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To: GBA
Those verses, to me, refer to those who profess Christ but are the wolves in sheep's clothing that we are warned about.

The problem is, the fruit of the Spirit is NOT works or miracles, or number of professions at a rally or meeting, but what Galatians says is the fruit of the Spirit.

It's the growing in Christlikeness and holiness.

it doesn't mean we are perfect, as NONE of us are ever perfect and some people have MUCH further to go than others. They start out with far more baggage.

The point is that we are getting there, putting on the mind of Christ.

Romans 12:1-2 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

70 posted on 02/20/2017 10:11:56 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
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>> “Can I lose My Salvation?” <<

You don't have your salvation.

As our Savior plainly stated: “He that endures to the end, the same shall be saved.”

Yeshua discussed what salvation required with Nicodemus in John ch 3. You must be reborn into a specially created body that is a part of the realm of the Father, rather than the present biological body that can exist only in space-time.

Those that endure in the faith to the end will experience this rebirth. Those that do not are discussed in Hebrews ch 6 and 10.

That Faith cometh by hearing the Word of YHVH.

The “word” at the time that Paul penned that admonishment was the Tanakh.

In Acts 15, the gathered apostles in Jerusalem stated that the new believers needed to hear Moses read in their synogogue “every Sabbath day.”

The “inherited lies” of our fathers (Jeremiah 16:19) attempt to deny this fact.

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

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75 posted on 02/20/2017 10:34:13 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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