we are working out our salvation
apostle Paul: "Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling," (Philippians 2)
the road of salvation is narrow, many will not enter.
what does this walk of salvation look like? How does one finish the race?
When a person hears the gospel message what happens according to Jesus in the parable of the seeds?...the good soil hears it, and it grows good fruit.
How does a believer grow good fruit?...by submitting to the Holy Spirit.
As a born again believer, filled with the Holy Spirit, we still have free will. We can live by the Spirit, or still choose to live by the flesh (our old nature).
Spirit grows good fruit.....the flesh leads to death. Apostle Paul: "12 So then, brothers, we don't owe a thing to our old nature that would require us to live according to our old nature. 13 For if you live according to your old nature, you will certainly die; but if, by the Spirit, you keep putting to death the practices of the body, you will live. (Romans 8)
A Person is not "saved" by only believing, for even the demons believed. A person receives the free gift of grace from Jesus upon hearing, then repentance...faith...trust...total submission to His Lordship...to follow His commandments...to live under the Spirit....
our salvation is a work in progress, the Galatians letter to believers ". 7 Don't delude yourselves: no one makes a fool of God!A person reaps what he sows. 8 Those who keep sowing in the field of their old nature, in order to meet its demands, willeventually reap ruin; but those who keep sowing in the field of the Spirit will reap from the Spirit everlasting life." (Galatians 6)
Apostle Paul: "26 Accordingly, I don't run aimlessly but straight for the finish line; I don't shadow-box but try to make every punch count. 27 I treat my body hard and make it my slave so that, after proclaiming the Good News to others, I myself will not be disqualified." (1 Corinthians 9)
The Holy Spirit will warn us, and help us when we hit temptation, God will always try to bring His lost child back home, but it must be our choice to submit to God, and when doing so, He has promised to help.
apostle Paul: "10 And don't grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel. 11 These things happened to them as prefigurative historical events, and they were written down as a warning to us who are living in the acharit-hayamim. (the end times)
12 Therefore, let anyone who thinks he is standing up be careful not to fall!
13 No temptation has seized you beyond what people normally experience, and God can be trusted not to allow you to be tempted beyond what you can bear. On the contrary, along with the temptation he will also provide the way out, so that you will be able to endure.
Hebrews 6
"6 But the Messiah, as Son, was faithful over God's house. And we are that house of his, provided we hold firmly to the courage and confidence inspired by what we hope for.
12 Watch out, brothers, so that there will not be in any one of you an evil heart lacking trust, which could lead you to apostatize from the living God! 13 Instead, keep exhorting each other every day, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you will become hardened by the deceit of sin.
26 For if we deliberately continue to sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but only the terrifying prospect of Judgment, of raging fire that will consume the enemies.
28 Someone who disregards the Torah of Moshe is put to death without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses.
29 Think how much worse will be the punishment deserved by someone who has trampled underfoot the Son of God; who has treated as something common the blood of the covenant which made him holy; and who has insulted the Spirit, giver of God's grace!
." 39 However, we are not the kind who shrink back and are destroyed; on the contrary, we keep trusting and thus preserve our lives!
Peter tells his church he will never stop reminding them to live holy, and to produce good fruits...WHY?
apostle Peter: "3 God's power has given us everything we need for life and godliness, through our knowing the One who called us to his own glory and goodness.
4 By these he has given us valuable and superlatively great promises, so that through them you might come to share in God's nature and escape the corruption which evil desires have brought into the world.5 For this very reason, try your hardest to furnish your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, 6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with perseverance, perseverance with godliness, 7 godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.8 For if you have these qualities in abundance, they keep you from being barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.9 Indeed, whoever lacks them is blind, so shortsighted that he forgets that his past sins have been washed away.10 Therefore, brothers, try even harder to make your being called and chosen a certainty.For if you keep doing this, you will never stumble.11 Thus you will be generously supplied with everything you need to enter the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah.
