Please show me in the Bible where you have to be Sinless Perfect in every area of your life spiritually in order to be saved
Remember the Sermon on the Mount? Jesus made it very clear that if you merely harbor a hateful or
Lustful thought , you are in the Eyes of God no better than an Adulterer or Murderer ? two warnings about Sin......
Again, you are ignoring the immediate context of Matthew 5:48. Read from verse 38 (Matthew 5:38) on down to Matthew 5:48. Being perfect as the Heavenly Father is perfect is in context to loving your enemies and doing good towards them.
Here are the things we as believers are to do so as to be perfect as the Heavenly Father is perfect:
#1. Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also (Matthew 5:39).
#2. If someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well; (Matthew 5:40).
#3. Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain (Matthew 5:41).
#4. Give to him that asketh thee, (Matthew 5:42).
#5. Do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you (Matthew 5:42).
#6. Love your enemies, (Matthew 5:44).
#7. Bless them that curse you, (Matthew 5:44).
#8. Do good to them that hate you, (Matthew 5:44).
#9. Pray for them which despitefully use you, (Matthew 5:44).
#10. Pray for them which... persecute you; (Matthew 5:44).
How ya doin’ on just “ those” How’s “ that” workin’ for you ?
We walk by faith and not by sight.
Also, I believe Sanctification can be a process for many believers in this life.
I believe it takes time for God's people to learn His commands and instructions so as to obey Him.
It's not a zero to hero overnight thing always.
But ignorance, or following the crowd or going off your own ability or experience is not an excuse to sin.
God's Word is still true. But you prefer the wide gate path that justifies sin like most of Christianity.
Cutting to the Case, Jesus just that if you are going to choose the “Performance” Route to be Justified , That “ Performance” must be Perfect 24/7 — “ You are to be * PERFECT*, even as your Father in Heaven is Perfect! .....once again, I will ask—-
No. That's not the point Jesus was making. Jesus was not making a point on disobedience to God so why even try. Nowhere does Jesus even say anything like that as His follow up point. That is something YOU and every other Christian today out there is falsely teaching that is not found in the words of Jesus.
You should be ashamed of yourself by adding to Scripture or to the words of our Lord.
Then again, you don't have to explain yourself to me. You will have to explain to Jesus at the Judgment why you added your own words to His words.
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For those out there with the Wisdom and the Humility, and for those out there who possess a Contrite Heart that knows that they are Lost and Hopeless Sinners and get the Message that Jesus was attempting to convey with His Sermon, there is hope for you!
No. That's adding to Scripture! Jesus did not say towards the end that all His warnings against how sin can destroy your soul in hellfire was the Law abiding way vs. just believing in the finished work of the cross method. Jesus did not teach such garbage. That is your addition to His holy words.
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Here is the reaction that Jesus wants you to have—- don’t be like the proud, Stiff- Necked , Religious Pharisees Of His Day ( you see the modern versions of these fools in these Forums every day , Right Highlighter ? ) .....Jesus will only Save you if you have the same reaction to His Sermon in the Mount as the Wicked Tax- Collector did...Remember Him? His reaction was to simply and sincerely cry out to God After Jesus proved That He could not reach God’s Standard Of Righteousness to “merit” Salvation....All he could do was cry out , ”Lord ,have Mercy on me, a Sinner!” .....Jesus said that that man went home a Saved Man ( Justified) ....
First, I believe there is grace and forgiveness with God in our Initial Salvation, and if we stumble on rare occasion, but this is in view that we will not seek to sin again at some future point in time or we must sin this side of Heaven. God never advocates us in sinning (Which is what your doctrine teaches).
Second, in Luke 18:9-14, nowhere does Jesus say that the Tax Collector was admitting he was a sinner every day of his life until he died. How do we know for sure? Well, Jesus also told two people to “sin no more” (See: John 5:14, John 8:11). Lessons from the Parable of the Tax Collector and the Pharisee is that the Pharisee did not seek forgiveness over his sins like the Tax Collector did and he did not try to help or pray for the Tax Collector to overcome their sin and find strength in God's grace. For you fail to understand that God’s grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and that we should live righteously and godly in this present world (Titus 2:11-12). You fail to understand that it was grace that helped the apostle labor more than the brethren (1 Corinthians 15:10).
