Cultivating a love for the truth… The Doctrine of Christ.

[JLB]

So are you saying that Judas is with Jesus now in Heaven?

No.

Judas was one of His sheep who became lost, and never repented.

Are you familiar with the principle?


“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance. Luke 15:4-7


Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

The sheep had once belonged to the sheppard, but had wandered away and become lost.

I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

Notice in this lost state, he is called a sinner in need of repentance while the ninety nine remain just.

 

[JLB]

They have to love Him and follow His commandments.
John 8:42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, . . .
John 14:21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him."

Believe is much more than just a mental assertion.

Amen!


He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1 John 2:4

 

[Whatever]

Are you familiar with the principle?

Yes, it is the theory that a saved person can lose their salvation. That you can be born again and still go to Hell.

The lost sheep simply wandered away from the flock. He is still a sheep. He ends up being found.

Notice in this lost state, he is called a sinner in need of repentance while the ninety nine remain just.

You are missing the point of the parable.
Luke 15:2 And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, "This Man receives sinners and eats with them."

These scribes and Pharisees thought they were the ones who needed no repentance. These "sinners" Jesus was eating with were fellow Jews. They were all part of the Jewish flock. Put it together with the passage in Matthew.

Mat 18:13 And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

The "ninety-nine that did not go astray" are the same as Luke's "ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance."
The scribes and Pharisee's were the ones who thought they were just and needed no repentance.
We know from the Gospels, that they were hypocrites.

All of them were sheep "Jews who believed they were right with God because Abraham was their father" and these "sinners" were not right with God in the scribes and Pharisees eyes.

You are reading our modern soteriology into Jesus' argument with the scribes and Pharisee's.

 

[JLB]

Yes, it is the theory that a saved person can lose their salvation. That you can be born again and still go to Hell.

The lost sheep simply wandered away from the flock. He is still a sheep. He ends up being found.

The principles that I mentioned in the text are what I’m asking you to see.

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance. Luke 15:4-7


Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

The sheep had once belonged to the sheppard, but had wandered away and become lost.

I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

Notice in this lost state, he is called a sinner in need of repentance while the ninety nine remain just.

Can you see that someone in the “lost” state is no longer just?

They are lost.

Wouldn’t you agree that the lost need salvation?

 

[live2blive]

I’m only going by what the word says.

Here is what it says…

Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:31-32

Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. 2 John 9

Adding words to what He teaches is a recipe for disaster.

It’s best to love God and fear Him, as well as keep His commandments.

Only going by what the word says also can be a recipie of disaster. Our Creator wants us to understand the word:

But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. (Matthew 13:23).

 

[JLB]

Only going by what the word says also can be a recipie of disaster. Our Creator wants us to understand the word:

But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. (Matthew 13:23).

Yes understanding the word begins with reading what the word actually says, not what we try and force it to say.

Again adding to His word is a recipe for disaster.