@@firstnamelastname9141 the disciples Asked Jesus, what must I do to do the Works of God. Jesus replied,to do the works of God is to BELIEVE on the One whom He sent.
Try explaining to your spouse that being faithful just means saying you love them regardless of who you're having an affair with. That kind of faith is an abomination.
Obedience is not a requirement for justification, but rather it is part of our sanctification. We are saved by Grace, through Faith. No where else does it mention that we add works. The thief on the cross who chose Jesus could do no works with his faith, and yet he was saved. This video complicates salvation.
The problem with that conclusion about the "thief on the cross" is that it assumes he was still a "thief" while on the cross. This assumption when considered has far too many flaws. The thief, before he went to the cross, was in jail. He was put in jail for obviously being a thief initially. However, the time he spent in jail, he was not out there stealing and or looting from others. When a person is in jail, they are serving a sentence for a crime. In the midst of that sentence, there are those that find a place of repentance for the sin(s) that landed them there in the first place. Not every person in jail remains the same person they were that landed them in jail. A person can do some simple research and see how convicts change while in jail. Not all of them, but some. To assume the thief on the cross was still a "thief" on the day he was put on the cross is a huge assumption and misses what actually occurred given what we see in the text. The thief on the cross, unlike the other convict on the cross, had experienced repentance. You can tell this by his reaction to Christ, he obviously either heard about Christ and or knew enough to see who Jesus was. He did not die a thief, he had repented of it prior to his time on the cross and its seen by his reaction and his words as I stated. Also, no where in the text do we see that the thief had no prior knowledge of the coming of Christ, pretty much all of Israel knew of the coming of Christ but their faith was not related to what Christ was and the promises to follow him, but rather WHEN and WHO Christ was. They all were looking for this coming of the Christ but their faith, as I said, was related to the WHEN and WHO. In our time, its now related only to the WHO Christ is because the WHEN already occurred and we believe that by faith and even by historic evidences now. So the malefactor as the gospel of Luke better puts it, definitely knew of the Christ but had no faith until he saw the Christ, that is Jesus and confessed it. To say that he could do no works with his faith doesn't add up to the text since it was not a lack of faith in Christ for all of the Jews were aware of the Christ but had no faith in regards to the timing and who it was. This is why Paul, as shown in the bible, was persuading people with the evidence at the time that Jesus was the Christ by showing it with the scriptures why he was the Christ. Furthermore, one need only read Paul's letter to the Corinthians to understand a simple truth. Paul tells us who will not inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. See that? Thieves will not inherit the kingdom of God. So its obvious that this man WAS a thief and was put in jail for being a thief, but he did not die a thief. He also did NOT die as a "believing thief." Let's definitely not go there into such deception. But rather he died in a state of repentance. Now people also want to be quick to say that the thief didn't have any "works" as though there wasn't anything good he could do as though his time in jail was just a place of limbo where no good could happen. This is obviously ridiculous and careless in thought for a person to think that there is no good thing to be done in jail for a convict as though it were just some void place destitute of anything and everything good. A simple TH-cam search can show the good that convicts in jail can do. There's a video of convicts helping to save a guard's life from other convicts and countless other good works while they are in jail. So case in point, the thief did not die a thief and we don't necessarily need to read what happened in his life while he was in jail to understand that he did not remain a thief at heart based on his response and reaction to Christ on the cross. This does not take any scholar or anyone special to see and understand. It only takes an honest person who is not seeking to excuse and make room for sin in their life and other's lives.
@@Miguel09z It’s irrelevant bringing up the way a person changes in jail as it has nothing to do with what I said. There is nothing wrong stating he was a thief as the Bible mentions the others being crucified with Jesus as “thieves” (or “Malefactor” - which is a criminal). What you stated doesn’t refute anything I said since the thief did not accept Jesus at first. If you read Matthew 27:44 where it mentions both the “thieves” (plural) were also mocking Jesus. He had not accepted Jesus at that point. So, no, there was not time for him to do some good deeds while in jail if he was still against Jesus at the time he was on a cross. Until someone accepts Jesus as Savior, then that person will be in their sins. Once a person has Jesus, then their sins are removed and we then have Jesus’ righteousness. This is a Christian's justification. Your claim if a person who doesn’t understand your view is seeking a life of sin is completely foolish. Nowhere did I say we seek out sin, what was mentioned, “obedience” is part of sanctification. Sanctification is us being more like Christ. You bring up a common fallacy regarding “sinners don’t get into heaven” argument. If you are saved, you are no longer a sinner, so that argument doesn’t apply to believers. As I mentioned above, believers have Jesus’ righteousness which means the thief no longer has that sin. Jesus PAID that sin debt. So the verse you quote isn’t for the righteous, it’s for the unsaved. To state that you must do good works, whether in jail or not, is to take away the “finished” work of Jesus on the cross and claiming you have to do something for your salvation and not have Jesus alone save you. I trust in God’s works to save me, not my works. What you are claiming is unbiblical and causes great deception and confusion within the church, by doing so you are dishonoring God.
@@473crown4 more assumptions that again lead to folly. As I stated from the beginning, your assumption that the thief on the cross was still a thief at time of his crucifixion shows a clear disregard to reality. It rather shows your desire that there is such a thing as a "saved sinner." Your denial of patience in well doing as Paul puts it unto salvation, shows where your stance actually is. So whether you say something verbatim or not to what I mentioned is quite irrelevant as your statements show exactly what I mentioned.
@@473crown4 what you do not see is that good works by those who are FAITHFUL, are the evidence of the finished work of the cross in those that believe and obey by their faith having the spirit and WALKING AFTER THE SPIRIT, not the flesh. Not this deception that you can have sin and heaven too... Christ is not a cloak to cover one's continuance in sin.
Thank you so much for this. I was so confused and I couldn’t understand, but this has really cleared everything up. God bless you for everything you do. You really are changing lives thank you.
This video is wrong. Faith means believing and certain actions are its result but not faith itself. "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." (Hebrews 11,1) ice cream eating results in gaining weight but it does not mean gaining weight. If I tell you to eat an ice cream, Im not telling you to gain weight.
@@pauluskim2028 so … when Christ says only those who obey God’s commandments love him and God will love them as his children, and everyone else is a child of the devil … what’s he calling you?
You are saved by grace through the faith in Jesus unto good works….. Think of it like this… what is the cause the grace you need? It is from Jesus or your works? It’s from Jesus, ……..now that we have establish where the grace comes from we know that , Your good works are not the cause of grace but grace is the cause of your good works
Christ’s sacrifice applies to each one of us personally at the time we learn of the gospel and at that moment we are cleansed of all the sins we’ve ever committed, washed in the blood of the lamb our lord Christ Jesus who is our brother, our savior, our intercessor, our high priest, our lord, the only begotten son of the living God of heaven. 2 Peter 1:9 “ for whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, *having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.* “ From that point on, we are to practice righteousness, walking as Christ walked, loving each other the way God commanded (his commandments) and hating what is evil. John 3:10 “ By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: *whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God,* nor is the one who does not love his brother. “ 1st John 3:8 “ *Whoever* makes a practice of sinning is of the devil “
The reason we see so little of God's Works and God's Saving Grace is because we're too busy doing our own works. Who can do the Works of God without God in him doing all the work?
Wrong. "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." (Hebrews 11,1) Its simple believing. It is this kind of faith needed to please God. Faith itself does not mean obedience, but it results in it. Eating an ice cream results in gaining weight, but it does not mean gaining weight. Just because the ephesians did all kinds of stuff as a result of their faith it does not mean that this was what faith itself is and that the results thereof saved them. The belief that one is really only saved by faith differs from the belief that one is saved by faith and having to repent and living a better life. Only the first one causes us to produce the right fruits
Whichever interpretation you fancy, whichever resonates with you the best is correct! That's the beauty of scripture. There are no incorrect interpretations so long as you come to them through genuine effort.
Mat 19:16 And behold, a man came up to him, saying, "Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?" Mat 19:17 And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. IF you would enter life, keep the commandments." Mar 10:17 And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Mar 10:18 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. Mar 10:19 You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother. Mar 10:20 And he said to him, "Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth." Mar 10:21 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." Luk 18:18 And a ruler asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Luk 18:19 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. Luk 18:20 You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.'" Luk 18:21 And he said, "All these I have kept from my youth." Luk 18:22 When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." Joh 14:15 “IF you love me, YOU WILL keep my commandments. Joh 15:10 IF you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 1Jn 2:3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, IF we keep his commandments. 1Jn 2:4 Whoever says "I know him" but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 1Jn 2:5 but whoever keeps his word (Commandments), in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 1Jn 2:6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. 1Jn 3:22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. 1Jn 3:23 And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. 1Jn 3:24 Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us. 1Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. Did you know Jesus gave us over 1,000 commandments in the New Testament! That He expounded upon the law given to Moses, and didn’t change it, as Deuteronomy states: Deu 18:17 And the LORD said to me, 'They are right in what they have spoken. Deu 18:18 I will raise up for them a prophet (Jesus) like you (Moses) from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command him. Deu 18:19 And whoever will not listen to my words (Commandments) that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. The TRUTH is The Word of God, and NOT the doctrines of men…
Notice how the man could keep the whole Law except the Greatest Commandment ("Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind soul and Strength") No one has ever kept the Greatest Commandment besides Jesus Christ. Everyone is guilty of breaking the Greatest commandment. Not only that, but everyone has HATED the Lord their God with all their heart soul mind and strength. That's why Jesus was Crucified. Everyone HATED Him. And He died. And was buried. And God raised Him up from the Dead to forgive everyone for Hating Him. If Jesus is dead, so are we, because we hated the Perfect Life of God. But Jesus is raised so we can be Justified. And you and I are no different. That's why we can only be saved from God's Wrath by Faith in God's Grace. No one without the Free Gift of the Spirit of Grace from God can EVER obey the 1st and Greatest Commandment. You cannot Love God without the Love of God being given to you first. If God doesn't freely Give you his own Love, His Grace, you will NEVER possibly ever keep the 1st and Greatest commandment because you're already guilty of the whole Law of God.
@@steelmilkjug God doesn’t require perfection, he requires obedience. The young ruler thought himself to be perfect until Christ pointed out that perfection would require more.
@@steelmilkjug but scripture says you have no excuse at all, for God himself promises to always provide a way of escape for every temptation we could possibly face.
“ No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. *God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability,* but with the temptation *he will also provide the way of escape,* that you may be able to *endure* it. “
@@BibleBasicsForSalvation Obedience to believe in and receive by Faith the Perfection and Righteousness He gave us in His Son Jesus Christ, whom He crucified for our sins, who died, and who He raised again to Eternal Life, justifying us before God.
@@frankie9899 that’s exactly what I’m saying Ephesians 2:10 explains it perfectly…. Ephesians 2:10 KJV [10] For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
@@denominationsdontsaveonlyj8896 Amen so you believe we don’t have to do good works because the verse says we should not have so we can sin all we won’t and still go to heaven because we aren’t saved by works but we still shouldn’t live that that
@@frankie9899 We must do good works….. the works of the law and good works are two different things, this is where many misunderstand Paul as Peter warns us in 2 Peter 3:15,17.
@@frankie9899 definitely don’t believe to sin all you like, it’s a death sentence if you do…. Jesus said sin no more, I stay by that but there are scriptures that warn you if you deliberately sin after you have received Jesus that you have fallen from grace.
Whoever here thinks they have turned to God, and repented of their sins, and has Faith in God, and is saved, without His Grace freely giving you all these things and His Grace working all these things in you (Repentance, Faith, Salvation), you have not turned, repented of your unbelief, or been saved. Until the Grace of God freely gives you repentance, Faith and Salvation, you don't have them or do any of them.
Faith in Christ gives us a clean slate so that we don't have that debt hanging over us as we go forward in obedience. Otherwise, no matter how righteous we become, the debt of our former selves is still unpaid.
Thank you so much. Faith through listening to the word and this faith draws the gift of Grace. You don't just sit back and just receive grace? You have to hear the truth inorderto believe and repent
Justification by faith is for cleansing of our former sins. We can’t go on disobeying God “by faith” and expect to be waltzed into heaven afterward. Unless we die immediately after our former sins are forgiven (on our death bed, or the thief on the cross, for example), we continue on in life and face various temptations. We’ll either choose to give into some of them or we’ll endure by taking the path of escape that God has promised to always provide. Christ is our intercessor for those who stumble and repent. Those who endure are approved, and those approved have the promise of eternal life and entry into heaven. One could easily argue that one approved by God and given to Christ will never lose that status, but it certainly does not refer or apply to someone that has merely had their former sins forgiven.
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Yes. You’re not saved until you hate sin and sinning. No one who is Born of God continues sinning. And there is not a righteous man on earth who goes continually and never sins. But there are people on earth with Christs Spirit who do not continually sin, and if they do sin, they repent to Christ and are freed from sin and His Spirit lifts them back up to walk again in Holiness. Christ is not the Power to go on sinning without punishment. Christ is the Power to walk in Holiness, walking free of sin. And the Power of the Promise that any sin that remains in our flesh will be overpowered and removed when Jesus Christ returns without regard to sin to transform and redeem our mortal bodies like unto His Own.
I think you misunderstand the concept of Faith here. When Paul said that you are saved by Grace through Faith it means that we have to believe in the Grace that God has shown us through what Jesus Christ did on the cross. You're right in saying that Grace alone does not save because God's Grace is poured out unto all creation by the death of Christ on the cross, yet the world is not universally saved, as they need to believe in His death and Resurrection to be saved. However, (points 3-5) is our response in being saved. When we get saved, we start to turn away from the world and sin as the Holy Spirit gives us our new life and sanctifies daily, we also start to proclaim the name of Jesus to the world and finally get baptized. Points 3-5 are not pre-requisites to be saved, rather they are the fruits of salvation.
