Without life we can do nothing. Not a single dead person can perform a single intentional act on their own, it is impossible. You do have involuntary reactions that occur from dead bodies, but the dead person is not in control of that at all. Death means an end of life. Yet so many believe when they are still dead to Jesus Christ, that they are alive.
They work, and work, and work to gain their salvation. They abhor their sinful flesh and its propensities towards evil acts and yet they remain dead to Christ because they are trying so desperately to live all on their own, to gain salvation on their own.
We need new life IN CHRIST first and foremost. We need to be alive before we can do anything.
All our actions for good will not give us Salvation, no matter how good they are, if they are not done through Christ. Through the love that is Christ.
Yes, some who are Christ's and filled with His love are unaware of it as such, but they will know one day from where their love comes from. They are filled with love, but these people are rare, they are exceptions to the broad path, they are the few on the narrow way. Others who submit their lives to Christ and are filled with His love, comprehend the truth of life now, and life eternal. They live for the love of Christ- loving God and loving others, and their actions come from the life they've found through Christ. Their lives are intent on love… on love… first and all else comes from that love.
We will obey every single royal commandment when we love, our love coming from Christ Jesus our Savior.
We forget to love, because we get so busy trying to love through our own power, not Christ's.
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Doing to Live and Living to Do.
The righteousness which is of the law, that is, men's own righteousness (see Phil. 3:9),
Php 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith
is on the principle of doing something in order to live. The mere statement of the case is sufficient to show its impossibility; for life must necessarily precede action. A dead body does not do something in order that it may live, but it must be given life in order that it may do something.
Peter did not tell the dead Dorcas to do some more charitable work, to sew some more garments, in order that she might live, but in the name of Jesus he restored her to life, in order that she might pursue her good works.
The man that doeth those things shall live in them, but he must first live before he can do them.
Therefore the righteousness which is of the law is but an empty dream.
Christ gives life, even the eternal and righteous life of God, which works righteousness in the soul that it has quickened.
They work, and work, and work to gain their salvation. They abhor their sinful flesh and its propensities towards evil acts and yet they remain dead to Christ because they are trying so desperately to live all on their own, to gain salvation on their own.
We need new life IN CHRIST first and foremost. We need to be alive before we can do anything.
All our actions for good will not give us Salvation, no matter how good they are, if they are not done through Christ. Through the love that is Christ.
Yes, some who are Christ's and filled with His love are unaware of it as such, but they will know one day from where their love comes from. They are filled with love, but these people are rare, they are exceptions to the broad path, they are the few on the narrow way. Others who submit their lives to Christ and are filled with His love, comprehend the truth of life now, and life eternal. They live for the love of Christ- loving God and loving others, and their actions come from the life they've found through Christ. Their lives are intent on love… on love… first and all else comes from that love.
We will obey every single royal commandment when we love, our love coming from Christ Jesus our Savior.
We forget to love, because we get so busy trying to love through our own power, not Christ's.
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Doing to Live and Living to Do.
The righteousness which is of the law, that is, men's own righteousness (see Phil. 3:9),
Php 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith
is on the principle of doing something in order to live. The mere statement of the case is sufficient to show its impossibility; for life must necessarily precede action. A dead body does not do something in order that it may live, but it must be given life in order that it may do something.
Peter did not tell the dead Dorcas to do some more charitable work, to sew some more garments, in order that she might live, but in the name of Jesus he restored her to life, in order that she might pursue her good works.
The man that doeth those things shall live in them, but he must first live before he can do them.
Therefore the righteousness which is of the law is but an empty dream.
Christ gives life, even the eternal and righteous life of God, which works righteousness in the soul that it has quickened.