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Antinomianism, with it's permissive grace to brake moral law, has its foundation built on sifting sand, and is far removed from the New Covenant foundation IN the Righteous Life Blood of Jesus Christ.  The Grace that God, has extended to mankind, is not a license to continue in sin, but is meant to bring sinners to repentance, and to live in God's Spirit of Grace. But think thou this, O man, that judges them which do such things, and does the same, that thou shall escape the judgment of God? Or despise thou the riches of His goodness and forbearance and long suffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?  But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasure up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the Righteous Judgment of God; Who will render to every man according to his deeds.  (In full context Romans 2 verse 1 thru 6.)

A self serving interpretation of God's Grace, without Holy God's balancing Sword of TRUTH, will breed heresy. Such is the self serving conception of a supposed unconditional love of God. This contrived fallacy of man, gives license to the hearer to continue in their own self indulgences of their flesh that makes them forget that they were once purged from their old sins. (See 2nd Peter 1 verse 4 thru 10.) This heresy is an affront to the Righteous Love of the Almighty God that is conditioned IN Christ Jesus.  Abide IN Me and I will abide in you; says the True Vine as the Word of His Holy Father Yahweh God. (See John 15 verse 1 thru 6.) If you keep My Commandments, [then] you will abide IN My Love; just as I have kept My Father’s Commandments and abide IN His Love. (John 15 verse 10.)

The Master, our Lord Jesus Christ says: Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. And what do wolves feed on? Their mouths are open wide, while they make their living on vulnerable flesh.

Every tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.  Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.  Not every one that says unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the Will of My Father which is IN heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy Name? And in Thy Name have cast out devils? And in Thy Name done many wonderful works?  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: Depart from Me, you that work iniquity. (See in fuller context Matthew 7 verse 15 thru 27.)

But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb: The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. (Check the false prophets in 2nd Peter 2.)

If we are disciples (followers) of Jesus Christ, and abiding IN the Tree of Life, then we are to live by the faith of Christ Jesus that is active IN His Love, His Truth and His Life of Righteousness.  We are called to honor our Savior by following His Father God's Will so that we would live IN Christ, with the denial of the unfruitful power of our own willful flesh.  But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. (2nd Peter1 verse 8 thru 10.) (See past sins in Romans 3 verse 25.) For thus says our Lord: “I AM the Vine you are the branches: If a man does not abide IN Me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered, and men gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned"(John 15 verse 5 thru 6.)  If Christ's Fruit of Sacrificial Love is not flowing in our lives, then within ourselves, we will wither and die away as a dead branch of rotting decay. Please take heed and reconsider the issues of death's final possibilities because of unbelief and the lack of continued repentance from the idolatrous nature of sin.  When our flesh fails us, and when we mentally avail ourselves to true repentance and God's Holy Provisions IN His New Covenant IN the LIFE Blood of His Son Jesus Christ, then in His Faithfulness, God will absolve us of the uncleanness of our idolatrous sins of the present. 

So to all who are under its spell, this social teaching of unconditional tolerance to sin, breed’s complacency and a false sense of security: So then says the Lord, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of My mouth. (Revelation 3 verse 14 thru 19.) For today is like all the yesterdays from the beginnings of iniquity, and it has come to pass, when they heard the Word of God; "that they bless themselves in their heart, saying, we shall have peace, though we walk in the imagination of our heart, to add drunkenness to thirst," to a dry and fruitless ground. (Deuteronomy 29 verse 19 thru 29.) Therefore, speaking to the Jew first and then the Gentile: TAKE HEED, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the Living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. (Hebrews 3 verse 12 thru 13.)

He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the Book of Life. (In context: Revelation 3 verse 1 thru 6.) (See also book of life in Psalm 69 verse 28.)

John Calvin writes: "We have elsewhere observed, that forgiveness of sins never can be obtained without repentance, because none but the afflicted, and those wounded by a consciousness of sins, can sincerely implore the mercy of God;" (Book 3 chapter 4 section 3.)

It is far better to repent and work out our own salvation, daily before God in fear and trembling, than to be found a fool at the last. (See Philippians 2 verse 12.) Also, when Paul in Galatians says 'there is no law', He spoke concerning the fruit of God’s Spirit in His Children and clarifies it with: “ And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.  If we live IN the Spirit, let us also walk IN the Spirit.” God’s Spirit is Holy, and those who live and walk IN Him, will endeavor to live holy lives consecrated to Him. Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone would come (in the Greek erchomai)  after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me: (Matthew 16 verse 24.)  And anyone who does not take his cross and follow Me, is not worthy of Me. (Matthew 10 verse 38.)  For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world works death. (2nd Corinthians 7 verse 10 .)

Indeed, all who call upon the Holy Name of the Lord, have been brought into the knowledge of His Love, and those who continue to believe in their heart in His Word of Salvation shall be saved: For Jesus Christ, the Lord our Righteousness, has with His crucifixion death, fully paid the penalty for our death, and for all the sins of humanity! (See 1st John 3 verse 4 thru 5.) But first, God has a call for all sinners to come to Him fully in repentance, being clothed in humility with Godly sorrow.  And then the believer in Jesus, with the aid of their cross, is to continue in repentance from the selfish desires of the flesh, which are contrary to the Word of God, and begin practicing the love of God and with their love of their neighbor.  Then it follows; if we have been baptized into Jesus Christ death and resurrection, then we will put on Christ, in the renewed spirit of our mind, after the order of the new man, which looking to God is created IN Christ Jesus righteousness and true holiness. (See Galatians 3 verse 27.)(See Ephesians 4 verse 24.)

