What are dead works?

[faithhopecharity]

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.

James 1:12
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Thks

 

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James 1:12
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Thks

God’s peace does not always make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not explainable, it’s just real and it’s stronger than any storm, but you only find that peace, when you truly surrender your worry. That’s where freedom begins, that’s where your heart can breathe again, that’s where you finally rest, knowing the one who holds the universe is more than capable of holding you. Worry only stays when you let it, but peace will stay when you give everything to God, your mind is a battlefield. Anxiety’s strongest foothold is not in your circumstances, it is in your thoughts, because what you think, you eventually believe and what you believe, you eventually live, Proverbs 23:7. If you constantly rehearse disaster, you will live in fear. If you feed on worry, you will starve your faith, because thoughts have power.

 

[GRACE ambassador]

...people measuring each other’s spirituality...

...sure seems to be a lot of that everywhere, eh? Maybe we should All just simply Recall
God's Precious Word Of Truth:

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"...Thou, Lord, Which Knowest the hearts of all men..." (Acts 1:24 AV)​

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"...God, Which Knoweth the hearts..." (Acts 15:8 AV)​

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"...The LORD Seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward​

appearance, But The LORD looketh on the heart." (1 Samuel 16:7 AV)​

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"Then hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to​

every man according to his ways, whose heart Thou Knowest; ( for Thou, even​

Thou Only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men; ) (1 Kings 8:39 AV)​

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And, we Don't, eh?

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And, precious friend(s), Please Be Very Richly Encouraged and Edified
In The Lord Jesus Christ and In His Precious Word Of Truth, Rightly
Divided:

The Bible: The BIG Picture

Amen.

 

[GRACE ambassador]

Are we supposed to obey Jesus or not?

That seems to be a Yes or No answer.

Of course, it's a Yes answer. Problem is every time we ask Which Commands To obey,
we either get No answer, a deflection, or a confusing homogenization of Scriptures.
What think ye?:

I have decided to follow Jesus?

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And, precious friend(s), Please Be Very Richly Encouraged and Edified
In The Lord Jesus Christ and In His Precious Word Of Truth, Rightly
Divided:

The Bible: The BIG Picture

Amen.

 

[GodsGrace]

Of course, it's a Yes answer. Problem is every time we ask Which Commands To obey,
we either get No answer, a deflection, or a confusing homogenization of Scriptures.
What think ye?:

I have decided to follow Jesus?

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And, precious friend(s), Please Be Very Richly Encouraged and Edified
In The Lord Jesus Christ and In His Precious Word Of Truth, Rightly
Divided:

The Bible: The BIG Picture

Amen.

EVERY command is to be obeyed.

Do you think we could pick and choose which to obey and which to reject?