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    How Confidant Are You Being Saved?

    Good works follow salvation defeats the purpose! Good works unto salvation establishes the purpose! The means of our salvation is according to the purpose of our creation! To Know, Love, & serve God! eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath...
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    It's Jesus who say to us: Luke 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. Luke 14:26-27 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and...
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    Jesus did it all, we do nothing? thks
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    Union with God & His saints in Christ by the grace of justification by baptism with the infused supernatural virtues of faith, hope, & charity, sanctifying grace and the Holy Spirit. Jn 15:5 apart from Christ? NOTHING! phil 4:13 Union with Christ? ALL THINGS! thks
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    we are accepted "with Him" in works of righteousness after justification acts 10:35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. thks
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    patience is a christian virtue and works! a "perfect work"! Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. (eternal salvation) Luke 21:19 In your patience possess ye your souls. Luke 8:15 But that on the good ground are...
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    Romans 2:6-7 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: thks
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    How Confidant Are You Being Saved?

    The word of God is clear enough for those who will hear it, indeed. Sadly, certain folks just do not have ears to hear. We see the same errors repeated over and over again by works-salvationists. They conflate justification with sanctification and faith with works, which culminates in the gospel...
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    How Confidant Are You Being Saved?

    yet your tradition negates the word! Mk 10:30 mk 13:13 mt 24:13 he who endures to the end shall be saved. rev 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou...
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    How Confidant Are You Being Saved?

    you cannot serve two masters! Christ and Luther! thks
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    justification is a free gift we must participate in salvation Romans 2:6-7 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that...
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    y By the grace of justification received by faith and baptism we have union with God thru Christ, in the communion of saints, empowered by grace and life in the spirit to attain to eternal salvation on glory! 1 John 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this...
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    The Key to : Working it out : #2

    selective scripture faith alone? repentance & conversion Acts 3:19 patience Luke 21:19, Luke 8:15, Romans 5:3-5, Colossians 1:11, 1 Thessalonians 1:3, 2 Thessalonians 1:4, 1 Timothy 6:11, 2 Timothy 3:10, Titus 2:2, Hebrews 6:12, Hebrews 10:36, James 1:3-4, James 5:10, 2 pet 1:6, rev 14:12...
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    same term has different meaning! "eternal life" Eternal life has two parts: part one) grace that we receive now in this life with the initial grace of justification which we can increase by good works and lose by sin. part two) eternal salvation after death, judgment, eternal...
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    must believe everything Christ revealed and the apostolic church teaches per His command mt 28:19 Jn 3:16 1 Jn 5:13 Perpetual faith mt 3:8 2 cor 7:10 fruits of repentance Jn 15:4 abide in Christ & bear fruit Lk 3:9 bear fruit Lk 1:75 acts 10:35 deeds of righteousness phil 1:11 fruits of...
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    if we don't agree on terms we can never attain to an understanding! no sometimes it refers to grace that we have now sometimes future eternal salvation sometimes the promise or inheritance thks
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    all scripture is inspired! even one word and even one word is the word of God! thks
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    no one can lose salvation! we do not have salvation, we have the grace of justification and justification is not eternal salvation! "first we must agree on the terms or we can never have an understanding" rev 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy...
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    How Confidant Are You Being Saved?

    Paul does not say grace makes works meritorious. That is being added to the text. scripture says so Jn 15:4-5 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He...
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    How Confidant Are You Being Saved?

    not quantity but faithfulness mt 10:22 endure to the end thks