Therefore know, that your hearts priority must be much higher than the call of the flesh.  You can not let sin own you, for there in death lies. For whosoever continually sins after receiving the TRUTH has lost his way of Salvation, and is on the wide path of death and destruction.  However, even as believers following the WAY of Chris, we undoubtedly may be caught in sin, but we cannot remain there in the machinations of sin and death, once the old symptoms start to re-manifest themselves.  David, in Psalm 116, knows of the consequences of his illicit actions, and the importance of repentance from his sin that leads to death.  He knows that his salvation is in the redemptive work of God, and his vow is to call on the Lord not just once, but for all of his days on earth.

Psalm 116: verse 1. I love the LORD, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications. verse 2. Because He hath inclined His ear unto me, therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live. verse 3. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. verse 4. Then called I upon the Name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech Thee, deliver my soul. verse 5. Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

verse 8. For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

verse 12. What shall I render unto the LORD for all His benefits toward me?
verse 13. I will take the Cup of Salvation, and call upon the Name of the LORD.

verse 17. I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the Name of the LORD.

The Cup of Salvation that we bless in Holy Communion is the Third cup in the Pascal supper. (Please see The Blood of the Lamb.) So let us now consider the cost of Discipleship: For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul; or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matthew 16 verse 24 thru 26.)  Therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has, cannot be My disciple! (In full context Luke 14 verse 25 thru 33.) For whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it. In following the Lord into regeneration, Jesus says: Every one that has forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My Name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting Life.  But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. (Matthew 19 verse 29 thru 30.)  Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in there at: But strait is the gate, and narrow is the WAY, Lwhich leads unto Life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7 verse 13 thru 14.) This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. (John 15 verse 12 thru 14.) You are My friends if you do what I have told you.

There are many who have entered God's amnesty program, who do not recognize that all of the righteousness that a person seeks after, is consummated in the Perfect Love of God within our Savior Christ Jesus.  The willing sacrifice of Jesus' for our sins, expresses the Perfect Love that Jesus, the Son of Man has for His Father, ands is exemplified in the Son's absolute obedience to the Father's Will to save mankind from their sins.  The saved believers, living IN the Word of God,  are called to follow in the WAY of the Lord and His cross with the denial of the old ways of the world, and all the while exemplifying His self sacrificing Love for those who are lost.  It is in this same Faith of Christ Jesus, where in, we are baptized into his death to sin, and resurrected in to His Life of Sacrificial Love.  The justified shall live by Faith, and that faith is the Faith of the Son and Word of God: For, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives within me: And the LIFE of Jesus, which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me(Galatians 2 verse:20.) Thankfully, that in God's New Covenant of Faith IN the Life giving Blood of His Son, that when self is lifted up, rather than the cross, then if in repentance we confess our sin of idolatry, then the God's Covenant in the Blood of Jesus Christ will cleanse us of all of our unrighteousness of that specific time.

All of the prior scripture warnings in this chapter are true and necessary, to prevent a premature and foolish death of the soul or for what price do you value your own soul?  It is absolutely essential to diligently adhere to the Words of TRUTH from the Chief Physician, Jesus Christ, and not follow another that is going the opposite way.  And He said to them all: If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for My sake, the same shall save it.  For what is a man advantaged, if he gains the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? For whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My Words, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when He shall come IN His Own Glory, and IN His Father's, and of the holy angels. (Luke 9 verse 23 thru 25.)

And so to all those that hold fast to their faith IN the Lord our Righteousness, that is secured in the healing Graces of the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, we concur with the writer of Hebrews saying; “beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak”. (Hebrews 6 verse 8 thru 10.) But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well doing, as unto a Faithful Creator. (1st Peter 4 verse 15 thru 19.)

For the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father IN Spirit and IN Truth: for the Father seeks such to worship Him. (John 4:23)  All that the Father gives Me, will come (heko) to Me, and the one who comes (erchomai) to Me I will certainly not cast out. (John 6 verse 37 (N.A.S.B.)

In John 6 verse 37, there are two English words of "come" in the verse: The first English word 'come', in the Greek language is the word that is pronounced ('hay'-ko'), which implies, to come forward and to seek intimacy with one, so as to be a follower.  The second word 'come', is the Greek word, pronounced (er'-khom-ahee), and can have a meaning such as; to be established in following. For the Father seeks such to worship Him.  The humble ones who come to the Lord and remain IN Him, even though they be the least, the Lord will keep all IN His Ffaithfulness.  Those who depart from the TRUTH of God, even though they were seemingly disciples at one time, shall not inherit the Life of Christ and a place within God's kingdom.

For I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own Will, but the Will of Him that sent Me. And this is the Father's Will which has sent Me, that of all which He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the Will of Him that sent Me, that every one which sees the Son, and believes IN Him, may have everlasting Life: and I will raise him up at the last day.  (John 6 verse 38 thru 40.)

It is the Spirit that quickens, the flesh profits nothing: The words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are Life.  But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray Him. And He said: Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto Me, except it were given unto him of My Father. From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him. (John 6 verse 63 thru 67.)

Then said Jesus unto the twelve,

Will you also go away?

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