Reader,
After we become a Christian, we are to always be learning more about Jesus, and more about our walk of faith, and more about our ETERNAL Salvation.
And as we come to the complete understanding of God's Gift of Salvation, = to have this "renewed" mind, ....Paul describes it as ..."As many as be perfect".
So, this is not your behavior, this is your understanding that has become perfected regarding completely understanding God's Gift of Salvation.
= When you have complete understanding of God's Gift, then you have "worked out your Salvation".
All Christians must learn what it is that God has given us, as "the Gift of Salvation".
And a critical part of this learning, is to understand that once you have been given it, "while you were a sinner"....you now have it.
Its done., your're born again.
Now, what isn't finished is your daily walk of faith and your growing in Grace (Discipleship).....but your Salvaiton that was completed for you by Jesus on the Cross 2000 yrs ago......once God has given it to you, then you have it and you are SAVED for as long as God lives.. = Forever.
Now, when you decide to really learn about your salvation, then one of the main NT books you must spend a lot of quality time in is ROMANS.
Especially chapters, 3-6.
A must study is Romans 3: 21-28, and Romans Chapter 4 & 5
So, i'll show you some really important things you must understand as found in Romans 4, and i would hope that when you have time you'd study Romans 3:21-28, using a KJV and a Amplifed Classic.
Use those versions, and never an NIV.
Ok, in Romans 4 we find something that is miraculous and marvelous and wonderful and awesome.
Its this..
God gives His Righteousness to the UNGODLY.....who have trusted in Christ.
Welcome to Salvation......Its a Free Gift from Holy God to a Ungodly Sinner.
And who are the "Ungodly"... ?
Its all of us.......who were sinners before we were saved.
See, we didnt come to God as righteous.......we came to God """while we were yet SINNERS"... = UnGODly."
And this is very important to understand, as if you dont understand this, then once you have been forgiven and made righteous......your flesh, that is your carnal mind, will try to TAKE CREDIT for your salvation by works........for what God can only give you as a GIFT.
The GIFT of Salvation, and The Gift of Righteousness, and The GIFT of Eternal Life.
Always remember Believer, that your works are nothing....before God. Not before you are saved or after, regarding WHY GOD SAVED YOU and KEEPS YOU Saved.
So, its the SELF RIGHTEOUS who is trying to earn and keep their salvation, and not lose it, AFTER they have it, because they have not ever understood that God saved you before you ever did any good works...= while you were UNGODLY, and unrighteous, a sinner.
See that?
Listen,
One of the facts of the Devils deception is that He causes you to lose this understanding as He causes you to be blinded by your self righteousness, that is found as "trying to stay saved" and "trying not to lose your Salvation".
= Therefore, never get it in your head that now that you are saved, you are somehow a part of God's Salvation based on your WORKs... when in fact = """all our works are as a filthy rag""" = before God.
The first Example the Bible gives of a self righteous person trying to work to be saved and work to stay saved is CAIN........in GENESIS.
Cain tried that......>He tried to perform for God, and do WORKS to be accpted and God told Him to GET OUT !!!!
And that is how God the Father feels about your works if you are trying to do them to be saved or stay saved, and that includes, you keeping commandments and moses law, and performing water baptism.
Saint,
God saved you, not because you were good, but because you were an ungodly sinner who needed to be forgiven and saved.
We all qualify for God's Salvation, because we were all of us ungodly.......and its a fact that Jesus came into the world to save SINNER.. who are UNGODLY.
So, later on, dont pretend that becaue you are always trying to be good, that this is somehow why God would save you and keep you saved.
= Listen....
God saved you, only based on what Jesus did for you by Keeping the Law for you and then dying for your sin on The Cross.
So, its CHRIST's Effort and Work and Purity and SHED BLOOD that God only accepts to accept an ungodly sinner ""while we were yet sinners".
Thereore never become self righteous and try to argue that God saved you and is keeping you saved because of YOUR behavior.
As if you believe that then you are not Trusting in Christ and in fact you dont even yet understand WHY God saved you, and How.
And that is why i wrote this Thread and my last 5 or 10.........as they are for YOU if you are the one im talking to who needs to begin to understand God's Gift of Salvation.
Jesus tells you how it happens, in :
John 14:6.
Now, lets look at Romans 4.
vs 5.... "but to those who do not work , but believeth on Him who Justifies the UNGODLY".
See that?
This is the unGodly (everyone) who has given their faith in Christ, and God has accpted their faith to Save them based on what Christ has finished for us on The Cross...... = vs 5 says,,,,,,"faith is counted (by God) as Righteousness"....
This simply means that an ungodly sinner, while they were yet a sinner, gave God their Faith IN CHRIST, and God eternally accepted that Faith, and gave them, you, and ME. = HIS Righteousness, as "The Gift of Righteousnes"..
