Not By Works

It is not according to life, it is not compatible with following Christ, it is not the life - style of the disciple

"If you have My life ... if you are following Me .... if you are My disciple thou shalt not commit adultery" is how I would put it [you like expansions]

No man can take us out of His hands, to which our determinedly backward friends will reply "ah but we can wriggle free and run away"

... such naughty sheeps they are.

If Jesus showed up and became a member of your church congregation, you and the rest of your OSAS License to Sin brethren would soon begin condemning Him as a "legalist" and one "fallen from grace" for His strict integrity - and no doubt would immediately call a Business Meeting to Disfellowship upon hearing His words, "you are of your father the devil" .

Here's a better idea: Y'all throw away that useless OSAS License to Sin and simply ask Jesus to help you resist the devil when he comes dangling his temptations, knowing that victory is already guaranteed?

Which is a better witness to the unchurched who eye the Christian church with doubt and suspicion:
The Christian who overcomes sin by the indwelling power of Jesus, or -
The "Christian" who freely indulges sin alongside of the wicked, while brandishing his OSAS License to Sin?

Where?
Is Jesus' hands open to us like we would open them to a gentle chick or dove...or are His knuckles white with a death grip on us?

He gathers us under his wings, He doesn't carry us around in a cage with bars of teeth like a croc. We can run out from under His wings, or jump from His hands any time we want, because contrary to the belief of the OSAS License to Sin crowd, we don't check our freewill at the door of the church.

So, did God require Joseph to refrain from adultery or not?

The sheep who is hearing and following Christ assuredly cannot be taken out of His hand.

Did God say to Joseph "thou shalt not commit adultery?"

Judah committed adultery bigly, did that remove him from the roll of God's elect?

It was Joseph himself who cried "how can I do such a thing?" He was a man touched by God, he had God's call upon his life, God's overflowing blessings, God's vision, God's dreams .... how then will such a man sin against his master Potiphorus [sic] and against God.

That's how it is with us. We have been born again, God's call is upon our lives, we have His joy, His peace, His blessings. We have God's vision, God's dreams.

How then shall we sin against our neighbour or against God?

Change your mind, the way you think ...

Actually we would cry with shouts of acclimation at being overwhelmed by His love, grace, acceptance and omnipotent majesty.

But Jesus IS present at our meetings, we are members of Him, His Body. It is His word we are listening to. "If anyone hears My word and believes on Him who sent Me HATH eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day"

I WILL raise him up at the LAST day ... that's the Shepherd's voice, we follow Him.

Stranger you come along saying something different ... that's why folks flee.

he sure would.

... it's the holiness crowd they eye with suspicion.

Because it was not the way of Righteousness before God. It was the opposite.

People could sin against God before Moses and the Mosaic Law.

The better witness to the "unchurched" eye is the Christian who is real and speaks Truth.

OSAS is Truth. Being tempted, and failing is truth. Overcoming by the help of the Lord Jesus is truth.


The BIG question isn't if OSAS is the Truth. The BIG question is are you 100% sure you are saved by the Lord Jesus Christ? If you are 100% sure then abide in that and don't worry about any of the doubts the dummies will try to convince you of, for whatever reason they have for that.

If you are not 100% sure then go to scripture and prayer and find out why.

You mean acclamation...

I truly didn't understand what you were saying at first.... I was laughing because it probably took me the longest to understand...


I was trying to picture shouts of acclimation... But we never really do get acclimated to His Love, Grace and acceptance...

John 6:37 plus John 10:28

Good catch there, sir. I knew it didn’t look right. Sometimes it takes a gentle nudge from someone else to be able to see things clearly. 😊😊😊

How else could Joseph know adultery was wrong, except God had said it?
There's a difference between the Just Man who falls down into the pit of sin, and the Presumptuous Man who brings a ladder and climbs down willfully into the pit of sin, sits down comfortably among the filth, swats away the uplifting hand of Jesus, and pushes their OSAS License to Sin in His face. There was mercy and forgiveness for Judah but there will be NO MERCY for anyone who thinks they'll get a pass by flashing a License to Sin.
Congratulations for making my point. "Thou shalt not commit adultery" was written on the heart of Joseph, just as "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" is supposed to be written on the Christian's heart - Joseph demonstrated by his actions God was in his heart, and those who refuse to obey God as Joseph did demonstrate it is SATAN who resides in their heart, no matter how much they wave their hands in church, according to 1 John 2:3-4 KJV.

Oh, you'll be crying out alright, but not with shouts of acclamation to Jesus in the clouds, but to the rocks and mountains to fall on you if you persist on rebelling against the commandments of God.

The only reason Jesus would be in attendance to your meetings is to ask the question, "And why call ye Me, Lord Lord, and do not the things which I say?"

Jesus says, "If you love Me, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS" which includes "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" so why are you not in church on Sabbath? Why do you trample the Sabbath day instead of keeping it holy? Why do you meet on "the venerable (unconquerable) day of the Sun", a day which SATAN, not God, sanctions? Where in the Bible was the change made from Sabbath to Sunday?

Go to www.Rome'sChallenge.com and read how the Roman Catholic church mocks and ridicules non-Catholics for observing Sunday - how those who claim the Bible is their sole authority actually demonstrate by keeping Sunday that it is the authority of the Roman Catholic church to which they demonstrate allegiance because, as this website proves better than any Adventist could, SUNDAY IS NOT SCRIPTURAL. If I were a Sunday-keeper and read this, I'd be pretty pissed off about it and want to get to the bottom of the issue, instead of believing the lies and propaganda from evangelical false pulpit prophets who claim Sunday is there.