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  1. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    Thank you your encouragement @BloodBought1953 that means a lot my brother.
  2. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    @Tong2020 yes. Faith is not love and love is not faith. Faith is faith a divine persuasion of trusting God. Love is different. Love is an action out of the result of faith of knowing and learning about God as you had stated. Here is the definition of Love according to Paul. “If I could speak...
  3. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    @1stCenturyLady I just read this “As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Matthew got up and followed him. Later, Matthew invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests...
  4. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    Matthew 7 Lord Lord is talking about trying to be righteous without faith and having love for God and others. Thought you may not interpret it that way; you take care. Matthew 7 is basically saying ; for example you die and go to be judged and God is asking why should you come in here? And...
  5. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    Those who were disobedient were those who rejected the chief cornerstone. @1stCenturyLady and I’m not here to fight and bicker over this. I too believe that all it takes is faith in the Gospel of Christ and that God himself will work on an individuals heart. That will hopefully lead them into...
  6. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    A person can grow from a babe in Christ to a mature son or daughter of God if they desire to as well it’s impossible to please God without faith. so not one person can please God without faith. Also God is. A rewarder for those who seek him. Hebrews 11:6
  7. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    @BloodBought1953 im reminded of this If an unbeliever changes his mind like you said and believes the gospel. God is going to start working on that persons heart. By the spirit.
  8. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    @BloodBought1953 that is right. all it takes is faith on the Lord Jesus Christ and knowing that he came, died, was buried, and rose again. That is the gospel in a nut shell Paul says. It’s either faith in Jesus Christ or nothing. @1stCenturyLady oh wow.
  9. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    @1stCenturyLady cool.
  10. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    @BloodBought1953 hey thank you for just being yourself brother. Don’t let what people say bother you so much. It’s hard. As a brother in Christ desire to remind you that you are important and that you matter, okay friend? So does Gail, and 1st, and tong, and Ferris, It’s just. A bunch of words...
  11. MatthewG

    Growth versus Law

    @Netchaplain There has been something that has come up lately. In life when it comes to my understanding and faith. My faith is in Christ Jesus. Made right with God am I because of this. There is nothing else that makes me right with God, other than faith in Jesus. Going to Leviticus 19; there...
  12. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    That is right, Abraham was made righteous by faith and his faith caused him to love God. “It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went without knowing where he was going. And even when he...
  13. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    @BloodBought1953 are doing okay today brother ? I know sometimes talking in forums can be kind of heavy… I had it happen to me today… I really hate that feeling of trying to get a point across or someone else and it’s all different perspectives and it’s just really stressful sometimes. The only...
  14. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    When it comes to being a Christian. From what has been taught in the scripture you cannot have faith without love. Remember God is faithful even if we are not. Jesus said the works of God was to believe on the one whom God had sent. Jesus performed all the works of the law out of love for his...
  15. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    @Ferris Bueller agreed. Okay @Tong2020. We will have to disagree then thank you for considering.
  16. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    @Tong2020 could we say that love are the works of faith? Remember in James when James explains how ; if you have someone come to you and they are in need of food and drink or clothing and you turn them away that not showing love. So the faith the person is having is dead. Or if you have a...
  17. MatthewG

    Subtleties Of Scripture

    Will share a little more of Galatians ; ““You and I are Jews by birth, not ‘sinners’ like the Gentiles. Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of...
  18. MatthewG

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    Faith will instate action and that action is love towards God and others I believe @Tong2020