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To: MHGinTN

Then please honestly explain these texts (one explanation for all is fine)

1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome

1 John 2
3By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. 4If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:…

John 15:10
If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.


93 posted on 03/01/2021 4:07:40 PM PST by Philsworld
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To: Philsworld
First, you are conflating 'His commandments' the two He gave for The Body of Christ Believers, with the ten commandments. If you do not have the seed of God abiding in your spirit, you cannot display the character of God through you living. The seed of God abides in the born again, so the spirit of the born again conforms to the character of God. The soul which learns sin, not so much.

Second, you are still reading The Word of God with a seventh day adventist eye to supporting works based salvation. God is not a yo-yo. Once He births a spirit, from above, He abides in that born again spirit, IRREVOCABLY. That is the Promise of God to all who place their faith in Christ alone.

Allow me to illustrate where you are not seeing the spiritual truth: 1 John 2:5 But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him

You read that verse to say you must perfect The Word in you. John wrote that verse to help folks understand that it is GOD in you Who is at work to perfect and it is accredited to you by Grace.

I'm praying that one of these days, before the Rapture, you will stop trying to play gotcha and simply trust in Jesus alone by faith alone.

96 posted on 03/01/2021 4:24:42 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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