Hey you, curious to know what is left for us to do after acceptance of placing faith in God, and the Lord Jesus Christ?
Here below you can see what we progress from after we accept the Lord Jesus Christ, but what is there left for us to do afterwards?
Hebrews 6: 1 Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary
principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Hebrews 6 says we go to perfection (maturity), for a believer they do not have to worry about laying down the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith (work is believing in God, and that work is also loving of God, and loving of others).
You repent once, you change your desires from having nothing to do with God into having a relationship with him and his son.
We no longer worry about the doctrine of baptism because we are baptised by the Lord Jesus Christ by the holy spirit and fire.
No more laying on hands, we have prayer to God and we will receive help by the holy spirit that lives with-in as we ask God for helped and guidance. We no longer have to worry about the resurrection of the dead, because we have learned about God raising the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead.
We no longer worry about eternal judgement. (maybe someone can explain this one to me cause I don't quite get it as I do the others.)
What is left for us as believers after acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ if we lay all of these things down, and progress in our relationship with God?
Would anyone like to answer this question?
Dear brother,
You ask what is left for us to do after placing faith in God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Let me ask you why God the Father promised to give the Holy Spirit. And why our Lord Jesus ask us to wait for the promise of the Father. It is because we need help. What help do we need ? It is to listen closely to what our Lord God has been saying, observe His commandments and follow His ways.
Why we need help listening to God and His Son ? It was because many hear but don’t understand and many see but don’t perceive.
That is why our Lord have said this :
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. -John 14:26
Why our Lord has to tell us that we need to be taught about all things and remind us what He has said ?
This is what we have heard :
But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love Him"' -1 Corinthians 2:9
these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. -1 Corinthians 2:10
So many eyes have not perceived, many ears have not understood and many hearts have not received because these things God will only reveal through the Spirit.
What God has prepared ?
For we are His workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good works, which GOD PREPARED BEFOREHAND,
that we should walk in them. -Ephesians 2:10
You see that many have not perceived and understood that they are created in union with Christ for good works that they should walk in them.
This is what we have heard:
"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me
will also do the works that I do; and
greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. -John 14:12
Whatever you ASK in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. -John 14:13
brother, you see, many have not asked God the Father in Christ’s name that they may ASK to do the works that Christ does.
Many ask amiss ! Because they perceive wrongly and understood wrongly. That is why apostle James have said :
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. -James 4:3
Apostle John have clearly told us :
and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him. -1 John 3:22
But many perceive wrongly and ask wrongly, believing that they will receive without keeping the Lord’s commandments and do what pleases Him.
That is why after Holy Spirit comes, we will be filled with power to witness to do what is true by coming to the light of the world so that our works can be clearly seen that our works in union with Christ have been carried out in God.
So what is left for us to do is to do the works that our Lord does.
This is what we have heard:
20 For what credit is there in bearing up under a beating you deserve for doing something wrong? But
if you bear up under punishment, even though you have done what is right, God looks on it with favor.
21 Indeed,
this is what you were called to;
because
the Messiah too suffered, on your behalf, leaving an example so that you should follow in His steps.
22 "He committed no sin, nor was any deceit found on His lips."
23When He was insulted, He didn't retaliate with insults; when He suffered, He didn't threaten, but handed them over to Him ( the Father ) who judges justly.
24He himself bore our sins in His body on the stake, o so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness - by His wounds you were healed.
25 For you used to be like sheep gone astray, but
now you have turned to the Shepherd, who watches over you.-1 Peter 2:20-25
Therefore, let us listen closely to what our Lord God is saying, observe His commandments and follow in His ways.