And now having been made righteous by God' Gift, this settles for eternity HOW you become and remain RIGHTEOUS before God........and that is "without works or deeds of the Law".
Now, notice this next verse carefully.. Romans 4:6.....Paul teaches,, that God gives you RIGHTEOUSNESS "without works"... <<<<.
Then notice Romans 4:8 says that God does not charge sin against a Believer.........also taught by Paul in 2 Corin 5:19.
So, what are we discovering?
We are discovering that Salvation is God's Righteousness, GIVEN to the UNGODLY SINNER< only because they gave God their FAITH in CHRIST..
And we are discovering that once we have been given God's Righteousness, God never again charges you with SIN.
And Why does God not charge a Born again Believer with sin?
Its because we are "not under the LAW...but under God's Grace".......so, when there is no Law that can judge our Deeds, then God never again charges us with sin........not ever..... = "where there is no LAW......there is no TRANSGRESSION (sin)"""... found.
The born again .. "are not under the Law........but under GRACE".
And if you read Romans 4:7, Paul teaches us that our sins are forgiven and we are """COVERED""....and this means that Christ's Blood will always be our eternal Forgiveness.
So what does all this teach us about our Salvation?
Saint, It teaches us that our WORKS and Moses Law and water baptism and trying to imitate Christ have nothing to do with Why and HOW God accepts you and saves you, and keeps you saved.
Now why do Christians become confused about their Salvation?
Most of the time.......99%, its because they are not understanding that they stay forgiven and are kept saved the very same way (John 14:6) they were saved to begin with, and that is by Jesus's BLOOD and DEATH.
And so we the born again are to Teach this fact and Preach this fact, this is defined by Paul as "the preaching of THE CROSS".
And that is what im doing for you, and that is why im on this Forum..
Reader if your are born again, and not just water baptized and religious...., Then THE CROSS OF CHRIST is where your Salvaiton STANDS forever, and its ETERNAL.......its a Eternal Blood Covenant between Jesus and God, whereby Jesus's shed Blood and Death has met God's eternal requirement for JUSTICE and Judgment, that was due you and me, for our lifetime of Sin.
But because Jesus has shed His blood as our Eternal Justification, our Eternal SALVATON< our eternal SACRIFICE ... then once we have This FREE GIFT from God, as our redemption, then forevermore are we covered by it, and kept RIGHTEOUS because of it.
After we become a Christian, we are to always be learning more about Jesus, and more about our walk of faith, and more about our ETERNAL Salvation.
And as we come to the complete understanding of God's Gift of Salvation, = to have this "renewed" mind, ....Paul describes it as ..."As many as be perfect".
So, this is not your behavior, this is your understanding that has become perfected regarding completely understanding God's Gift of Salvation.
= When you have complete understanding of God's Gift, then you have "worked out your Salvation".
All Christians must learn what it is that God has given us, as "the Gift of Salvation".
And a critical part of this learning, is to understand that once you have been given it, "while you were a sinner"....you now have it.
Its done., your're born again.
Now, what isn't finished is your daily walk of faith and your growing in Grace (Discipleship).....but your Salvaiton that was completed for you by Jesus on the Cross 2000 yrs ago......once God has given it to you, then you have it and you are SAVED for as long as God lives.. = Forever.
Now, when you decide to really learn about your salvation, then one of the main NT books you must spend a lot of quality time in is ROMANS.
Especially chapters, 3-6.
A must study is Romans 3: 21-28, and Romans Chapter 4 & 5
So, i'll show you some really important things you must understand as found in Romans 4, and i would hope that when you have time you'd study Romans 3:21-28, using a KJV and a Amplifed Classic.
Use those versions, and never an NIV.
Ok, in Romans 4 we find something that is miraculous and marvelous and wonderful and awesome.
Its this..
God gives His Righteousness to the UNGODLY.....who have trusted in Christ.
Welcome to Salvation......Its a Free Gift from Holy God to a Ungodly Sinner.
And who are the "Ungodly"... ?
Its all of us.......who were sinners before we were saved.
See, we didnt come to God as righteous.......we came to God """while we were yet SINNERS"... = UnGODly."
And this is very important to understand, as if you dont understand this, then once you have been forgiven and made righteous......your flesh, that is your carnal mind, will try to TAKE CREDIT for your salvation by works........for what God can only give you as a GIFT.
The GIFT of Salvation, and The Gift of Righteousness, and The GIFT of Eternal Life.
Always remember Believer, that your works are nothing....before God. Not before you are saved or after, regarding WHY GOD SAVED YOU and KEEPS YOU Saved.
So, its the SELF RIGHTEOUS who is trying to earn and keep their salvation, and not lose it, AFTER they have it, because they have not ever understood that God saved you before you ever did any good works...= while you were UNGODLY, and unrighteous, a sinner.
