[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 3/24/2005 1:04:15 PM
Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you are comfortable thinking you can keep your sin and still be
considered righteous I feel sorry for you.
Actually, I am comfortable thinking that YOU can keep your sin and
still be considered righteous, Terry. That's the issue, here. And
this has nothing to do with the latest in theological renewal on my
part. I have believed and understood Paul in Romans on this matter
for many a year. It is Paul who says you are saved by faith apart
from obedience to any law. That is Paul talking, not me. It is Paul
who says we all continue to fall short of the glory of God. What in
the world do you think that means? It is Paul who describes the
continuing sin problem (Ro 7:25) and then tells his readers that God
has solved that problem by taking away condemnation (8:1). It was
Peter, in Acts 15 who admitted that the keeping of the law was a burden
that should not be passed on (Acts 15:10). It is God -speak in the
Galatian letter that tells of love, joy, peace, kindness and then
establishes these things by saying, "against which there is no law."
It was God's plan to move from law to Spirit (Jere 31:31-340, not
mine. It was Christ who asked us to "seek first [and foremost] the
sovereign rule and authority of God [Matt 6:33] ........" Sovereign
rule and authority is an inward thing, Terry. it is Paul who reveals
that our righteousness is a consideration in the mind of God and in the
place of faith. .......... . "fatih reckoned as righteousness."
Do you have any real idea what that means? Your righteousness is as
menstral rags before the Lord. That is the state of affairs in your
life (and mine, if truth be told). So God has no choice but to look
elsewhere as He considers our plight. And He finds the answer in
Christ who reconciled all in His flesh and at His death FOR THE
PURPOSE OF holiness, blamelessness and being above reproach IN HIS
SIGHT (Col 1:22,23). It was Paul who taught us in this passage that
the fact of reconciliation was accomplished in Christ, in his flesh, at
His death and this reconciliation was for all on earth and in the
heavens above ------------------ all were reconciled during the
Incarnation Event. All !!! Book, chapter and verse on that, Terry,
my friend. You don't want to move on and and admit to the process
of intellectual repositioning in the Lord (read " growth), that is up
to you, but all that I have said is right there in the Book, in plain
sight.
JD
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Look a little farther in the book, JD. Paul has a whole list of people
who keep their sins and go to Hell
We are saved by faith. The evidence of that faith is our
faithfulness. People with a casual attitude about sin are not
faithful. They go to Hell. It's in the Book.
Terry
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