to make works part of what justifies us before God. The mixture of works and faith together creates a works-based system of righteousness which is totally contrary to what Scripture teaches. There is no conflict between Romans 4:5, “But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness” and what James wrote when he said “faith without works is dead.” Works come from true faith and a heart that has been justified by God by faith alone. The works that follow salvation do not make us righteous before God; they simply flow from a heart that has been regenerated by the Holy Spirit as naturally as water flows downhill.
Faith without works is dead because it reveals a heart that has not been transformed by God. When we have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and experienced the “washing and regeneration of the Holy Spirit,” our lives will demonstrate that by the way we live and our works of obedience to God. It will be evident by the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22) in our lives and a desire to obey God and live a life that glorifies Him. Christians belong to Christ and as His sheep they hear His voice and follow Him (John 10:26-30).
True saving faith is always manifested by good works and a life that desires to live in obedience to God. Ephesians 2:8-10 makes it very clear that works do not save us but that we are saved “for good works which God prepared beforehand that we would walk in them.” When we are truly born again you will have hearts that are transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit where God’s law is written so that we might walk in His statutes and judgments. As Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
Faith without works is dead because it comes from a heart that has not been regenerated by God. It is an empty profession of faith from someone to whom Christ will say, “I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers.”
If you accept Christ as your Savior, you are transformed and want to live a life according to His Word. If you are living as you want and reveling in sin, you have not truly accepted Christ.
Everyone sins, but those who are saved do their utmost not to sin. Those who are saved will do good works because that is what Christ wants us to do.
Works are not a requirement for salvation, they are a product of salvation.
You do not have to do much more to be truly saved, you do much more because you are truly saved.
We must remember that as parents he too is our parent, our Father. His love is so much greater than even we love our children. Imagine that.
Though it is disheartening when we see some christians...go to church but not heed to the word of God ..when they walk out that door; we must try hard to pray for them.
We must spread the word openly..with great pride in our Lord. For his love is everlasting .
For Thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory, Now and Forever ...Amen.
The desire to follow him and do good for others' as he has done. The spirit will be manifested within us through that journey.
That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Rom 10:9
This fellow is making a few statement to help some out; sounds good, good to get out and share Jesus Christ with others!
Nothing else.....
Anybody got more and they are like Democrats LIARS
oh and that dying thief on the cross, was hardly in a position to do any more, don't ya think.
If you are not doing the best you can in following Jesus, you are not doing enough!
If you can not afford to lose 10% of your income, then you must donate your time to your church... usually doing mundane tasks such as mowing the grass, or cleaning, or repairs - - This way the Preacher doesn't have to spend any of his income from the donations, therein making it so he/she can live even more comfortably.
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Donating time to the Church is not a requirement from the Lord, it is a requirement of the congregation of the Church.
There is no price tag on the words of the Lord. So shall there be no price to enter into his house of worship. If indeed a price is set...I would question that church!
It is an expected in the catholic church...as well... Wonder what the Lord thinks of a price paid For The Gifts He has given?? Sorry but the catholic church...is going down..because of what the leaders are doing and the control...tactics they are now using ..like long ago....to keep the congregation!
There were some great priests, previously.....But the church must begin to say and do all the words of God..as he commanded them too.!
But do tell about your church in your neighborhood?
I know ::: that was bad ::: But I still had to say it!
Do you think they didn't sneak their way into the other christian churches as well?? Did you interpret my previous post to be an attack on the catholic church???
All christian churches practice the paying for sacraments !!!!!
well do tell about your Mr. Rogers' neighborhood church???? you still have not responded to that!
On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
“What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?”
He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.” Luke10:25
----Once you have a relationship with God you do not need long prayers...for God knows your heart......
And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Matthew6:7-8
-----The commandments are fulfilled with LOVE... so simple.... you cannot sin against someone if you love them like you love yourself....
For whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. Romans 13:8-10
1) God is all knowing/all powerful;
2) God desires to save the world--so much so, in fact, that He sacrificed His Son to effect that salvation;
3) What God wants, God gets. NO state or condition can prevail against the will of Almighty God! If His will/desire is to save *the world,* that is PRECISELY what He will do. All the technical minutia is irrelevant. Resistance (against God) is TRULY, ULTIMATELY and ABSOLUTELY futile!
Anybody have problems with any of these statements? If not, then you, too, are a Christian Universalist. :-)
I liken it this way. You have a kid who always acts up, talks back, etc. You send Him to his room thereby separating him from the rest of the family community until he agrees to play by your rules. Being a wise parent, you know that eventually hunger or the desire to be a part of the community will win out, and that he WILL relent whether he realizes it or not.
Now, extend that to the parental relationship which God has with us, and consider that God has, quite literally, all the time in the Universe to wait for us to relent. We can take as long as we like; we can run as far as we like; we can resist the inevitable as much as we like, but ultimately we WILL relent. NO THING and NO PERSON can prevail against the Loving Will of Almighty God! And praise GOD this is so!
BTW, this is also how I reconcile the two conflicting philosophies of "free will" versus predestination. Yes, from our perspective we have complete freedom of choice and can do whatever we want with the lives which God has given us. Ultimately, though, everything ever created WILL choose God.