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The 'Lord, Lord' works done Without "repentance and faith"?:
Hebrews 6:1 refers and appeals to noting the times, as being past the foundation laid by Israel, and even past the basic or elementary principles of Christ. As a way of saying, that knowing where we are in the greater plan of God, we ought not dwell or stop there, but press on to what God has in store, and the very purpose of why those former things were established and brought into being and to pass. That they were brought to pass--not to remain in, as if to build the foundation of a house and not actually continue on to build the upper structure.
Legalism says, you are accepted, because you perform. License says, because you are accepted, obedience does not matter. Paul rejects both, then he gives the command that frames the whole passage, Galatians 5:16, the word flesh here does not mean the physical body is evil. Paul is not teaching hatred of the body, he is describing fallen human nature turned away from God, the old self-directed life that bends even good things inward until they become idols. Right before Galatians 5:22-23, Paul lists what that old life produces, sexual immorality, impurity, idolatry, hatred, strife, jealousy, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambition, dissensions, envy, drunkenness and more. You can almost hear a church coming apart in this list, arguments at tables, rival groups forming in corners, people measuring each other’s spirituality, freedom becoming self-protection, desire becoming law.
Scripture convinces me that the lineage of Paul teaches me how I am saved and not the lineage of Peter, John etc.Legalism says, you are accepted, because you perform. License says, because you are accepted, obedience does not matter. Paul rejects both, then he gives the command that frames the whole passage, Galatians 5:16, the word flesh here does not mean the physical body is evil. Paul is not teaching hatred of the body, he is describing fallen human nature turned away from God, the old self-directed life that bends even good things inward until they become idols. Right before Galatians 5:22-23, Paul lists what that old life produces, sexual immorality, impurity, idolatry, hatred, strife, jealousy, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambition, dissensions, envy, drunkenness and more. You can almost hear a church coming apart in this list, arguments at tables, rival groups forming in corners, people measuring each other’s spirituality, freedom becoming self-protection, desire becoming law.
A Gentile believer sits at the table, still new to the scriptures of Israel, still learning the story of Abraham, Moses, David and the prophets, he has been told that through faith in Jesus Christ, he belongs, he is not a guest on the edge of God’s family, he is an heir. Then another teacher arrives and says, in effect, faith in Jesus is good, but it is not enough, you still need circumcision, you still need to take on the identity markers of the law of Moses, you need Jesus plus this. For that new believer, the question is not theoretical, it is the question of belonging, did Paul tell me the whole truth or am I still standing outside the door? That question would touch everything, it would touch who could eat together, who could marry whom, who could be called brother, who could pray with confidence, who could stand up in the assembly without feeling like a second-class believer, a doctrine that sounds abstract on paper becomes painful when it decides where you sit at the table.Scripture convinces me that the lineage of Paul teaches me how I am saved and not the lineage of Peter, John etc.
Yet today does it matter from where you come from or what your roots are ?A Gentile believer sits at the table, still new to the scriptures of Israel, still learning the story of Abraham, Moses, David and the prophets, he has been told that through faith in Jesus Christ, he belongs, he is not a guest on the edge of God’s family, he is an heir. Then another teacher arrives and says, in effect, faith in Jesus is good, but it is not enough, you still need circumcision, you still need to take on the identity markers of the law of Moses, you need Jesus plus this. For that new believer, the question is not theoretical, it is the question of belonging, did Paul tell me the whole truth or am I still standing outside the door? That question would touch everything, it would touch who could eat together, who could marry whom, who could be called brother, who could pray with confidence, who could stand up in the assembly without feeling like a second-class believer, a doctrine that sounds abstract on paper becomes painful when it decides where you sit at the table.