Not By Works

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In reference to my post, we work for God because He is actually doing His work through us. We work for God because we desire to. I'm not against works but works does not save nor do works mean we are "special" and God is happy with us. My point was that whenever we are being tested or going through hard times, the devil jumps on us with all those things I mentioned. Satan knows when we are the weakest. God dose not abandon us whether we are "working" or not.
Amen!

I totally understood your point... we tend to default to self-condemnation during trials thinking we are not holding up our end of the bargain and Satan is more than willing to add to that thought process.
And yes works not connected to salvation!!
 

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Ah now I remember.
We have had this conversation before.

And I am trying to figure out why you asked this question as it has nothing to do with your response to my post.

My post was about those who are judged based on what they do and why.
So you don't respond to my previous two posts above and ask the same question I remember you generally go to.

So I say again and repeat again.

I believe yes they are.
Because they are not at the age of accountability.
Never heard of Jesus.
It's covered.

Which is totally different to those in Matt 25.

Why do you keep asking that question?

My wife miscarried with our first child before he/she was born.
Our child is with God.
Like i said, judgement is all about love. The command to love is not a new one but from the beginning, it is what God has always required of you.

Salvation is not via two methods; belief in Christ and being of young age. No, only those that love abide in Christ's free gift.

Matt 18:3“Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

What Jesus means here is not to be young (below the so called age of accountability) but to love or NOT HATE. Little children don't hate. Hate separates us from the love of Christ. All manner of sins comes from hate and he who loves fulfill ALL requirement. The faith that the bible is talking about has nothing to do with what you teach here, it is about love:

1 Cor 13: 7 (Love)It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love is being described as faith here.
 

Noose

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Ok can you post that.

I said you love because of your faith, works as a result of love.
But I also said you can love and not have faith.

The works of love.
If you do not have faith then works of love mean nothing.

I actually said you can have love without faith, that faith being Jesus.
But you can still have love for others without faith in Jesus.


So please quote my post that leads you to believe what you think I have said.
Yet if you have no faith in Jesus those works mean nothing on judgement day.

Surely even those who believe works save us must acknowledge that its faith that saves, because there will be many people who have great works but will be rejected.
Like i said before, it is the opposite. Faith is expressed through love and not love through faith.

Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.

Love takes preeminence.

What does faith means without love?

1 Cor 13:2... and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
 

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Ye also are saved by grace all you need to do is abide in Christ's love.

Matt 18: 3“Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
 
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Pre-trib, squares 100% in my Bible. So maybe you are called to organize the Tribulation Saints. I am going in the first phase, I know it as sure as I know HIM.
There is only one phase man and it is post tribulation good luck when crap hits the fan and you and your family suffer due to a lack of scriptural diligence...!!!
 

Noose

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Does the kind of faith being taught here differ from yours?

If so please tell us.

The only ones that I can see were the sheep.
Which in Matt 25 is where Jesus talks about judging the nation's.

Seperated from the parable of the talent's.

Not sure why.
Definitely.

1 Cor 13:7 (Love)It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 John 3:14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
 

Noose

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Brother Noose.

Why do keep asking this?
Have you suffered such a loss?

If I'm wrong then I'm sorry.
If you have not then please let us know why you keep asking this question.
Not my intentions at all, only that my answers/demonstration came in quick succession.
 

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There is only one phase man and it is post tribulation good luck when crap hits the fan and you and your family suffer due to a lack of scriptural diligence...!!!
the bible never says to stack up supplies for the tribulation and be a prepper. or gives any advice to those left behind if its pretrib rapture

why didnt anyone talk about it in the bible. maybe they did but its just not in the bible. st.paul im sure had lots of more things to say that arent written down.

what about this pre-trib argument dcon: Jesus opens the seals but why would He do that on His own people? i remember you talked about people in revelation 5 in heaven right the 24 elders? i have to go recheck if you talked about it. but some say its the church in heaven prior to tribulation.
my look of it: why cant it be the people who have died and gone to heaven why does it have to be RESURRECTED saints? can some pretrib man answer it?
 
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the bible never says to stack up supplies for the tribulation and be a prepper. or gives any advice to those left behind if its pretrib rapture

why didnt anyone talk about it in the bible. maybe they did but its just not in the bible. st.paul im sure had lots of more things to say that arent written down.

what about this pre-trib argument dcon: Jesus opens the seals but why would He do that on His own people? i remember you talked about people in revelation 5 in heaven right the 24 elders? i have to go recheck if you talked about it. but some say its the church in heaven prior to tribulation.
my look of it: why cant it be the people who have died and gone to heaven why does it have to be RESURRECTED saints? can some pretrib man answer it?
UMMMMMMMM, I suggest study brother!

WISE men see EVIL coming and prepare for it <---BIBLE states this

NOW....do you really want me to LIST every example in the bible that I can think of off of the top of my head where PREPARATIONS were made ahead of schedule and for a coming calamity?

4 things KILL tribulation saints

You all need to wake up....there is NO imminent return of Christ where we go POOF and disappear and then THOSE left behind that are SAVED are called TRIBULATION SAINTS..........

So many holes in the imminent return that the inventors of SWISS CHEESE are trying to copy it!!!!
 
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This year has been a challenge for my husband and me. You know what Satan is whispering in my ear? "You are doing this. You aren't doing that. God is mad at you. You aren't doing enough work for Him."

Sound familiar? Satan is alive and well in our world today like never before.
Just think.......I bet in his fallen form he is a sniveling little imp and with ease Jesus will whip the crap out of him and then have him bound and cast..........his destiny is sealed.....
 