“ The mind *governed* by the flesh is *death,* but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh *is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.* “
We are saved by faith from our former sins. That’s not the same as eternal salvation. We receive eternal salvation when we have shown ourself proven. God’s gift of grace gives us a clean slate, without which we’d have no ability to go forward in righteousness. After receiving salvation from our former sins, being born again in spirit, we are to go forth practicing righteousness to be approved. “ Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for *when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life* which the Lord has *promised to those who love Him.* “
@@frankie9899 keep telling yourself that’s the only verse in the entire Bible much? Not to mention, “believe” is translated from the Greek word “pistis” which actually means wholehearted devotion. It’s telling that you skipped over 3:10 which says, John 3:10 “ By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: *whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God,* nor is the one who does not love his brother. “ But let’s see what else John wrote, since you quote John … Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice and come out-those *who have done good* to the resurrection of life, and those *who have done evil* to the resurrection of judgment “ “ Whoever says, ‘I know him,’ but does not *do* what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. “ “ *Whoever* makes a practice of sinning is of the devil “ “ We know that we have come to know him *if we keep his commands.* ANYONE who says, “I know him,” but does not *do* what he commands *is a liar* “ “ Whoever has my commands *and keeps them* is the one *who loves me.* The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them. ” It’s not looking good for you.
By this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commands. The one who says, “I have come to know him,” and does not keep his commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him but whoever keeps his word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in him: the one who says he abides in him ought to walk just as he walked. 1 John 2:3-6
You mean, like adding the word “alone” after the word “grace”? 🤦♀️ “ For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, *your Father will not forgive your sins.* ” By your own logic, what could possibly be stopping you from building an entire doctrine around being saved by forgiveness “alone”? 🤦♀️
@@joebolling Again, do you keep all of Gods commands ?....Do you love your neighbour (ANYONE) as yourself ?...Have you sold al your possessions and given ALL the proceeds to the poor - but who needs to do that ? Luke 18 :20-22....I haven't, have you ? In that case which one of us is saved ?
@@robusc4940 Selling all you have isn’t a commandment, Lucifer. Yeshua told the rich young ruler it would be necessary if he wanted “to be perfect”. We are not required to be perfect. But even if I did so I would not tell you I did.
@@robusc4940 obeying God’s commandments doesn’t equate to sinless perfection, it is merely the bare minimum to qualify as a child of God; to obey God’s commandments and hold fast to our testimony about Christ. 1. God is God. Don’t have any other gods 2. Don’t make or worship idols 3. Don’t carry God’s name in vain 4. Don’t dishonor the weekly sabbath, keep it holy 5. Don’t dishonor your parents 6. Don’t hate or murder anyone 7. Don’t sensually admire or be physically intimate with anyone other than your spouse 8. Don’t steal anything 9. Don’t deceptively witness against anyone 10. Don’t desire without due regard for the rights of others Be forgiving of others, and don’t cause anyone else to stumble
I think it should be made very clear that Faith only is made possible by God’s Grace, without it we would still be dead in our sins. Having said that, the faith is “recognising” and trusting in the Grace that God has shown. And our response should be to joyfully live in a manner which glories Him.
I don’t believe this was an accurate exegesis of the scriptures posted. Indeed, grace alone saves - yet our reception to this grace is by faith. Baptism is not salvific, it’s an outward expression of your confession.
Don’t be absurd. By your own logic of using verses as standalone doctrine, “forgiveness alone” saves. For it is written, “ For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. “ Scripture says lawless people (people that don’t obey God’s law) are unstable and twist such things to their own destruction.
Came across a site called - doesgodexistandbeyond.com/saved-in-christ/ explains what one must do to be saved. Looks at the Christian faith with logic and reason, answering skeptic accusations, and other informed topics. Well worth a read.
@@dannyscott3427 This video is full of false teachings especially the baptism of water , Jesus clearly states that JOHN baptized with water but he with SPIRIT. The thief on the cross didn’t jump down and get baptized, to enter the kingdom. But these false doctrines come from arrogance of men and not the Spirit of God . They don’t understand that this is called being severed from Christ and an enemy of his grace
@@dannyscott3427 Yes , the LORD Jesus has done it ALL! This is why he says he came for the sick only...The sick will always know their need of HIS righteousness!
“ For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, *your Father will not forgive your sins.* ” So much for saved by grace alone and faith alone!
I agree completely. I just need clarification on one aspect. Baptism. When I grew up as a Catholic, I was baptized as a baby and told that it's necessary. When I was saved as a teen and became a Christian, it was stressed to me to do it thinking to myself that it is still necessary to be saved. In my adulthood as a Christian, I believe that baptism is a personal, willful expression that I'm already saved. So as I know the thief on the cross who was saved, didn't get baptized either as a baby or willfulness, I believe we are saved by grace through faith. I'm in favor of baptism, but don't think it's biblical for me to share the gospel to someone and stating that baptism is a prerequisite for heaven. Clarification please?
Hi there. Thanks for your comment and your honesty about your spiritual journey. Something that I noticed is missing from your thoughts is a Bible reference. How have you come to believe what you believe? I genuinely believe that we can have unity through the Word. So, can you help me understand how you are in favor of baptism but do not see it as Biblical? I'd love to know your thoughts on Acts 2:38, Galatians 3:26-28, and 1 Peter 3:20-21 for example. Thanks. Have a good day!
Hello my friend.. your logic is sound.. but it would help to have scripture to back it up, because you will get attacked with about 6-7 different single, cherry picked verses.. if you ever have any questions about verses you’re approached with that seem odd to you, feel free to reach out to me, because the Bible will never contradict itself.. water Baptism is definitely a command, and needs to be obeyed.. but it could never be a prerequisite for salvation.. otherwise, it would be up to the baptizer to grant or withhold salvation.. if you ever wonder about this, read Acts 10. Cornelius was saved and received the Spirit before he was ever baptized.. Also, with the thief on the cross, you have a great point.. some may try to tell you “that was Old Testament times”.. but Jesus died BEFORE the thief.. and Jesus never broke the law.. if He told the thief he would be in heaven, knowing he wouldn’t meet the “requirements” of the NT law, He would’ve been breaking the law
I’ll just give Scriptures on being saved.: “Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved” “Repent and be baptized, everyone of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit.” “Unless you believe I AM , you will die in your sins.” Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved. Whoever does not believe will be condemned” -Jesus “Go therefore into all the world and make disciples, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” “Repent and believe the Gospel”. If you have any specific questions, let me know my friend!
“Examine yourself to see if you’re in the Faith.” “if indeed the Spirit of Christ is in you.” “For it is with the heart a person believes and is justified, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in Slavation.” “If you will confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the Dead, you will be saved.” “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life thru Jesus Christ our Lord.”
So, faith is a gift from God? So, hearing the salvation message without this gift still leaves me in an unsaved condition? I can't choose God without His gift.
Grace "alone" has t be said because as if the apostle Paul didn't say it himself people keep saying as you say. He says it over and over i his letters....not by works of righteousness but by His mercy...not of works...if it be work it no longer is grace and vice versa...and finally he tells them of we start in grace we grow in grace. Grace in the Apostle Paul's letters implies alone. That is in fact his whole argument Romans Galatians and Ephesians! We are in fact saved by grace which implies alone meaning there is no human Merit at the beginning at the middle or at the end of your life because Grace has Paul says is not Grace if you had any work to it because they cancel out each other. That is why he famously says in Galatians.... Galatians 3:11-12 New International Version 11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God,(A) because “the righteous will live by faith.”[a](B) 12 The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.” Galatians 3:3 (KJV) ~~ Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? baptism in water is an outwardly expression of an inward truth that we are baptized by the Holy Spirit into Christ in the Inner Man and we are a new creation created in true Holiness by The Obedience of Jesus and not our own for by the Disobedience of one came condemnation so by The Obedience of one came justification by faith in his perfect work. The only baptism that saves is to be baptized by faith by the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ. Sono in a sense we are not saved by grace alone but by grace through faith and this faith is void of any work as Roman tells us but for him that work is not but believes on the one that justifies the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness. we simply say grace alone and we shouldn't because it is understood the grace must be alone and apart from our works but so that people may understand that Grace is just that we have to say alone but it is grace alone through the vehicle of faith apart from works of of righteousness that we have done. as you can see Romans make the distinction. 1. him that works not 2. Without works simply beliefs 3. his faith that has no works is counted for righteousness why because God only accepts perfect work for salvation and that perfect work is found in the person of Jesus Christ who by the spirit offered his body in perfect obedience to the father and has now manifested the righteousness of God by faith apart from works as Romans tells us. James is simply wisdom literature to already saved people on how they can escape our father's judgment in this life and the one to come and how to make that Faith alive and a prophet to others. all of this is simply a teaching that Faith somehow always always produces works and this is not true we Must Be watchful because our faith may not produce any works if we let the cares of this life stop our growth in faith and we may end up not bearing the fruit that Jesus wants Witcher and holy and be filled with many sorrows in this life in the one to come when we lose what God had an eternity for us raining with him but our home and our son ship is secured by The Obedience of Christ and we will be with him forever because of his great love towards us
Paul was raised as a Pharisee, practicing the laws of works required by Pharisees. When he converted he preached against their laws of works, and upheld the law that requires faith instead! You’re calling God’s law bad as if it is a law of works. “Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of *the law that requires faith.”* Romans 3:27 Laws of works are things like circumcision and washing of hands before eating. Laws of faith are things like not seducing your neighbor’s spouse, or not stealing. “ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. *Keeping God’s commands is what counts.* “
Faith without works is dead. James is cool. So I'd Abraham went halfway up the mountain, stopped, said to himself, what am I doing, "I'm justified by faith alone, turned around and went back down the mountain, would he have been justified by his faith?
Paul was rejected by the Ephesians. „Everyone in the province of Asia turned away from me“ ...And we have ...“To the angel of the church in Ephesus, I know that you have tested those who call themselves apostles (but are not) and have found them false“.
They did not loose their rebirth/calling. They lost entrance into the Kingdom of God/inheritance/choosing/soul salvation. Cant loose your rebirth/gift/justification.
@@Syd_aye7372 i guess the commandments are useless then.... and The Epistle of James clearly states it... the book of Romans or other books in the bible has no where mentioned Faith ALONE but James... care look at James 2:14-24 for me?? And think!!... the bible says that if it's written in one of it's books... wanna follow what the bible says then do it all dont just pick the verse you need but all...
I agree with most of this video, and good job. But it should be clear that repentance is a change of mind, leading to conversion (new heart). less sin will be the consequence of being born again. with human effort (the flesh) we cannot cease from sin. It’s only if we walk by the Spirit. It can’t be our job to stop sinning because that would be impossible. We must be born again first and then good deeds will come naturally. Two other things I find important to understand: water baptism plays no part in saving you, it is a celebration of your new birth in Christ. The spiritual baptism that happens after faith is our salvation, causing someone to become a new creature. also Jesus Christ didn’t provide an atonement for our sins. The word “atonement” implies a temporary covering of sins through an animal sacrifice that reminded the children of Israel of their sins annually. What Jesus Christ accomplished is exponentially greater than those temporary sacrifices. He provided a propitiation, or ONCE FOR ALL forgiveness, which means He took away our sins in such a way that He chooses to remember them no more, treats us as if we’ve never done anything wrong, and we don’t earn more forgiveness by confession.
Scripture often assumes you know the difference between sin that leads to death and sin that doesn’t lead to death. God doesn’t command us to be perfect, and therefore obedience to his commandments don’t make us perfect. They are merely the bare minimum to qualify as a child of God.
Great White Throne Judgement awaits those who place faith in their 'works' to be saved......BEMA Judgement Seat of Christ (rewards) is only for believers who place only and all their trust in Christ ALONE for Salvation
“ The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh *is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.* “ - Romans 8
@@mwanjeemmanuel5866 That’s a good example of how faith alone doesn’t cut it. If you have to do something to earn grace, it’s conditional. No one can really brag about being saved if God’s salvation is available to everyone, both believers and non-believers.
@@mwanjeemmanuel5866 By the way, when Jesus says "get away from me," it doesn't mean that God's grace isn't working on those people. It's still working through the fire of hell, which is a stage for purification.
Paul was raised as a Pharisee, they practiced a law of works. Paul referred to laws of the Pharisees as the law that requires works, and he referred to God’s law as the law that requires faith. “Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of *the law that requires faith.”* Romans 3:27 Examples of laws of works would be washing of hands prior to eating, or circumcision. Examples of laws that requires faith rather than works would be not seducing your neighbor’s spouse, or not stealing. I Corinthians 7:19 “ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. *Keeping God’s commands is what counts.* “
Hi Joel. Great comment. Thank you for differentiating between laws of works and laws of faith. I agree with your conclusion. I see the apostle Paul and the book of James as two sides of the same coin...how is a believer supposed to use God's commands? Paul was emphasizing faith over Pharisaical laws. James was emphasizing works (or as you say, laws of faith) over lawless/ungodly conduct by believers. What are your thoughts on that?
@@PureandSimpleBible “… works (or as you say, laws of faith) … “ No, when James mentioned faith without works is dead, he was referring to good deeds. Doing good. That is aside from and in addition to “not doing bad”. God’s laws of faith aren’t “works”, they instruct us that through faith we are not to do bad things. That’s not work. It is a *work* of iniquity to sin (and the wage of sin is death). It is *faithfulness* in Christ when we do not work such sin ( and the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord ) .
But isn't repenting in and of itself a work? My minister says we must repent and turn from our sins to be saved. He indicates that the repenting and turning is a work.
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8). Since the Father never changes this means that everyone who has ever been saved has been saved by grace through faith. When we apply this understanding to Noah for example, we see that the Father's grace are His Instruction to Noah of the impending flood and how to escape it. We're told that Noah believed the Father and his faith was able to overcome what he believed to place his faith and trust in the Father by doing everything just as the Father commanded. Noah didn't add to, nor take away from any of the Father's Instructions and as a result he was saved. If Noah didn't believe and place his faith in the Father by following His Instructions, he too would have perished. This understanding comes from the Hebrew word, "Sh'ma", which means to "hear AND obey". After all, what good would it be to know the truth but not walk in it? This is the simple understanding that James is trying to communicate when he says: " You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone." (James 2:24) an understanding he received from Ezekiel 18. To understand what it means to be the type of worshiper the Father seeks, visit our channel to watch our short teaching called, "Walking in the Spirit and Truth". Blessings!
@@twenty-fivethirty-six3946 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10. My minister pointed out that we were made for good works, as is stated in this verse. I found it fascinating.
The “work” Paul was denouncing was the works-based righteousness the Pharisees taught - their oral laws and traditions! You really do think Paul called not cheating on one’s spouse a dirty tampon in God’s eyes? I mean, Satan is an expert liar, but use some sense!