See that?
Listen,
One of the facts of the Devils deception is that He causes you to lose this understanding as He causes you to be blinded by your self righteousness, that is found as "trying to stay saved" and "trying not to lose your Salvation".
= Therefore, never get it in your head that now that you are saved, you are somehow a part of God's Salvation based on your WORKs... when in fact = """all our works are as a filthy rag""" = before God.
The first Example the Bible gives of a self righteous person trying to work to be saved and work to stay saved is CAIN........in GENESIS.
Cain tried that......>He tried to perform for God, and do WORKS to be accpted and God told Him to GET OUT !!!!
And that is how God the Father feels about your works if you are trying to do them to be saved or stay saved, and that includes, you keeping commandments and moses law, and performing water baptism.
Saint,
God saved you, not because you were good, but because you were an ungodly sinner who needed to be forgiven and saved.
We all qualify for God's Salvation, because we were all of us ungodly.......and its a fact that Jesus came into the world to save SINNER.. who are UNGODLY.
So, later on, dont pretend that becaue you are always trying to be good, that this is somehow why God would save you and keep you saved.
= Listen....
God saved you, only based on what Jesus did for you by Keeping the Law for you and then dying for your sin on The Cross.
So, its CHRIST's Effort and Work and Purity and SHED BLOOD that God only accepts to accept an ungodly sinner ""while we were yet sinners".
Thereore never become self righteous and try to argue that God saved you and is keeping you saved because of YOUR behavior.
As if you believe that then you are not Trusting in Christ and in fact you dont even yet understand WHY God saved you, and How.
And that is why i wrote this Thread and my last 5 or 10.........as they are for YOU if you are the one im talking to who needs to begin to understand God's Gift of Salvation.
Jesus tells you how it happens, in :
John 14:6.
Now, lets look at Romans 4.
vs 5.... "but to those who do not work , but believeth on Him who Justifies the UNGODLY".
See that?
This is the unGodly (everyone) who has given their faith in Christ, and God has accpted their faith to Save them based on what Christ has finished for us on The Cross...... = vs 5 says,,,,,,"faith is counted (by God) as Righteousness"....
This simply means that an ungodly sinner, while they were yet a sinner, gave God their Faith IN CHRIST, and God eternally accepted that Faith, and gave them, you, and ME. = HIS Righteousness, as "The Gift of Righteousnes"..
And now having been made righteous by God' Gift, this settles for eternity HOW you become and remain RIGHTEOUS before God........and that is "without works or deeds of the Law".
Now, notice this next verse carefully.. Romans 4:6.....Paul teaches,, that God gives you RIGHTEOUSNESS "without works"... <<<<.
Then notice Romans 4:8 says that God does not charge sin against a Believer.........also taught by Paul in 2 Corin 5:19.
So, what are we discovering?
We are discovering that Salvation is God's Righteousness, GIVEN to the UNGODLY SINNER< only because they gave God their FAITH in CHRIST..
And we are discovering that once we have been given God's Righteousness, God never again charges you with SIN.
And Why does God not charge a Born again Believer with sin?
Its because we are "not under the LAW...but under God's Grace".......so, when there is no Law that can judge our Deeds, then God never again charges us with sin........not ever..... = "where there is no LAW......there is no TRANSGRESSION (sin)"""... found.
The born again .. "are not under the Law........but under GRACE".
And if you read Romans 4:7, Paul teaches us that our sins are forgiven and we are """COVERED""....and this means that Christ's Blood will always be our eternal Forgiveness.
So what does all this teach us about our Salvation?
Saint, It teaches us that our WORKS and Moses Law and water baptism and trying to imitate Christ have nothing to do with Why and HOW God accepts you and saves you, and keeps you saved.
Now why do Christians become confused about their Salvation?
Most of the time.......99%, its because they are not understanding that they stay forgiven and are kept saved the very same way (John 14:6) they were saved to begin with, and that is by Jesus's BLOOD and DEATH.
And so we the born again are to Teach this fact and Preach this fact, this is defined by Paul as "the preaching of THE CROSS".
And that is what im doing for you, and that is why im on this Forum..
Reader if your are born again, and not just water baptized and religious...., Then THE CROSS OF CHRIST is where your Salvaiton STANDS forever, and its ETERNAL.......its a Eternal Blood Covenant between Jesus and God, whereby Jesus's shed Blood and Death has met God's eternal requirement for JUSTICE and Judgment, that was due you and me, for our lifetime of Sin.
But because Jesus has shed His blood as our Eternal Justification, our Eternal SALVATON< our eternal SACRIFICE ... then once we have This FREE GIFT from God, as our redemption, then forevermore are we covered by it, and kept RIGHTEOUS because of it.
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