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To: Fantasywriter

Good for you. That’s the right attitude.


49 posted on 03/19/2018 1:49:52 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216

Well tbh, I wasn’t judging anyone. But it is critically important to understand the Gospel. Absolutely, salvation is a free gift, by grace through faith.

However, we must not give ourselves or others the idea that it all ends with calling on the name of the Lord. Jesus said, ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments.’ James said, ‘Faith without works is dead.’

If I love—agape—you, Obama, or anybody else (and it must be EVERYBODY else) then I want you and them to have the truth. The truth is the full counsel of God, not just one verse in Romans.

When the Scripture says, ‘By their fruit you will know them,’ - that is a true statement. It doesn’t mean that by their fruit we will judge them, but it DOES mean that by their fruit we will know if they’re in spiritual trouble or not. Iow, how can we help those in spiritual jeopardy if we don’t know who they are?

Even though this is OT, the principle still applies. If we know the truth, it is our responsibility to share it:

Ezekiel 3:

18 When I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

19 Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself.


53 posted on 03/19/2018 2:14:55 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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