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  1. Episkopos

    Do Acts of Righteousness Make One Righteous?

    Follow your imagination.
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    Righteous is as righteous does.

    I don't think either word is what you think they are.
  3. Episkopos

    Righteous is as righteous does.

    The new creation in Christ at regeneration by the Spirit? Do you know what is meant by being born again?
  4. Episkopos

    Righteous is as righteous does.

    I pray that real understanding comes to you one day.
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    Righteous is as righteous does.

    That is false. Grace take away the certainty of law. Hope is not certainty.
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    Do Acts of Righteousness Make One Righteous?

    That is your brain trying to grasp what only a heart can do. There is no technique. You must move God from His throne.
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    Here we go - Slavery

    In the old days a person needed to become a servant sometimes to survive. A Hebrew slave was given the choice after 7 years to either take his freedom or become a bond-servant to the householder. Using your very limited and biased understanding here shows how bourgeois your judgment is. It is...
  8. Episkopos

    Here we go - Slavery

    A disciple of Christ has been transformed from a slave of sin...to a slave of righteousness. And gladly so!
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    Do Acts of Righteousness Make One Righteous?

    The truth is usually the exact opposite of popular teachings. people are taught they need to "accept" Jesus. This is false. Jesus is already accepted by God and is the Lamb of God. Not the Lamb of church goers. But when we have been approved by God...by seeking Him with our whole hearts....we...
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    Do Acts of Righteousness Make One Righteous?

    Faith. His grace by faith....that becomes the faith OF Jesus Christ once we are accepted into the beloved. We enter into the kingdom of God by faith so we can walk as Jesus walked....where He is...in Zion in the Spirit. We are to walk in the light as He is in the light. As He is so are we in...
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    Do Acts of Righteousness Make One Righteous?

    You are getting too excited and missing....BY HIM (Jesus Christ). That would be God. Only God can justify a person. Nice try though.... ;)
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    Righteous is as righteous does.

    Anyone who declares himself as righteous and saved is in trouble with the tribunal of Christ. Better to say...I am an unprofitable servant. There is actual wisdom in that. Besides I look back at my life and see God in what I was doing. It wasn't me....it was Him. He gets the glory...not me. He...
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    Do Acts of Righteousness Make One Righteous?

    Here is the answer....Inasmuch as you did it to the least of these my brethren you did it to Me. This works both ways.....just like grace. It gives us enough rope to either hang ourselves....or save us. That's the real way of grace....it is freedom to act according to our decision. Concerning...
  14. Episkopos

    Righteous is as righteous does.

    Yes Jesus Christ is always in me. That doesn't change. But I mustn't grieve the Spirit by whom I was sealed until the day of judgment. Christ in me is the HOPE of glory. Through Christ I have the full potential of the full stature of Christ in me. If I go on the cross, He can then get on the...
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    Righteous is as righteous does.

    God decides these things....remember? :) No one can justify themselves before God. Nor Christians. We are all just vessels.
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    Righteous is as righteous does.

    Only when i don't abide in Christ. Then I can fall into a sin of some kind. The closer my walk is to the Lord the less I sin. w\When I abide in Christ I can't sin because IN Him is no sin. All who have walked IN Christ attest to this same power.
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    Do Acts of Righteousness Make One Righteous?

    Not by boasting about our works. But works indeed justify people. Read Mat 25 sheep/goats judgment. What justified them? It was their works. They DID what was right to the brethren of Jesus. That saved them. It is trickle down grace....if you understand that.
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    Righteous is as righteous does.

    Actually it was their actions. When I was hungry you fed me...when I was thirsty you gave me to drink....etc... can people from other religions do these things? Of course. So then the brethren of Jesus bring grace into the world....and through actions towards them will men be justified or...
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    Do Acts of Righteousness Make One Righteous?

    If a Christian is prone to lie...is he a liar? If a Christian robs a bank is he still a bank robber? When will you see that God doesn't respect persons. We are all just vessels. No one is justified until God says so.
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    Righteous is as righteous does.

    I am in the household of God so I will be judged privately...personally since I was sealed by the Spirit. I don't know if I will be accepted or not since I have been given a lot. Whoever has received a lot...more will be expected. I think it is wrong to justify oneself. It is God who justifies.