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Gospel : Paul teaching = "preaching of the Cross". "we preach Christ Crucified"..."Jesus sent me not to baptize but to preach the Gospel".."faith comes by hearing (the Gospel)".....
So, all that, if believed by an unbeliever resolves an eternal issue......
What is the issue?
The Issue is related to God's purpose for coming to earth to die as Jesus The Christ on a Cross?
What is He doing?...
What is He alone solving, that all our 10 commandment keeping and holy lifestyle can never solve, which is WHY HE had to solve it? ?
And right here is what is so often misunderstood, or not taught correctly, and this is why so many people who mean well, and love Jesus, or would like to love him, do not understand <>WHAT IS<> the actual reason that God came here to die.
So what is that reason?
The reason, is that keeping the law, the 10 commandments, and doing good works, confessing sin, praying to Mary, and living as holy as we can, could not make us acceptable to God..
And here is the "catch 22".... It also can't AFTER you are saved.
And right here is where the clash between "Legalism vs Grace" becomes the touchstone of constant fighting on forums.
This single issue...>"Grace vs Legalism" is the doctrinal division that separates the devil's gospel from Paul's Gospel.
Cults are created based on this doctrinal division.
Denominations are created based on this doctrinal division.
It is a fact and statement of the CROSS that the law and the 10 Commandments can't make you righteous, they can only show you that you are unrighteous.... as that is the actual purpose of the Law-Commandments, as well as outlining what God expects regarding our basic moral conduct & behavior, once we are born again.
So, how can it be that most of the body of Christ is trying to keep all this, and they believe that this is "keeping them saved".?
Whereas the small percentage of the body of Christ is trusting in Jesus to keep them saved.
So, do you see the line drawn in the doctrinal sand of Truth?
What is the simple distinction, generally found between a heretic and someone who Believe's Right?
Its this= " What is keeping you SAVED".... as that is the minefield of theological confusion.
THATS the fight.
Legalism vs Grace.
Its happening on every forum like this one.
This issue started with Paul and his preaching of "justification by Faith" >alone, and he wrote the letter to the Galatians that talks about it, and explains it.
Legalist at that time fought it, and actually changed Paul's Gospel into the idea that Paul's Gospel is a license to sin, or "teaching licentiousness", as Jude explains it.
2000 yrs later, this issue of Legalism vs Grace is still a fight between those who all say they are "Christians".
Isn't it interesting to realize that if the 10 commandments, or lawkeeping, or living holy, could save you or keep you saved, if that were the truth, then Jesus could have stayed in Heaven and saved Himself some PAIN.....
But ita not the case.
Now im not certain what you have been taught, but i teach that you "present your body a living sacrifice" and you to "live holy as God is holy",= not to save yourself or keep yourself saved, but because this is what you should do, and what God expects, .. because you ARE already saved.....If you are born again.
The Legalist would argue that .."no, you do it to stay saved", and if you don't then you're not saved..
I wonder, reader, what you believe.
So, leaving all that now, lets just look at the problem that God had to come here and solve for us, as to look at this SIN ISSUE, is to understand the NEED for Salvation... which is to understand Salvation as God's Grace.
Our problem we had, before we were saved, is only one thing, one issue only. And God Himself had to solve it, because we can't.
We are born, and we get older, and we don't have any righteousness.
None.
And so, God can't accept us, because we are UNRIGHTEOUS.
This is what it means to be "lost", "unsaved"....hellbound = we don't have any RIGHTEOUSNESS< as all of ours are "filthy rags".
So, in steps SALVATION... Down from Heaven God as The Christ arrives... The Cross has been raised.... As God bleeding out on the "tree" has come down from Heaven to give us HIS righteousness so that He can accept us, based on THAT ALONE.......and for no other reason will He accept you, or me.
God, literally became a man, and died on a Cross, to GIVE US "the righteousness of Christ". (God's very own righteousness). = we are "made Righteous". = "The GIFT of Righteousness".
And that is what salvation actually is....Its God coming to earth to give us His righteousness so that HE can accept us,...... as by giving us His very righteousness, this makes us acceptable to God, and nothing else can, and nothing else will.
= Welcome to Salvation.
Salvation is only.... "what makes you acceptable to God"....and that is one thing, its GOD'S Righteousness, becoming ours. ="" The GIFT of Righteousness"
A born again person, has literally BECOME "the righteousness of Christ", and Christ is GOD.
Isn't that amazing?
God's Grace is God making you righteous using His very Own BLOOD.
God's Grace is amazing.
How can you describe the wonder of God, dying to give you His righteousness in place of your unrighteousness, as a free Gift?
God is LOVE.
