Jamdoc
Watching and Praying Always
- Oct 22, 2019
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None of us are ever going to deserve salvation, we're all guilty, grace is grace. If God does not extend His grace to us after we repent and place our faith in Jesus, there is literally nothing we can do to save ourselves. Our fate is in the hands of the Lord. No works can make us deserve salvation. You can emulate the life of Jesus Christ as much as possible, and avoid sin as much as you can and unless God has extended His grace to you, you go into the lake of fire, the second death, call it what you will.
You do what's right and avoid sin not because you think it's going to secure your salvation or avoid punishment, but because you Love God and want to please Him, it's not about you.
If a Thief being nailed to a cross next to Jesus Christ can admit he's a sinner, admit he is getting the death he deserves, and then places his fate in the hands of Jesus Christ, having faith that Jesus will remember him when He comes into His Kingdom, and Jesus PROMISES him that he's going to be with Him in Paradise that day (Luke 23:40-43), then that's all salvation takes. That thief didn't walk the life, that thief didn't live a profitable life, he lived a horrible life. He didn't deserve to go to Paradise at all.
He REPENTED
He Put His faith in Jesus and asked Him to save him
and that's it. God doesn't break promises.
If I do those things, and I still go to Hell, then there was nothing I could have done to change that. That is in God's hands, God's decision, my works won't add up to dirt, they won't save me. It's what I deserve, it's what you deserve, it's what all of us deserve and no works will change that. But I have faith that that will not happen, because I put my faith in Jesus Christ paying for my sins, as many as they have been, and as many as I will continue to do, try as hard as I can not to, I'm gonna sin, I'm sorry Lord, I'll try but I'll fail because I'm not the Lord, and imperfection and sin is my nature. I put my faith in Jesus Christ paying for your sins, as many or few as they have been, but you've done them, and you will continue to do them (Romans 3:23)
You do what's right and avoid sin not because you think it's going to secure your salvation or avoid punishment, but because you Love God and want to please Him, it's not about you.
If a Thief being nailed to a cross next to Jesus Christ can admit he's a sinner, admit he is getting the death he deserves, and then places his fate in the hands of Jesus Christ, having faith that Jesus will remember him when He comes into His Kingdom, and Jesus PROMISES him that he's going to be with Him in Paradise that day (Luke 23:40-43), then that's all salvation takes. That thief didn't walk the life, that thief didn't live a profitable life, he lived a horrible life. He didn't deserve to go to Paradise at all.
He REPENTED
He Put His faith in Jesus and asked Him to save him
and that's it. God doesn't break promises.
If I do those things, and I still go to Hell, then there was nothing I could have done to change that. That is in God's hands, God's decision, my works won't add up to dirt, they won't save me. It's what I deserve, it's what you deserve, it's what all of us deserve and no works will change that. But I have faith that that will not happen, because I put my faith in Jesus Christ paying for my sins, as many as they have been, and as many as I will continue to do, try as hard as I can not to, I'm gonna sin, I'm sorry Lord, I'll try but I'll fail because I'm not the Lord, and imperfection and sin is my nature. I put my faith in Jesus Christ paying for your sins, as many or few as they have been, but you've done them, and you will continue to do them (Romans 3:23)
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