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To: Springfield Reformer
Jesus is setting an impossibly high standard, if one is paying attention. That's on purpose.

No; believe and obey. There is no free pass here to ignore the commandments the Messiah gave. Are we not his bondservants ?

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

John, Catholic chapter fourteen, Protestant verse fifteen,
James, Catholic chapter four, Protestant verses four to six,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James

178 posted on 11/04/2015 6:15:53 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981; Springfield Reformer

The “law” is our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Jesus was showing that obeying the “letter”of the law (as the Scribes and Pharisees did) wasn’t good enough. It was the “spirit” of the law that mattered and NONE of us is capable of that. Ergo...we need a redeemer.


188 posted on 11/04/2015 8:52:03 AM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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