Gospel : Paul teaching = "preaching of the Cross". "we preach Christ Crucified"..."Jesus sent me not to baptize but to preach the Gospel".."faith comes by hearing (the Gospel)".....
So, all that, if believed by an unbeliever resolves an eternal issue......
What is the issue?
The Issue is related to God's purpose for coming to earth to die as Jesus The Christ on a Cross?
What is He doing?...
What is He alone solving, that all our 10 commandment keeping and holy lifestyle can never solve, which is WHY HE had to solve it? ?
And right here is what is so often misunderstood, or not taught correctly, and this is why so many people who mean well, and love Jesus, or would like to love him, do not understand <>WHAT IS<> the actual reason that God came here to die.
So what is that reason?
The reason, is that keeping the law, the 10 commandments, and doing good works, confessing sin, praying to Mary, and living as holy as we can, could not make us acceptable to God..
And here is the "catch 22".... It also can't AFTER you are saved.
And right here is where the clash between "Legalism vs Grace" becomes the touchstone of constant fighting on forums.
This single issue...>"Grace vs Legalism" is the doctrinal division that separates the devil's gospel from Paul's Gospel.
Cults are created based on this doctrinal division.
Denominations are created based on this doctrinal division.
It is a fact and statement of the CROSS that the law and the 10 Commandments can't make you righteous, they can only show you that you are unrighteous.... as that is the actual purpose of the Law-Commandments, as well as outlining what God expects regarding our basic moral conduct & behavior, once we are born again.
So, how can it be that most of the body of Christ is trying to keep all this, and they believe that this is "keeping them saved".?
Whereas the small percentage of the body of Christ is trusting in Jesus to keep them saved.
So, do you see the line drawn in the doctrinal sand of Truth?
What is the simple distinction, generally found between a heretic and someone who Believe's Right?
Its this= " What is keeping you SAVED".... as that is the minefield of theological confusion.
THATS the fight.
Legalism vs Grace.
Its happening on every forum like this one.
This issue started with Paul and his preaching of "justification by Faith" >alone, and he wrote the letter to the Galatians that talks about it, and explains it.
Legalist at that time fought it, and actually changed Paul's Gospel into the idea that Paul's Gospel is a license to sin, or "teaching licentiousness", as Jude explains it.
2000 yrs later, this issue of Legalism vs Grace is still a fight between those who all say they are "Christians".
Isn't it interesting to realize that if the 10 commandments, or lawkeeping, or living holy, could save you or keep you saved, if that were the truth, then Jesus could have stayed in Heaven and saved Himself some PAIN.....
But ita not the case.
Now im not certain what you have been taught, but i teach that you "present your body a living sacrifice" and you to "live holy as God is holy",= not to save yourself or keep yourself saved, but because this is what you should do, and what God expects, .. because you ARE already saved.....If you are born again.
The Legalist would argue that .."no, you do it to stay saved", and if you don't then you're not saved..
I wonder, reader, what you believe.
So, leaving all that now, lets just look at the problem that God had to come here and solve for us, as to look at this SIN ISSUE, is to understand the NEED for Salvation... which is to understand Salvation as God's Grace.
Our problem we had, before we were saved, is only one thing, one issue only. And God Himself had to solve it, because we can't.
We are born, and we get older, and we don't have any righteousness.
None.
And so, God can't accept us, because we are UNRIGHTEOUS.
This is what it means to be "lost", "unsaved"....hellbound = we don't have any RIGHTEOUSNESS< as all of ours are "filthy rags".
So, in steps SALVATION... Down from Heaven God as The Christ arrives... The Cross has been raised.... As God bleeding out on the "tree" has come down from Heaven to give us HIS righteousness so that He can accept us, based on THAT ALONE.......and for no other reason will He accept you, or me.
God, literally became a man, and died on a Cross, to GIVE US "the righteousness of Christ". (God's very own righteousness). = we are "made Righteous". = "The GIFT of Righteousness".
And that is what salvation actually is....Its God coming to earth to give us His righteousness so that HE can accept us,...... as by giving us His very righteousness, this makes us acceptable to God, and nothing else can, and nothing else will.
= Welcome to Salvation.
Salvation is only.... "what makes you acceptable to God"....and that is one thing, its GOD'S Righteousness, becoming ours. ="" The GIFT of Righteousness"
A born again person, has literally BECOME "the righteousness of Christ", and Christ is GOD.
Isn't that amazing?
God's Grace is God making you righteous using His very Own BLOOD.
God's Grace is amazing.
How can you describe the wonder of God, dying to give you His righteousness in place of your unrighteousness, as a free Gift?
God is LOVE.
