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A five minute read. If that is too much for anyone...Scroll on by.
You bypass "beginning" FACTS.
*You begin with "YOUR FACT." (For others).
*Then "ADD another" ERROR.
*To establish "your" conclusion
* the Beginning FACTS: Per; (in brief)
...Evangelical, Evangelicalism;
* FIXED Objective;
...Bible
...Emphasis Gospel
...Hearing Jesus' Doctrine, Jesus' Promises, Spreading His Good news;
...(now & future), Heartful Belief, Confession, Conversion, Forgiveness, Holy Spirit Baptism, Personal "WITH and IN" Relationship with the Lord God, Peace, Eternal Life, (no wrath), Risen Up, Kingdom on Earth, (Knowledge & Understanding "according to" the Lord God).
* Your Fact; "Do you believe Jesus died for your sins and arose? Yes...if you have confessed this-you are saved..."
* Scriptural FACT;
[9] That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
* Your added Error;
"all you do is mentally believe"
* Scriptural Fact;
Rom 10
[9] That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
* Your Conclusion
"Osas start with Justification..."
* Scriptural Fact;
Isa 55:
[11] So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Rom 10:
[17] So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
A Foundation in "Gods Truth" IS Gods Established "Order and WAY".
John 14
[6] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
* Knowledge given to man.
Hearing First. (Gods Word)
Believing. (Receiving Faith from God.)
Agreeing to give his life, bodily, soul, spirit to Gods Authority.
Confessing. (HEARTFUL belief), shall be saved
* Lord Gods WORKS ~
Making available His True Word of Knowledge.
Gifting Faith for Hearing His True Word.
Accepting mans HEARTFUL confession of;
....a man HEARTFULLY believing His Word.
Accepting mans Dead Body, crucified with Christ. (Verified BY God, who searches the mans Heart)
Forgiving the man for having "had" Disbelief (Sin Against God).
Restoring mans soul, back to Very good, (Saved unto God.)
Giving man Gods SEED.(gift of a pure Seed)
Re-Birth mans spirit, from Gods Seed.
BAPTISM of Gods Holy SPIRIT, (Gods Spirit, Light, internal IN A MAN, Covers a mans forgiven sin, that it be SEEN no more.) (covering).
Set Gods SEAL upon that man.(Kings mark)
Set that man Apart unto God (sanctification).
Promise to Raise mans body. (Justification).
That mans body, soul, spirit IN "FAITH-FULLNESS" ( SAVED, BY GODS WORKS, and Kept) by the supreme Power of God. (Freed from sin).
God giving Jesus' Risen Body for the (Converted to USE).
Man "Prepared" to Do WORKS, to spread Gods Word, (man freely giving/(charity), to the poor in spirit) effecting, Glorifying Gods Great Name.
Gods "Promise" of NO appointment of WRATH. (To the converted).
God "Promises", "REWARDS", (treasures IN Heaven) to the Coverted man (on Earth) WHO, does Works to Glorify Gods Great Name.
Gods "Promise" of: Marriage Ajoining to their Lord, Seeing their Lord God (as He is), Land inheritance, Occupation in Lords Earthly Kingdom, Co-reigning With their Lord.
Seeing, Rejoicing, Rewards Distributed, WHEN the Son of Man returns.
Gods "Promise" of Judgement.
Gods "Promise" of "shall be saved Fulfilled BEFORE mans Physical DEATH".
No... Evangelicals and OSAS believers ...
do NOT Teach "Justification" First.
* God Himself established His ORDER and WAY.
God Himself GAVE to men OF the World His ORDER and WAY.
* Men OF the World have FREEWILL to hear and learn and Heartfully ACCEPT the Lord Gods Offering, OR NOT.
James 2:
[20] But wilt thou know, O "vain man", that faith without works is dead?
RIGHT ON!!
FAITH "with" a man...WITHOUT GODS WORKS "IN" the man....IS DEAD!
Faith...(a gift from God)...CAN be WITH a man, and then NOT be WITH a man, Because a man by his own FREEWILL...CAN STOP HEARING, BELIEVING, and WILL STOP receiving Gods increased gift of FAITH.
No WORKS of a man, CAN SAVE the man.
(A vain man, to rely on his own "works"!)
Faith...(a gift from God)...THAT continues "WITH" a man, BY mans EFFORTS to continue....is the mans AGREEMENT, Confession (Freely Giving God Authority) to BECOME "MADE" CONVERTED...
BECOMES CONVERTED "BY GODS WORKS".
So absolutely... a mans gift of Faith WITHOUT Gods WORKS IN a man...IS DEAD.
God WORKS IN a man establishes....
ONCE and FOREVER...God WITH "and" IN a man.
THEN is that man JUSTIFIED, "to BE Raised IN Glory" holy whole, body, soul, spirit.
^ Gods Works!
Glory to God,
Taken