amen
this sure sounds like you're trusting in works.
I am trusting in His Word's, not my works. I don't believe that Jesus repents for me, that He picks up my cross for me. That He follows God's instructions for me as "many" who come in His Name, preach.
I don't believe your "re-defining" of the Word of God.
5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
Jesus, the Word which became Flesh, said He would help those who Love Him and Keep His Commandments. He doesn't Love Himself for us while we create images of Him in the likeness of some long haired Levi Jean model.
Jesus, the Word which became Flesh said He would help those who Love Him and Keep His Commandments, not keep His Commandments for us while we Transgress the Commandments of God by our ancient religious traditions of the land.
Luke 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Repent from what to what?
His salvation, as the scripture describes it, is not 'a second chance to attain a righteousness of your own' ((see: Philippians 3:9, e.g)) by keeping a list of commandments through your striving. His salvation is a righteousness imputed through faith, through immersion into Him, His death, and His life. this excludes boasting. can a person point to 'physical, ritual sabbath keeping' as making them more righteous than someone else, who considers all days alike? then boasting isn't excluded, and they're no longer talking about the same gospel preached in the scripture; not a message of redemption by grace through faith, but a gospel of works.
it does not depend on human will & exertion ((re: Romans 9:16)) but on God who has mercy. i don't get this 'from men' - i get this from believing what the Word says, without trying to change it, without trying to justify myself, without trying to compare myself to others, setting myself up as some kind of inquisitor.
Rom. 9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then
it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth,
but of God that sheweth mercy.
And who has the Great God of Abraham promised to show Mercy to?
Ex. 20:
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Do you believe Paul trusted some of God's Word's, but not ALL of them?
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven;
but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
The Preaching that the Will of God is for you to reject the very instruction (list of rules as your re-define them as) He created for us
to walk in is exactly what Jesus warned about in the beginning of Matt. 24. IMO.
Eph. 2:
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God:
9 Not of (Man's) works, lest any
man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
unto good works,
which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Jer. 6:13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one
is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest
every one dealeth falsely. (Jews, Catholics, Mormons, Jw's, Baptists, AOG, Methodists, SDA, the list goes on and on.)
14 They have healed also the hurt
of the daughter of my people slightly, saying,
Peace, peace; when there is no peace. ( they all carry the same message, You are saved, nothing to worry about)
Jer 6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? (Creating images of God in the likeness of man, rejecting His Holy Days and Laws and creating their own High Days, and doctrines) nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall:
at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them,
I never knew you: depart from me,
ye that work iniquity. (Transgress God's Commandments)
Jesus has warned us over and over, both about the consequences of rejecting His Words, and the preacher who preach to reject His Words.
Jer. 6:16 Thus saith the LORD, (Word which became Flesh) Stand ye in the ways, and see,
and ask for the old paths, (that God has before ordained that we should walk in them)
where is the good way,
and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
But they said, We will not walk therein.
17 Also I set watchmen over you,
saying,
Hearken to the sound of the trumpet.
But they said, We will not hearken.
And you have certainly made your case Post. "You will not walk in them", religious traditions of the land, yes, you walk in them all the time, but the Righteous Commandments of God He created for you, Nope!!! You and the entire Mainstream Christian Church with their thousands of differing sects all coming in Christ's Name, all teaching Jesus is truly the Christ, all say the same thing.
"We will not walk therein".
I find this reality astounding that God knew this would happen all those years ago. And that you can read it, but can't hear it. This does more for my faith than just about anything. Thank you Jesus for the comfort you give me through your Word.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,
and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven,
and God hath remembered her iniquities.
