The Gospel Demands Radical Sacrifice - David Platt

That is to stretch the gospel to have no effect, like people used to cook on Saturday so no work on Sunday. Sure that was their understanding but still doesn't make it right. To call faith and belief a work is ridiculous. We are saved by a God given measure of faith, wow you guys are endless with twists on scripture. Read it don't try to interpret it, leave that to the HolySpirit there is enough nonsense already with the world watching, unbelievable.

This is the work of God: that you believe into the one [the father] set apart. John 6:29

It is The word; the law; the commandments; Christ in our hearts; minds, and mouths which is the end of the Law ( written with ink and tables of stone for righteousness for all that believe. A new ministration! Not on tables of stone but on the fleshly tables of the heart. A new creature; a new and living way into the holiest of all through the veil; that is to say His flesh; the body of Christ. Not that our sufficiency is of ourselves but our sufficiency is of GOD.

For it is HE that works in us both to will an d do HIS good pleasure. For we are dead nevertheless we live Yet not us but Christ liveth in us and the life we now live we live by the FAITH of the Son of GOD. Christ in us the hope of glory.

Romans 10:4 - For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

We are new creation in Christ Jesus. No longer of the letter. An observance to that which was written on tables of stone and on parchment. For GOD has said
I will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed (with the circumcision of Christ), to love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. For you shall listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in the book of this law. For you shall turn back toward Jehovah your God, with all your heart and with all your soul. For this command which (HIS commandments and statutes written in the book of the Law; the Word; Christ) I am commanding you day is not too wonderful for you, nor is it too far off. It is not in the heavens that you should say, Who shall go up into the heavens for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to hear it, that we may do it? And it is not beyond the sea that you should say, Who shall cross over for us to the region beyond the sea and take it for us, and cause us to hear it, that we may do it? For the word (His Commandments and statutes written in the book of the Law; the Word; Christ) is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. That is the word of faith in which we preach. And this word of faith; Christ in you the hope of glory is the end of the law; that which is written parchment and tables of stone for righteousness for all that believe. A new ministration! Not on tables of stone but on the fleshly tables of the heart. This is and was GOD's intention from the beginning. But due to our stiff necks and hard hearts it wasn't realized and fulfilled in most. So HE reprophesied it in Jeremiah.

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law (My commandments and statutes written in the book of the law; the word; Christ) in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; (that they may do it) and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. This is the faith in which we preach. And this faith has been available through Christ since the beginning.
((Deu 30:6-14; Jer 31:31-33 KJV)

The Sabbath is of the LORD not pagan

Jesus said He is Lord of the Sabbath which is the Seventh Day of the week not the first day of the week

I won't ask you the same question you asked me because it is blatantly obvious you know NOTHING about the 'SABBATH of the LORD'. You are NOT looking at what GOD says but what comes from human understanding....which we are NOT to rely on.

Christ is our “Sabbath rest”, not any one day of the week. (Matthew 11:28-30) (Hebrews 4). We should not be arguing over days of the week.

5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. - Romans 14:5-6a

I wouldn't even bother to debate with this member who just makes stuff up and calls it scripture.

Belief and trust is a work. To have faith is to exercise trust in what you believe. Faith without works is dead being alone.

What is faith?

Because Beta is an elder who deserves respect, her understanding of scripture may differ from your well thought solutions youngman.

In his time Jesus was certainly a radical. That's why the temple elders wanted him dead and Rome fearing his charasma with the crowds didn't object.
However, Jesus was God so his radical teaching was a good thing.

I think before we look to any front row attention pastor bringing books and teachings about getting radical as believers we should find out what the shepherd believes. This article is but two years old.
David Platt & Raising The Dead: Is The SBC Going Full Benny?

Without reading the article, what is your point?

Because Beta is an elder who deserves respect, her understanding of scripture may differ from your well thought solutions youngman.


Care to explain this to Paul "I live by the faith of the Son of God."

Love less? That is from Strongs.
Here is what Bauer penned in the BDAG.

to be disinclined to, disfavor, disregard in contrast to preferential treatment (Gn 29:31; Dt 21:15, 16) Mt 6:24; Lk 16:13. τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ J 12:25 or ἑαυτοῦ Lk 14:26 (cp. the formulation Plut, Mor. 556d οὐδ᾿ ἐμίσουν ἑαυτούς; on the theme cp. Tyrtaeus [VII B.C.] 8, 5 D.3). Ro 9:13 (Mal 1:2f). Perh. 2 Cl 6:6 (s. 1b). (JDenney, The Word ‘Hate’ in Lk 14:26: ET 21, 1910, 41f; WBleibtreu, Paradoxe Aussprüche Jesu: Theol. Arbeiten aus d. wissensch. Prediger-Verein d. Rheinprovinz, new ser. 20, 24, 15–35; RSockman, The Paradoxes of J. ’36).—ACarr, The Mng. of ‘Hatred’ in the NT: Exp. 6th ser., 12, 1905, 153–60.—DELG. M-M. EDNT. TW.

Love less?

It makes you wonder if that is the 'only' bad/poor translation in the bible that can lead people astray ? after all it was written/translated by fallible Humans who themselves were 'not yet perfect'.

Actually, I wasn't referring to Beta but I appreciate you sticking up for her. I agree with you that elder's deserve respect. I am reaching the elder stage too.

Be that as it may, whoever searches for truth with all their heart will find it.

Belief and trust is a work. To have faith is to exercise trust in what you believe. Therefore Faith is a work.