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OH IT IS TRUE, for SURE. And the Scoffers have Lined Up:

2 Peter 3:3-4 (HCSB)
3 First, be aware of this: Scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, living according to their own desires,
4 saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? Ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they have been since the beginning of creation.”

So what if it happens later, I will still be READY AND WAITING. No one knows the Hour or the DAY! Christians were TOLD nearly 2000 years ago, to Be READY and Watching FOR THE BRIDEGROOM.

Matthew 25:6 (HCSB)
6 “In the middle of the night there was a shout: ‘Here’s the groom! Come out to meet him.’

Matthew 25:10 (ESV)
10 And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.

Matthew 25:13 (ESV)
13 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.


NOT WATCHING FOR THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE, IS A VERY DANGEROUS THEOLOGY.

Anyone who wants to continue this discussion, can do so on my thread. I will check it for few days.
Your false accusations in the above post are below your normal integrity......especially the bs in the 1st line and the blue line.....
 
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[QUOTE="Noose, post: 4014265, member: 238750"]Faith is expressed through love and not love through faith.

Judgement as per Matthew 25 is based on love and not faith.

Faith without love means nothing but love beareth all things and believes and hopes too (1 Cor 13)[/QUOTE]

More lies in this post......the first line is not biblical and or of God.....!!
 
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Ah now I remember.
We have had this conversation before.

And I am trying to figure out why you asked this question as it has nothing to do with your response to my post.

My post was about those who are judged based on what they do and why.
So you don't respond to my previous two posts above and ask the same question I remember you generally go to.

So I say again and repeat again.

I believe yes they are.
Because they are not at the age of accountability.
Never heard of Jesus.
It's covered.

Which is totally different to those in Matt 25.

Why do you keep asking that question?

My wife miscarried with our first child before he/she was born.
Our child is with God.
Noose is as false as they come Bill........seriously!
 

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There is only one phase man and it is post tribulation good luck when crap hits the fan and you and your family suffer due to a lack of scriptural diligence...!!!
Dead in Christ rise FIRST, the we which Remain, then the Tribulation Saints.

No, and I do not want to Argue with you. You can choose to believe, it is post tribulation, AND I DO NOT. You will be here for the Post Trib mess, and I will be at the Wedding of the Lamb in heaven. The Parable of Ten Virgins, is an accurate picture of the Rapture.

This I BELIEVE is Talking about the Wrath of the LAMB to come:

1 Thessalonians 5:9-11 (NASB)
9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.
11 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

Revelation 6:15-17 (NASB)
15 Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;
16 and they *said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"


So I BELIEVE 100% the RAPTURE will happen any day before the events of This DAY,
AND I BELIEVE REVELATION IS WRITTEN PRETTY MUCH IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.
That Same DAY is early, near the beginning of the 7 Year, Great Tribulation, or no later than mid-trib,
is also the Hour of Testing referred to in this Verse.

Revelation 3:10 (NASB)
10 'Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.


I Believe that is absolute Truth, as Much as I KNOW CHRIST, who is in my HEART.

No it is not my place to convince you of anything, that is the Holy Spirit's job.

I am still friends with you, and always will be.
 
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Dead in Christ rise FIRST, the we which Remain, then the Tribulation Saints.

I am still friends with you, and always will be.
Bolded is false...the dead in Christ and we which remain = ALL the saved, post tribulation pre-WRATH

Underlined...awesome.......no problem with that migo
 

Melach

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Dead in Christ rise FIRST, the we which Remain, then the Tribulation Saints.

No, and I do not want to Argue with you. You can choose to believe, it is post tribulation, AND I DO NOT. You will be here for the Post Trib mess, and I will be at the Wedding of the Lamb in heaven. The Parable of Ten Virgins, is an accurate picture of the Rapture.

This I BELIEVE is Talking about the Wrath of the LAMB to come:

1 Thessalonians 5:9-11 (NASB)
9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.
11 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

Revelation 6:15-17 (NASB)
15 Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;
16 and they *said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"


So I BELIEVE 100% the RAPTURE will happen any day before the events of This DAY,
AND I BELIEVE REVELATION IS WRITTEN PRETTY MUCH IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.
That Same DAY is early, near the beginning of the 7 Year, Great Tribulation, or no later than mid-trib,
is also the Hour of Testing referred to in this Verse.

Revelation 3:10 (NASB)
10 'Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.


I Believe that is absolute Truth, as Much as I KNOW CHRIST, who is in my HEART.

No it is not my place to convince you of anything, that is the Holy Spirit's job.

I am still friends with you, and always will be.
notice its the unsaved people saying its wrath of the Lamb. Revelation 11:15 cross reference is where its God's announcement

revelation 3:10 is written to church of philadelphia i dont know why thats even a pre-trib proof text has nothing to do with the resurrection. keeping from an hour of trial =/= resurrected. also to one church Jesus says: tribulation for 10days. Smyrna.
 

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UMMMMMMMM, I suggest study brother!

WISE men see EVIL coming and prepare for it <---BIBLE states this

NOW....do you really want me to LIST every example in the bible that I can think of off of the top of my head where PREPARATIONS were made ahead of schedule and for a coming calamity?

4 things KILL tribulation saints

You all need to wake up....there is NO imminent return of Christ where we go POOF and disappear and then THOSE left behind that are SAVED are called TRIBULATION SAINTS..........

So many holes in the imminent return that the inventors of SWISS CHEESE are trying to copy it!!!!


2 Peter 3:3-4 (HCSB)
3 First, be aware of this: Scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, living according to their own desires,
4 saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? Ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they have been since the beginning of creation.”