HEREIN LIES A FIERCE DEBATE IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD TODAY...CAN YOU HAVE JESUS CHRIST AS SAVIOUR AND NOT AS LORD? CAN A MAN OR WOMAN BE SAVED AND STILL LIVE IN OPEN REBELLION TO THE GOD THEY CLAIM TO LOVE AND BELONG TO? CAN A MAN LIVE HIS ENTIRE LIFE WITHOUT ANY THOUGHT FOR HOLY LIVING, SACRIFICIAL SERVICE OR COMMUNION WITH GOD ALMIGHTY AND STILL GO TO HEAVEN TO LIVE FOREVER WITH CHRIST AND THE SAINTS? WHY DON'T WE LET THE LORD JESUS ANSWER THE QUESTION FOR US: "IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS". JOHN MADE IT VERY CLEAR IN HIS FIRST EPISTLE "IN THIS ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD MANIFEST, AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL. HE THAT DOETH NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT OF GOD." 1 JOHN 3:10 KJV
THE ANSWER EMPHATICALLY IS NO! THE SAME GRACE THAT SAVES A SINNER WILL KEEP HIM SECURE AND ENABLE HIM TO WALK HOLY BEFORE GOD ALMIGHTY. NO CHRISTIAN HAS EVER, OR EVER WILL BE PERFECT IN THE SENSE OF SINLESS PERFECTION, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN GOD IN HIS PROVIDENCE ALLOWS US TO FAIL (BY OUR OWN DECEITFUL HEARTS), IN ORDER TO CAUSE US TO FURTHER LEAN ON HIM AND HIM ALONE, BUT TO LIVE IN HABITUAL AND OPEN REBELLION TO GOD IS TO PROVE WHERE YOUR ALLEGIANCE LIES, ie THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL. SINNERS DO WHAT THEY DO BECAUSE THEY ARE WHAT THEY ARE. THEY SIN BECAUSE THAT IS ALL THEY KNOW HOW TO DO. IT IS NOT UNTIL GOD BY HIS GRACE PLANTS FAITH IN THEIR WICKED HEARTS THAT THEY RECEIVE CHRIST'S NATURE AND ARE THEREBY ENABLED TO LIVE RIGHT. THIS IS NOT WORKS SALVATION AS SOME WOULD CLAIM, BUT SIMPLY THE BIBLE AND THE LORDSHIP SALVATION TAUGHT THEREIN.
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Tough but true. Amen!
ReplyDeleteJoshua McElrath
Tank you Bro. Josh!
ReplyDeletepathetic.....the kool-aide ya'll are drinking must be "pretty potent".
ReplyDeleteWell, anonymous (aka Robbie), at least we aren't diluded with the falsehood of thinking good works, nice pews, and a dead preacher will get us into Heaven. Now that's pathetic.
ReplyDeleteWell anonomyous, you are a JOKE!! you have nothing better to say, especially any Bible, so you go off on your favorite line about the cool-aide!! If you're not Robbie, you're one of his little hinchmen! But whoever you are, you know who you remind me of? The council in Acts 5, that compared the apostles with "...Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody;..." vs 36! and they went on! I would like for you to read vs 39 "But if it be of God, (and it is) ye CANNOT OVERTHROW it; (ie. us) lest haply YE be found even to fight against GOD." Man up! and own up!! Give scripture for why you disagree with us or SHUT UP!! so you might as well shut up now, cause you don't have 1 verse!
ReplyDeleteEthan Bryson
Amen Brother Bryson!People who can't live right NEVER agree with Lordship Salvation!
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