[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

If people have not accepted CHRIST as Saviour and Lord - they are lost!

If people have accepted CHRIST as Saviour and Lord but sin is not dormant in their lives - one of two things will happen....

(1) their names will be removed from the Lamb’s Book of Life and they will perish

(2) they will lose precious rewards and Heavenly privileges at the Judgment Seat of CHRIST

Either way - these groups of people never had an intimate relationship with JESUS CHRIST and He will say to them...I NEVER KNEW YOU!!

[Gamecock]

If people have not accepted CHRIST as Saviour and Lord - they are lost!

Unbiblical premise. No where in scripture are we told to accept Christ as Saviour and Lord. We are told to repent and believe.

[American Constitutionalist]

( * If people have not accepted CHRIST as Saviour and Lord - they are lost!* )

That's not the politically correct thing to say, many believe that " good works " will be good enough to save you.

[Gamecock]

(1) their names will be removed from the Lamb’s Book of Life and they will perish

UnBiblical premise.

Philippians 1:6 “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:”

2 Timothy 4:18 “And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”

John 6:47 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”

Jeremiah 32:40 “And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.”

2 Corinthians 2:14 “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.”

Ephesians 4:30 “And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”

[American Constitutionalist]

" If people have accepted CHRIST as Saviour and Lord but sin is not dormant in their lives - one of two things will happen...."

I guess that leaves the Apostle Paul out then, ( Read Romans chapter 7 )

[American Constitutionalist]

" Either way - these groups of people never had an intimate relationship with JESUS CHRIST and He will say to them...I NEVER KNEW YOU!! "


Those whom he will say " I never knew you " are those who try to sneak over the wall like the thieves and robbers who try to enter in some other way to the Kingdom of GOD.

Those whom Jesus says " I never knew you " are those who say , but Lord ? what about all my " GOOD " works " of Merit " done in your name ? .

They are those who try to enter in some other way other than Jesus Christ and his sacrificial atonement.

He will say to those who never accepted God's New Convenant that was introduced, confirmed, and fulfilled ( on our behalf ) in the vicarious sacrifice of the blood, and in the flesh of Jesus Christ's.

Those whom the father has given unto Jesus Christ to save, none ! none ! will Christ's the Savior lose.

Those Christians who have open sin(s) in their lives ? God will discipline then.

The Legalism folks have convinced people that they gain their salvation, and keep their salvation, that can only be gained or kept by GOD's power only in Jesus Christ.

Salvation by works = ManPower ( vain glory = showing other's how Godly they are on the outside , but, corrupt in the heart still ) and Man's pride.

Salvation by Grace through faith in Jesus Christ = GOD get's all the glory.

[American Constitutionalist]

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+7&version=NIV

[American Constitutionalist]

The letter kills ( the law ) but, the spirit ( God's Grace in the New Covenant ) gives LIFE !!!!
If you preach condemnation, then, your not preaching the true Gospel of Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ came to save, not condemn.
John 3:17: For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.


2 Corinthians 3, 4-11.

4. And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:
5. not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
6. who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7. But if the ministration of death, written, and engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon …

[American Constitutionalist]

Be delivered from condemnation TODAY !

The letter kills ( the law ) but, the spirit gives life, God's Grace in the New Covenant gives life.


Man's traditions want you to try to earn your salvation by human efforts ( walking according to your flesh, human effort )
It's the prideful, the proud who do not want to humble themselves and receive and accept God's Grace, for God resists the proud, but, gives Grace to the humble.

The poor in spirit will receive the kingdom of God.
The poor in spirit boast about the love the LORD has for them, but, the proud boast about how much they love the LORD ( like Peter ) and their good works, how they will go to the ends of the Earth for the LORD ( like Peter )
The poor in spirit are those who know they are sinners, who know their weaknesses, who know that they are in desperate need of a deliverer and Savior, but, the proud plow on in their stubborn pride thinking that they can earn God's favor by their works, merits, keeping the law.
The proud in spirit boast about their accomplishments, their works, their merits, their phony godliness = appearing in front of people to be godly, but, they are whitewashed tombs because of their pride is more than what they ascribed to what the LORD has done.

2 Corinthians 3 (Amplified Bible)

2 Corinthians 3

1. ARE WE starting to commend ourselves again? Or we do not, like some [false teachers], need written credentials or letters of recommendation to you or from you, [do we]?
2. you yourselves are our letter of recommendation (our credentials), written in your hearts, to be known (perceived, recognized) and read by everybody.
3. You show and make obvious that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, not written with ink but with [the] Spirit of [the] living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4. Such is the reliance and confidence that we have through Christ toward and with reference to God.
5. Not that we are fit (qualified and sufficient in ability) of ourselves to form personal judgments or to claim or count anything as coming from us, but our power and ability and sufficiency are from God.
6. [It is He] Who has qualified us [making us to be fit and worthy and sufficient] as ministers and dispensers of a new covenant [of salvation through Christ], not [ministers] of the letter (of legally written code) but of the Spirit; for the code [of the Law] kills, but the [Holy] Spirit makes alive.
7. Now if the dispensation of death engraved in letters on stone [the ministration of the Law], was inaugurated with such glory and splendor that the Israelites were not able to look steadily at the face of Moses because of its brilliance, [a glory] that was to fade and pass away,
8. Why should not the dispensation of the Spirit [this spiritual [b]ministry whose task it is to cause men to obtain and be governed by the Holy Spirit] be attended with much greater and more splendid glory?
9. For if the service that condemns [the ministration of doom] had glory, how infinitely more abounding in splendor and glory must be the service that makes righteous [the ministry that produces and fosters righteous living and right standing with God]!
10. Indeed, in view of this fact, what once had splendor the glory of the Law in the face of Moses] has come to have no splendor at all, because of the overwhelming glory that exceeds and excels it the glory of the Gospel in the face of Jesus Christ].
11. For if that which was but passing and fading away came with splendor, how much more must that which remains and is permanent abide in glory and splendor!
12. Since we have such [glorious] hope (such joyful and confident expectation), we speak very freely and openly and fearlessly.
13. Nor [do we act] like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze upon the finish of the vanishing [splendor which had been upon it].
14. In fact, their minds were grown hard and calloused [they had become dull and had lost the power of understanding]; for until this present day, when the Old Testament (the old covenant) is being read, that same veil still lies [on their hearts], not being lifted [to reveal] that in Christ it is made void and done away.
15. Yes, down to this [very] day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their minds and hearts.
16. But whenever a person turns [in repentance] to the Lord, the veil is stripped off and taken away.
17. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom).
18. And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit.

[American Constitutionalist]

Mathew 5:20

For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mathew 5:20

For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mathew 5:20

For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mathew 5:20

For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mathew 5:20

For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mathew 5:20

For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mathew 5:20

For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mathew 5:20

For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mathew 5:20

For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mathew 5:20

For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

[American Constitutionalist]

http://bible.cc/matthew/5-20.htm