Sounds like you are spreading not the word of God, but the word of BibleBasicsForSalvation. You have no authority whatsoever to interpret even one word of scripture. Anyone who disagrees with your interpretation is a heretic. @@BibleBasicsForSalvation
this is misleading for God sake!. No body in this world can be perfect in obeying all the laws and commandments of God because we are all just human beings and are all come short of the glory of God. "Grace through faith can save" a very simple message how could you messed it up. You seem to be limiting the Power of Jesus Christ our God.
@@slfudct after God saved you through faith, what would you do in return?. Obey Him of course. A very Simple logic.. The bible says it all. God knows who among us he will be saved it is his power who save us not by our works.
@@jestonigajito6544 so, you’re claiming that you obey because you love him… scripture agrees in part, in that it says those who do not obey are children of the devil, and that we know we have come to *know* him if we obey his commandments. But for you to teach obedience as merely an option.. that it’s okay to obey if we feel like it, and also to sin if we want, is blasphemy against God’s grace.
Salvation from our former sins doesn’t guarantee you won’t sin again, it merely gives us a starting point if we are serious about turning from sin. Eternal salvation comes after we are approved through obedience, that is, enduring temptation and taking the path of escape that God is always faithful to provide.
An alternate title for this video could be ""Grace by works" or "Grace through Faith?""... Grace isn't earned through works, but if one truly "believes" and has "faith," these will manifest in the way that they live their life. "Works" would merely be a byproduct of a life of true faith.
“ The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. “
@@joebolling The Law kills by showing us our wretchedness in order to lead us to Christ where He is able to fulfill the Law in our heart so that the Spirit can bring life. Check out our short teaching called, "Walking in the Spirit and Truth", where we explore this in more detail. Blessings!
@@twenty-fivethirty-six3946 which law? The law that requires works maintained by the Pharisees? Or the law that requires faith rather than works, the commandments?
@@twenty-fivethirty-six3946 let’s not confuse salvation from our former sins, that is gifted to all, with eternal life in heaven which is granted to those who have been, through faithful obedience and testing, approved by God and given to Christ.
You're deceived brother. you're not rightly dividing the word of God because you do not fear any you do not have the wisdom of understanding. If you're a disobedient Christian you're living in unbelief unbelief in the Bible is faithlessness and weak faith.
@@jeffouellette9946 You're deceived brother, SAVED (enter Heaven) is by faith alone in Christ alone....rewards IN Heaven comes from works...no works=no rewards BUT STILL SAVED :)
@@robusc4940 saved from our past sins isn’t the same as *eternal* salvation. You’re combing them into one. When a person is “saved”, no sin from their past counts again them - all former sins are washed away and they can stand cleansed before God. Unless they immediately die in that cleansed state, life goes on and they face temptations which they will choose to either give into or endure. For those that endure, they are approved. For those approved, there is the promise of eternal life and entry into heaven (eternal salvation). For those who give into temptation rather than endure, there is neither the promise of eternal life nor entry into heaven.
@@joebolling Again you believe that a 'saved person' must continue to earn and maintain their saved status by what they do -- Faith AND works -- it's good for you that you no longer sin because if you do you are doomed ...No ?..You can sin ? What sins are allowed ? What sins doom a saved person to eternity without Christ ?...Provide a definite formula so that we can ALL know what to do
A breath of fresh air. I have collected a total of 23 scriptures referencing the necessity of baptism, and that is not counting how many verses are included. Will those who oppose baptism even read them when I try to tell them? Nope. They go back to their old standby that we are saved by faith, and that Romans 10:9,10 is the whole of the means of gaining salvation. (heavy sigh) Thank you!
Every Protestant that proclaims that we are justified by Faith Alone should HEAR these FOUR words by James 2:24 echoing in their heads: "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." "not by faith alone." The Protestant Scripture Twister Series #4 - Luther 2:24 th-cam.com/video/UoYYXo7wjdQ/w-d-xo.html
All I know is that when I try to do what is right, I fail, and God comes to me and tells why I failed to do right.... because I'm not Good. I'm Evil. And when I agree with Him and collapse at His feet, and He gives me Grace. And when I believe His Grace, He's pleased with me more than when I was trying to walk rightly myself. Of course He wants me to walk right. But not on my own. More importantly, he wants me to walk by Faith in Him, trusting His Grace, not trusting my sight or my legs or my strength or my own righteousness and power. We are saved by God's Spirit alone. His Grace alone. Because even the Gift of Repentance, Faith, and Salvation are all Gifts of His own Grace. I can take no credit for walking with Jesus. He says "Your faith has saved you" but we both know that even my Faith is a gift of His Grace.
And said faith isn't enough. Instead of worrying over grace, know you have it. Instead of worrying over faith, live in repentance and do works to keep it alive.
Doesn’t God promise to always provide a way of escape from every temptation we face? While we can’t achieve perfection, we most certainly can obey his commandments.
@@BibleBasicsForSalvation To obey His Commandments is to achieve perfection, dipshit. Are we to confess or repent? Go and sin more or ' Go and sin no more '?
@@firstnamelastname9141 there are two types of sins, sin that leads to death and sin that doesn’t. You combine the two and then say “I can’t”, and blaspheme God’s expectations of us. But you can’t even begin to hide your hatred of God or your animosity toward his commandments.
@@BibleBasicsForSalvation If we can’t achieve Perfection, who is Jesus Christ, why then does God command “Be ye perfect.”? Is God commanding the impossible of us? Yes and No. Yes, it is impossible for us on our own to be Perfect as Jesus Christ. But no, in that by Faith in His Grace and resurrection, we received His Spirit of Holiness, the Power of His Perfection living in us. So our Spirit is Holy, our soul is Righteous as God as it is covered in Jesus Blood, and our bodies, while having sin in them, will be transformed into His Eternal Holy Body at His return for those who eagerly await His coming. As the Scriptures say “He will return a second time without regard to sin” and “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed. in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” So our Spirit is already Holy and Perfect. Our Soul is already Righteous and Holy, and our Bodies will be when Jesus Christ comes from the Eastern Sky with the trumpet of God. God is completely, Holy Holy Holy (777) Holy in Spirit, Soul, and Body. We are Holy Holy Sinful (776) Holy in Spirit, Holy in Soul, but in sinful flesh. But He will make our 776 into 777 as Himself when He returns as He has promised.
I don't trust my works, my repentance, or even my faith. I only Trust God's Spirit of Grace and Jesus' Works, God's Salvation. I don't trust me or anything I do or anything I see or even my own faith. I only Trust God's Grace, the Spirit of God Himself and His own works.
@@steelmilkjug you’re claiming that obeying God is putting him to the test and therefor you must disobey him to obey him? That’s God’s plan for salvation? You and I don’t worship the same God. The God I worship abhors sin and will not reward it.
Grace thru faith, but is faith an act of works to you now, because it's not faith alone?it should be! Because grace offered, then you believed that thru faith, and that doesn't mean it's an act if works. My God, what a manipulation of what the Bible actually say. This sound dortrines cults like SDA or JW.
May I be saved by believing and holding fast to the Gospel Paul preached to the Church of God in Corinth? (1Cor 15:3-4) Please consider the following. Paul explained that the Gospel is the power of God to salvation in his letter to the Romans (Rom 1:16). In the same letter, Paul wrote that obeying the Gospel means believing it (Romans 10:16). Additionally, Paul explained to the Corinthians that baptism is not the gospel (1Cor 1:16). And as addressed above, he omitted baptism when he recounted the Gospel he preached as the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures in chapter 15 of his first letter to the Corinthian Church of God (1Cor 15:3-4). So if Paul preached faith in the finished work of our Messiah as sufficient for salvation, why is your message contrary to the Gospel Paul taught? Interestingly, Paul wrote to the Galatians that anyone contending for a different gospel other than one Paul preached is to be anathema/accursed/condemned/damned. Finally, how were 2000 people added to the church when they believed Peter’s message without being baptized in Acts 4:4? Notice, Peter and John were arrested while they were still speaking. There was no opportunity to administer immersion before those who heard the word believed and were added to the church. Does the Gospel have the power to save? Does the Gospel include baptism? I’d love the opportunity to chat if I’ve piqued your interest. You’re a clever guy. You have some skills. CDB at UAB dot EDU
Sadly, in today's world and in all walks of life, many are being taught that all one needs to do is believe and they will make it to heaven. Is this true? Absolutely not. The truth of this matter is “Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the friend of God," James 2:23. And the apostle Paul says, "They which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham," Galatians 3:7. But Abraham's faith was made manifest by his works. "Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?" James 2:21, 22. There are many who fail and will fall short of understanding the relation of faith and works that go hand in hand. They say, "Only believe in Christ, and you will make it to heaven, that we don't need to keep the law." But genuine faith will manifest obedience to God and His perfect law that is found in the Ten Commandments. Jesus had said to the unbelieving Jews, "If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham," John 8:39. And concerning the father of the faithful, the Lord declares, "Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws," Genesis 26:5. The disciple John, who dwells so fully upon love, tells us, "This is the love of God, that we keep His commandments," 1 John 5:3. This so-called faith in Jesus Christ which professes to release men from their obligation of obedience to God is not faith, but presumption. "By grace are ye saved through faith" (Ephesians 2:8). But "faith, if it hath not works, is dead," says the apostle James (James 2:17). Jesus said of Himself before He came to earth, "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart" (Psalm 40:8). And just before He ascended again to heaven, He declared, "I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love" (John 15:10). The Scripture so plainly says, "Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments" (1 John 2:3). The condition of eternal life is just what it has always been, just what it was in the garden of Eden before the fall of our first parents which was perfect obedience to the law of God, perfect righteousness. If eternal life were granted on any other condition short of this, then the happiness of the whole universe would be imperiled. Sin will not be found in heaven. Satan was cast out of heaven for breaking the law of God and not repenting from it. Sin is a disease. It is an illness that will kill us unless we cry out to God in repentance, turn away from sin and give our life to God. God and His children are at war with sin. What is sin? “For sin is the transgression of the law,” 1 John 3:4. Many profess that God has grace and He will forgive us even if we continue to sin. The Word of God says in Romans 6:15-16, “What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
@@poggykho2940 not true at all. In actuality some believers if not all will fail to obey the law. I'd say all will at soke point therefore no one will be justified by the deeds of the law. James is wisdom to be saved from God our fathers judgment in this life and at the seat of Christ when He judges His people for what they have done in the flesh and we will recieve what we have done whether good or bad. This judgment is not for salvation that judgement was done and finalized on the cross. John 16:9-12 King James Version 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. Jesus promises that he who simply believes on Him has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation as apposed to the law where it was a remembrance of sin continually. Hebrews 10 King James Version (KJV) 10 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. But Jesus sacrifice makes you perfect one time forever as apposed to religion and law.... 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. The law is done away with all together for salvation. Colossians 2:12-14 King James Version 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; It is nailed and we are dead to it so that we may live to God. Rom 7 King James Bible Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. We bring fruit by faith by adding to it and this is a life long process and everyone will be in different stages and growth when they die or Jesus come back... 2 Peter 1:5-15 New International Version (NIV) 5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins. 10 Therefore, my brothers and sisters,[a] make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, 11 and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We are called to and abundant entrance by adding to our faith these things but they do not save us or keep us saved. That was done one time forever per Hebrews. This is the hope of the gospel. This IS the good news of Jesus promise by faith in Him. 2 Corinthians 11:3-4 King James Version (KJV) 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. John 5:24 King James Version Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. I believe Jesus and His promise not religion not man not anything but my fathers promise so that I may bare true froot unto holiness.
@@dedios03 it's not about obeying the law it's about obeying the truth the word of God. But most Christians can't stand the truth and that strong delusion is happening right now.
Dont be scared, this video, like so many others, tie two concepts together and confuse them as one. The faith in Eph 2.8&9 is the gift given by God for you to believe and have confidence that you have been justified/reborn in Him and nothing can remove it or separate you from it. There is no works here, not repentance, not turning from sin, not baptism, just simply believing in what Christ has done for you on the cross and receiving/believing it. If this is you, you re saved from the penalty of your sin and as you grow in Christ and pursue Him the other things will come but not as staying saved/called but becoming a disciple/friend of Christ. If your interested in works ask me. God bless.
What a den of vipers this is. The stuff you people are saying is so absurd it would be laughable satire if not for the fact that you are teaching it as fact.
Isn't Faith repentance? And isn't repentance a gift too? For it is written of Esau "he could not find repentance, though he searched for it with tears." And isn't Faith a gift of the Grace of God, and not a wage for working? Is repentance a work of man or of God? If repentance is a work of man, then it's a work that earns a wage. How much repenting can you do to inherit eternal life or the Righteousness of God? Who being evil can convert themself into the Light of God if Repentance its not a Gift from God? But if repentance is a gift, then it can be received thru Faith in God's Grace. Repentance is turning from your works, both "Good" and "Evil" and trusting fully in God's Works on the Cross, death, burial and resurrection. Yes we must repent to be saved. But what are we repenting of? We are repenting of ALL our works, both "Righteous" and "Unrighteous" and turning to the Gospel of Christ Jesus, trusting 100% in the Grace of God in Jesus Christ work alone. If we must work to repent, than Jesus was crucified for nothing. Why did Jesus have to die if men can just repent of evil works and do good works themselves? They cannot, because since Adam, we're all evil. We cannot do any good. Even our "Righteousness" is evil in God's eyes. But If God works in Us to will and to do His good pleasure, then it's all the Grace of God, thru Faith, which God works in us. Salvation is God working in us. Not us working for or in God. Repentance is turning from our works and trusting in God's Own Works. So Repentance, Faith, Grace, and Salvation are ALL the Gift of God, not works which we do, but works which God does in us.
