A groom desires intimacy, oneness with their bride. The job Christ started was the purchase of a people for His own.
The privilege of this is becoming like Jesus, because it is Jesus who has placed us in this place and asked us to follow.
To not follow is to deny all He has done, to undo the gift of grace and love, to trample on the cross
Job knew he was righteous and God did not deny this. God questioned whether Job understood his situation, the reason for his suffering. So you have got it wrong about righteousness, it is our calling, our inheritence, our redemption, washed and cleansed
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Listen....you are quoting Hebrews Chapter 4 & 6 and misrepresenting the verses. Those verses that talk about "crucifying the Lord afresh", and "sinning willfully", and "trodding underfoot the blood of Jesus", (KJV) that you are trying to swap out here in your effort to teach the gospel of works are not going to work.
Here is what you are not understanding, FollowHim.
Listen carefully, as you're not going to learn this in your church or from your set of commentaries...ok?
Listen.
Salvation.....whereby we are REDEEMED, .... starts finished.
Salvation STARTS....Finished.
Ok? Let me explain...... Salvation is not what we DO.....Its what we RECEIVED. Salvation is only one work... Its This... "Its the FINISHED WORK of Jesus on the Cross"... You do not do that.....HE did that.. He gets all the credit for His shed blood, death, and resurrection. You get none. ZERO.
So, what you are caught up in, is the misunderstanding of this verse....>"Work out your salvation in awe and reverence".
You are reading that verse to mean to you...>"keep yourself saved by your self effort, by your abiding, by your obedience, by your repenting".
Thats your theology... and its nothing but bondage. Total bondage.
So, how do you escape this type of self righteous bondage to the idea that your salvation, that the Blood Atonement, is only as good as you are ??
See, thats your faith. Your faith is....>"Im saved as long as i DO That". or "im saved as long as i DONT DO THAT".
This is the error of Legalism.. This is the false gospel of "works to stay saved", and you are preaching it. That is Galatians 1:8
So, here......Think. Salvation, is "the gift of righteousness". Its the reality that the born again start out complete "in Christ". There is no further righteousness that we can achieve, as we never achieved it to begin with... It was given to us as "the gift of Righteousness"... So, we are "the righteousness of God , In Christ"... the moment we are saved as this never changes. The same blood of Jesus that saved us, is the same blood that keeps us saved. The same righteousness of God that we are become, "in Christ" is the same we will be when we get our new body.
So, what is our part? Our part is DISCIPLESHIP.....Our part is learning how to live...= how to exist in the GRACE OF GOD, so that we spiritually inwardly mature in this place of Grace as we discover how to walk in a perfected discipleship. That is our daily walk, our daily Discipleship.
It has no effect on what the Blood Atonement has created us to be from the FIRST...., which is..."ONE" with God and Christ.
Every second of our life, after we are born again, we exist as "the righteousness of God in Christ".
Every second of our born again life, we are this.. """""as Jesus IS, so are the born again IN THIS WORLD"."""
We are always born again... We are always Saved.. We always have peace with God....We are always kept saved by the Blood of Jesus.
Our part is to learn how to exist as "walking in the Spirit"....in the "mind of Christ".
And we do this by Right Believing.
When we believe wrong, we live wrong.
When we believe right, we live right...= righteously.