May God bless those with open hearts to hear the truth.
scripture from the Complete Jewish bible
apostle Paul: "Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling," (Philippians 2)
the road of salvation is narrow, many will not enter.
what does this walk of salvation look like? How does one finish the race?
When a person hears the gospel message what happens according to Jesus in the parable of the seeds?...the good soil hears it, and it grows good fruit.
How does a believer grow good fruit?...by submitting to the Holy Spirit.
As a born again believer, filled with the Holy Spirit, we still have free will. We can live by the Spirit, or still choose to live by the flesh (our old nature).
Spirit grows good fruit.....the flesh leads to death. Apostle Paul: "12 So then, brothers, we don't owe a thing to our old nature that would require us to live according to our old nature. 13 For if you live according to your old nature, you will certainly die; but if, by the Spirit, you keep putting to death the practices of the body, you will live. (Romans 8)
A Person is not "saved" by only believing, for even the demons believed. A person receives the free gift of grace from Jesus upon hearing, then repentance...faith...trust...total submission to His Lordship...to follow His commandments...to live under the Spirit....
our salvation is a work in progress, the Galatians letter to believers ". 7 Don't delude yourselves: no one makes a fool of God!A person reaps what he sows. 8 Those who keep sowing in the field of their old nature, in order to meet its demands, willeventually reap ruin; but those who keep sowing in the field of the Spirit will reap from the Spirit everlasting life." (Galatians 6)
Apostle Paul: "26 Accordingly, I don't run aimlessly but straight for the finish line; I don't shadow-box but try to make every punch count. 27 I treat my body hard and make it my slave so that, after proclaiming the Good News to others, I myself will not be disqualified." (1 Corinthians 9)
The Holy Spirit will warn us, and help us when we hit temptation, God will always try to bring His lost child back home, but it must be our choice to submit to God, and when doing so, He has promised to help.
apostle Paul: "10 And don't grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel. 11 These things happened to them as prefigurative historical events, and they were written down as a warning to us who are living in the acharit-hayamim. (the end times)
12 Therefore, let anyone who thinks he is standing up be careful not to fall!
13 No temptation has seized you beyond what people normally experience, and God can be trusted not to allow you to be tempted beyond what you can bear. On the contrary, along with the temptation he will also provide the way out, so that you will be able to endure.
Hebrews 6
"6 But the Messiah, as Son, was faithful over God's house. And we are that house of his, provided we hold firmly to the courage and confidence inspired by what we hope for.
12 Watch out, brothers, so that there will not be in any one of you an evil heart lacking trust, which could lead you to apostatize from the living God! 13 Instead, keep exhorting each other every day, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you will become hardened by the deceit of sin.
26 For if we deliberately continue to sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but only the terrifying prospect of Judgment, of raging fire that will consume the enemies.
28 Someone who disregards the Torah of Moshe is put to death without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses.
29 Think how much worse will be the punishment deserved by someone who has trampled underfoot the Son of God; who has treated as something common the blood of the covenant which made him holy; and who has insulted the Spirit, giver of God's grace!
." 39 However, we are not the kind who shrink back and are destroyed; on the contrary, we keep trusting and thus preserve our lives!
Peter tells his church he will never stop reminding them to live holy, and to produce good fruits...WHY?
apostle Peter: "3 God's power has given us everything we need for life and godliness, through our knowing the One who called us to his own glory and goodness.
4 By these he has given us valuable and superlatively great promises, so that through them you might come to share in God's nature and escape the corruption which evil desires have brought into the world.5 For this very reason, try your hardest to furnish your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, 6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with perseverance, perseverance with godliness, 7 godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.8 For if you have these qualities in abundance, they keep you from being barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.9 Indeed, whoever lacks them is blind, so shortsighted that he forgets that his past sins have been washed away.10 Therefore, brothers, try even harder to make your being called and chosen a certainty.For if you keep doing this, you will never stumble.11 Thus you will be generously supplied with everything you need to enter the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah.
May God bless those with open hearts to hear the truth.
scripture from the Complete Jewish bible