WORTHY

[FredVB]

Live as well in Yahweh's will for you as you can. Your heavenly Father is perfect, believers are to keep that in mind as they go on.

 

[FredVB]

It has become so hard for many church-goers today to accept what Jesus and the rest of Scripture teaches concerning the need for God's people to repent and walk in obedience to God's commands given through Christ Jesus, if they are to enter into the "rest of God", and receive an inheritance in His Kingdom. The command, which appears numerous times in the New Testament to "walk worthy" has been replaced with 'we are automatically worthy because of what Jesus did.' And the command that we must actually Repent and "stop sinning", has been replaced with unScriptural phrases such as 'God sees me through Christ' or 'my continued sins are already forgiven because I've accepted Christ's atonement.'

But Jesus warned His disciples not to be "deceived." For much "ear-tickling" doctrine would arise as we near the time of His return.

"He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name." - Rev 3:12

There are many who will say Jesus is their Lord. Those who follow Jesus to live in the way he was showing do have Jesus as their Lord, for it involves doing that. Do we have a fallen nature that interferes with that? In this world yes we do. We need the help of Yahweh God. With us coming to repentance and through Jesus Christ being restored to God, God responds with our salvation and helping us, that we grow in obedience and can still come to godliness as it is meant for us. Still this is not our righteousness needed before God, and we yet have Jesus Christ with his righteousness for us through atonement.

 

[FredVB]

Yes, it is important that we study seeing any of the scripture passages and not be neglecting any, learning which of the themes in the Bible they are a part of, with attention to contexts, within the text and of the cultural setting, and who is addressed. Where it was posted, 'We have indeed been "saved" by the Blood of the Lamb', this must be those who are saved, and the important part of that which should not be neglected is that it is with repentance to come to Christ, in whom there is atonement, to restore those of us coming to this to God in response to Yahweh's grace, and turn us from sin in our lives, that should not continue further than it has to with our old sin nature that we are to die to. With repentance being real, the salvation is real, and the enabling in Christ through the Spirit of God is provided to do the good works we should, which give testimony to us to be sure of the everlasting life we are told we can know of. We then overcome as we persist in this faith we live.

Repentance does not mean confession, I don't say anything meaning it does. Where we do confess sins it should be with repentance, still, or the confession is quite meaningless, except for retribution to come. Repentance is for motivation to turn from where we went wrong, to not go on with sins but seek doing Yahweh's will instead. So Yahweh's perfect will is relevant for that. As it shows in the original design, what permissions any claim do not take precedence over any of Yahweh's perfect will. There were permissions from Yahweh's grace. We really need to still grow, our heavenly Father is perfect.

 

[FredVB]

Believers are such coming to Christ with having repentance. The Bible shows it is Yahweh God whose work saves believers. The Bible is not being contradictory. Works spoken of, which do not save any, mean something in the Bible, but it is not about repentance. Yahweh whose work saves chooses those to save on an actual basis, the repentance, from which Yahweh works change in followers of Christ, is important for that. We are not saved by being worthy, but it is meant for us to grow, and live worthily.