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To: Iscool; MHGinTN

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https://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/book/e/25/t/does-god-s-grace-blot-out-the-law-

Judged by the Law

Now, a final question about the subject of the law: How many of the Ten Commandments does one have to break in order to be guilty of sin? James says, “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty” (James 2:10–12).

Every individual will be judged at last by the mighty moral code of God’s law. To break one is to be guilty of sin. The Bible indicates that the Ten Commandments are like a chain with ten links. When one link is broken, the chain is broken. So it is with the law. Those who stand in the judgment will have to meet the acid test of the Ten Commandments. If a practicing thief should seek entrance into the kingdom, he would be rejected. This is why Paul says thieves will not inherit the heavenly city. Furthermore, the Bible specifically declares that liars, adulterers, idolaters, and covetous men will not be in the kingdom. Why? Because the Ten Commandments forbid those things, and men will be judged finally by that law. Not one person will be admitted into heaven who is willfully violating any one of the Ten Commandments, because breaking one is breaking all.

Someone might object that this is making works the basis of entering the kingdom. No. It is really making love the qualifying factor. Jesus said that the greatest commandment of all is to love God supremely. He also said, “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15). Those who practice any known sin are really confessing that they do not love God with all their heart, soul, and mind. So it is the lack of love that shuts them out—not the act of disobedience that exposes that lack. Only when love is motivating the obedience does it become acceptable to God. Any other work is man’s vain attempt to earn salvation and to deny the efficacy of Christ’s atoning sacrifice.

Iscool, no matter how much you don’t want it to be true, you and I will both be judged by the law.


124 posted on 03/02/2021 6:35:31 AM PST by Philsworld
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To: Philsworld; Iscool; metmom; imardmd1; Elsie; aMorePerfectUnion; boatbums; caww; SouthernClaire
In your carnal state you are unable to comprehend the Grace of God in Christ. The Grace of God judged sin on the cross. By faith alone in Christ Alone, my sin was included in THAT judgment on the cross. "There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus"... but Phil, if you choose to be judged by the ten commandments, it is simple, just do not trust in Christ alone, add your failures to keep the Law of God and you will not have your sin counted in the Judgment at the Cross.

Do you understand why there is therefore now no condemnation for those in Christ? You read the answer if you read the 1 John letter verse by verse, because the answer is stated by John at 1 John 3:9. That saying by John conflicts with your carnal misuse of the other verses. Read 1 John 3:9 and let the Restrainer illuminate your soul.

You attempt to post word search passages as if you have found your desired gotchas. Look at the passages of 2 Thess 2. Do you know Who is The Restrainer? Can you guess what He is restraining such that when H e is taken out of the way the antiChrist is revealed? Specifically, what is The Restrainer restraining? How does satan come when he is no longer held back after God removes The Body of Christ Believers?

IF you ever comprehend Who is The Restrainer and why His restraining is vital to the age of The Grace of God in Christ Church Age, then you will start to comprehend what is The Grace of God for The Body of Believers in Christ alone by faith alone. You will have begun to understand what atonement means under the Grace of God, by faith ALONE in Christ ALONE by Grace ALONE with not one smidgeon of your efforts, your fealty to fulfill the ten commandments.

To the Christian, how much could one add to the righteousness IMPUTED to that born again one? Do you really believe The Righteousness of Christ needs anything added by you? Understanding how to answer that question leads to Life in the spirit, by faith alone in Christ alone for Grace alone, never your efforts added.

126 posted on 03/02/2021 7:04:00 AM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Philsworld; Iscool; MHGinTN
Christians are not under Law but under grace.

Unbelievers are judged by the Law. Christians are judged by being in Christ, in a state of grace.

If you choose to be judged by the Law rather than being in Christ, then you will be condemned.

But you can't say you weren't warned. If you want to be judged by the Law so bad, I'm sure God will accommodate you.

This is likely to fall on deaf ears, but here it is anyway perchance the Holy Spirit will give you enlightenment and understanding.

Romans 4:3-8 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works: “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”

Romans 5:1-2 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Romans 6:1-4 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.

Romans 6:12-18 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

And the end of the matter for the Christian, the one who puts their faith and trust in Christ, not just the person who wears a label because they are not Jewish or Muslim, is this.

Romans 8:1-2 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

135 posted on 03/02/2021 8:43:03 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Philsworld
Those who stand in the judgment will have to meet the acid test of the Ten Commandments. If a practicing thief should seek entrance into the kingdom, he would be rejected. This is why Paul says thieves will not inherit the heavenly city. Furthermore, the Bible specifically declares that liars, adulterers, idolaters, and covetous men will not be in the kingdom. Why? Because the Ten Commandments forbid those things, and men will be judged finally by that law. Not one person will be admitted into heaven who is willfully violating any one of the Ten Commandments, because breaking one is breaking all.

It astounds me how so many people don't get this, you included...

1Co 6:9  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 
1Co 6:10  Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 

1Co 6:11  And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 

Does it say we no longer do any of those things??? No it doesn't...It says we trusted Jesus in spite of our sins and he washed us clean...

Is this next verse in your bible???

Rom_4:8  Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

We are not under the law so we are not under sin...So how does this work???

Rom_7:18  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

It was Paul's will to do good but not for favor with God as you guys do...If fact, Paul couldn't do the good Jesus talks about...He wasn't capable...

Php_2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

God gives us the necessary will AND the ability to do good...

Rom 7:24  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?  Rom 7:25  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. 

Even tho Paul continued to sin, he was delivered from that sin...He was not under the law...

148 posted on 03/02/2021 10:06:56 AM PST by Iscool
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