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To: Choose Ye This Day
"Great, so you agree with everything in the article?"

More important, do you agree with the scripture? Like last time 2 Cor. 9:8 will tie right in with that man's article <-= on discipleship.

7 posted on 01/06/2005 8:29:25 AM PST by Ff--150 (Name it--Claim it!)
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To: Ff--150
I agree with the scripture. But it simply says "God is able to make all grace abound" towards me, that I may abound to every good work. It doesn't say that he automatically guarantees that it will be so.

Proof? He hasn't. I do NOT abound in EVERY good work. Neither do you. Neither does ANY Christian on the face of the earth. At times, I abound in good works, at times I obey the commandments, at times I feel close to Christ. At other times, I sin and I feel distant. His grace is always available to me, His forgiveness always offered, but I must be willing to draw near and partake. He stands at the door and knocks, but I must be willing to open the door. He told us, "If ye love me, keep my commandments." He didn't say, "My grace will make it so easy that you will always keep the commandments, no sweat." Effort is required on our part--not for Salvation, but to show gratitude for salvation; to try to become more like Him. We'll never accomplish that solely on our own merits, so Christ's grace is absolutely necessary.

Do you agree with scripture? Check out 2 verses before your favorite, in 2 Corinthians 9:6. We reap what we sow. Isn't that just as true as God being "able" to make all grace abound toward us? Don't the two go hand in hand?

Or do you not believe that we need to lift a finger to become like Christ?

10 posted on 01/06/2005 9:24:20 AM PST by Choose Ye This Day (Socialism failed. Bush won. Wellstone is dead. Get over it, DUmmies!)
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