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There are many, many other such warnings to believers. Many try to say that these warnings are to the unsaved but that is as silly a thing as I have ever heard. Others say that they are warnings to believers but they will never happen and that is as equally silly as a warning without a consequence is a toothless tiger ... how many would stop at a stop sign if there was no penalty?
God doesn't come to dwell within us because He has nowhere better to go. He comes to cleanse us as 2 Thess. 2:13 says that we are "saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth".
God bless mate,
Mick
I think that we have exactly the same opinion but a little mis-communication makes it appear that we are not saying the same thing.
For example, you said "What he [Paul] is saying is that it isn’t OUR righteousness at all that saves us. It is the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST - COUNTED as our righteousness" (it says that in Phil 3:9) and I agree 100%. You also said, "You see God looking down on us, keeping score, seeing if we are righteousness. It is something we are still striving to achieve" but I don't see it that way. What I see is God living within us and declaring us righteous because "He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous" (1 John 3:7) and we can only "do what is righteous" through the power of the Spirit.
To me, you sum it up perfectly in saying, "But living by the Spirit is NOT something I do to enter into God’s Grace – God’s Grace is what ENABLES me to live by the Spirit!" It would be putting the cart before the horse to say that we enter His Grace by living according to the Spirit as we don't receive the Spirit until we repent and enter into His Grace.
I have a lousy memory and only just remembered that we discussed this before.
God bless,
Mick
God bless,
Mick
“For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.”- 2 Corinthians 5:14-15
May His Kingdom rises upon us.
abide in His love,
ladyhumble
Thanks!
WHAT'S A CHURCH?
A well-worn one-dollar bill and a similarly distressed twenty-dollar bill arrived at a Federal Reserve Bank to be retired. As they moved along the conveyor belt to be burned, they struck up a conversation. The twenty-dollar bill reminisced about its travels all over the country.
"I've had a pretty good life," the twenty-dollar bill proclaimed. "Why I've been to Las Vegas and Atlantic City , the finest restaurants in New York , performances on Broadway, and even a cruise to the Caribbean "
"Wow!" said the one-dollar bill. "You've really had an exciting life!"
"So tell me," says the twenty-dollar bill, "where have you been throughout your lifetime?"
The one dollar bill replies, "Oh, I've been to the Methodist Church , the Baptist Church, the Lutheran Church."
The twenty-dollar bill interrupts, "What's a church?"
JOHN 3:16
May God's way be on your way today and always.
Abide in His love,
ladyhumble
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