Note again that a work of faith, "remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love" (1 Thessalonians 1:3), "the work of faith with power" (2 Thessalonians 1:11), is not a work of the law (Romans 3:28) or a work of the flesh (Galatians 5:19-21). Originally posted by SUNSTONE
...if you live the law you must live the whole law...
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven" (Matthew 7:21).Originally posted by SUNSTONE
...Believe and confess, thats it...
"Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" (Luke 6:46).
"They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate" (Titus 1:16).
"They should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance" (Acts 26:20).
"Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only" (James 2:24).
Originally posted by SUNSTONE
...I do that which I do not want to do...
Again, we only sin because we want to. We are never tempted beyond our ability to bear it. There is always a way of escape if we are willing to receive it from God:
"God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it" (1 Corinthians 10:13).
I believe when Paul said "what I hate, that do I" (Romans 7:15) and "with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin" (Romans 7:25), that he could not have been referring to the situation of someone who is saved, but must have been referring to the situation of someone under the Mosaic law, without the Spirit of Christ:
"The Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death" (Romans 8:2).
"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. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit" (Romans 7:5-6).
"Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live" (Romans 8:12-13).
We can avoid condemnation only if we "walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit" (Romans 8:1).
"Make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof" (Romans 13:14).
"Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh" (Galatians 5:16).
"That the man of God may be perfect" (2 Timothy 3:17).
"Be ye therefore perfect" (Matthew 5:48).
"For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God" (1 Thessalonians 4:3-5).
"Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world" (Titus 2:12).
"I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway" (1 Corinthians 9:27).
"Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God" (Galatians 5:19-21).
"He that committeth sin is of the devil" (1 John 3:8).
"As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked" (1 Samuel 24:13).
"For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?" (Hebrews 10:26-29).
"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity" (Matthew 7:22-23).
"For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning" (2 Peter 2:20).
"There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness" (Proverbs 30:12).
"They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient" (Titus 1:16).
"I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah" (Jeremiah 23:14).
"I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly" (Proverbs 5:14).
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables" (2 Timothy 4:3-4).
"There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" (Proverbs 14:12, 16:25).
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