Believing in omniscience demands a belief in predestination.

[DeaconDean]

Now, make no mistake.

I do not teach that one may disregard the Decalogue, or even the two Jesus gave.

I was taught these from a child. They are "guidelines" for life.

But also make no mistake. No single person in the history of the world was even able to do all the Decalogue says. Or the "Law" for that matter. That is why Jesus was needed.

But even my "best" effort falls short.

And that friend, is where you and differ. I see it, you don't. I won't even be able to stand before God and plead how well I've kept any of the commandments, because I know, I haven't been able to keep them fully.

See, I know, sooner or later, I'm gonna sin. Maybe not intentionally. But I will sin.

That is why we have 1 Jn. 1:8-10.

One of my very favorite Southern Gospel groups sings a song that sums up what I have been trying to say.

"Once I wandered in sins black night
There was no way to make my wrongs right.
Then the Old Accuser to the Lord did cry
He is the Sinner and now He must die.

Then I heard a voice say Father I’ll go
And I’ll pay his Sin debt in Calvary’s flow.
I’ll bare in my body the marks of the Cross
To Save this Child who is Sin sick and lost.

And it’s still the Blood that saves from Sin
It’s still the Blood that Cleanses within.
From the Highest Star in Heaven to the depths of the sea.
It is still the Blood of Jesus that brings Victory to me.

There are those who rely on works that they do
And some men count on the times they Prayed thru
But when the Battles over and Victory is won
I’ll go home through the Blood of the Father’s only Son.

And it’s still the Blood that saves from Sin
It’s still the Blood that Cleanses within.
From the Highest Star in Heaven to the depths of the sea.
It is still the Blood of Jesus that brings Victory to me.".

It's Still the Blood.

Or better yet, let me quote from a movie:

"Mister Keith, your best is a modicum of inefficiency."

Lt. Commander Philip Francis Queed to Ensign Willie Keith, The Caine Muntiny. Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1954.

I am sorry you can't see that. No amount of keeping the commandments is good enough.

God Bless

Till all are one.

 

[sdowney717]

Here is a lesson also. 'To them that love God' is as important as any other part of the verse. I see you left that out. To find out who love God, we can look to Jesus and what He said.

John 14:21
Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.

Surely you believe what Jesus said; I take you do. Now we can read this verse as follows:

"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, that is, those who 'have and keep His commands', to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." -Rom. 8:28-29 (KJV)

This is condition that not only was part of the old covenant, but also the new covenant.

We love God only because God first loved us.
And the great love he had for His elect is why He made them born of God.
1 John 4:19
We love Him because He first loved us.

Ephesians 2
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

 

[FreeinChrist]

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