@@robertnieten7259 Faith is not works. Faith is ceasing from works. Faith is a Gift, not something you can earn. You cannot earn Faith. Repentance is not works either. Repentance is being turned by God from unbelief to Faith. How can you believe someone you haven't turned to? And how can you turn to someone you haven't believed? And how can you Believe someone who hasn't Given you a Promise of His Grace? True Faith produces works. Because it's God working in us. Works do not produce True Faith. Salvation produces works. Because it's God who works in us. Our works do not produce Salvation. Can you give birth to Jesus? Can you do the works of Christ without the Spirit of Christ? No. It's impossible. Apart from Christ, we can do NOTHING. Was Salvation born by the works of the flesh or the works of the Spirit of God? Salvation is not born of flesh by the will of man. He is born in flesh by the Will of God. You can do nothing to be saved. The harder you try, the more God will despise your works because you are not Trusting in the Spirit of God, but in the works of your hands. This is dead works, and fake dead faith. But True Faith is an undeserved and unearned Gift of God, which He freely gives because of His own Works. Even Jesus did not work the works He was given to do by his human flesh. He did everything by the Spirit of God who was working thru Him. A sinner cannot repent of his evil works unless God turns (repents) Him to Himself and gives Him Faith in God's own Salvation as a gift. It is God who works in us both to will and to do His Good pleasure. Man does not do the pleasure of God unless God does His own pleasure in man. You cannot repent without Faith. You cannot have Faith without being first given a Promise. You cannot get a Promise of God's Grace by working or by your own faith in your own works. The Promise of God, the Promise of the Spirit of Grace is by DEFINITION, the unearned favor and gift of God. You cannot get the Grace of God by doing anything "good" or "evil". You cannot earn salvation. It can only be given to you freely as a Gift. If you try to earn it, you insult God's Gift.
They (the Ephesians/et all) were justified/spirit reborn/called/OSAS/gift through the faith given them (gift) by the grace of God so they would believe.
This topic cannot be summed up in a 7 minute video. You are trying to redefine the term "faith" to force the text to agree with your doctrine. We are saved by grace alone, apart from works so that no one can boast. Works here refers to our efforts, which is why it says so that no one can boast. Your effort adds nothing to your salvation. Otherwise you would be boasting that you achieved salvation by your assistance to what Jesus achieved on the Cross. It clearly says apart from works. You mentioned James, but James is not talking about the same topic that Paul is talking about. They are not both talking about salvation. Only Paul is talking about eternal salvation. The problem is that many people misinterpret the New Testament on this issue because they are not starting with the correct foundation of salvation is by faith alone, which Paul makes abundantly clear in Ephesians 2. The reason why this topic cannot be summed up in a 7 minute video is because with a wrong foundational understanding, so many other verses must also be corrected because these "faith & works for salvation" people are misinterpreting many verses and not seeing their own contradictions when they are trying to explain their doctrine.
Hi Samuel. Faith is "hearing+obeying" God. If we say we believe Him but do not obey, then we are no better than demons. Even the demons believe in God (James 2:19) but that doesn't save them. What do you think?
0:03 You are totally wrong but I will believe you if you can show me One Person who was saved by calling on the name of Jesus and was saved by simply believing??? Let me answer that there is zero. I can give you example after example of people being saved in the book of Acts up to 3,000 in one day. Read the story before John 3:16, jesus tells Nicodemus no one can enter I to the kingdom of Heaven unless you are born of the water and Spirit. Now let me take you to the COMMANDMENT and gift Jesus left us. Matthew 28:19-20 then let's see how mark said this same commandment in Mark 16: 15-16, Luke gave the Place where people will be saved in Luke 24: 46-47 and John tells us who will start the Birth of the very first Church under the Dispensation of Grace in John 21: 15-17. Now Jesus ascended and let's go to the next book which is the Birth of the Church which is the next book Acts. Peter obeyed the commandment after they received Power from the Holy Ghost in Acts 1:13-15, 2: 37-41, 120 plus 3,000 were added to the CHURCH (Jews) in Acts 8:12-17 the Samaritans were saved one year later, in Acts 10: 12-17 the Gentiles were saved 8years later, in 19: 1-7 those Baptized by John the Baptist were rebaptized in Jesus name 22years later. So no where in the Bible will you find not ONE person simply believing in Jesus name and is saved it is non biblical and false. Repenting=death, Baptism =Burial and Holy Ghost = Resurrection as a new Creature, this is a COMMANDMENT not a work. The word not saved by works means you cant buy your way, be good, help others, or do good works to be saved. Repenting being Baptized and receiving the Holy Ghost is not being saved by works. This Doctrine you believe maybe only covers Repentance which is death, and there are alot of dead Christians walking this Earth who have not been buried nor Resurrected and put on Jesus GALATIANS 3:27. So my question to you is "ARE YOU SAVED AND PUT ON CHRIST?"
We are saved by grace through FAITH which means faith in ALL Christ taught, not only that He can save us. Works means the old law of Moses . See videos th-cam.com/video/tIQcGNvvihY/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/DIcP5B8hgts/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/SoKTE-wR4-k/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/7prrgVPywfc/w-d-xo.html
We should stop sinning. But we are justified before God even if we don’t stop sinning. It’s incorrect to say that we must stop sinning to be justified.
@@BibleBasicsForSalvation what we were talking about was justification and how that you either can be justified before God by either keeping the Law perfectly in the OT or now you can trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ. there is no other way to be right before God.
@@BibleBasicsForSalvation He's on some 3 sola, Protestant bullshit where faith without works is nit dead and God will be found a liar at the Judgment of Sheep and Goats.
To enter into the kingdom of God you must obey The Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of WATER and of the SPIRIT, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Luke 24:46-47 [46]And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: [47]And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all natiions beginning at Jerusalem. Then Peter said unto them, REPENT and be BAPTIZED (WATER) every one of you in the name of JESUS CHRIST for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. (SPIRIT) Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: ---That name is Jesus Christ as Peter states in Acts 2:38. (Jesus Christ) Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance (Jesus inherited his name from God his father) a more excellent name than they. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15. Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord. (Jesus Christ) Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name (Jesus Christ) under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 12. Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 13. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14. Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; ---No where in the Bible is it written to just say a 'sinner's prayer' and 'accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour' or 'once saved always saved' or 'grace alone through faith alone' to enter into the Kingdom of God. These are man-made doctrine. Please take these words seriously. It's not about me being right it's about the word of God telling you what you're supposed to do to enter into his Kingdom TO BE SAVED!! I say this to you so that you can be saved, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
God does Light Work. Unless you do the Works of God, you cannot be saved. It is God who works in us both to will and to do His Good pleasure. You who think you are doing works for God... God needs your hands for nothing. Unless His Gives you His Spirit and His Spirit does His Light Works inside you, you are dead in your worthless works and deceived by your counterfeit faith.
Teaching/believing 'works' to be saved in addition to what Christ did will get you a reservation to THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT where your works will be judged prior to sentencing....BEMA Judgement Seat of Christ (rewards) will be for believers who have placed ONLY AND ALL their trust in Christ ALONE not in their 'works'
Paul was talking about the law that required works in contrast to the law that requires faith. You’re calling God’s laws bad as if they are in with the same atrocious laws of works the Pharisees upheld. Paul was raised as a Pharisee and obeyed those laws until he converted and began obeying the law that requires faith instead - God’s law! “Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of *the law that requires faith.”* Romans 3:27 I Corinthians 7:19 “ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. *Keeping God’s commands is what counts.* “
@@robusc4940 the works based commandments the Pharisees upheld? No. God’s commandments that require faith? Yes. 1. God is God. Don’t have any other gods 2. Don’t make or worship idols 3. Don’t carry God’s name in vain 4. Don’t dishonor the weekly sabbath, keep it holy 5. Don’t dishonor your parents 6. Don’t hate or murder anyone 7. Don’t sensually admire or be physically intimate with anyone other than your spouse 8. Don’t steal anything 9. Don’t deceptively witness against anyone 10. Don’t desire without due regard for the rights of others Also, forgive others who have wronged us And teach others to do the same
@@joebolling and you keep ALL those commandments ALL the time ?..I don't and know of no other Christian that does, EVERY Christian I know sins in either thought, desire, deed, word or failing to do what is right, so they are not saved even though they place their trust/faith in ONLY what Christ did and not in themselves ?
Tell me how you're going to do the works of God, the works that Save, without the Free Gift of the Spirit of Grace doing the work in you... without God working in you BOTH to WILL and to DO His own good pleasure? LOL !!! Without God's Spirit of Grace doing the work, you're just working yourself into a Pit. And then working to climb out of the bottomless black hole that is your own soul.
I could go as far down the rabbit hole as anyone wants with this.. but faith is faith.. baptism is not faith.. baptism is a result of faith.. just like all other good works.. quit trying to redefine what faith is.. you don’t have faith by repentance, belief, confession.. a person who repents, believes, and confesses their sins DESCRIBES a person who has faith.. they are literally inseparable! A baptized person does not necessarily describe a person who has faith.. you could be baptized and not have faith, you could have faith and not be baptized (before you say “nOt BiBliCaL fAiTh”, I can gladly point you to the book, chapter, and verse that defines biblical faith).. and if you point me to Hebrews 11, I will point you to the fact that everyone mentioned in the “hall of faith” did those things as a result of their faith.. their obedience in and of itself was not faith.. it was BY (as a result of) faith.. just like we are saved BY (as a result of) grace, THROUGH (by means of) faith.. 100% by grace, 100% through faith.. but after saying all that, if you’ve put faith in Christ and are looking for an excuse to not get baptized, don’t look to me, and don’t look to the Bible, for that matter. Get baptized.. like now. Baptism is biblical.. water baptism in order to obtain salvation is NOT.. works based salvation ALWAYS leads to questioning your salvation.. it’s a viscous cycle that alternates between boasting (THEY aren’t really saved.. I AM) and doubting your salvation (have I done enough? Did I understand baptism like I should when I was water baptized.. completely undercutting Romans 4:16 that says “therefore it is of faith, that might be according to grace, that the promise might be SURE..” the promise is never really sure to those who hold to a works based theology)
@@firstnamelastname9141 hahahahahahaha!! How about this? You DO NOT post nonsensical comments with zero correlation to the comment you’re replying to.. What does the sheep and goats judgment have to do with baptism? Absolutely nothing. You’re trying to create a connection where there is none.. just like the way you try to create a way to make water baptism a part of faith, when that’s just not backed up by scripture. Period.. there’s actually some stuff in the passage on the sheep and goats that would terrify me if I were coc.. you all refuse to do anything, financial or otherwise, to feed the poor and help the needy.. “as much as you did not do to one of the least of these, you did not to me.. and they will go into eternal punishment.”… I mean, do you think you’re going to get to judgment day and God is going to say, “well.. I’ve seen that you made sure, although you used church’s money for nice landscaping and a new roof, you made sure you didn’t help one single needy person! Good job! That deserves a big Pat on the back. You will be rewarded for that!” Get real
its grace through faith brother and not the other way around. believing the gospel of Christ which is having faith in Him is how we receive God's grace🙌🏻 and yes, being saved makes us love Him and obey His commands as we realize how God first loved us while we were still sinners, thru His Son who became sin for us, in gratitude for our salvation ❤🙌🏻
“ For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, *your Father will not forgive your sins.* ” So much for saved by grace alone!
Obeying God’s laws of faith isn’t the same as performing works for righteousness, there’s a vast difference. It is written that God considers those who do not obey his commandments as hostile toward him! “ The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; *it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.* “
Very good at cherry picking verses and out of context to push YOUR faith PLUS works belief...Justification is by FAITH ALONE...works are part of SANCTIFICATION and are rewarded at BEMA...no works = no rewards BUT STILL SAVED :)
Good explanation. I would only add that complete salvation occurs at the JSOC and is the very essence of scripture that so many get confused. The inheritance/KOG is earned by sanctification not justification per Acts 20.32/26.18. The whole of scripture is to qualify us to reign and rule with Christ in the Millennium through salvation of the soul (1 Pt 1.9, Heb 10.39, James 1.21).
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Grace alone through Faith alone in Christ alone to the glory of God alone.
And do works.
@@firstnamelastname9141 the disciples Asked Jesus, what must I do to do the Works of God. Jesus replied,to do the works of God is to BELIEVE on the One whom He sent.
@@souzanemayes5670 And that faith is dead without your works.
" faith is all you need " so says the devil
Try explaining to your spouse that being faithful just means saying you love them regardless of who you're having an affair with. That kind of faith is an abomination.
Obedience is not a requirement for justification, but rather it is part of our sanctification. We are saved by Grace, through Faith. No where else does it mention that we add works. The thief on the cross who chose Jesus could do no works with his faith, and yet he was saved. This video complicates salvation.
That is why Paul wrote the book of Galatians in the first place
The problem with that conclusion about the "thief on the cross" is that it assumes he was still a "thief" while on the cross. This assumption when considered has far too many flaws. The thief, before he went to the cross, was in jail. He was put in jail for obviously being a thief initially. However, the time he spent in jail, he was not out there stealing and or looting from others. When a person is in jail, they are serving a sentence for a crime. In the midst of that sentence, there are those that find a place of repentance for the sin(s) that landed them there in the first place. Not every person in jail remains the same person they were that landed them in jail. A person can do some simple research and see how convicts change while in jail. Not all of them, but some. To assume the thief on the cross was still a "thief" on the day he was put on the cross is a huge assumption and misses what actually occurred given what we see in the text. The thief on the cross, unlike the other convict on the cross, had experienced repentance. You can tell this by his reaction to Christ, he obviously either heard about Christ and or knew enough to see who Jesus was. He did not die a thief, he had repented of it prior to his time on the cross and its seen by his reaction and his words as I stated. Also, no where in the text do we see that the thief had no prior knowledge of the coming of Christ, pretty much all of Israel knew of the coming of Christ but their faith was not related to what Christ was and the promises to follow him, but rather WHEN and WHO Christ was. They all were looking for this coming of the Christ but their faith, as I said, was related to the WHEN and WHO. In our time, its now related only to the WHO Christ is because the WHEN already occurred and we believe that by faith and even by historic evidences now. So the malefactor as the gospel of Luke better puts it, definitely knew of the Christ but had no faith until he saw the Christ, that is Jesus and confessed it. To say that he could do no works with his faith doesn't add up to the text since it was not a lack of faith in Christ for all of the Jews were aware of the Christ but had no faith in regards to the timing and who it was. This is why Paul, as shown in the bible, was persuading people with the evidence at the time that Jesus was the Christ by showing it with the scriptures why he was the Christ.
