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| How then can man be justified with God? Freely by His grace alone, based on the righteousness of Christ alone. |
"4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? 5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight." Job 25. How? How?
So many would
answer, quite spontaneously as well as confidently, "A man is justified
with God by faith, his act of believing, ya, justification is by faith alone!'
So VERY MANY repeat
ad nauseam the heretical platitude - 'a man is justified with God by his faith,
EVEN his faith ALONE... as though the faith of such a worm is not 'wormy'
enough in God's sight!!!
Romans 3:24
"Being justified FREELY by his grace through the redemption that is in
Christ Jesus."
How does man's fiction of justification by faith alone compare with God's declaration of justification FREELY by His grace?
Very few understand
what 'FREELY' means. From one side of the mouth, they say 'FREELY', from the
other side of the SAME mouth, they insist 'by faith alone'! What an example of
confusion and delusion!
They probably learn
the concept of 'free' from shopping brochures - FREE but terms and conditions
apply!
God said He
justifies the condemned man FREELY - without requiring man to meet any condition.
But haughty and deceived and deluded man would not have it that way. It is too
humiliating to him... to be justified so FREELY.
Man insists that God
justifies the condemned man on the condition of faith, his believing!
Let God be true and
every man a liar!
Ancient Job
continues to rebuke such liars!
A third category:
God's justification depends on man making that justification effective!
The gospel truth: God justifies the UNGODLY freely by His grace.
Dallas Eaton II
AMEN to the gospel
truth.
Sing F Lau
Richard@ 'A question
is often better than an answer, I think.'
Amen to that.
That is most
certainly true to thinking man... what a thinking man needs are serious and
weighty questions to provoke him to search the Scriptures further.
[Richard has deleted all his comments]
Sing F Lau
Lisa@ "Good to
praise God in this and share with others too."
The only news worth
sharing is what the Lord has experienced and done and accomplished for us.
That was the policy
of Paul's life... "For I determined not to know any thing among you, save
Jesus Christ, and him crucified."
He rarely talks about himself... unless when his apostleship is questioned and assaulted.
[Lisa has deleted all her comments]
Dallas Eaton II
So then, why would
Paul choose to 'talk about himself' in defense of his calling to the office of
Apostle?
Dallas Eaton II
I am thankful for
the great day of worship you have experienced. How was Abraham faithful and
obedient in taking Hagar, Sarah's handmaid as a wife to fulfill the plan of God
to give him an heir?
Dallas Eaton II
Thanks, Lisa. Richard, you are treading waters over my head, my arms and legs are growing weary...ha
ha. Sinless Blood is the source of life if we believe Leviticus 17:11, but I
think your statement is in regards to Adam's blood and not that of Christ, which
provides for us the covering (atonement).
Lisa, agreed. What loss did Moses suffer, and where does the Bible record his repentance? Yet it was Moses and not David or Abraham upon the mount of transfiguration with Christ?
Dallas Eaton II
It is good to know
we are treading the same waters! I have no hope of discovering anything that
can or will make me accepted in the Beloved, timely speaking however, having
been blessed to have been given hearing ears, I believe I possess an interest
in the Hope of Israel and for that I try to work out my own salvation with fear
and trembling...but not toward an eternal end.
Dallas Eaton II
Agreed Richard. I
rest in Christ alone; but I am responsible for obedient or disobedient actions.
Although he does lead His people, He does not perform obedience. Although His
righteousness is imputed to us, our works are meant to show forth our living
faith, without these our faith is dead, but that does not mean we are dead.
Lisa, I understand.
I guess I just don't think of the Spirit as not moving upon the people of God
whether they are in knowledge or yet in darkness. I feel His presence on a
daily basis, some days more pronounced than others, but always in myself from a
recognition of a greater need of His guidance.
Sing F Lau
"I do NOT
actually believe that sinless blood causes life. I do believe the sinless blood
provided my justification."
Perhaps, it is
better to speak of righteousness for justification unto life, and sinless blood
(referring to death of a perfect substitute) for the forgiveness of sins.
Both are distinct
and difference... a distinction more helpful and needful to know.
Sing F Lau
Dad was "born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of
God."
Let God be true, and
every man a liar.
The Spirit moves providentially, among men, to restrain some of the wickedness of men, and moves redemptively, to regenerate the elect of God.
Sing F Lau
IT IS FINISHED for a
VERY SPECIFIC and PARTICULAR people... even as many as - not one more, and not
one less - God the Father had predestinated and given to Christ to redeem, and
for whom Christ has completed their eternal redemption... and the Spirit of
Christ applying that redemption to each of them in His appointed and approved
time.
There is NO - NO -
NO grace to the others... though God the Creator is benevolent to all His
creatures.
