Sinless Perfection. Why do so many teach against what Jesus taught?

[Judge Hardcastle]

Naming and claiming great things for yourself without any say so from God.

You are terribly ignorant of the word of faith.

Romans 10:8-10
8...that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: 9that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.

You can have, by faith, what God says you can have by faith. Your problem is you do not believe the way God said you can have what he's giving. You lack the 'faith' part. You do not believe that salvation is by having your sins forgiven through the death of Christ, and righteousness credited to you through the resurrection of Christ.

Romans 4:25
25He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.

If you believed that, you'd be saved. But you don't believe it. You are literally, by definition, an unbeliever.

 

[Judge Hardcastle]

Jesus will say to the lawless workers of iniquity....go away I never knew you. Even if they had important ministries. They strained out little sins and swallowed huge lies.

They lived in sin because they never had a knowing relationship with him. You have it backwards and say God never knew them because they failed to be known by him by doing righteous works. That's the works justification gospel that will get you nowhere.

Works of the law do not mend the relationship failure between mankind and God (your works aren't good enough to do that). God's mercy in the forgiveness of sin through blood sacrifice does. Even under the law 'at-one-ment' (atonement) was through the sacrifice of blood, not works (for what those sacrifices could actually accomplish). But now suddenly atonement is by doing righteous works in obedience to God? You have missed the gospel message by light years. You who observe the Sabbath and have Hebrew script in your signature. You totally missed it. Not to mention that your Jesus came to destroy the law, not fulfill it. The very thing he said he did not come to do.

 

[Judge Hardcastle]

You are indeed Barabbas.

Amen, bro. I am in fact Barabbas. Guilty as charged, but set free by God through Jesus who took my place in judgment, even though he had no sin of his own. That's called a 'ransom'. Jesus ransomed my life. But since he had no sin of his own, death could not hold him and he rose from the dead. He died for my sins, and was raised to life for my justification as the ever living High Priest who continually intercedes on my behalf before the Father. And this love did not go without consequence. His great love for me expressed in his death on the cross lives in me now by the Holy Spirit. Through whom I also lay my life down in sacrifice so that others can see and experience the love of God, too, and be changed by that love.

 

[Judge Hardcastle]

You accuse me of rejecting Christ because I am not a religious opportunist like you...Barabbas, the thief and brigand.

Only a proud fool would reject an offer to be ransomed from a bank being held by fugitives, or from a burning building.

 

[Judge Hardcastle]

My hope is in Christ...without any religious certainty.

You have no hope in Christ until you accept God's offer of Jesus' blood sacrifice being the just penalty for your sin that he will accept on your behalf. Just as it was that way under the law regarding animal blood sacrifice. How do you not understand this, you who keep the Sabbath?

If you receive Christ's sacrifice for the forgiveness of your sin you WILL have the certainty of your redemption in Christ because God is true to his word. He said what he'd do if you believe what he said. He is God. He cannot lie. That is how and why believers in Christ's sacrifice can and do have assurance of salvation. God is not a liar. God is faithful to his own word. Believe it and the surety of that word will be yours. Anyone who trusts in Him will never be put to shame.

But you? You're waiting around to see if you can be righteous enough to be secure in God's salvation. There is no security, no assurance in that false, worthless theology of works justification.