Question: Jesus said "don't think that I have come to abolish the law of the Prophets, I have not come to abolish but to fulfil them" Mathew 5:17. Christ is the fulfilment of the law by His righteous Spirit in us. "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin , for His seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin" 1John 3:9.The ten commandments of Moses is still very much applicable to Christian, translated into the Spirit of Christ.
So if you murder 100,000 people and say “I believe in Jesus”, are you still saved. What are you teaching, it is foolishness to say that a believer is eternally Saved.
To people who do not have works, Matthew 25:41-45 applies to such, "Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, ill and in prison, and you did not care for me.’"
God says further to those without works, Matthew 7:21, "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." And his will is to help those who are in need.
Answer: Greetings in Jesus mighty name!
YES YOU ARE RIGHT A SAVED PERSON NOT ONLY BY GOD'S GRACE KEEP THE EXTERNAL LAW OF MOSES, BUT ALSO KEEP THE BEATITUDES TAUGHT BY JESUS IN MATTHEW 5 :1-48. "Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin, for His seed remain in him and he cannot sin." (1 John 3:9). Does a believer become sinless and perfect once he is born of God? No, the Bible says, whosoever says I have not sinned, deceives himself and makes God a liar, because God has said that all humans have sinned and have fallen short of the Glory of God. So 1 John 3:9 means the following, "Whosoever is born of God does not continue to practice sin without confessing it to the LORD, because the strength of that believer to overcome sin remains in God, he cannot practice it with out being convicted by God the Holy Spirit against practicing it, and being helped by Him to overcome it no matter how long it takes."
A SAVED person will not sin because the seed of God's voice of His word which leads his life remains in him. That too how can a believer kill 100,000 people when God himself will directly chastise even for the thought of it and convict him to Repent. The LORD has set police and governments to judge all those who kill arrogantly and punish them. So don't worry there can't be a Christian killer, but the name sake one will be caught by the police, because God has set the authorities over people to serve justice to people living on earth.
Salvation is eternal, and never temporary and therefore the covenant of salvation is also eternal in Christ Jesus (Heb 5:9; 13:20; 1 John 2:2). Jesus died once and for all time for the sins of all humans and have ratified the forever covenant with God once and for all time (Heb 10:12, 14, 15-18). This time the law was not written physically and given by God to humans to follow, but through the new spirit, the laws of God was written in the hearts of believers and has been given to keep them for His Glory spiritually!
Nobody can ever be saved by works or for that matter, be sent by God to hell for the lack of it.
What is the work of God that God expects from us? It is to believe in Jesus as the Son of God, God in the flesh to save us from our sins (John 6:26-27). Unless and until we come to understand how Jesus as our God the Creator forgives our sins as our High Priest, we cannot be really saved or be cleansed from it (John 8:24; Heb 4:14-16; 5:1; 8:1, 11). With his own blood Christ entered the eternal tabernacle in heaven as the Mediator of the New Covenant (Heb 9:12, 14-15), He is able to save to uttermost of all those who come to Him (Heb 7:25). Jesus as the High Priest of all the sinners who come to God through him, has promised that He will not lose even one of them, and the Father who is greater in his role as the head of all things will no means lose even one as nobody is able to snatch out of his hand (John 10:27, 28, 29, 30). So once God saves, He saves that person for eternity and keeps them intact until that person one day enters heaven. Nothing can separate the believer from the love of God that he has for them (Rom 8:31-39). God is not man to promise and then retract from it because he was taken by sin, rebellion or anything else (Num 23:19), he knew that all sinful men were enemies of God, but still loved them and gave Himself for their eternal benefit (Rom 5:6-8). How much more after we have become his children through our belief, what else he will not give after He has given for us His highest desire of His only begotten Son to die for us and save us from our sins (Rom 8:31-32, 33-34, 35-39).
In other words, rather than saying without works we go to hell which is wrong, the right thing we should say is, whether all our works are done after we have believed on the one and only work of Jesus that saves us eternally (Eph 2:8-10). Such works are not only accepted by God, all else done by one's own plan and strength in the flesh will be dead works that get burnt at the time of the judgment seat of Christ without any reward (Heb 6:1; 1 Cor 3:15; Heb 9:14). But the works done in Christ get rewarded for eternity because of doing those works heartily by the grace of God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ through which it has been done (Col 3:17, 23, 24; Matt 10:40-42; Heb 6:10; Rev 22:12). Hallelujah! GLORY TO GOD!
Nobody can ever be saved by works or for that matter, be sent by God to hell for the lack of it.
What is the work of God that God expects from us? It is to believe in Jesus as the Son of God, God in the flesh to save us from our sins (John 6:26-27). Unless and until we come to understand how Jesus as our God the Creator forgives our sins as our High Priest, we cannot be really saved or be cleansed from it (John 8:24; Heb 4:14-16; 5:1; 8:1, 11). With his own blood Christ entered the eternal tabernacle in heaven as the Mediator of the New Covenant (Heb 9:12, 14-15), He is able to save to uttermost of all those who come to Him (Heb 7:25). Jesus as the High Priest of all the sinners who come to God through him, has promised that He will not lose even one of them, and the Father who is greater in his role as the head of all things will no means lose even one as nobody is able to snatch out of his hand (John 10:27, 28, 29, 30). So once God saves, He saves that person for eternity and keeps them intact until that person one day enters heaven. Nothing can separate the believer from the love of God that he has for them (Rom 8:31-39). God is not man to promise and then retract from it because he was taken by sin, rebellion or anything else (Num 23:19), he knew that all sinful men were enemies of God, but still loved them and gave Himself for their eternal benefit (Rom 5:6-8). How much more after we have become his children through our belief, what else he will not give after He has given for us His highest desire of His only begotten Son to die for us and save us from our sins (Rom 8:31-32, 33-34, 35-39).
In other words, rather than saying without works we go to hell which is wrong, the right thing we should say is, whether all our works are done after we have believed on the one and only work of Jesus that saves us eternally (Eph 2:8-10). Such works are not only accepted by God, all else done by one's own plan and strength in the flesh will be dead works that get burnt at the time of the judgment seat of Christ without any reward (Heb 6:1; 1 Cor 3:15; Heb 9:14). But the works done in Christ get rewarded for eternity because of doing those works heartily by the grace of God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ through which it has been done (Col 3:17, 23, 24; Matt 10:40-42; Heb 6:10; Rev 22:12). Hallelujah! GLORY TO GOD!
What God wants from us is not a sinless state of perfection, but to be confirmed to the image of His Son more and more (Rom 9:29), and bear fruits unto eternal life in holiness so that it might Glorify God who is the author and finisher of our salvation, that is, the salvation which we have inherited through grace by faith which is a gift of God and not by works that no humans might boast of it, but might learn to give all glory to God and God alone through Jesus Christ (1 John 1:8-10; 2:1, 2; 3:20, 21; Rom 6:22; Eph 2:8-9; Heb 12:2, 10-11, 14-15; Php 1:6; 1 Cor 1:27-28, 29-30, 31). God never wants the believer to boast in themselves for the salvation in pride, but rather in humility, He want the believer to glory in the Lord for the free gift of salvation. Praise the Lord!
Much Blessings......
Much Blessings......
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