...continued
from Questions, Page 1.What
about faith being made perfect by works?
...The Old
Testament Mosaic Law worked wrath:.Romans
4:15; Hebrews 3:7-10. Because of
Romans 4:15, Christ had to do this:.Galatians
3:13. And because of that, this:.1Thessalonians
5:9; 1:10; Romans
5:9. And because of those, this:.1Thessalonians
5:11.
The wrath of the Creator
is only for the children
of disobedience, which includes those allowing
others to place them into bondage without being forced into it:.Ephesians
5:6 "Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things
comes the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.".Romans
9:22,23.
Like humans, some children
need to be dealt with a little more sternly than others. Others may have
severe trials to bring out even greater
character qualities to enable them to receive a high
position in God's coming kingdom.(government).on
Earth:.Colossians
3:6. God's wrath however,
has a good purpose for those who cannot bring themselves into line.
We were once under His wrath
too:.Ephesians
2:3;.John
3:36 "He that believes on the Son has everlasting life and he that
believes not the Son sees no life.(*);
but the wrath.(original
Greek is 'to deeply desire; be indignant,
accompanied with intent to cause change'; in other words God deeply wants
a
relationship with each of us in His creation, and He's extremely concerned
when He sees us unhappy and even hurting ourselves when He has provided
a great future for all who stop rejecting {Romans
1:18} what the death and resurrection
of His Son made possible).of
God abides on him." Psalms
106:36-45;
Ephesians 5:1-8;
Colossians
3:1-6; Revelation 14:10.
It is through faith that a person has life:.Romans
1:17 "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to
faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."
It is not the wrath of the
Creator that 'wakes people up'.(examples
in Emmanuel's time:.John
7:7).and
brings them into His family of spiritual beings, but rather the Creator's
goodness towards people:.Romans
2:4;.Ephesians
5:9 "For the fruit
of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth." Psalms
52:1 "...the goodness of God endures continually.".1Corinthians
2:9; Deuteronomy 32:4.
God is good and is with the good:.1Chronicles
22:11,12; 2Chronicles 19:11.
There is a
good God and a bad god.
"People come and say 'Mr.
Groening, prove that to us, then I'll believe'.(*).
I'm not in need of the good, because I own it. But, you need it. And I
should prove it to you?.(*)"....Bruno
Gröning.
Bruno Groening here has
his mind on everyone's individual responsibility to convince
themselves:.1Thessalonians
5:21.
Ok, but what is good?
Good is when there is nothing unwanted going on. It's good to get
well. It's good when you do
good: Psalms 82:2-4. It's good
when your life is aligned with God:.John
10:10. Then, it's good for you and for others:.Romans
13:10 "Love works no ill to his neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling
of the law." Micah 6:8 "He has showed
you, O man, what is good and what does the LORD require of you, but to
do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with you God?"
Here's why you can trust
that only good happens to you:.Romans
8:28 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that
love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.".Proverbs
12:21.
Wrath or the Creator taking
a severe hand in your life.(Romans
9:22).is
designed to get you to stop that which will hurt you.(why
evils increase).and
get you thinking about some things as the Creator thinks about them. Then
you will come to see the goodness of Him and of life, everywhere:1Thessalonians
5:18. To be renewed, we
need to focus on good things:.Psalms
103:5.
It was the same all throughout
the Old Testament:.Jeremiah
18:10. The Old Testament is a history
lesson for us all.
It is because of the hard
hearts of some that they expect God's wrath:.Romans
2:5.
But now we are
delivered
from sin thanks to Christ
abolishing
the law and this wrath of God has dissipated
through believing in Emmanuel the Christ and having received the gift of
salvation:.Romans
5:17. But first, you've got to prove to your heart God exists, that
God
is real.
Thanks to the gift of faith.(Ephesians
2:8), we are to proceed with vigor
in doing good works to gain the highest reward,
working as best we can to use as much of Christ's spiritual nature as we
have been able to bring forth:.Ephesians
2:10;
Ephesians 4:7;
Romans
12:3;
Philippians 3:9.
Doing good increases the
fruits of your righteousness.(the
righteousness of Christ that you now have),
but doesn't increase your righteousness:.John
15:4,5. The work of righteousness was performed/finished in Christ
and given to you as a gift -again, Romans
5:17.
So we do good things. We
give not to be blessed, as is the case with those who believe in required
giving, as tithing is. We
give because we are blessed. If you haven't been really blessed
yet, don't give, or at least not too much. Giving is always good for you.
We pray because.we
have
a relationship with the Father, not because we are trying to gain His
fellowship. We do good things because we are right with the Creator,
not trying to get right with God.
One can only be right with
the Creator through belief in Emmanuel the Christ:.John
6:47;
7:38;
11:25;
12:44;
14:12;
1John
5:10. Belief is righteousness, as was the case with Rahab,
the harlot.
We are all the workmanship
of He whom the Father has given responsibility to:.Ephesians
2:10. One thing He is working out of us is dead
works:.Hebrews
9:14. Notice it doesn't say 'evil' works, as all sin has been looked
after and no longer counts. But dead
works are works that one's conscience should be purged
from and those works are the works of the
ego, which include the
mindset, the attitude, that operates as no spiritual works needed till
I'm asked.
Would these be the things
that make one happy and free, or the things that make one feel guilty?
The
law made one feel guilty:.Romans
3:19. Some weekly church 'goers' feel guilty. What
are they being taught?
-James
2:24.seems
to indicate that works are needed to be saved.
Yep! It does seem
to say that and so does verse 25.