Furthermore, one need only read Paul's letter to the Corinthians to understand a simple truth. Paul tells us who will not inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
See that? Thieves will not inherit the kingdom of God. So its obvious that this man WAS a thief and was put in jail for being a thief, but he did not die a thief. He also did NOT die as a "believing thief." Let's definitely not go there into such deception. But rather he died in a state of repentance. Now people also want to be quick to say that the thief didn't have any "works" as though there wasn't anything good he could do as though his time in jail was just a place of limbo where no good could happen. This is obviously ridiculous and careless in thought for a person to think that there is no good thing to be done in jail for a convict as though it were just some void place destitute of anything and everything good. A simple TH-cam search can show the good that convicts in jail can do. There's a video of convicts helping to save a guard's life from other convicts and countless other good works while they are in jail.
So case in point, the thief did not die a thief and we don't necessarily need to read what happened in his life while he was in jail to understand that he did not remain a thief at heart based on his response and reaction to Christ on the cross. This does not take any scholar or anyone special to see and understand. It only takes an honest person who is not seeking to excuse and make room for sin in their life and other's lives.
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It’s irrelevant bringing up the way a person changes in jail as it has nothing to do with what I said.
There is nothing wrong stating he was a thief as the Bible mentions the others being crucified with Jesus as “thieves” (or “Malefactor” - which is a criminal).
What you stated doesn’t refute anything I said since the thief did not accept Jesus at first. If you read Matthew 27:44 where it mentions both the “thieves” (plural) were also mocking Jesus. He had not accepted Jesus at that point. So, no, there was not time for him to do some good deeds while in jail if he was still against Jesus at the time he was on a cross.
Until someone accepts Jesus as Savior, then that person will be in their sins. Once a person has Jesus, then their sins are removed and we then have Jesus’ righteousness. This is a Christian's justification.
Your claim if a person who doesn’t understand your view is seeking a life of sin is completely foolish. Nowhere did I say we seek out sin, what was mentioned, “obedience” is part of sanctification. Sanctification is us being more like Christ.
You bring up a common fallacy regarding “sinners don’t get into heaven” argument. If you are saved, you are no longer a sinner, so that argument doesn’t apply to believers. As I mentioned above, believers have Jesus’ righteousness which means the thief no longer has that sin. Jesus PAID that sin debt. So the verse you quote isn’t for the righteous, it’s for the unsaved.
To state that you must do good works, whether in jail or not, is to take away the “finished” work of Jesus on the cross and claiming you have to do something for your salvation and not have Jesus alone save you. I trust in God’s works to save me, not my works.
What you are claiming is unbiblical and causes great deception and confusion within the church, by doing so you are dishonoring God.
@@473crown4 more assumptions that again lead to folly. As I stated from the beginning, your assumption that the thief on the cross was still a thief at time of his crucifixion shows a clear disregard to reality. It rather shows your desire that there is such a thing as a "saved sinner." Your denial of patience in well doing as Paul puts it unto salvation, shows where your stance actually is. So whether you say something verbatim or not to what I mentioned is quite irrelevant as your statements show exactly what I mentioned.
@@473crown4 what you do not see is that good works by those who are FAITHFUL, are the evidence of the finished work of the cross in those that believe and obey by their faith having the spirit and WALKING AFTER THE SPIRIT, not the flesh. Not this deception that you can have sin and heaven too... Christ is not a cloak to cover one's continuance in sin.
Thank you so much for this. I was so confused and I couldn’t understand, but this has really cleared everything up. God bless you for everything you do. You really are changing lives thank you.
This video is wrong. Faith means believing and certain actions are its result but not faith itself. "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." (Hebrews 11,1)
ice cream eating results in gaining weight but it does not mean gaining weight. If I tell you to eat an ice cream, Im not telling you to gain weight.
@@pauluskim2028 so … when Christ says only those who obey God’s commandments love him and God will love them as his children, and everyone else is a child of the devil … what’s he calling you?
You are saved by grace through the faith in Jesus unto good works…..
Think of it like this… what is the cause the grace you need? It is from Jesus or your works? It’s from Jesus, ……..now that we have establish where the grace comes from we know that , Your good works are not the cause of grace but grace is the cause of your good works
@@denominationsdontsaveonlyj8896 being saved from our former sins isn’t the same thing as receiving eternal life in heaven. Not the same at all.
Christ’s sacrifice applies to each one of us personally at the time we learn of the gospel and at that moment we are cleansed of all the sins we’ve ever committed, washed in the blood of the lamb our lord Christ Jesus who is our brother, our savior, our intercessor, our high priest, our lord, the only begotten son of the living God of heaven.
2 Peter 1:9 “ for whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, *having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.* “
From that point on, we are to practice righteousness, walking as Christ walked, loving each other the way God commanded (his commandments) and hating what is evil.
John 3:10 “ By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: *whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God,* nor is the one who does not love his brother. “
1st John 3:8 “ *Whoever* makes a practice of sinning is of the devil “
The reason we see so little of God's Works and God's Saving Grace is because we're too busy doing our own works. Who can do the Works of God without God in him doing all the work?
Amen. I thank you for this. I was discerned this and God's word finally revealed this to me
Wrong. "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." (Hebrews 11,1) Its simple believing. It is this kind of faith needed to please God. Faith itself does not mean obedience, but it results in it. Eating an ice cream results in gaining weight, but it does not mean gaining weight. Just because the ephesians did all kinds of stuff as a result of their faith it does not mean that this was what faith itself is and that the results thereof saved them. The belief that one is really only saved by faith differs from the belief that one is saved by faith and having to repent and living a better life. Only the first one causes us to produce the right fruits
Exactly ! By their logic everyone should never sin after being saved and thus impossible
@wharzenr I’m happy for you and pray u never forget you’re a child of the king no matter where life takes you.
Whichever interpretation you fancy, whichever resonates with you the best is correct!
That's the beauty of scripture. There are no incorrect interpretations so long as you come to them through genuine effort.
Beautifully put, I would love to see a Spanish version of this
Mat 19:16 And behold, a man came up to him, saying, "Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?" Mat 19:17 And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. IF you would enter life, keep the commandments."
Mar 10:17 And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Mar 10:18 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. Mar 10:19 You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother. Mar 10:20 And he said to him, "Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth." Mar 10:21 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."
Luk 18:18 And a ruler asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Luk 18:19 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. Luk 18:20 You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.'" Luk 18:21 And he said, "All these I have kept from my youth." Luk 18:22 When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."
Joh 14:15 “IF you love me, YOU WILL keep my commandments.
Joh 15:10 IF you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
1Jn 2:3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, IF we keep his commandments. 1Jn 2:4 Whoever says "I know him" but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 1Jn 2:5 but whoever keeps his word (Commandments), in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 1Jn 2:6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
1Jn 3:22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
1Jn 3:23 And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
1Jn 3:24 Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
1Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
Did you know Jesus gave us over 1,000 commandments in the New Testament! That He expounded upon the law given to Moses, and didn’t change it, as Deuteronomy states:
Deu 18:17 And the LORD said to me, 'They are right in what they have spoken. Deu 18:18 I will raise up for them a prophet (Jesus) like you (Moses) from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command him. Deu 18:19 And whoever will not listen to my words (Commandments) that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.
The TRUTH is The Word of God, and NOT the doctrines of men…
Notice how the man could keep the whole Law except the Greatest Commandment ("Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind soul and Strength") No one has ever kept the Greatest Commandment besides Jesus Christ. Everyone is guilty of breaking the Greatest commandment. Not only that, but everyone has HATED the Lord their God with all their heart soul mind and strength. That's why Jesus was Crucified. Everyone HATED Him. And He died. And was buried. And God raised Him up from the Dead to forgive everyone for Hating Him. If Jesus is dead, so are we, because we hated the Perfect Life of God. But Jesus is raised so we can be Justified. And you and I are no different. That's why we can only be saved from God's Wrath by Faith in God's Grace. No one without the Free Gift of the Spirit of Grace from God can EVER obey the 1st and Greatest Commandment. You cannot Love God without the Love of God being given to you first. If God doesn't freely Give you his own Love, His Grace, you will NEVER possibly ever keep the 1st and Greatest commandment because you're already guilty of the whole Law of God.
@@steelmilkjug God doesn’t require perfection, he requires obedience. The young ruler thought himself to be perfect until Christ pointed out that perfection would require more.
@@steelmilkjug but scripture says you have no excuse at all, for God himself promises to always provide a way of escape for every temptation we could possibly face.
“ No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. *God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability,* but with the temptation *he will also provide the way of escape,* that you may be able to *endure* it. “
@@BibleBasicsForSalvation Obedience to believe in and receive by Faith the Perfection and Righteousness He gave us in His Son Jesus Christ, whom He crucified for our sins, who died, and who He raised again to Eternal Life, justifying us before God.
We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus name unto good works.
Jesus saves denominations don’t save good works don’t save we should do good works because we are saved
@@frankie9899 that’s exactly what I’m saying Ephesians 2:10 explains it perfectly….
Ephesians 2:10 KJV
[10] For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
@@denominationsdontsaveonlyj8896 Amen so you believe we don’t have to do good works because the verse says we should not have so we can sin all we won’t and still go to heaven because we aren’t saved by works but we still shouldn’t live that that
@@frankie9899 We must do good works….. the works of the law and good works are two different things, this is where many misunderstand Paul as Peter warns us in 2 Peter 3:15,17.
@@frankie9899 definitely don’t believe to sin all you like, it’s a death sentence if you do…. Jesus said sin no more, I stay by that but there are scriptures that warn you if you deliberately sin after you have received Jesus that you have fallen from grace.
Whoever here thinks they have turned to God, and repented of their sins, and has Faith in God, and is saved, without His Grace freely giving you all these things and His Grace working all these things in you (Repentance, Faith, Salvation), you have not turned, repented of your unbelief, or been saved. Until the Grace of God freely gives you repentance, Faith and Salvation, you don't have them or do any of them.
Faith in Christ gives us a clean slate so that we don't have that debt hanging over us as we go forward in obedience. Otherwise, no matter how righteous we become, the debt of our former selves is still unpaid.
This helped me so much thank you
Excellent message.
for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Philippians 2:13
Thanks brother thank u keep giving u more and more
Thank you so much. Faith through listening to the word and this faith draws the gift of Grace. You don't just sit back and just receive grace? You have to hear the truth inorderto believe and repent
Justification by faith is for cleansing of our former sins. We can’t go on disobeying God “by faith” and expect to be waltzed into heaven afterward.
Unless we die immediately after our former sins are forgiven (on our death bed, or the thief on the cross, for example), we continue on in life and face various temptations. We’ll either choose to give into some of them or we’ll endure by taking the path of escape that God has promised to always provide. Christ is our intercessor for those who stumble and repent. Those who endure are approved, and those approved have the promise of eternal life and entry into heaven.
One could easily argue that one approved by God and given to Christ will never lose that status, but it certainly does not refer or apply to someone that has merely had their former sins forgiven.
I invite you to visit our channel to watch our teaching called, "The Whole Gospel", to better understand what the death and resurrection of Christ actually accomplished. May you be blessed in your pursuit of truth!
Yes. You’re not saved until you hate sin and sinning. No one who is Born of God continues sinning. And there is not a righteous man on earth who goes continually and never sins. But there are people on earth with Christs Spirit who do not continually sin, and if they do sin, they repent to Christ and are freed from sin and His Spirit lifts them back up to walk again in Holiness. Christ is not the Power to go on sinning without punishment. Christ is the Power to walk in Holiness, walking free of sin. And the Power of the Promise that any sin that remains in our flesh will be overpowered and removed when Jesus Christ returns without regard to sin to transform and redeem our mortal bodies like unto His Own.
I think you misunderstand the concept of Faith here. When Paul said that you are saved by Grace through Faith it means that we have to believe in the Grace that God has shown us through what Jesus Christ did on the cross. You're right in saying that Grace alone does not save because God's Grace is poured out unto all creation by the death of Christ on the cross, yet the world is not universally saved, as they need to believe in His death and Resurrection to be saved. However, (points 3-5) is our response in being saved. When we get saved, we start to turn away from the world and sin as the Holy Spirit gives us our new life and sanctifies daily, we also start to proclaim the name of Jesus to the world and finally get baptized. Points 3-5 are not pre-requisites to be saved, rather they are the fruits of salvation.
Exactly.. "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." (Hebrews 11,1)
Faith = Believing
“ The mind *governed* by the flesh is *death,* but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh *is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.* “
We are saved by faith from our former sins. That’s not the same as eternal salvation. We receive eternal salvation when we have shown ourself proven. God’s gift of grace gives us a clean slate, without which we’d have no ability to go forward in righteousness. After receiving salvation from our former sins, being born again in spirit, we are to go forth practicing righteousness to be approved.
“ Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for *when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life* which the Lord has *promised to those who love Him.* “
Believe in Jesus to have eternal life John 3:16
@@frankie9899 keep telling yourself that’s the only verse in the entire Bible much? Not to mention, “believe” is translated from the Greek word “pistis” which actually means wholehearted devotion.
It’s telling that you skipped over 3:10 which says, John 3:10 “ By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: *whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God,* nor is the one who does not love his brother. “
But let’s see what else John wrote, since you quote John …
Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice and come out-those *who have done good* to the resurrection of life, and those *who have done evil* to the resurrection of judgment “
“ Whoever says, ‘I know him,’ but does not *do* what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. “
“ *Whoever* makes a practice of sinning is of the devil “
“ We know that we have come to know him *if we keep his commands.* ANYONE who says, “I know him,” but does not *do* what he commands *is a liar* “
“ Whoever has my commands *and keeps them* is the one *who loves me.* The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them. ”
It’s not looking good for you.
By this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commands. The one who says, “I have come to know him,” and does not keep his commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him but whoever keeps his word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in him: the one who says he abides in him ought to walk just as he walked. 1 John 2:3-6
All work that you do is your own. Don’t twist the worlds to help your point. That would be called “adding to the word”
Correct....this video appears to do just that -- 'adding to the word'
You mean, like adding the word “alone” after the word “grace”? 🤦♀️
“ For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, *your Father will not forgive your sins.* ”
By your own logic, what could possibly be stopping you from building an entire doctrine around being saved by forgiveness “alone”? 🤦♀️
@@joebolling Again, do you keep all of Gods commands ?....Do you love your neighbour (ANYONE) as yourself ?...Have you sold al your possessions and given ALL the proceeds to the poor - but who needs to do that ? Luke 18 :20-22....I haven't, have you ? In that case which one of us is saved ?
