Comments on: The Enemy Is You… http://gracedigest.com/2009/02/23/the-enemy-is-you/ In pursuit of the Truth. Christ focused and grace driven. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: giovaromero http://gracedigest.com/2009/02/23/the-enemy-is-you/#comment-1219 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:40:49 +0000 http://gracedigest.com/?p=383#comment-1219 Brother, I agree with your original statement. Evidently those two people that replyed and spoke against it don’t have the problem of trying to purchase salvation through good works, I am sure you did not address those comments to people like them. It is very obvious that many people in our time and even in Jesus’ time thought different, people still believe that good works come before salvation and its not like that. We perform good works because we love our Lord Jesus. We believe that by performing any good thing for anyone we are doing it like unto Him.

Do not mind those that never read a thing that they could agree with.

]]> By: laymond http://gracedigest.com/2009/02/23/the-enemy-is-you/#comment-1210 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:48:57 +0000 http://gracedigest.com/?p=383#comment-1210 Royce, I noticed you have not been quick to post my last comment, I am sorry if I offended you, but you walk close to the line of personal judgment in many of your posts, and I do believe you may have crossed over that line, with this statement.
“People who think they can enter heaven based even partially upon the basis of their good works on earth are either arrogant or ignorant. They are either so arrogant they think they deserve what God says they don’t, or so ignorant they don’t understand the absolute moral bankruptcy of the unsaved.”

Judge not unless you can stand before that same judgement.

Laymond,
Your last comment, which I deleted, was pretty ugly in my view. I stand by the above statement completely. I’ll say it once more….

Good works are normal, usual, and without them a person is not saved. Howerver, they are the result of being born again, not the cause of it. Our good deeds are “not meritorious” is the thelogical way to say it.

Those who teach men are saved by their works are teaching another gospel, which is really not good news, it is a lie. A close reading of the book of Galations makes it clear. Christ paid for all of our sins, past, present, and future, and if you have been born again you have been acquitted of all charges and have been set right (justified) with God. He has “made righteous” those who are His own, thus they do good works as he designed them to do.

Does this make you angry? It shouldn’t.

Royce

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