But Shep, you do not willfully break any of God's 10 Commandments on your natural walk after Jesus, do you? It comes naturally to walk in loving obedience and keeping God's Commandments, wouldn't you agree?
God bless.
1. I agree, the more I read my Bible the more I realise how little I know. Don't you agree? Or do you believe you have already reached perfect and complete interpretation and perfect understanding of entire Scripture?
2. What power of the Gospel have I denied? List exactly what you mean? I teach and preach the gospel of justification and salvation by faith + grace alone. However, ONCE SAVED, I teach that God writes His law on our hearts and we walk in obedience out of love and gratitude and from the new heart God has given us. Do you disagree with this Gospel that I teach? Yes or No?
3. I focus on Jesus and the obedience comes naturally because God has changed me. Before I came to Christ I had no conscience about obedience or Jesus, but now I do and I lovingly obey Jesus naturally, it comes naturally. Doesn't that happen to you as well? Has God written His Law on your heart? Yes or No?
4. You then ended your comments by saying, "the law is for those who are without Christ", so I want to ask you to explain these verses to me and contextualize them for me please:
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
There Jesus says He came to fulfill the law, however, He also said he had not come to destroy it. What did Jesus mean by that?
Luke 16:17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Acts 6:13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
Acts 24:14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets
Romans 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Romans 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Romans 7:1 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Episkopos, what LAW does God write on our hearts?
Now don't forget, I am NOT saying we are under or saved by the Law, I am saying once we are saved by faith + grace, shouldn't we keep the Law? Yes or No? Or should we willfully break the Law once saved? Yes or No?
God bless.