God to gumdrop at your judgment: “Why should I let you into my kingdom?”
(Be careful that you don’t confuse your justification with your sanctification)
What are you insinuating. That I have no sanctification because I believe Jesus when he says we should feed the poor, cloth the naked, etc.??
I am not going to be like Barry Obama and misquote the Sermon on the Mount and then denigrate “an obscure passage from Romans.” No, Jesus’s message was clear. Have you never hear the song, “They will know we are Christians by our Love”? True Christians demonstrate their love for Jesus by imitating him. The decision to be charitable has absolutely nothing to do with “earning our salvation.” Jesus offered himself as a Paschal Lamb once and for all two millenia ago. We cannot on ou own earn our salvation, for if Jesus had not accepted the cross - if he had left the Garden of Gethsemane and said “Shucks, I cannot bear the burden”, we would still be forever in sin and outside of God’s kingdom.
Saying “I Believe” and then continuing to live a life as if the sacrifice of Jesus means nothing and that life is a lark because God is sending us graces - neglects part of the gospel. We must cry our cross and come after Jesus. Part of that is bearing our difficulties in a holy and accepting manner, to continue in our faith regardless of trials, to praise and thank God for all our life’s blessing and His Eternal Love for us.
The above article is about justification. You are talking about sanctification.
Don't confuse the two.
Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit to indwell believers and promised the Holy Spirit would guide us.