Himsell:
NO ONE keeps the law,
NO ONE keeps the law,
Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Matthew 9:13
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
1. The righteous already keep the Commandments.
2. Sinners don't, so they can't be saved.
3. Therefore Christ calls sinners to repent.
4. To turn to God, obey His Word, keep the Commandments.
5. When they begin to do so, they can be saved.
6. Not before.
Romans 3:31
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Romans 4:19-21
King James Version (KJV)
19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
James 2:24
King James Version (KJV)
24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
We are justified APART FROM THE DEEDS OF THE LAW.....
2. God justifies those who keep His Law:
Romans 2:13
King James Version (KJV)
13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
3. God justifies according to our faith apart from our works, in the Sacraments. That means that when we present ourselves to God in the Sacraments, we must believe that He can fulfill His promise to us. And we are thereby saved, in the Sacrament, according to the degree of our faith.
4. But that doesn't mean faith alone. It means that those who have exercised their faith in love are permitted to present themselves before God and accept His gifts of grace in the Sacraments.
Hebrews 13:17
King James Version (KJV)
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Last I saw, you ain't one of 'em.
1 Samuel 16:7
King James Version (KJV)
7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Sincerely,
De Maria
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