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Don't pretend that you don’t have a Sin Nature and Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you can overcome that Old Adamic Nature while you exist in a Body Of Flesh and somehow think stupidly that you can “ overcome” it and “ make yourself Worthy” Of Heaven ....Realize That you are a Sinner ( the purpose of the Law).....ADMIT that you are a Sinner....... and REPENT ( that is, * TURN TO GOD* , as the Tax Collector did) .....Throw yourself upon the Mercy of our God — a God That is “ RICH IN MERCY” , and will bestow it on “Anybody that Asks for it!” “ Anybody that Asks to be Saved will be Saved”......
This is just stupid. God is not advocating you to sin or to be a sinner your whole life. If that was the case, then God would not be holy. God wants us to obey Him and not to disobey Him. We only admit when we are a sinner when we first come to him to be saved (in our Initial Salvation), or if we went prodigal and we need to be regain spiritual life again (See: Luke 15:11 to Luke 15:32, and James 5:19-20).
Repentance = Seeking forgiveness of one’s past life of sin with the Lord Jesus or in seeking forgiveness over a sin we may have committed on rare occasion. Repentance (Seeking forgiveness with Jesus) only works if you intend to not sin again. If you believe you will sin again this side of Heaven, then you really are not sorry over your sin but you are just paying lip service to God. That would be like a husband who cheats on his wife and he tells her that he is sorry but he has no intention of ever stopping because he believes he cannot help himself. Is he really sorry? No. He simply loves the pleasure of sex from another woman more than his wife. He is not sorry. Sin is the real master or god of your life if you don’t bring forth fruits worthy of repentance. For the axe is laid to the root of the tree.
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“Turn to God , with Faith in Jesus Christ”.....Acts20:21..... ( a Repentance That will Save) and God will put His Holy Spirit in you and you will “ Find Yourself ” Doing a better job Of pleasing God with an Obedience that flows from Love and Gratitude instead of Fear and Obligation as the Self- Righteous Legalists do....It takes TRUST.....not Work...God will not save those Trying to be Saved—-He will Save ALL that are TRUSTING to be Saved.....Trust In the Shed Blood and the Finished Work Of The Cross ...Trust in the * GRACE* That the ignorant and confused reject.....
First, faith is believing EVERYTHING in your Bible and not just a belief alone in Jesus. God gave us instructions on holy living in the New Testament and we have to obey them as a part of the faith. If not, then we are in unbelief.
Second, Legalists do not focus or emphasize the grace of God from our Initial Salvation as a means to obey God. They make it all about obedience and no grace whatsoever. They make it sound like that if you mess up once, and you are out of God’s kingdom for good. Believers can confess of their sins to Jesus in order to be forgiven of their sin (1 John 1:9) (1 John 2:1), but this in view of forsaking sin for good (1 John 1:7) (Proverbs 28:13). It’s in view of doing righteousness at all times and not just sometimes.
Psalms 106:3 says:
“Blessed
are they that keep judgment,
and he that doeth righteousness at all times.”
As for the blood of Christ:
While we have to believe in the blood as a part of salvation (Romans 3:25), you also have to walk in the light (love your brother - 1 John 2:9-11) in order for the blood of Jesus to cleanse you from all sin (See: 1 John 1:7). This walking in the light to have the blood of Jesus cleanse you of all sin is conditional because it has the “If” word in the beginning of the verse. 1 John 1:7 says, “If we walk in the light”… and 1 John 1:7 does not say, “we will walk in the light if we have been born again.” John includes himself with the word “we” in 1 John 1:7. So John includes himself in this conditional promise. But of course you twist 1 John 1:7 and other verses to your own destruction. So I can only imagine the horror you will be faced with when you stand before the Lord Jesus at Judgment Day (if you don’t reject popular candy coated Christianity that justifies sin). You will wish you heeded my warning to you on what God’s Word really said (over what you wish to be true).