@@robusc4940 Selling all you have isn’t a commandment, Lucifer. Yeshua told the rich young ruler it would be necessary if he wanted “to be perfect”. We are not required to be perfect. But even if I did so I would not tell you I did.
@@robusc4940 obeying God’s commandments doesn’t equate to sinless perfection, it is merely the bare minimum to qualify as a child of God; to obey God’s commandments and hold fast to our testimony about Christ.
1. God is God. Don’t have any other gods
2. Don’t make or worship idols
3. Don’t carry God’s name in vain
4. Don’t dishonor the weekly sabbath, keep it holy
5. Don’t dishonor your parents
6. Don’t hate or murder anyone
7. Don’t sensually admire or be physically intimate with anyone other than your spouse
8. Don’t steal anything
9. Don’t deceptively witness against anyone
10. Don’t desire without due regard for the rights of others
Be forgiving of others, and don’t cause anyone else to stumble
I think it should be made very clear that Faith only is made possible by God’s Grace, without it we would still be dead in our sins. Having said that, the faith is “recognising” and trusting in the Grace that God has shown. And our response should be to joyfully live in a manner which glories Him.
I don’t believe this was an accurate exegesis of the scriptures posted. Indeed, grace alone saves - yet our reception to this grace is by faith. Baptism is not salvific, it’s an outward expression of your confession.
Don’t be absurd. By your own logic of using verses as standalone doctrine, “forgiveness alone” saves.
For it is written, “ For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. “
Scripture says lawless people (people that don’t obey God’s law) are unstable and twist such things to their own destruction.
Wonderful explanation. Thank you!!
You're very welcome!
Came across a site called - doesgodexistandbeyond.com/saved-in-christ/ explains what one must do to be saved. Looks at the Christian faith with logic and reason, answering skeptic accusations, and other informed topics. Well worth a read.
@@dannyscott3427 This video is full of false teachings especially the baptism of water , Jesus clearly states that JOHN baptized with water but he with SPIRIT. The thief on the cross didn’t jump down and get baptized, to enter the kingdom. But these false doctrines come from arrogance of men and not the Spirit of God . They don’t understand that this is called being severed from Christ and an enemy of his grace
@@dannyscott3427 Yes , the LORD Jesus has done it ALL! This is why he says he came for the sick only...The sick will always know their need of HIS righteousness!
@@dannyscott3427 AMEN ! God speed my brother blessings
Really good my friend ✝️
Thanks for listening
through means grace is built upon faith which is works (lest dead).
its grace alone that saves.
@@resteringsalonze9303 Correct.......faith ALONE in Christ ALONE
“ For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, *your Father will not forgive your sins.* ”
So much for saved by grace alone and faith alone!
I agree completely. I just need clarification on one aspect. Baptism. When I grew up as a Catholic, I was baptized as a baby and told that it's necessary. When I was saved as a teen and became a Christian, it was stressed to me to do it thinking to myself that it is still necessary to be saved. In my adulthood as a Christian, I believe that baptism is a personal, willful expression that I'm already saved. So as I know the thief on the cross who was saved, didn't get baptized either as a baby or willfulness, I believe we are saved by grace through faith. I'm in favor of baptism, but don't think it's biblical for me to share the gospel to someone and stating that baptism is a prerequisite for heaven. Clarification please?
Hi there. Thanks for your comment and your honesty about your spiritual journey.
Something that I noticed is missing from your thoughts is a Bible reference. How have you come to believe what you believe? I genuinely believe that we can have unity through the Word. So, can you help me understand how you are in favor of baptism but do not see it as Biblical? I'd love to know your thoughts on Acts 2:38, Galatians 3:26-28, and 1 Peter 3:20-21 for example.
Thanks. Have a good day!
Hello my friend.. your logic is sound.. but it would help to have scripture to back it up, because you will get attacked with about 6-7 different single, cherry picked verses.. if you ever have any questions about verses you’re approached with that seem odd to you, feel free to reach out to me, because the Bible will never contradict itself.. water Baptism is definitely a command, and needs to be obeyed.. but it could never be a prerequisite for salvation.. otherwise, it would be up to the baptizer to grant or withhold salvation.. if you ever wonder about this, read Acts 10. Cornelius was saved and received the Spirit before he was ever baptized.. Also, with the thief on the cross, you have a great point.. some may try to tell you “that was Old Testament times”.. but Jesus died BEFORE the thief.. and Jesus never broke the law.. if He told the thief he would be in heaven, knowing he wouldn’t meet the “requirements” of the NT law, He would’ve been breaking the law
I’ll just give Scriptures on being saved.: “Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved” “Repent and be baptized, everyone of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit.” “Unless you believe I AM , you will die in your sins.” Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved. Whoever does not believe will be condemned” -Jesus “Go therefore into all the world and make disciples, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” “Repent and believe the Gospel”. If you have any specific questions, let me know my friend!
“Examine yourself to see if you’re in the Faith.” “if indeed the Spirit of Christ is in you.” “For it is with the heart a person believes and is justified, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in Slavation.” “If you will confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the Dead, you will be saved.” “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life thru Jesus Christ our Lord.”
THANK-YOU FOR THIS !!!!
So, faith is a gift from God? So, hearing the salvation message without this gift still leaves me in an unsaved condition? I can't choose God without His gift.
Grace "alone" has t be said because as if the apostle Paul didn't say it himself people keep saying as you say. He says it over and over i his letters....not by works of righteousness but by His mercy...not of works...if it be work it no longer is grace and vice versa...and finally he tells them of we start in grace we grow in grace. Grace in the Apostle Paul's letters implies alone. That is in fact his whole argument Romans Galatians and Ephesians! We are in fact saved by grace which implies alone meaning there is no human Merit at the beginning at the middle or at the end of your life because Grace has Paul says is not Grace if you had any work to it because they cancel out each other. That is why he famously says in Galatians....
Galatians 3:11-12
New International Version
11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God,(A) because “the righteous will live by faith.”[a](B) 12 The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.”
Galatians 3:3 (KJV) ~~ Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
baptism in water is an outwardly expression of an inward truth that we are baptized by the Holy Spirit into Christ in the Inner Man and we are a new creation created in true Holiness by The Obedience of Jesus and not our own for by the Disobedience of one came condemnation so by The Obedience of one came justification by faith in his perfect work. The only baptism that saves is to be baptized by faith by the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ.
Sono in a sense we are not saved by grace alone but by grace through faith and this faith is void of any work as Roman tells us but for him that work is not but believes on the one that justifies the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness. we simply say grace alone and we shouldn't because it is understood the grace must be alone and apart from our works but so that people may understand that Grace is just that we have to say alone but it is grace alone through the vehicle of faith apart from works of of righteousness that we have done.
as you can see Romans make the distinction.
1. him that works not
2. Without works simply beliefs
3. his faith that has no works is counted for righteousness
why because God only accepts perfect work for salvation and that perfect work is found in the person of Jesus Christ who by the spirit offered his body in perfect obedience to the father and has now manifested the righteousness of God by faith apart from works as Romans tells us.
James is simply wisdom literature to already saved people on how they can escape our father's judgment in this life and the one to come and how to make that Faith alive and a prophet to others.
all of this is simply a teaching that Faith somehow always always produces works and this is not true we Must Be watchful because our faith may not produce any works if we let the cares of this life stop our growth in faith and we may end up not bearing the fruit that Jesus wants Witcher and holy and be filled with many sorrows in this life in the one to come when we lose what God had an eternity for us raining with him but our home and our son ship is secured by The Obedience of Christ and we will be with him forever because of his great love towards us
Amen! Faith in what jesus has done on the cross for us!
@@thomasmanders255 amen dear friend
Paul was raised as a Pharisee, practicing the laws of works required by Pharisees. When he converted he preached against their laws of works, and upheld the law that requires faith instead! You’re calling God’s law bad as if it is a law of works.
“Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of *the law that requires faith.”* Romans 3:27
Laws of works are things like circumcision and washing of hands before eating. Laws of faith are things like not seducing your neighbor’s spouse, or not stealing.
“ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. *Keeping God’s commands is what counts.* “
Faith without works is dead. James is cool. So I'd Abraham went halfway up the mountain, stopped, said to himself, what am I doing, "I'm justified by faith alone, turned around and went back down the mountain, would he have been justified by his faith?
Faith works through love. No love, no Jesus. No love, no works. No works of love, no Jesus.
Paul was rejected by the Ephesians. „Everyone in the province of Asia turned away from me“ ...And we have ...“To the angel of the church in Ephesus, I know that you have tested those who call themselves apostles (but are not) and have found them false“.
They did not loose their rebirth/calling. They lost entrance into the Kingdom of God/inheritance/choosing/soul salvation. Cant loose your rebirth/gift/justification.
Do we Do Good Works In Order to be saved or Because we are Saved
Without work... faith is useless
Without faith... work is useless
Meaning: they both goes together... faith and work through Love
Good works after u are saves
@@Syd_aye7372 ur not saved once... good work also lead to being saved
@@charlesignatius3521 good works don’t lead to being saved
@@Syd_aye7372 i guess the commandments are useless then.... and The Epistle of James clearly states it... the book of Romans or other books in the bible has no where mentioned Faith ALONE but James... care look at James 2:14-24 for me?? And think!!... the bible says that if it's written in one of it's books... wanna follow what the bible says then do it all dont just pick the verse you need but all...
I agree with most of this video, and good job. But it should be clear that repentance is a change of mind, leading to conversion (new heart). less sin will be the consequence of being born again. with human effort (the flesh) we cannot cease from sin. It’s only if we walk by the Spirit. It can’t be our job to stop sinning because that would be impossible. We must be born again first and then good deeds will come naturally.
Two other things I find important to understand:
water baptism plays no part in saving you, it is a celebration of your new birth in Christ. The spiritual baptism that happens after faith is our salvation, causing someone to become a new creature.
also Jesus Christ didn’t provide an atonement for our sins. The word “atonement” implies a temporary covering of sins through an animal sacrifice that reminded the children of Israel of their sins annually. What Jesus Christ accomplished is exponentially greater than those temporary sacrifices. He provided a propitiation, or ONCE FOR ALL forgiveness, which means He took away our sins in such a way that He chooses to remember them no more, treats us as if we’ve never done anything wrong, and we don’t earn more forgiveness by confession.
"also Jesus Christ didn’t provide an atonement for our sins. "
It is called Widduy
Scripture often assumes you know the difference between sin that leads to death and sin that doesn’t lead to death. God doesn’t command us to be perfect, and therefore obedience to his commandments don’t make us perfect. They are merely the bare minimum to qualify as a child of God.
Amen and Amen!
Are you dividing the word according to Paul in 2 Tim 2:15 ???
Great White Throne Judgement awaits those who place faith in their 'works' to be saved......BEMA Judgement Seat of Christ (rewards) is only for believers who place only and all their trust in Christ ALONE for Salvation
Where did the bible say turning from sin
Where
Edit: it was Ezikiel
Turning from sins and repentance are not the same
“ The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh *is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.* “ - Romans 8
“ A longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but *fools* detest turning from evil. “
Does being unfaithful stop God's grace from working?
Yess at the close of probation,
Matthew 7:23 he will say unto them away from me you evildoers.
@@mwanjeemmanuel5866 That’s a good example of how faith alone doesn’t cut it. If you have to do something to earn grace, it’s conditional. No one can really brag about being saved if God’s salvation is available to everyone, both believers and non-believers.
@@mwanjeemmanuel5866 By the way, when Jesus says "get away from me," it doesn't mean that God's grace isn't working on those people. It's still working through the fire of hell, which is a stage for purification.
Paul was raised as a Pharisee, they practiced a law of works. Paul referred to laws of the Pharisees as the law that requires works, and he referred to God’s law as the law that requires faith.
“Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of *the law that requires faith.”* Romans 3:27
Examples of laws of works would be washing of hands prior to eating, or circumcision. Examples of laws that requires faith rather than works would be not seducing your neighbor’s spouse, or not stealing.
I Corinthians 7:19 “ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. *Keeping God’s commands is what counts.* “
Hi Joel. Great comment. Thank you for differentiating between laws of works and laws of faith. I agree with your conclusion. I see the apostle Paul and the book of James as two sides of the same coin...how is a believer supposed to use God's commands? Paul was emphasizing faith over Pharisaical laws. James was emphasizing works (or as you say, laws of faith) over lawless/ungodly conduct by believers. What are your thoughts on that?
@@PureandSimpleBible “… works (or as you say, laws of faith) … “
No, when James mentioned faith without works is dead, he was referring to good deeds. Doing good. That is aside from and in addition to “not doing bad”.
God’s laws of faith aren’t “works”, they instruct us that through faith we are not to do bad things. That’s not work.
It is a *work* of iniquity to sin (and the wage of sin is death). It is *faithfulness* in Christ when we do not work such sin ( and the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord )
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But isn't repenting in and of itself a work? My minister says we must repent and turn from our sins to be saved. He indicates that the repenting and turning is a work.
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8). Since the Father never changes this means that everyone who has ever been saved has been saved by grace through faith. When we apply this understanding to Noah for example, we see that the Father's grace are His Instruction to Noah of the impending flood and how to escape it. We're told that Noah believed the Father and his faith was able to overcome what he believed to place his faith and trust in the Father by doing everything just as the Father commanded. Noah didn't add to, nor take away from any of the Father's Instructions and as a result he was saved. If Noah didn't believe and place his faith in the Father by following His Instructions, he too would have perished. This understanding comes from the Hebrew word, "Sh'ma", which means to "hear AND obey". After all, what good would it be to know the truth but not walk in it? This is the simple understanding that James is trying to communicate when he says: " You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone." (James 2:24) an understanding he received from Ezekiel 18. To understand what it means to be the type of worshiper the Father seeks, visit our channel to watch our short teaching called, "Walking in the Spirit and Truth". Blessings!
@@twenty-fivethirty-six3946 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10. My minister pointed out that we were made for good works, as is stated in this verse. I found it fascinating.
