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oneinchrist
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Hi Zeena,
Do you believe that a person can accept Gods grace and be saved without answering Jesus' call to repentance and His call to be His follower? ( to be discipled).
In other words, can a person say "Thank you Jesus for saving me" but go on in their life without any concern for God's will?
"This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, Hear Him!"
With love in Christ, Daniel.
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Zeena
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"Grace is only found in relationship with a Person. That Person is
the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the ultimate expression of the grace of
God toward us. The fullness of grace can only be found and is to be
sought in the Person of Jesus Christ. (John 1:14, 17-18; Rom 5:15,
21; Eph. 2:4-7; 1 John 4:10)"
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Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
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Kindgo
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In the serious discussion of the difference between Law and Grace it is
important to remember that both were given by our Lord for the blessing of His
people and for the purpose of establishing and maintaining His love relationship
with us. However, the Law, according to Scripture, has the more limited
purpose.
The Law is to convict and call the unbeliever to the Lord Jesus Christ
for redemption, justification and salvation. Nevertheless, the Law (and with it all
human standards, institutions and rituals) has no power either to save us or to
enable us to please God. In other words, Christians, those saved through faith in
the Lord Jesus Christ, should give their primary focus to the Scriptural teachings
on Grace. (Rom. 3:20; 2 Cor. 10:12-18; Gal. 2:16, 21; 2 Tim. 1:9; Titus 2:11)
1. Grace is the nature of God. God is the only source of Grace.
Grace, by definition, contains nothing of the flesh or of the self. It is
the expression of the love and activity of God. (Eph. 2:8-9; 2 Cor.
8:9)
2. Grace is only found in relationship with a Person. That Person is
the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the ultimate expression of the grace of
God toward us. The fullness of grace can only be found and is to be
sought in the Person of Jesus Christ. (John 1:14, 17-18; Rom 5:15,
21; Eph. 2:4-7; 1 John 4:10)
3. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ opens my heart to receive the grace
He offers for His work in, through and for me. (Rom. 4:16; 5:2; Eph
2:8)
4. The life of Jesus Christ is the functional life of the Christian. His
purpose for His people includes His activity in, through, for and with
them. There is no valid Christian life nor Christian activity apart
from Jesus Christ. (Gal. 2:20; 1 Cor. 15:10)
5. My activity, apart from the activity of Jesus Christ in, through and
with me, is only the activity of the flesh. It advances no benefit to the
kingdom of God nor, ultimately, to me. (Isaiah 64:6; Rom 7:18; 1
Cor. 1:29)
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God bless,
Kindgo
Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.
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WildB
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by Cornelius R. Stam
Never let the devil deceive you into supposing that God planned sin as "a gracious means to a glorious end," for then salvation from sin would be simple justice, not grace. No, you cannot legitimately charge God with your sin. It is to the guilty, the undeserving, far and wide, that God offers "the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace" (Eph. 1:7).
There are two significant phrases in Eph. 2 which shed clear light upon the character, the nature, of grace. They are found in Verses 2 and 3, which speak of the unsaved as "children [Gr., huiois, full-grown sons] of disobedience" and "children [Gr., tekna, born ones] of wrath."
Meditate for a moment on these phrases: "Children of disobedience" and "children of wrath." It is against this dark, black background of deserved wrath, that we read further:
"BUT GOD, who is RICH IN MERCY, for His GREAT LOVE wherewith He loved us,
"Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us [given us life] together with Christ (BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED),
"And hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
"That in the ages to come He might show THE EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS GRACE IN HIS KINDNESS TOWARD US THROUGH CHRIST JESUS" (Eph. 2:4-7).
Somehow it takes a load off one's heart and mind to come to the end of his rope, as it were, and admit that he is a sinner, deserving God's wrath. How sweet to the ears of such is the wonderful message of redemption by grace, through the finished work of Christ at Calvary. We were all the "children [full-grown sons] of disobedience": and therefore "by nature the children [born ones] of wrath": "But God!" When hope seemed gone, He intervened and now offers salvation to all by grace, through faith.
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31).
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That is all.....
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