I’m confused. So all those times Jesus says, “Love your neighbor,” he didn’t mean it actually did anything since he was going to suffer and die and redeem me no matter what? Even the devil believes.
“I’m confused. So all those times Jesus says, “Love your neighbor,” he didn’t mean it actually did anything since he was going to suffer and die and redeem me no matter what? Even the devil believes.
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Christ said this as a Jew while living under the Law, fulfilling the Law, and as a summary of the demands of the Law.
And said this before His sacrifice in the cross paid the penalty for sin.
He redeems no one “no matter what.”
He redeems those who entrust themselves to Him alone for salvation.
Then there are things like what's in this article posted here today:
New Sexual Fetish; Couples Getting Pregnant and Having Multiple Abortion.
The couples in that story actually get enjoyment from the woman getting pregnant and then aborting the baby and don't see anything wrong with what they're doing.
But it should be pretty obvious to a Christian that if you've been born again spiritually, meaning Christ is genuinely alive in you and you've been made alive in Him and you've been sealed by the Holy Spirit, then the Lord's Spirit in you either recoils from sin, seeing it the way He does, or else troubles you to convict you of something where you are still not completely surrendering to Him and/or still need more work from the Lord to conform you to His image.
But it is God's work to bring you into a relationship with Him and keeping you in it by choosing you from the foundation of the world and showing His grace to you by giving you saving faith. It was His decision to draw you to Himself and reveal Himself to you so that you are changed forever by meeting and coming to know Him.
"No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6:44
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light." 1 Peter 2:9
It is knowing the Lord, BECAUSE HE HAS CHOSEN TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO US (if you talk to atheists, none of them seem to have met Him) which teaches us what is truly righteous, and to embrace that righteousness, versus what's right in the eyes of people who don't know Him.