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The works based salvation people are the " Faith Departers " ..
Departers from the faith that Jesus Christ saves ALONE by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.... they have departed the faith....
How can it be ? if it is salvation by works, then it can't be salvation by faith, and we know, that the Bible tells us that it's a salvation BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH IN OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ALONE !!!

Happy New Year !!

Oh, yeah, the " faith without works ( verb ) is dead " ....

Without action , acts ( verb ).. ( motion, action, labor ) , or action, faith just stands there, no life.
Like a pump that pumps water, or ? if someone, or GOD gives you something....

FREELY GOD GIVES !

FREELY WE MUST TAKE ( i.e. taking, a verb, action ) .

Suppose you have a gift you wanted to give to your loved one.
You want to give it freely, but ? it's NEVER a ( ** RECEIVED GIFT ** ) until a action ( working, motion, verb ) is taken by the other person to take it and receive it...

Yes, we will hear those who say " well we should preach about the law and sin " .... yes of course !!!

Look at them and say " well, well, let's talk about the sin in YOUR LIFE ! shall we ???? " .....

Jesus said " he that is without sin, cast the first stone " ..... that should sum it up rightly ... right ?

Yes, when we preach and teach about the law, and sin, we should preach and teach that the law or for the law came to show us how sinful and rebellious mankind really is .... OPPS ... someone's pride and arrogance won't let them admit this .....
All of us were born into sin, for we can not, and never can we escape this reality, but, ONLY IN AND THROUGH THE SAVING GRACE OF JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD WHO SAVES US !

The law is to show mankind how sinful and hopeless we really are without Jesus Christ.
The law points to the fact and need that we needed someone to save us.
The law points to Jesus Christ who FULFILLED every righteous demand GOD placed on us.
When reading the law, or the whole Bible, there is a blooded, sacrificed bloody body of Jesus Christ.
There is a scarlet red line that says SACRIFICE !
When we have the knowledge of the TRUTH of Jesus Christ,
Then we can look at the Old Testament and see the PASSOVER.
We can see the passover lamb who takes away the sin of the world...
Yes, let's talk about sin.
Let's talk about how wretched mankind really is.
How lost mankind really is.
How mankind's condition is totally hopeless.
How mankind was dead in our sins and trespasses in front of a HOLY GOD.

BUT !!!!!!

Jesus Christ came,
for Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ...
WE PREACH ABOUT SIN AND THE LAW, but, then, we give people hope and the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that Jesus Christ saves sinners who could not save themselves...
As the book of Ephesians says ( BUT GOD ! WHO IS RICH IN MERCY for his great love wherewith he loved us ).......

THERE IS HOPE FOLKS IN JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD !!!

Ephesians 2

1. And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

2. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

3. Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

4. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

5. Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

6. And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

7. That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

Romans 8 (King James Version)

Romans 8

1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

4. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

5. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

6. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

7. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

8. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

What are you walking after folks ?

After the law of the spirit of life in Jesus Christ through faith in him ?

Or the carnally minded way of the law in the flesh ?
For the law in the flesh was weak, but, the law was fulfilled in us through Jesus Christ who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit in faith in Jesus Christ.
Those who walk in the flesh can not please GOD, for without faith, you can not please GOD, but, expect GOD's rightful judgment on you.
However, someone's pride and arrogance will cause them to be blinded to the truth of the Gospel message of our LORD Jesus Christ, because they reject the plan that it is only by GOD through his son Jesus Christ that saves sinners and not themselves....

What is your hope of your HOPE ?

HOPE IN JESUS CHRIST ALONE ?

Or by your own self efforts and works ?