Posted on 11/04/2011 12:06:23 PM PDT by RnMomof7
1. The precious blood of Christ has a REDEEMING POWER. It redeems from the law. We were all under the law which says, "This do, and live." We were slaves to it: Christ has paid the ransom price, and the law is no longer our tyrant master. We are entirely free from it. The law had a dreadful curse; it threatened that whosoever should violate one of its precepts, should die: "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us." By the fear of this curse, the law inflicted a continual dread on those who were under it; they knew they had disobeyed it, and they were all their lifetime subject to bondage, fearful lest death and destruction should come upon them at any moment: but we are not under the law, but under grace, and consequently "We have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but we have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father."
We are not afraid of the law now; its worst thunders cannot affect us, for they are not hurled at us! Its most tremendous lightnings cannot touch us, for we are sheltered beneath the cross of Christ, where the thunder loses its terror and the lightning its fury. We read the law of God with pleasure now; we look upon it as in the ark covered with the mercy seat, and not thundering in tempests from Sinai’s fiery brow.
Happy is that man who knows his full redemption from the law, its curse, its penalty, its present dread. My brethren, the life of a Jew, happy as it was compared with that of a heathen, was perfect drudgery compared to yours and mine. He was hedged in with a thousand commands and prohibitions, his forms and ceremonies were abundant, and their details minutely arranged. He was always in danger of making himself unclean. If he sat upon a bed or upon a stool, he might be defiled; if he drank out of an earthen pitcher, or even touched the wall of a house, a leprous man might have put his hand there before him, and he would thus become defiled.
A thousand sins of ignorance were like so many hidden pits in his way; he must be perpetually in fear lest he should be cut off from the people of God. When he had done his best any one day, he knew he had not finished; no Jew could ever talk of a finished work. The bullock was offered, but he must bring another; the lamb was offered this morning, but another must be offered this evening, another tomorrow, and another the next day. The Passover is celebrated with holy rites; it must be kept in the same manner next year. The high priest has gone within the veil once, but he must go there again; the thing is never finished, it is always beginning. He never comes any nearer to the end. "The law could not make the comer thereunto perfect."
But see our position: we are redeemed from this. Our law is fulfilled, for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness; our passover is slain, for Jesus died; our righteousness is finished, for we are complete in Him; our victim is slain, our priest has gone within the veil, the blood is sprinkled; we are clean, and clean beyond any fear of defilement, "For he hath perfected for ever those that were set apart." Value this precious blood, my beloved, because thus it has redeemed you from the thraldom and bondage which the law imposed upon its votaries.
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Because judgment is not yours and it defies logic and Scripture for anyone to claim that there nothing they could do to loose Salvation.
I love the Lord Jesus Christ, I am NOT Anathema per God's standard via Paul's writings.
The onus on on the Catholics to repent for they hate the true Christians and on this forum often call them heretics...and that coming from an ancient babayonian worship of the pagan Nimrod gods and deities...
That’s not an answer.
Does baptism save or not?
It’s a simple yes or no question.
If it saves, I’m good.
If something can negate it, it doesn’t save.
The judgment is God's and already declared. I just believe it and for that am castigated. The chutzpah, to think that someone actually takes God at His word and believes what He already declared.
John 10:27-29 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
Call Jesus a liar if you wish. I'm not putting myself in that position.
Luke 18:15-17 15 People were also bringing babies to Jesus for him to place his hands on them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them. 16 But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 17 Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
"If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." - Philippians 3:11-14
I keep asking them about scripture proof of the bodily assumption of Mary. They don’t seem to find that for some reason.
to wit...there is NO scripture proof of the bodily assumption of Mary...God never said it...to be accurate in Bible Doctrine and God’s Doctrines for salvation and Heaven and Hell, we must follow His Word, not men’s words and lies...
Wasnt that a 1950’s declaration?
Yep. Unbelievable for such a central point of RCC doctrine to not even have been made so till then.
There is none, but neither is there any Scripture proof that declares that all of the Revealed Word and Truth is to be found within Scripture.
"Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name." - John 20:30-31
"And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they *were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself *would not contain the books that *would be written." - John 21:24-25
Rome quotes these very well as current day Pharisees, which they practice, for they too added words to the Scriptures that men must follow - But Jesus says unto Rome type Phaisees:
I am saved by grace, not of works, least any man boast. I see Rome boasting and lording it over people all the time. I am IN CHRIST, and Rome cannot take that away from me; I am a son of God (Romans 8:14-15) and Rome cannot take that away; I am heaven bound directly after I die (Rome hopes sooner than later) and Rome cannot take that away from me.
It is impossible for Rome to tell God Almighty to send me to Hell, for I am a child and son of God and saved by grace and not through works and have Christ as my only Redeemer and His blood alone saved me from my sins which have been fully forgiven - Rome cannot take that away from me - for if it tried, it would be fighting against God.
Rome has rejected the counsel of God against themselves. Rome has added many 'commandments' to the counsel of God saving grace. This the Pharisees did also, what was their charge by God: woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees.
I love people so much that I freely provide the Gospel of Grace, as I do now: Repent and believe that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures (I Corinthians 15:3-4)
I know it must be befuddling to you for Catholics to actually know the Bible better than you. But why shouldn't we, we actually wrote it.
Catholics wrote the Bible...that’s news to God the Holy Spirit...woe that God was so weak that he needed Catholics to write His WORD...woe...
Show us the Scripture and verse that God said that Catholics wrote the Bible...?
The Apostle Paul was not a Catholic.
If purgatory were somewhere in the Bible, don't you think it would be taught? Don't you think it would be told to us: You won't go immediately to heaven; you'll go to a temporary place in which you'll be transformed in the painful process of purging before you can be with the Lord. It's not there, that's what I'm saying. This is a foreign doctrine that is brought into the Scriptures and then someone searches for a hint somewhere to justify the doctrine.
In fact, the Scripture teaches quite differently--the same author to the same people. In 2 Corinthians 5:8, Paul says, "I prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord." No intermediate stage. Paul says to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
Catholics to actually know the Bible better than...since God the Holy Spirit is my teacher in Bible truths... then by your statement, Catholics must actually know the Bible better than God the Holy Spirit...
Proud. God actually hates the proud!
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