Tag: Justification
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While there may be no eternal consequences for our actions, we can certainly see that there our effects in eternity
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No one will enter heaven because they deserve it. The population of heaven is and will be innumerable, and everyone of them will be there by the grace of God alone.
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Repentance, belief, and good works should be our thankful response to the grace of God.
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Jesus shows us that we need to look at ourselves more deeply when it comes to sin.
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One of the best ways to keep ourselves unspotted by the world is to focus on helping others rather than doing things, including practicing religion, for our own benefit.
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Too many sects of Christianity are judgmental toward God’s people and try to hold them to a standard that they themselves are not able to keep (Acts 15:10). Outward conformity to men’s standards will never justify us before a holy God.
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This scene is one of the most remarkable expressions of God’s grace to be found in scripture.
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If we believed that we had to follow every aspect of the law in order to go to heaven, then Jesus has just told us we are all lost! But we know that is not what He is saying.
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God chose a certain number of people before the world began in the covenant of election. When those elect, by the regenerated spirit given them by God, do good works, we ought to glorify the covenant God of election!
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If we ever are tempted to worship God simply for what we get from it, we should take a closer look at the Pharisees to see that this is not only selfish it produces vain worship.