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In Matthew 19 you cut the part the lord said. For God there is no impossible.
God is holy and He it is impossible for God to act contrary to His holy will in agreeing with anyone in justifying sin on any level. What Jesus meant by with God nothing is impossible is that God can help to change the heart of the rich man to forsake his riches, or give Him power to overcome if he is willing to change.
You said:All of our works are filthy rags and have no value in the finish work in the cross.
You are the second person to misquote this verse out of context in this thread.
5 “Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.” (Isaiah 64:5-7).
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.” (Isaiah 64:5-7).
Obviously you are not reading verses 5 and 7 in the above passage and you are ripping those words out of context to make your belief that justifies sin in some way work.
Do you even recall when Jesus condemned the Pharisees for their man made traditions? This would be their own righteousness. That is what verse 6 is referring to. God gave commands for Israel to obey. It would not be their own righteousness if they were to obey the commands God gave them. They would be obeying God.
Where does the Bible talk about trusting in the finished work of the cross alone? It doesn't. It is simply a phrase men have invented.
You said:You are not honoring God,
We honor God by obeying Him. We do not honor God by justifying sin by turning His grace into a license for immorality according to Jude 1:4. What does Jude 1:4 even mean to you? What does 2 Timothy 3:1-9 even mean to you?
You said:but dishonoring him rejecting his grace with works.
I believe in God's grace for salvation just fine. You just fail to understand that the Bible teaches that we also need to enter the Sanctification Process as a part of salvation, too. Don't believe me? Just check out these verses below.
- We are justified by works and not by faith alone (James 2:24).
- Faith without works is dead (James 2:17).
- A person can deny God by a lack of works (Titus 1:16).
- Jesus agreed with the lawyer that to love God, and to love your neighbor is a part of inheriting eternal life (Luke 10:25-28).
- Those who have done good, shall come forth unto the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, shall come forth unto the resurrection of damnation (John 5:29).
- We have to continue in His goodness, otherwise we can be cut off [just like the Jews were cut off] (Romans 11:21-22).
- Helping the poor, and the unfortunate relates to inheriting the Kingdom (Matthew 25:34-40), and not helping the poor, and the unfortunate relates to going away into everlasting punishment (Matthew 25:41-46).
- Whoever does not righteousness or does not love his brother is not of God (1 John 3:10).
- Whoever does what Jesus says is likened unto a wise man who built his house upon the rock, and when a storm came, it did not fall, (Matthew 7:24-25), but the person who does not do what Jesus says is likened unto a fool who built his house upon the sand, and when a storm came, great was the fall of that house (Matthew 7:26-27).
- Abiding in Jesus will bear much fruit, but if a person does not abide in Jesus [thereby being unfruitful], they are cast out [or cut off] like a branch to be burned in the fire (John 15:5-6).
- If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing (1 Peter 4:18-19).
- Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14) (NKJV).
You said:Tell me then, where in the bible it teaches about losing your salvation when you have faith?
You fail to understand that those in the kingdom can be cast out because of their sin.
We see this truth expressed in Matthew 13:41-42.
41 “The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”
(Matthew 13:41-42).
42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”
(Matthew 13:41-42).
To put it to you another way, Matthew 13:41-42 is saying that the Son of man (i.e. Jesus) will one day send forth His angels and they will gather out of HIS KINGDOM all things that “offend” (i.e. anything that makes others to sin - see Matthew 18:6 in the NKJV and the KJV), and those people who do iniquity (i.e. sin or wrongdoing), and they will be thrown (cast) into the furnace of fire (i.e. the Lake of Fire) where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth (Note: Gnashing of teeth is what wolves do when they growl sometimes).
In other words, the angels of Jesus are going to gather out of HIS kingdom all those who justify sin in some way and they will be thrown into the Lake of Fire. So a person can be in the kingdom and later they are cast out.
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