When is it that we are going to understand/comprehend that salvation is TOTALLY, EXCLUSIVELY of God?
We had/have absolutely nothing to do with salvation, if we had, we would soil His incredible sacrifice and it would be for nought.
He decided that even though we ALL are guilty (Jews and Gentiles), those who call on His name, He by His own volition, will save.
Today, a Jew call on the name of the Lord, the Lord saves.
Today, a Gentile call on the name of the Lord, the Lord saves.
Today, a Jew or a Gentile who has called on the name of the Lord is NO LONGER a Jew or a Gentile, we are now CHRISTIANS. Why is this so difficult to accept?
When is it that we are going to understand/comprehend that salvation is TOTALLY, EXCLUSIVELY of God?
We had/have absolutely nothing to do with salvation, if we had, we would soil His incredible sacrifice and it would be for nought.
He decided that even though we ALL are guilty (Jews and Gentiles), those who call on His name, He by His own volition, will save.
Today, a Jew call on the name of the Lord, the Lord saves.
Today, a Gentile call on the name of the Lord, the Lord saves.
Today, a Jew or a Gentile who has called on the name of the Lord is NO LONGER a Jew or a Gentile, we are now CHRISTIANS. Why is this so difficult to accept?
And those Jews and gentiles that are being brought in through Christ, were lost sheep from both folds, why is that hard for you to accept? Why can't you see that? If Jesus has sheep in two folds and he is gathering them in, then they are those that were lost but are now found. And all those who's heart are circumcised are Jews inwardly hence they are the true Jews.
Are the Jews who murdered Jesus his sheep? What do you think? They are naturally of Israel but they are not Israel, they are children of the flesh because they loved their flesh and the world before God.
Romans 9
For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God
Those who are children of the flesh, Jew and gentile are not the children of God, the children of God are those who have complete faith in him and live by God's will and turn from sin, turn from the flesh and obey him, following Jesus. Those brought in by Christ no longer follow the written law, but having the laws written in their hearts and minds by the Spirit who guides and teaches them in the truth daily, showing them their sins and helping them to overcome them, these are God's true children. These are they who walk in the Spirit of God, and as they walk in the light, their old life is gone and hidden in Christ and Christ covers them and they are seen no more, and Christ is seen in and through them, because they are dead to self and they put God first in their lives. These are God's true children these are those who truly love him. They are those who truly follow Christ Jesus.
By the way, there is no salvation without obedience, no obedience, no Spirit, no Spirit, no salvation.
Acts 5:32
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.