The “work” Paul was denouncing was the works-based righteousness the Pharisees taught - their oral laws and traditions! You really do think Paul called not cheating on one’s spouse a dirty tampon in God’s eyes? I mean, Satan is an expert liar, but use some sense!
Sounds like you are spreading not the word of God, but the word of BibleBasicsForSalvation. You have no authority whatsoever to interpret even one word of scripture. Anyone who disagrees with your interpretation is a heretic. @@BibleBasicsForSalvation
Eph 2:8-9 and jam 2 are at odds with each other.
Their part of 2 different Gospels as explained in Gal 2:7-9
this is misleading for God sake!. No body in this world can be perfect in obeying
all the laws and commandments of God because we are all just human beings and are all come short of the glory of God. "Grace through faith can save" a very simple message how could you messed it up. You seem to be limiting the Power of Jesus Christ our God.
@@slfudct after God saved you through faith, what would you do in return?. Obey Him of course. A very Simple logic.. The bible says it all. God knows who among us he will be saved it is his power who save us not by our works.
@@slfudct uhhh I think you need to really research the sermon on the mount
@@jestonigajito6544 so, you’re claiming that you obey because you love him… scripture agrees in part, in that it says those who do not obey are children of the devil, and that we know we have come to *know* him if we obey his commandments. But for you to teach obedience as merely an option.. that it’s okay to obey if we feel like it, and also to sin if we want, is blasphemy against God’s grace.
“ and, once made perfect, he became the source of *eternal* salvation *for all who obey him.* “
Salvation from our former sins doesn’t guarantee you won’t sin again, it merely gives us a starting point if we are serious about turning from sin. Eternal salvation comes after we are approved through obedience, that is, enduring temptation and taking the path of escape that God is always faithful to provide.
An alternate title for this video could be ""Grace by works" or "Grace through Faith?""... Grace isn't earned through works, but if one truly "believes" and has "faith," these will manifest in the way that they live their life. "Works" would merely be a byproduct of a life of true faith.
Please someone answer now I’m just confused
What is it?
“ The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. “
@@joebolling The Law kills by showing us our wretchedness in order to lead us to Christ where He is able to fulfill the Law in our heart so that the Spirit can bring life. Check out our short teaching called, "Walking in the Spirit and Truth", where we explore this in more detail. Blessings!
@@twenty-fivethirty-six3946 which law? The law that requires works maintained by the Pharisees? Or the law that requires faith rather than works, the commandments?
@@twenty-fivethirty-six3946 let’s not confuse salvation from our former sins, that is gifted to all, with eternal life in heaven which is granted to those who have been, through faithful obedience and testing, approved by God and given to Christ.
Taken out of context. Back up to Eph. 2:4-5 and we see that Paul says we are saved by grace with no qualifiers.
You're deceived brother. you're not rightly dividing the word of God because you do not fear any you do not have the wisdom of understanding. If you're a disobedient Christian you're living in unbelief unbelief in the Bible is faithlessness and weak faith.
@@jeffouellette9946 You're deceived brother, SAVED (enter Heaven) is by faith alone in Christ alone....rewards IN Heaven comes from works...no works=no rewards BUT STILL SAVED :)
@@robusc4940 saved from our past sins isn’t the same as *eternal* salvation. You’re combing them into one. When a person is “saved”, no sin from their past counts again them - all former sins are washed away and they can stand cleansed before God. Unless they immediately die in that cleansed state, life goes on and they face temptations which they will choose to either give into or endure. For those that endure, they are approved. For those approved, there is the promise of eternal life and entry into heaven (eternal salvation). For those who give into temptation rather than endure, there is neither the promise of eternal life nor entry into heaven.
@@joebolling Again you believe that a 'saved person' must continue to earn and maintain their saved status by what they do -- Faith AND works -- it's good for you that you no longer sin because if you do you are doomed ...No ?..You can sin ? What sins are allowed ? What sins doom a saved person to eternity without Christ ?...Provide a definite formula so that we can ALL know what to do
False Calvinistic doctrine.
A breath of fresh air. I have collected a total of 23 scriptures referencing the necessity of baptism, and that is not counting how many verses are included. Will those who oppose baptism even read them when I try to tell them? Nope. They go back to their old standby that we are saved by faith, and that Romans 10:9,10 is the whole of the means of gaining salvation. (heavy sigh) Thank you!
Baptism is the first step in sanctification/chosen/works/salvation of the soul, and not justification/spirit rebirth/called/gift.
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All I know is that when I try to do what is right, I fail, and God comes to me and tells why I failed to do right.... because I'm not Good. I'm Evil. And when I agree with Him and collapse at His feet, and He gives me Grace. And when I believe His Grace, He's pleased with me more than when I was trying to walk rightly myself. Of course He wants me to walk right. But not on my own. More importantly, he wants me to walk by Faith in Him, trusting His Grace, not trusting my sight or my legs or my strength or my own righteousness and power. We are saved by God's Spirit alone. His Grace alone. Because even the Gift of Repentance, Faith, and Salvation are all Gifts of His own Grace. I can take no credit for walking with Jesus. He says "Your faith has saved you" but we both know that even my Faith is a gift of His Grace.
And said faith isn't enough. Instead of worrying over grace, know you have it. Instead of worrying over faith, live in repentance and do works to keep it alive.
Doesn’t God promise to always provide a way of escape from every temptation we face? While we can’t achieve perfection, we most certainly can obey his commandments.
@@BibleBasicsForSalvation To obey His Commandments is to achieve perfection, dipshit.
Are we to confess or repent? Go and sin more or ' Go and sin no more '?
@@firstnamelastname9141 there are two types of sins, sin that leads to death and sin that doesn’t. You combine the two and then say “I can’t”, and blaspheme God’s expectations of us. But you can’t even begin to hide your hatred of God or your animosity toward his commandments.
@@BibleBasicsForSalvation If we can’t achieve Perfection, who is Jesus Christ, why then does God command “Be ye perfect.”? Is God commanding the impossible of us? Yes and No. Yes, it is impossible for us on our own to be Perfect as Jesus Christ. But no, in that by Faith in His Grace and resurrection, we received His Spirit of Holiness, the Power of His Perfection living in us. So our Spirit is Holy, our soul is Righteous as God as it is covered in Jesus Blood, and our bodies, while having sin in them, will be transformed into His Eternal Holy Body at His return for those who eagerly await His coming. As the Scriptures say “He will return a second time without regard to sin” and “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed. in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.”
So our Spirit is already Holy and Perfect. Our Soul is already Righteous and Holy, and our Bodies will be when Jesus Christ comes from the Eastern Sky with the trumpet of God. God is completely, Holy Holy Holy (777) Holy in Spirit, Soul, and Body. We are Holy Holy Sinful (776) Holy in Spirit, Holy in Soul, but in sinful flesh. But He will make our 776 into 777 as Himself when He returns as He has promised.
I don't trust my works, my repentance, or even my faith. I only Trust God's Spirit of Grace and Jesus' Works, God's Salvation. I don't trust me or anything I do or anything I see or even my own faith. I only Trust God's Grace, the Spirit of God Himself and His own works.
And w that, do works.
@@firstnamelastname9141 It is written, "Thou shalt not put the Lord thy God to the Test."
@@steelmilkjug It is also written " saved by faith alone " , only once, and in a verse telling us we are in fact not.
@@steelmilkjug you’re claiming that obeying God is putting him to the test and therefor you must disobey him to obey him? That’s God’s plan for salvation? You and I don’t worship the same God. The God I worship abhors sin and will not reward it.
Grace thru faith, but is faith an act of works to you now, because it's not faith alone?it should be! Because grace offered, then you believed that thru faith, and that doesn't mean it's an act if works. My God, what a manipulation of what the Bible actually say. This sound dortrines cults like SDA or JW.
May I be saved by believing and holding fast to the Gospel Paul preached to the Church of God in Corinth? (1Cor 15:3-4)
Please consider the following.
Paul explained that the Gospel is the power of God to salvation in his letter to the Romans (Rom 1:16).
In the same letter, Paul wrote that obeying the Gospel means believing it (Romans 10:16).
Additionally, Paul explained to the Corinthians that baptism is not the gospel (1Cor 1:16). And as addressed above, he omitted baptism when he recounted the Gospel he preached as the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures in chapter 15 of his first letter to the Corinthian Church of God (1Cor 15:3-4).
So if Paul preached faith in the finished work of our Messiah as sufficient for salvation, why is your message contrary to the Gospel Paul taught? Interestingly, Paul wrote to the Galatians that anyone contending for a different gospel other than one Paul preached is to be anathema/accursed/condemned/damned.
Finally, how were 2000 people added to the church when they believed Peter’s message without being baptized in Acts 4:4? Notice, Peter and John were arrested while they were still speaking. There was no opportunity to administer immersion before those who heard the word believed and were added to the church.
Does the Gospel have the power to save?
Does the Gospel include baptism?
I’d love the opportunity to chat if I’ve piqued your interest.
You’re a clever guy.
You have some skills.
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Sadly, in today's world and in all walks of life, many are being taught that all one needs to do is believe and they will make it to heaven. Is this true? Absolutely not. The truth of this matter is “Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the friend of God," James 2:23. And the apostle Paul says, "They which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham," Galatians 3:7. But Abraham's faith was made manifest by his works. "Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?" James 2:21, 22.
There are many who fail and will fall short of understanding the relation of faith and works that go hand in hand. They say, "Only believe in Christ, and you will make it to heaven, that we don't need to keep the law." But genuine faith will manifest obedience to God and His perfect law that is found in the Ten Commandments. Jesus had said to the unbelieving Jews, "If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham," John 8:39. And concerning the father of the faithful, the Lord declares, "Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws," Genesis 26:5.
The disciple John, who dwells so fully upon love, tells us, "This is the love of God, that we keep His commandments," 1 John 5:3. This so-called faith in Jesus Christ which professes to release men from their obligation of obedience to God is not faith, but presumption. "By grace are ye saved through faith" (Ephesians 2:8). But "faith, if it hath not works, is dead," says the apostle James (James 2:17). Jesus said of Himself before He came to earth, "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart" (Psalm 40:8). And just before He ascended again to heaven, He declared, "I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love" (John 15:10). The Scripture so plainly says, "Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments" (1 John 2:3).
The condition of eternal life is just what it has always been, just what it was in the garden of Eden before the fall of our first parents which was perfect obedience to the law of God, perfect righteousness. If eternal life were granted on any other condition short of this, then the happiness of the whole universe would be imperiled. Sin will not be found in heaven. Satan was cast out of heaven for breaking the law of God and not repenting from it. Sin is a disease. It is an illness that will kill us unless we cry out to God in repentance, turn away from sin and give our life to God.
God and His children are at war with sin. What is sin? “For sin is the transgression of the law,” 1 John 3:4. Many profess that God has grace and He will forgive us even if we continue to sin. The Word of God says in Romans 6:15-16, “What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
@@poggykho2940 not true at all. In actuality some believers if not all will fail to obey the law. I'd say all will at soke point therefore no one will be justified by the deeds of the law. James is wisdom to be saved from God our fathers judgment in this life and at the seat of Christ when He judges His people for what they have done in the flesh and we will recieve what we have done whether good or bad. This judgment is not for salvation that judgement was done and finalized on the cross.
John 16:9-12
King James Version
9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;
10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
Jesus promises that he who simply believes on Him has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation as apposed to the law where it was a remembrance of sin continually.
Hebrews 10 King James Version (KJV)
10 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
But Jesus sacrifice makes you perfect one time forever as apposed to religion and law....
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
The law is done away with all together for salvation.
Colossians 2:12-14
King James Version
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
It is nailed and we are dead to it so that we may live to God.
Rom 7
King James Bible
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
We bring fruit by faith by adding to it and this is a life long process and everyone will be in different stages and growth when they die or Jesus come back...
2 Peter 1:5-15 New International Version (NIV)
5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.
10 Therefore, my brothers and sisters,[a] make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, 11 and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
We are called to and abundant entrance by adding to our faith these things but they do not save us or keep us saved. That was done one time forever per Hebrews.
This is the hope of the gospel. This IS the good news of Jesus promise by faith in Him.
2 Corinthians 11:3-4 King James Version (KJV)
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
John 5:24
King James Version
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
I believe Jesus and His promise not religion not man not anything but my fathers promise so that I may bare true froot unto holiness.
You just don't like the word obedience.
@@poggykho2940 and it also said that Abraham obeyed.
@@dedios03 it's not about obeying the law it's about obeying the truth the word of God. But most Christians can't stand the truth and that strong delusion is happening right now.
Got it so faith is only worth something based off works 😄 I'm scared idk if I'm going to heaven and I'm confused
Dont be scared, this video, like so many others, tie two concepts together and confuse them as one. The faith in Eph 2.8&9 is the gift given by God for you to believe and have confidence that you have been justified/reborn in Him and nothing can remove it or separate you from it. There is no works here, not repentance, not turning from sin, not baptism, just simply believing in what Christ has done for you on the cross and receiving/believing it. If this is you, you re saved from the penalty of your sin and as you grow in Christ and pursue Him the other things will come but not as staying saved/called but becoming a disciple/friend of Christ. If your interested in works ask me. God bless.
@@johnhoffman8203 Correct...faith ALONE in Christ ALONE....NOT of yourself so no man can boast
@@johnhoffman8203 this was so well put, God bless you, live long and prosper
What a den of vipers this is. The stuff you people are saying is so absurd it would be laughable satire if not for the fact that you are teaching it as fact.
As for repentance, scripture says “ Godly sorrow brings *repentance that leads to salvation* and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. “
If we are saved by grace through faith alone ,why repent ? Repentance is something we must choose to do in order to be saved.
