The simplicity of the Christian way of life:
According to you & your extensive studies, or according to your solidly encamped teacher, no matter what all the other systems of theology say? We know your answer.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Trust in His person( Gods only begotten Son,100% true deity 100% true humanity) and work(He paid for all sin and reconciled the world to Himself{equal privilege,equal opportunity for ALL}] for your salvation.
John 3:16, Acts 16:31.
So we go backwards now and have to rehash all that's been said re: John3 & Acts16, including all the discussion re: the tenses and defining of "believe." Do you realize how John builds his doctrine based upon all that Jesus taught and said that John under inspiration decided to include & that John3 is just getting started? Do you realize that other inspired writers added instruction and definition to teach more comprehensively what it means to believe as John literally writes "into" Jesus Christ & how other exegetes see this wording as meaning that Biblical Faith into Jesus Christ is a very dynamic concept and not some one-time event?
Grow in His Grace and knowledge. Under your RIGHT pastor teacher. 2 Pet 3:18, Eph 4:11,1 Cor 12:28. Study,study and study. Listen,metabolize and apply His doctrine's.
Good, we now have 1 command stated out of the nearly 1,000 commands in the New Covenant. If we're obeying this command are we going to get hounded by you that we think it's all about "I, I, I" because we're religious and don't understand Grace? BTW, if you obey this command to grow, do you not self-recognize your obedience and fall under a sense of the I, I, I you condemn? Are you really so far gone that you think you're the only one(s) who understand God's Grace?
You might want to take a look at the referenced verses that you say inform us that we have a RIGHT pastor teacher. Would you mind showing us the "RIGHT" concept from those 2 references? And are others who think they have "RIGHT" pastor teachers in other camps in error, or sin because they don't believe what your RIGHT pastor teacher sees in Scripture?
How about if we might find your terminology a bit strange & wonder why our teacher or teachers never found the terminology "metabolize" doctrine in the Text. Is that because they're don't have the pt gift?
Do not quench the Spirit.1 Thess 5:19
Do not grieve the Spirit. Eph 4:30
Name and site your sins
to God( When we quench or grieve the Spirit.)
1 John 1:9
Be filled and walk in the Spirit. Eph 5:18,Gal 5:16; Gal 5:25
Fulfill this.........And you are living the Christian way of life or the Spiritual life.
5 more commands (and some misspelling) and we're good to go with the Christian Spiritual Life. It's all so easy. Belief is so simple. Jesus does it all and don't ever say I, I, I or you're just religious.
And remember, no harm & no foul if we don't do this, we'll still be in Heaven although maybe a little early & scarred-up due to all the being scourged with a whip & eventual sin unto death, and so likely without some wealth added to our guaranteed inheritance.
Rom 8:16~~
New American Standard Bible
The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,
Seems to me a few on this forum don't understand the Spiritual life. If they did, they would KNOW that they are a child of God........Right now and forever.
We who are Children of God? Those who believed once, fell away, went back to eating vomit like dogs, we're dried up unproductive branches that got thrown into fire & burned, never brought fruit to perfection/completion, never remotely came to the point of fitting the Biblical descriptions of true Children of God, and come to Him in judgement only to hear Him tell them to get away from Him for doing lawlessness - those supposed children of God?
Trust me (or not), all is not as it "seems" to you no matter what you've been taught to believe by a your certain RIGHT pastor teacher.
Romans 8~~
1Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus
Another cherry-picked verse that leaves out all additional context and doesn't explain what "condemnation" here means. I guess since we don't KNOW things, we don't know to look at and interpret all of what Paul's explaining and what his terminology means after we look at all he says about it. But I'm sure we need to be cautious with you, because we're going to run into a lot more of those I, I, I religious failures as we proceed into Rom8 with its commands we need to actively obey in Christ and its discussion about how being under subjection to God's Grace has freed us from being ruled by sin. Another thing we don't really have to worry about unless we just want to get spanked even unto death and lose some wealth from our inheritance.
37But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to
separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
My highlight added to your quote.
NKJ John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 "You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
4 "
Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 "
If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 "
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 "By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. 9 "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you;
abide in My love. 10 "
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
Don't be concerned with anything. Nothing can separate us from God's love which is in Christ Jesus. Even though it seems clear that these verses in Romans are speaking of things outside of ourselves, don't worry because we can insert what we want, so not even you can separate yourself because God places no value or importance in human will. Don't worry about the Lord Jesus Christ's commands and instruction to remain in Him & have His words remain in you. Don't worry that the word "remain" in itself acknowledges the adverse state of leaving. Don't worry about being productive as every other branch that actually remains attached to the vine & get's pruned will become. Don't worry about disobeying His command to remain in His love, because nothing, not even you, not even your disobedience to His commands can separate you from His love. And don't worry because not obeying His commands, not remaining in His love, not remaining in Him, not having His words remain in you, not being productive as an abiding Child of God in continuing Faith-Obedience so you ultimately fit His description of His Children, only means that you will be spanked and lose rewards.
Stay encamped. Enjoy the myopic error. You and your fellow soldier. Everybody else is wrong and KNOWS nothing. You can just discredit them with the easy flip of label as being in another camp, no matter who they are or what they've done with their gifts and hard work in Christ. They're just part of the 98% (maybe it's 99% or more by now).