Can you continue to knowingly sin and remain a Christian?

[Hopeful]

Not if he knows where the gold is located.

Don't count your chickens before the eggs hatch.

 

[justbyfaith]

Don't count your chickens before the eggs hatch.

We have an endless treasure consisting of unsearchable riches in Christ. We own the mine of God's word.

All we have to do in order to extract those riches is to find them in God's word.

The mine (God's word) is an inexhaustible resource and in having it, we are rich beyond compare.

 

[Hopeful]

Mat 5:17, Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18, For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Mat 5:19, Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:20, For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Thanks be to God for Jesus' fulfillment of the Law so we don't need to keep it anymore.
Thanks be to God for making the righteousness of the true NT believer greater than that if the Law keeping Pharisees and scribes of the OT.

 

[justbyfaith]

I do, but I am not under the Law, so it matters not to me.
I can walk as far as I want on Saturday and Sunday.
Distance doesn't affect salvation, or love for God or neighbor.

So, you can retract your statement that you keep the law perfectly.

No one does (Galatians 6:13).

 

[Hopeful]

We have an endless treasure consisting of unsearchable riches in Christ. We own the mine of God's word.

All we have to do in order to extract those riches is to find them in God's word.

The mine (God's word) is an inexhaustible resource and in having it, we are rich beyond compare.

Sure.
It is there for the taking.
But we don't have it unless we have it.
It is only "potentially" ours until we actually have it.

 

[justbyfaith]

Thanks be to God for Jesus' fulfillment of the Law so we don't need to keep it anymore.
Thanks be to God for making the righteousness of the true NT believer greater than that if the Law keeping Pharisees and scribes of the OT.

You will be called the least in the kingdom according to the passage.

 

[justbyfaith]

Sure.
It is there for the taking.
But we don't have it unless we have it.
It is only "potentially" ours until we actually have it.

We have the mine and therefore we own the riches in it.

 

[Hopeful]

So, you can retract your statement that you keep the law perfectly.

No one does (Galatians 6:13).

I can, and so can you, keep the law of Christ perfectly.
To fail to, would make rebirth inconsequential.

 

[Hopeful]

You will be called the least in the kingdom according to the passage.

Jesus too, I guess, as He "worked" on the sabbath a bunch of times.

 

[justbyfaith]

I can, and so can you, keep the law of Christ perfectly.
To fail to, would make rebirth inconsequential.

But the law of Christ includes the least of the commandments in the Old and New Testaments (Matthew 5:17-20).

How then can we obey it perfectly?

I don't even own tzitzit and tallit; or a chofar.

 

[Hopeful]

We have the mine and therefore we own the riches in it.

Won't do anyone any good until the gold is in your hand.

 

[justbyfaith]

Jesus too, I guess, as He "worked" on the sabbath a bunch of times.

Jesus was Lord of the sabbath. He came as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedec, not after a carnal commandment but after the power of an endless life.

He re-defined the sabbath day laws with two stipulations:

1) the sabbath was made for man and not man for the sabbath

2) it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

 

[justbyfaith]

Won't do anyone any good until the gold is in your hand.

As long as you are willing to work in order to extract the gold, the gold is as good as being in your hand.

 

[Hopeful]

But the law of Christ includes the least of the commandments in the Old and New Testaments (Matthew 5:17-20).

That is an error.

How then can we obey it perfectly?
I don't even own tzitzit and tallit; or a chofar.

We don't need to, as we are dead to the Law...."Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." (Rom 7:4-6)

 

[Hopeful]

Jesus was Lord of the sabbath. He came as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedec, not after a carnal commandment but after the power of an endless life.

He re-defined the sabbath day laws with two stipulations:

1) the sabbath was made for man and not man for the sabbath

2) it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

So there is a Law that no longer needs "keeping".

 

[justbyfaith]

That is an error.

It isn't.

Christ's own words; and therefore His law:

Mat 5:18, For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Mat 5:19, Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

 

[justbyfaith]

So there is a Law that no longer needs "keeping".

We still rest according to the spirit of that law; and spend our time with God.

 

[Hopeful]

As long as you are willing to work in order to extract the gold, the gold is as good as being in your hand.

I don't have x-ray vision, so you cannot prove there is anything valuable in the dirt.
One bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

 

[justbyfaith]

We don't need to, as we are dead to the Law...

Dead to the law of Christ?

 

[justbyfaith]

I don't have x-ray vision, so you cannot prove there is anything valuable in the dirt.
One bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

I rest assured that there are untold riches in the word of the Lord.