Isn't Faith repentance? And isn't repentance a gift too? For it is written of Esau "he could not find repentance, though he searched for it with tears." And isn't Faith a gift of the Grace of God, and not a wage for working? Is repentance a work of man or of God? If repentance is a work of man, then it's a work that earns a wage. How much repenting can you do to inherit eternal life or the Righteousness of God? Who being evil can convert themself into the Light of God if Repentance its not a Gift from God? But if repentance is a gift, then it can be received thru Faith in God's Grace. Repentance is turning from your works, both "Good" and "Evil" and trusting fully in God's Works on the Cross, death, burial and resurrection. Yes we must repent to be saved. But what are we repenting of? We are repenting of ALL our works, both "Righteous" and "Unrighteous" and turning to the Gospel of Christ Jesus, trusting 100% in the Grace of God in Jesus Christ work alone. If we must work to repent, than Jesus was crucified for nothing. Why did Jesus have to die if men can just repent of evil works and do good works themselves? They cannot, because since Adam, we're all evil. We cannot do any good. Even our "Righteousness" is evil in God's eyes. But If God works in Us to will and to do His good pleasure, then it's all the Grace of God, thru Faith, which God works in us. Salvation is God working in us. Not us working for or in God. Repentance is turning from our works and trusting in God's Own Works. So Repentance, Faith, Grace, and Salvation are ALL the Gift of God, not works which we do, but works which God does in us.
Because qe are nit saved by grace through faith alone. It is a heresy invented by Protestsnts. We are saved by works and faith.
@Firstname Lastname The " works" we are saved by is our faith in action through obedience to Acts 2:38
@Jon Mathews If repentance is something that we must choose to do after we believe,then it's an act of obedience necessary for us to be saved.
@@robertnieten7259 Faith is not works. Faith is ceasing from works. Faith is a Gift, not something you can earn. You cannot earn Faith. Repentance is not works either. Repentance is being turned by God from unbelief to Faith. How can you believe someone you haven't turned to? And how can you turn to someone you haven't believed? And how can you Believe someone who hasn't Given you a Promise of His Grace? True Faith produces works. Because it's God working in us. Works do not produce True Faith. Salvation produces works. Because it's God who works in us. Our works do not produce Salvation. Can you give birth to Jesus? Can you do the works of Christ without the Spirit of Christ? No. It's impossible. Apart from Christ, we can do NOTHING. Was Salvation born by the works of the flesh or the works of the Spirit of God? Salvation is not born of flesh by the will of man. He is born in flesh by the Will of God. You can do nothing to be saved. The harder you try, the more God will despise your works because you are not Trusting in the Spirit of God, but in the works of your hands. This is dead works, and fake dead faith. But True Faith is an undeserved and unearned Gift of God, which He freely gives because of His own Works. Even Jesus did not work the works He was given to do by his human flesh. He did everything by the Spirit of God who was working thru Him. A sinner cannot repent of his evil works unless God turns (repents) Him to Himself and gives Him Faith in God's own Salvation as a gift. It is God who works in us both to will and to do His Good pleasure. Man does not do the pleasure of God unless God does His own pleasure in man. You cannot repent without Faith. You cannot have Faith without being first given a Promise. You cannot get a Promise of God's Grace by working or by your own faith in your own works. The Promise of God, the Promise of the Spirit of Grace is by DEFINITION, the unearned favor and gift of God. You cannot get the Grace of God by doing anything "good" or "evil". You cannot earn salvation. It can only be given to you freely as a Gift. If you try to earn it, you insult God's Gift.
They (the Ephesians/et all) were justified/spirit reborn/called/OSAS/gift through the faith given them (gift) by the grace of God so they would believe.
No, repenting means change of mind, not repenting of sins or lifestyle. They believed so they were saved then they burned their their books.
This topic cannot be summed up in a 7 minute video. You are trying to redefine the term "faith" to force the text to agree with your doctrine.
We are saved by grace alone, apart from works so that no one can boast. Works here refers to our efforts, which is why it says so that no one can boast. Your effort adds nothing to your salvation. Otherwise you would be boasting that you achieved salvation by your assistance to what Jesus achieved on the Cross. It clearly says apart from works. You mentioned James, but James is not talking about the same topic that Paul is talking about. They are not both talking about salvation. Only Paul is talking about eternal salvation.
The problem is that many people misinterpret the New Testament on this issue because they are not starting with the correct foundation of salvation is by faith alone, which Paul makes abundantly clear in Ephesians 2. The reason why this topic cannot be summed up in a 7 minute video is because with a wrong foundational understanding, so many other verses must also be corrected because these "faith & works for salvation" people are misinterpreting many verses and not seeing their own contradictions when they are trying to explain their doctrine.
Without the commandments of God you lose your grace in Christ.
So faith is just obedience
Hi Samuel. Faith is "hearing+obeying" God. If we say we believe Him but do not obey, then we are no better than demons. Even the demons believe in God (James 2:19) but that doesn't save them. What do you think?
0:03 You are totally wrong but I will believe you if you can show me One Person who was saved by calling on the name of Jesus and was saved by simply believing??? Let me answer that there is zero. I can give you example after example of people being saved in the book of Acts up to 3,000 in one day. Read the story before John 3:16, jesus tells Nicodemus no one can enter I to the kingdom of Heaven unless you are born of the water and Spirit. Now let me take you to the COMMANDMENT and gift Jesus left us. Matthew 28:19-20 then let's see how mark said this same commandment in Mark 16: 15-16, Luke gave the Place where people will be saved in Luke 24: 46-47 and John tells us who will start the Birth of the very first Church under the Dispensation of Grace in John 21: 15-17. Now Jesus ascended and let's go to the next book which is the Birth of the Church which is the next book Acts. Peter obeyed the commandment after they received Power from the Holy Ghost in Acts 1:13-15, 2: 37-41, 120 plus 3,000 were added to the CHURCH (Jews) in Acts 8:12-17 the Samaritans were saved one year later, in Acts 10: 12-17 the Gentiles were saved 8years later, in 19: 1-7 those Baptized by John the Baptist were rebaptized in Jesus name 22years later. So no where in the Bible will you find not ONE person simply believing in Jesus name and is saved it is non biblical and false. Repenting=death, Baptism =Burial and Holy Ghost = Resurrection as a new Creature, this is a COMMANDMENT not a work. The word not saved by works means you cant buy your way, be good, help others, or do good works to be saved. Repenting being Baptized and receiving the Holy Ghost is not being saved by works. This Doctrine you believe maybe only covers Repentance which is death, and there are alot of dead Christians walking this Earth who have not been buried nor Resurrected and put on Jesus GALATIANS 3:27. So my question to you is "ARE YOU SAVED AND PUT ON CHRIST?"
We are saved by grace through FAITH which means faith in ALL Christ taught, not only that He can save us. Works means the old law of Moses . See videos th-cam.com/video/tIQcGNvvihY/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/DIcP5B8hgts/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/SoKTE-wR4-k/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/7prrgVPywfc/w-d-xo.html
We should stop sinning. But we are justified before God even if we don’t stop sinning. It’s incorrect to say that we must stop sinning to be justified.
We must reject all sin.
@@firstnamelastname9141
Are you saying to be justified before God we must stop sinning?
Obeying God’s commandments was never intended to make anyone perfect, it merely makes us obedient. And that’s what God expects of us.
@@BibleBasicsForSalvation what we were talking about was justification and how that you either can be justified before God by either keeping the Law perfectly in the OT or now you can trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ. there is no other way to be right before God.
@@BibleBasicsForSalvation He's on some 3 sola, Protestant bullshit where faith without works is nit dead and God will be found a liar at the Judgment of Sheep and Goats.
To enter into the kingdom of God you must obey The Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of WATER and of the SPIRIT, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Luke 24:46-47
[46]And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
[47]And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all natiions beginning at Jerusalem.
Then Peter said unto them, REPENT and be BAPTIZED (WATER) every one of you in the name of JESUS CHRIST for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. (SPIRIT)
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
---That name is Jesus Christ as Peter states in Acts 2:38.
(Jesus Christ) Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance (Jesus inherited his name from God his father) a more excellent name than they.
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15. Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord. (Jesus Christ)
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name (Jesus Christ) under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
12. Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14. Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
---No where in the Bible is it written to just say a 'sinner's prayer' and 'accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour' or 'once saved always saved' or 'grace alone through faith alone' to enter into the Kingdom of God. These are man-made doctrine. Please take these words seriously. It's not about me being right it's about the word of God telling you what you're supposed to do to enter into his Kingdom TO BE SAVED!!
I say this to you so that you can be saved, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
God does Light Work. Unless you do the Works of God, you cannot be saved. It is God who works in us both to will and to do His Good pleasure. You who think you are doing works for God... God needs your hands for nothing. Unless His Gives you His Spirit and His Spirit does His Light Works inside you, you are dead in your worthless works and deceived by your counterfeit faith.
Repeat is not stop sinning, you adding works
Teaching/believing 'works' to be saved in addition to what Christ did will get you a reservation to THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT where your works will be judged prior to sentencing....BEMA Judgement Seat of Christ (rewards) will be for believers who have placed ONLY AND ALL their trust in Christ ALONE not in their 'works'
Paul was talking about the law that required works in contrast to the law that requires faith. You’re calling God’s laws bad as if they are in with the same atrocious laws of works the Pharisees upheld. Paul was raised as a Pharisee and obeyed those laws until he converted and began obeying the law that requires faith instead - God’s law!
“Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of *the law that requires faith.”* Romans 3:27
I Corinthians 7:19 “ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. *Keeping God’s commands is what counts.* “
@@joebolling Do you keep all God's commands ? If not, then are you still saved ?
@@robusc4940 the works based commandments the Pharisees upheld? No. God’s commandments that require faith? Yes.
1. God is God. Don’t have any other gods
2. Don’t make or worship idols
3. Don’t carry God’s name in vain
4. Don’t dishonor the weekly sabbath, keep it holy
5. Don’t dishonor your parents
6. Don’t hate or murder anyone
7. Don’t sensually admire or be physically intimate with anyone other than your spouse
8. Don’t steal anything
9. Don’t deceptively witness against anyone
10. Don’t desire without due regard for the rights of others
Also, forgive others who have wronged us
And teach others to do the same
@@robusc4940 and you can add to that, “don’t cause a child of God to stumble”… something you may have some trouble with.
@@joebolling and you keep ALL those commandments ALL the time ?..I don't and know of no other Christian that does, EVERY Christian I know sins in either thought, desire, deed, word or failing to do what is right, so they are not saved even though they place their trust/faith in ONLY what Christ did and not in themselves ?
hi
Tell me how you're going to do the works of God, the works that Save, without the Free Gift of the Spirit of Grace doing the work in you... without God working in you BOTH to WILL and to DO His own good pleasure? LOL !!! Without God's Spirit of Grace doing the work, you're just working yourself into a Pit. And then working to climb out of the bottomless black hole that is your own soul.
I could go as far down the rabbit hole as anyone wants with this.. but faith is faith.. baptism is not faith.. baptism is a result of faith.. just like all other good works.. quit trying to redefine what faith is.. you don’t have faith by repentance, belief, confession.. a person who repents, believes, and confesses their sins DESCRIBES a person who has faith.. they are literally inseparable! A baptized person does not necessarily describe a person who has faith.. you could be baptized and not have faith, you could have faith and not be baptized (before you say “nOt BiBliCaL fAiTh”, I can gladly point you to the book, chapter, and verse that defines biblical faith).. and if you point me to Hebrews 11, I will point you to the fact that everyone mentioned in the “hall of faith” did those things as a result of their faith.. their obedience in and of itself was not faith.. it was BY (as a result of) faith.. just like we are saved BY (as a result of) grace, THROUGH (by means of) faith.. 100% by grace, 100% through faith.. but after saying all that, if you’ve put faith in Christ and are looking for an excuse to not get baptized, don’t look to me, and don’t look to the Bible, for that matter. Get baptized.. like now. Baptism is biblical.. water baptism in order to obtain salvation is NOT.. works based salvation ALWAYS leads to questioning your salvation.. it’s a viscous cycle that alternates between boasting (THEY aren’t really saved.. I AM) and doubting your salvation (have I done enough? Did I understand baptism like I should when I was water baptized.. completely undercutting Romans 4:16 that says “therefore it is of faith, that might be according to grace, that the promise might be SURE..” the promise is never really sure to those who hold to a works based theology)
Baptism baptism, and ignore the Judgment of Sheep and Goats?
@@firstnamelastname9141 huh?
@@daviddurr7218 Ignore the Judgment of Sheep and Goats, do not huh me, you cannot mishear a comment.
@@firstnamelastname9141 hahahahahahaha!! How about this? You DO NOT post nonsensical comments with zero correlation to the comment you’re replying to.. What does the sheep and goats judgment have to do with baptism? Absolutely nothing. You’re trying to create a connection where there is none.. just like the way you try to create a way to make water baptism a part of faith, when that’s just not backed up by scripture. Period.. there’s actually some stuff in the passage on the sheep and goats that would terrify me if I were coc.. you all refuse to do anything, financial or otherwise, to feed the poor and help the needy.. “as much as you did not do to one of the least of these, you did not to me.. and they will go into eternal punishment.”… I mean, do you think you’re going to get to judgment day and God is going to say, “well.. I’ve seen that you made sure, although you used church’s money for nice landscaping and a new roof, you made sure you didn’t help one single needy person! Good job! That deserves a big Pat on the back. You will be rewarded for that!” Get real
@@daviddurr7218 You're the one pushing a faith alone argument.
You are saved by faith through grace and not of works. Your works come as a result of your faith and not to give you faith brother
its grace through faith brother and not the other way around. believing the gospel of Christ which is having faith in Him is how we receive God's grace🙌🏻
and yes, being saved makes us love Him and obey His commands as we realize how God first loved us while we were still sinners, thru His Son who became sin for us, in gratitude for our salvation ❤🙌🏻
“ For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, *your Father will not forgive your sins.* ”
So much for saved by grace alone!
Obeying God’s laws of faith isn’t the same as performing works for righteousness, there’s a vast difference. It is written that God considers those who do not obey his commandments as hostile toward him!
“ The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; *it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.* “
Pure and simple confusion !!!!
Very good at cherry picking verses and out of context to push YOUR faith PLUS works belief...Justification is by FAITH ALONE...works are part of SANCTIFICATION and are rewarded at BEMA...no works = no rewards BUT STILL SAVED :)
Good explanation. I would only add that complete salvation occurs at the JSOC and is the very essence of scripture that so many get confused. The inheritance/KOG is earned by sanctification not justification per Acts 20.32/26.18. The whole of scripture is to qualify us to reign and rule with Christ in the Millennium through salvation of the soul (1 Pt 1.9, Heb 10.39, James 1.21).
Hidden Catholicism propaganda, don’t fall for it.