Jethro Bodine
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And so we know Paul does not mean that in Romans 2:13.We certainly cannot be justified by the law.
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And so we know Paul does not mean that in Romans 2:13.We certainly cannot be justified by the law.
Hopeful was saying how thankful he was that he could keep the law perfectly. Every moral tenet in the OT and NT applies (Galatians 3:10, Matthew 5:17-20).The ceremonial law is not needed to draw close to God anymore. We have already been brought near to God through faith in Christ. That's why you don't have to perform laws of worship to do what is already done in Christ. But if you think you have to continue to keep it, that's what YOU have to do, not us.
Just end your quotation after "when we receive the Spirit." Your obedience plays no role whatsoever in being made a child of God. Receiving the forgiveness of God and the imputation of the Holy Spirit through faith does that all by itself.Therefore, we inadvertently become law-abiding citizens of the kingdom of heaven when we receive the Spirit and begin to walk according to His fruits.
What he means is that the doers of the law shall be justified.And so we know Paul does not mean that in Romans 2:13.
He made it clear that there are some laws that simply do not have to be kept now. And he is correct. Any law that sought to do what is already done for us in Jesus Christ does not have to be literally kept anymore.Hopeful was saying how thankful he was that he could keep the law perfectly. Every moral tenet in the OT and NT applies (Galatians 3:10, Matthew 5:17-20).
No; because there is no law that will condemn our behaviour if we bear the fruit of the Spirit; even according to Galatians 5:22-23.Just end your quotation after "when we receive the Spirit." Your obedience plays no role whatsoever in being made a child of God. Receiving the forgiveness of God and the imputation of the Holy Spirit through faith does that all by itself.
However if you do not keep every law, you are not keeping the law perfectly (see Galatians 3:10, James 2:10, Matthew 5:48).He made it clear that there are some laws that simply do not have to be kept now. And he is correct. Any law that sought to do what is already done for us in Jesus Christ does not have to be literally kept anymore.
The reason you don't understand the subject of justification is because you do not know that it has two different definitions and usages in the Bible. Paul is talking about becoming righteous. James is talking about being shown to be righteous. Both mean to be justified.What he means is that the doers of the law shall be justified.
Since if we bear the fruit of the Spirit, there is no law that will condemn our behaviour (Galatians 5:22-23).
Therefore, we become law-abiding citizens of the kingdom when we bear the fruit of the Spirit.
And therefore we are justified according to the law (not by it).
You don't become righteous in God's sight by being righteous. You don't become a child of God by being obedient. Faith in God's forgiveness does that all by itself.No; because there is no law that will condemn our behaviour if we bear the fruit of the Spirit; even according to Galatians 5:22-23.
Fruit may be something that shows itself forth practically, but it is not works / obedience.
I do understand it.The reason you don't understand the subject of justification
right. It is the other way around. We are obedient because we have become children of God.is because you do not know that it has two different definitions and usages in the Bible. Paul is talking about becoming righteous. James is talking about being shown to be righteous. Both mean to be justified, but as you can see they are two different meanings and usages of the word. Your works do not make you righteous in God's sight. Your works show you to be righteous. You are not made a child of God by being obedient. That happens by faith all by itself. You show yourself to be a child of God by your works.
right. we do what is righteous because we have been made righteous (Romans 5:19).You don't become righteous in God's sight by being righteous.
What do you make of Acts 5:32?You don't become a child of God by being obedient.
Do yourself a favour and take the beam out of your eye before you try to take a speck out of your brother's eye.The reason you don't understand the subject of justification
It can mean two things.
In becoming righteous, we become practically righteous, so that it can be shown (1 John 3:7, Romans 5:19, Matthew 5:5).Paul is talking about becoming righteous. James is talking about being shown to be righteous.
I perceive it as saying that God gives the Holy Spirit to those who obey Him.It can mean two things.
1) The obedience that solicits the indwelling Holy Spirit is the obedience of repenting and having faith in God. Having faith is in fact the one single solitary thing that you 'do' to be justified (made righteous).
2) We experience the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in our lives when we live in obedience to God's commands, and so it is 'given' to us in that sense.
Both are true. Which one is Peter specifically referring to? I don't know. I suspect the first one. The obedience of having faith will in fact solicit the Holy Spirit in salvation. It is the one thing you must 'do' in order to become a saved, born again person, and that is distinguished from all other things you do. Anything else you do to become saved is serving the works justification gospel condemned in scripture.
How does James' justification make you righteous? How does that justification make you a citizen of the kingdom? How does that justification make you a child of God?James, in James 2:14-26, in speaking of justification, is speaking of justification before men (as the entire passage is qualified by Romans 4:2).
Born again people sin. What they don't do is live in sin as a deliberate lifestyle.And subsequently, we cannot be disobedient (Titus 3:3).
I understand the two different meanings and usages of the word 'justified' used in the Bible.Do yourself a favour and take the beam out of your eye before you try to take a speck out of your brother's eye.
Only if they can deceive me into thinking they are more powerful.So your old, now dead lusts, (Gal 5:24), are more powerful than the Holy Spirit within you?
That is what you are saying.
I gave the teaching on that above to show that I already had that understanding.I understand the two different meanings and usages of the word 'justified' used in the Bible.
You do not become righteous by acting righteously.